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the mics on you!!! :kekeke:

if u got musicmatch..you can do it in there its very easy

feel the love :grouphug: but i agree its a good vibe :thumb:

yess!! same here :ditto:

thanks brakes.. theres so many tracks im not sure what the point of reviewing them individually would be

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hang on so you've seen him do switch then? what did you think of the track? how would you describe it? awesome pics by the way!

everyone says "soon" so im not even sure if they know..

it seems like will wants that but jeffs holdin that 1 back.. i think he should do it! hes nearly 40 now..he got nuthin to worry about as far as being in a contract..signed to a label..jeffs smart enough to deal with all that these days...

yeah but it means they are working on the album..so im thinking we are gonna get a lot of jjfp tracks on this!!

yeah i gotta get that! what european country released it..cause i never seen it on ebay

pm dawn - superstition :rock: great cover :clap:

yea welcome..you gotta be good with a name like momo the clown :kekeke: and i agree i want a jjfp album and i think we'll be gettin quite a few jjfp tracks on the new album

i can doubly confirm this..will would LOVE to do a tour..he loves performing so much....

Jazzy Jeff wakes up Andy O'Brien THE 1988 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince release, He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper, was one of those key crossover albums that brought rap to me and millions of other rural and suburban American white kids. It was the first rap tape I ever heard. After snatching it off the record store shelf, I immediately brought it to my best friend's house where we listened to it in his bedroom until the next morning. A few months later I had played the cassette into oblivion. In the early 90s while the Fresh Prince went on to movie stardom as Will Smith, Jazzy Jeff made his way back to Philadelphia to work in his newly founded production company "A Touch of Jazz." Two years ago, he hit the road again, but this time on his own. Last Saturday night he hit the turn tables at the Luxy for a night of house, funk, soul, and old school hip hop with guest MC Mad Skillz. Four days after he'd arrived and two days after that show, I ended up waiting for four hours in a hotel room for this legend to wake up from a jetlagged-induced slumber while his tour manager entertained me with Slim Jims, Pop Tarts, Rainblow, and photos of Russian strippers from The Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff's September tour of Europe. And finally, at 1:30am, the man himself emerged: POTS: So how was the show? JAZZY JEFF: I Loved it. The show was incredible, the crowd was incredible and the energy was incredible. The crowd was so open to what we were doing, it reminded me of the early days of hip hop. Just like the kids here, we would take everything they gave us. We just wanted to soak up every record we could find. We didn't have time to be selective or say, "Hey, they don't play that on the radio." We vibed with whatever sounded good. In some places I've played, it's been like taking the crowd on an educational tour of what it was. In Taipei, I was taking them on an educational tour of what it is. POTS: Do you feel that hip hop's commercialization has destroyed a lot of that enthusiasm? JJ: Yes, but more so outside the US. Before hip hop's commercialization, we were begging for it to get big. We didn't want the commercialization to take over, but it was great that eventually we got a record like "Parents Just Don't Understand," then there was NWA's "Niggaz You Love to Hate." Hip hop covered everything. I loved gangster rap. I loved everything. What people don't understand is although hip hop is a lifestyle, rap is a lyrical form. You can rap over any kind of music - jazz, funk, soul, opera, you can rap over anything. It can pull anybody in who just loves music, so it doesn't all have to be "hip hop." But now someone who has never played music chooses what you hear. hey just say, "We're gonna play this record 20 times a day to get into people's heads." The biggest problem is not what the radio plays, but what the radio doesn't play. POTS: Yeah, but Rush Limbaugh blamed the recent NBA brawl on "hip hop culture." JJ: That doesn't even make me mad. That's just an uneducated person. He doesn't know what hip hop is. POTS: Have you ever been able to go back to playing block parties? JJ: They really don't have those kinds of parties anymore and it's sad because that's where I cut my teeth. The block party is dead. Most people are so programmed by the radio stations that they just want to hear the same ten records that the radio plays over and over. It sucks for a DJ who wants to expose people to something new. You can throw one record and get everyone out on the floor. Twenty minutes later you can throw the same damn record on and they'll be back on the floor like they'd never heard it. It's like, "Are we in the Matrix or some ****?" While I was growing up, people would respond to the sound. If someone threw something on and it felt good, you just went with it. POTS: Have you checked out any local music in Taiwan? JJ: I haven't really been able to get as much Asian music, but DJ Noodles, who opened for me at the Luxy, was amazing. She could cut and I loved her selection. So many DJs just want to play the top-40 stuff, but I love it when a DJ grabs something obscure. She had guts. POTS: And what about the DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince reunion? JJ: We did a show in LA last summer and we went to Moscow, London, Paris, and Australia. I've got to go home after the tour and work on his new record with him. Will really wants to go on tour again. He really doesn't like doing performances without me. It always goes from the "Will Smith thing" then the "Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince" show. I've always been involved in his projects, but I've just never chosen to take the same "DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince" route again. After we finished our last record deal, I needed a break from the industry. I've always been involved, but it just wasn't contractual. I didn't want to get tied down again. I was in a contract when I was a 20-year-old kid. We were signed for ten years, so I was thirty-something when I got out. But I was like, "I have the wisdom of a 15 year old! I need to get out!" POTS: What advice do you have for the kids of Taiwan? JJ: Thanks for the support. Thanks for being open to new music. Hip hop is a great thing. If you take care of it, it'll take care of you. http://publish.pots.com.tw/english/Music/2...38_23jazzyjeff/

simple is often the most effective..that was really sweet :thumb: :bowdown:

man i cant believe we missed this..jeff did a Q&A over at the defected forum..you can check out the post here... http://www.defected.com/board/viewtopic.ph...ight=jazzy+jeff a few highlights... Are you still mates with Will? Jeff: will and i are still very close...were working on an album rite now... ahh a new jazzy jeff and fresh prince album..it makes the wait worthwile :thumb: what record would you like played at your funeral summertime...and i want everybody 2 dance haha! ive always wanted the summertime reprise to play at my funeral :ditto:

