"Breathe" has the same dwarfing effect on the rest of Real Talk, and noticing its 13-spot placement on the album does nothing but raise the false expectations of first-time listeners. Two lines into the first verse, the track shows all the necessary signs of being a hip-hop classic - one that fills all other MCs with envy while sucking the energy out of every other maximum-rotation radio hit. Whatever flashes of high promise Fabolous hinted at before are fulfilled and then some, his slithery voice intensified and commanding like never before. All grit, no gloss - Just Blaze works a chest-cracking break, a needling piano run from '70s art rockers Supertramp, and a doctored vocal sample (top that, Kanye West). "Breathe" is nothing like that, the roughest chart hit of Fabolous' career.
It was entirely possible that the first single from the third Fabolous album would be a club track or a soft-styled pop-oriented number aimed at the female audience.
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