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MAT KEARNEY - Girl America Nothing Left To Lose (2007)

That quote caught me off guard...I laughed out loud. Regarding the music, I'm sure that if I could vomit from my ears in reverse, it would feel a lot like listening 2 those songs....but in a good way. The beats were definitely creative. I like them a lot. :laugh:

I'm not a Ja-Rule fan but as always, I'll give any release an honest listen. Since his fame as faded, it sounds like he's grown up a bit, and he's no longer on Murder Inc. (a completely phony record label), it actually sounds like he has the opportunity to make sensible music.

This will be excellent exposure for her. At the same time, "new" acts coupled with super star acts usually never take off the way they're planned. I'm not really a Justin Bieber fan but at least she'll be with a camp that looks like it's free from creepy people.

That LL joint is a forgotten classic. It got spins back in the day even tho' it didn't have a video. Tim, that song is dope! Thanks for sharing. Brakes, were on page 60...u know what that means. :) YOUNG MC - Stress Test Inject the Enzyme (2002) This has been on of my favs over the past decade. I was just listening to it and found out that he actually did a music video for it.

It looks like little Nicky got left out of the family photo. ...and so did the special features.

SALT-N-PEPA - Let's Talk About Sex Black's Magic (1991)

I'll agree with that. Beyonce has a great voice and seems like a great person. Her songs just aren't very good. Each move in her career has gotten worse since DC stopped. Kelly and Michelle have been more consistent than she has. I think Kelly's albums are both great. I like all 3 of Michelle's tho' I was happy to see her stretch on her mainstream album. Beyonce's albums when from good to average to...Sasha Fierce.

DOUG E. FRESH - Bounce Play (1994)

They tried making this happy ten years ago. They were trying to pair FP up with Jennifer Lopez and later with Alicia Keys.

BIZ MARKIE - Turn Back The Hands of Time Weekend Warrior (2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9dhFKsGbUg I popped this album in for the 1st time in a long time. I forgot how great it is.

"Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" came out in the summer of 1986. The original version of Rock The House came out in 1987 followed by Jive's version in 1988. These must be from the 1st half of 1986 or when they met in 1985. I hope this guy shares these tracks. I wonder how he got his hands on them!!

This is amazing. I'm speechless!!!!

SARA BAREILLES - Breathe Again Kaleidoscope Heart (2010)

U must be on dog food. How can Bruno Mars be wack? Bruno Mars is one of the best songwriters that R-N-B has seen in years!! His range of music styles is broad, this voice and stage presence is excellent, and plays a lot of his own instruments. I think his sound could be a little more solid, but as far as I'm concerned, he's one of the most refreshing things 2 happen to R-N-B in a long time.

H-TOWN - Knockin' Da Boots Fever For Da Flava (1993) 90's classic. R.I.P. Dino.

I will say that in the past year, even tho' the music industry is a joke, I've enjoyed a lot of award shows more than I expected to. The Grammys there year were the exception. I thought they were very boring. I felt that a few good songs were over looked and that most of the songs that were going against each other were just not that good. Lady Anttabellum (sp?) had that big hit and why I don't think it was as bad as most country songs, it didn't deserve to win as many times as it did. I'm not a fan of rock music but I thought all of nominees for the rock categories were awful. I listed a few that I wanted to win. I'm glad Eminem won the awards that he did. He did finally put a good album for the 1st time in a decade. I wanted to see Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, and B.O.B. win more. Record of the Year * “Nothin’ on You” – B.o.B (feat. Bruno Mars) Song of the Year * “Love the Way You Lie” – Eminem (feat. Rihanna) Best Rap Solo Performance * “Not Afraid” – Eminem [Winner] Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group Best Rap/Sung Collaboration * “Wake Up! Everybody” – John Legend, The Roots, Melanie Fiona & Common Best Rap Song * “Empire State Of Mind” – Jay-Z (feat. Alicia Keys) [Winner] * “Not Afraid” – Eminem * “Nothin’ on You” – B.o.B (feat. Bruno Mars) Best Rap Album * Recovery – Eminem [Winner] * How I Got Over – The Roots

SALT-N-PEPA - Big Girls (2010) Just a few more days...

