HARRY FRAUD PRODUCER TAG

Who voiced the Harry Fraud tag — and where did it come from?

The voice is Fanesha Fabre, a Dominican-born Brooklyn singer and one of the first people Fraud worked with in New York. The drop was improvised: one night at his DUMBO studio she was joking around in the booth, giving a Spanish-language “Harry Fraud music lesson”, and Fraud kept the closing line.

French Montana's “Shot Caller” (2011) carried it out of Brooklyn, and the Spanish phrase became a genre password — luxury sample rap announced in a language most of its audience didn't speak, which only made it stick harder.

Fraud leaned all the way in: the tag became his brand name, his social handles, and the front door to a catalog spanning Curren$y's Cigarette Boats and Action Bronson's Saaab Stories.

What songs use the Harry Fraud tag?

• Shot Caller — French Montana (2011)
• Cigarette Boats (EP) — Curren$y (2012)
• Saaab Stories (EP) — Action Bronson (2013)

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