HIGHER PRODUCTION VALUES BY Olubunmi Okolosi Jazzy Jeff on his new album and life since Summertime Time moves on. These days, Jeff Townes cuts the figure of a man who is mellowing gracefully. He still has that familiar cheeky side smile that got women hot around the collar when he was one half of the highly successful hip-hop duo Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince. But the youthful irreverence has started to diminish and the trademark custom shades have been replaced by slightly more conservative glasses. January marks his 40th birthday. Back in the late ’80s, in tandem with Will Smith, Jazzy Jeff had fans eating out of his hand as the pair produced a string of timeless rap classics – often with a comedic edge, but in a manner that never detracted from their solid hip-hop traditions. Jeff started deejaying much, much earlier and by the time his debut Rock the House dropped in 1987, he was something of a veteran. “I started around ten,” he recalls. “My brother was in a band, The Intruders, and they used to rehearse in the basement, so I grew up around a lot of old soul music and musicians. “I also grew up in the DJ era with all the block parties going off that would have a band and then a DJ and I gravitated towards the DJ because he always seemed like the guy who was controlling the crowd. He was kind of captain of the ship and everyone went where he went. “I used to just ride my bike at about eight or nine years old to the block parties and just sit in front of these massive stacks of speakers, watch these guys play records all night and just control it. “And I wanted to be them, so I found this guy in the neighbourhood who was having a party and they let me come to the party with a big component set and that was it, that’s where I started.” Fast-forward a few decades and it is obvious he has lost none of the panache which made his name. Crowd reaction is the fuel that feeds his passion for what he does. Seeing a crowd go wild is a constant motivator: “Music is a very important tool. At times I’ve felt like an ambassador. I deejayed in Johannesburg in front of 18,000 people about three years ago. I’ve been there three more times since and throughout South Africa because I felt a real closeness. The energy generated when you have all these eyes on you is incredible – these people are soaking up my musical inspirations.” Jeff is highly successful in his own right and it is unfortunate and unjust that his success will always be measured against that of his former musical partner and one-man entertainment industry, Will Smith. It is a subject Mr Townes is questioned on incessantly, but for him, it has never been a question of stepping out of Big Will’s shadow. If he has one regret, it is that he does not get to see as much of his lifelong pal as he would like. The pair grew up in a tightly-knit west Philadelphia neighbourhood and it is impossible not to become close to someone you spend so much of your time with over such a long period. “Me and Will are not in competition and never have been,” he points out. “He’s one of my best friends. We don’t get a chance to hang out as much as we used to because his film schedule is just unbelievable. “Also, we are both a bit older – he is married and has kids and we both have responsibilities. But when we get on the phone we try and talk as much as possible.” As Smith was taking on Hollywood, Townes began carving out a niche for himself as a producer. He formed a production company, Touch Of Jazz Inc, which enabled him to put his creative talents to seed. Jill Scott’s highly acclaimed debut album Who is Jill Scott? was touched by his creative brush, as was UK duo Floetry’s debut set. Countless other soul, R’n’B and hip-hop stars have, in recent years, benefited from the Touch of Jazz. His new album Jazzy Jeff in the House is a blend of skillfully crafted upfront house and classic soul. One listen and the quality of the album is apparent. Being an international DJ has given him a unique insight into the feelings of Americans and people from around the world. Since the September 11 attacks he has noticed a change in attitude. It is while talking about these experiences that Jeff is at his most animated. “It made us in America look at the world differently. It was like we had a smoke screen, but 9/11 erased that. “As a DJ, interest quadrupled. People wanted a little bit of peace, an escape from their everyday lives. “I’ve never been a political person, but what I’m more aware of now is that not voicing your opinion on how your future goes can have a grave impact on you. “What I’ve always noticed with the black community in the USA is that we are the first ones to complain about how things are, yet we don’t realise that there is a vote that we could have made to change them.” The last election brought things into focus more sharply than ever for Jeff. He declares: “I love the USA but I don’t always love what the USA represents. I’ve never voted in my life, but I voted this year. “It is never too late to pay a little of your attention.” http://www.voice-online.net/content.php?show=5586&type=7

added a link to the jadapages :thumb:

no its not comin out in june!

i got these will smith clippings and it had that pic in the middle in color..i love that pic! if any1 has a big full version of it let me know..im also after that black and white 1 in the greatest hits album in color!

that'll come in handy for me too.... lol j/k, j/k :sonny: and johnny!!! :hilarious: :hilarious: :hilarious:

its evil!! i like it! :lolsign:

yeah i havent forgotten :lolsign: im gonna try and capture it so i can put it online for you...

the video for switch was finished in august!!