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:lolsign: Why didn't you get him onto the DS Kev?

What's funny is Sony/BMG now owns all the Jive records.. It's really a Jive/Zomba release that now comes under Sony/BMG. Someone over there must have been a fan to contact Jeff, and get him to do new remixes to a song thats 17 years old. Jeff has never had a great relationship with Sony, so I'm suspecting it must have been someone on the BMG side since he did it for them.

Oakland violence prompts mural artists to show balance of good, bad Percy Robinson said he would rather produce a mural about Oakland homicide than participate in a killing. So the 18-year-old joined a group of young people who finished a mural in East Oakland Thursday that responds to the violence by trying balance it with positive aspects of life. "You could give in to the anger and the street life, or you can move yourself forward," said Robinson, who graduated from high school in June. "This mural helped me stay on a positive track." The mural at 1200 50th Ave. was created by 15 young Oakland residents, ages 14 to 20, who worked several days a week for the past month. Many of the artists have lost friends or relatives to violence. Robinson's younger brother Mikal, 15, died when he was struck by a sport utility vehicle a year ago. Robinson said he managed to let go of his frustration at his brother's death by getting involved in volunteer activities, which in turn led to his work on the mural. The mural, along with a series of public service announcements for radio and TV, are part of an anti-violence awareness campaign sponsored by the group Youth Uprising and supported by the California Endowment. Youth Uprising is an East Oakland nonprofit that runs a community center next door to Castlemont High School, which tries to divert Oakland's young people from crime by offering tutoring, job training and classes in dance, video and music production. The young people at Youth Uprising originally conceived the idea of a mural that responds to Oakland's violence and commemorates its young victims a year ago during a 50 percent spike in killing in the city. But the project was delayed, and the artists decided that instead of commemorating the victims, they wanted a positive component in the project. The mural they designed and painted acknowledges the bad on one side while emphasizing the good on the other. The left side of the mural is themed "Weapons of Mass Distraction," and it shows an image of TV with guns, pills, dice, wads of cash and a home broken in two. The right side is titled "Seeds of Resistance, and it includes images of school books, a turntable and microphone (to represent music), paintbrushes and people working. "The artists really wanted to show the problems and show the solutions," said Julio Magana-Saludado, a professional muralist and art teacher who coached the young people throughout the process. "We wanted to make it real and show that there are a lot of negative distractions that make young people act crazy," said Magana-Saludado, who is known professionally as Somos One. "But we wanted to show that you don't have to give in to that. You can find strength in the positive." For Nakeya McFarland, 16, the themes in the mural "got real" when a friend of hers, Anthony Custard, was killed July 24 on 69th Avenue, just as the painting was about to begin. "I put a lot of my grief and my heart into this mural," said Nakeya, who starts 11th grade at Oakland's Fremont High School later this month. "I'm glad we show the negative, but we balance it by showing there is a positive way. ... You don't have to give in to this craziness." Andre Bender said planning and painting the mural improved his own outlook on life. "The positive should outweigh the negative, even though it doesn't sometimes," said Andre, 16, an 11th-grader at Oakland High School who helped paint. Andre has not lost any close friends or family members to violence. But he was a classmate of Andrew Porter, a popular Oakland High football star killed last year. "I'm lucky no one really close to me has been killed," Andre said. "I'm hearing about people dying every day. I've lost neighbors, classmates - just a lot of people from the neighborhood. It's real sad. I'm getting numb to it. "If I showed emotion, I would be paralyzed with sadness," Andre added.

Yeah.. I don't like ghostwriting :thumbdown:

probably 50-60% of sales are from the US actually

theres still 50 left..its just some sizes are more popular than others

nice work..thats sum classic FP in the vid :thumbsup:

I'm very upset right now. I've spent the last SIX hours trying to get to sleep. Now I'm leaving to go work in less than 2 hours for a 9 hour shift. I'm pissed off. Today has sucked since midnight. God Blessa! may it continue to suck for the suckiest of all sucksters! :kool:

haha interesting post Visqo :kool: Ale that's great you enjoy willsmith.com it is Will's official site.. As a fan for many years and being 27 posts like "Will Smith is soo hottt" just doesn't quite do it for me. Of course many of Will's fans are young teenage girls..and many in that generation like to express themselves with text talk. I know you are holding it down over there so keep enjoying yourself.. People like AJ & Cookies used to moderate the official Will Smith board..and many of our members here are from that old board back in the day. Therefore they think that forum could be so much better but I don't think they are hating.

'twas a rhetorical question, good sir! I think you are confusing me with Jonny.. or your mama!

does britain have an alcohol problem?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

haha awesome.. I used to play people somethin like dis in a similar situation

I checked the store...I'm thinking of gettin myself one... No mediums or smalls? they've all sold out i'm afraid.. once these shirts go they'll never be done again..

Ted you talk a lot of sense.. what you been up to, how's life?

That album was supposed to help their careers, but I think it killed it.

I've only got 6 XL shirts left..so if that's your size..order now :signthankspin:

Believe me we tried to help a long time ago..but theres so much rubbish posted and no moderators its just an uphill battle

Sony/BMG.. that release date is for UK/Europe I'm not even sure they are releasing it in the US

it was the dutch release of the boom single

I imagine its being released end of summer because it takes time for labels to get release dates on singles etc..may take 3 months to get 1 which delays things.. anyway its great there is a new jjfp video and single!

DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE "SUMMERTIME 2007" 1. DJ Jazzy Jeff's Still Summertime Remix (Radio Edit) 2. DJ Jazzy Jeff's SoleFul Remix 3. DJ Jazzy Jeff's Still Summertime Remix 4. Original 1991 Album Version

The Single is released September 10 :wickedwisdom:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/id/2693714688

yeah..this was on one of the boom singles..aj's got it