I remember the 1st time I heard that song...I wanted 2 smack Trey across the face. A lot of his music is great but that song is complete trash...and it's turning out to be his biggest hit so far. He should be ashamed. NELLY + KERI HILSON - Live Tonight 5.0 (2010) I love this song. It's totally mainstream but I love it. Keri kills the hook. Nelly stepped his game up.

I was doing some reading up on Salt-N-Pepa and came across this article from the Spring. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pepa Says Nicki Minaj's Rap Persona is Controlled by Men Rap vet Sandy 'Pepa' Denton, is weighing in on budding femcee, Nicki Minaj, and how the Harajuku Barbie will have to balance her racy lyrics and being a role model Pepa, who is one half of the female hip-hop duo Salt 'N' Pepa, has had her share of controversy based on her sexually explicit lyrics, but thinks Minaj's style is reminiscent of another female rapper. "She reminds me of [Lil Kim]." Pepa said. "Bold and you know ... she's young and a lot of people are like 'oh what do you feel about her because of the message?' but to me she hasn't learned the message yet. Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents. But [Nicki's] young, so how's she gonna enlighten?" She went on to theorize that Minaj's affiliation with the male dominated Young Money crew has a lot to do with the kind of artist that she is. "She's new, she's excited and what happens when you have a male camp backing you? Yeah, you might be singing those kinds of lyrics," she explained. "That's what happens when you have a male camp dictating how you should be. I'm not mad at Nicki. I think she's talented. I love her style. She has a lot of attitude, she has a lot of things she wants to express so I wouldn't be mad at that. I was there at that age, so I don't expect her to be like 'oh let me start being this way.' This is what she's feelin." Bursting onto the music scene in 1985, Pep and her partners Cheryl 'Salt'Wray and DJ Spinderella, were not shy about female sexual expression. Dropping hits like 'Push It,' and 'Shoop' the group also touched on the growing AIDS epidemic and promoted safe sex with 1991's 'Let's Talk About Sex.' Although it remains to be seen just what Minaj's music legacy will be, it's clear that her popularity is growing at an unstoppable rate. She has appeared on tracks with Usher, Mariah Carey and Robin Thicke and recently hired Sean "Diddy" Combs as her manager. Her debut album is set to drop later this year.

I think their 1st 2 albums are classics. They are amongst the best Hip-Hop albums of all time. I think Elephunk and Monkey Business were good albums. They polished, eclectic but they just weren't consistent. There are some gems on those albums. Their 2 most recent albums are really hard for me 2 vibe with. The E.N.D. does have a couple songs I like as songs...but not as BEP songs. I don't think I listened 2 their latest album since it came. There just wasn't anything that made me even want to give it another listen. I think all of them are talented and as artists I like them...but their music just isn't good at the moment. I respect them being experimental, but they aren't making good choices in how they experiment. They are always evolving so I have hope that they'll get good again...maybe even great. Look what Eminem did with Recovery. Who thought he'd get his stuff 2gether like that?!

It's good to hear some BEP news that isn't Will.I.Am or Fergie. Taboo and Apl have stepped back since the started blowing up. It's good to hear him speak and know that's he's doing some stuff on the side. I hope his solo album takes things back to a more solid sound. I had no idea he was dealing with drug problems a few years back. As much as I'm not happy with what BEP is currently doing, this interview is refreshing. -------------------------------------------------- Taboo of Black Eyed Peas Rejects Super Bowl Hate, Says He's OK With Role in Group By Nicki Gostin Posted Feb 9th 2011 09:04PM EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his halftime performance at the Super Bowl, Black Eyed Peas member Taboo spoke to PopEater about the controversial show and also about his memoir called 'Fallin' Up,' which details his beginnings in east LA and his rise to superstardom. Amazingly, Taboo's troubles really began as the band became an international success. You guessed it, the usual 'Behind the Music' stuff, lots of drugs and alcohol and the birth of a son when he was just 18. He's been clean and sober for more than three years. In our chat, Taboo (born Jaime Luis Gómez) brushes off criticism of BEP's much-derided set in Dallas and swears that he's comfortable being a side player in the group. He also opens up about the onslaught of misfortune that nearly sunk him just as the Black Eyed Peas were making it big. You must be so buzzed right now! Oh, I am so high off life and everything that has happened in the last 48 hours. It's so amazing how much energy the Super Bowl and the book and everything that has happened right now, I'm blessed. I know that my grandmother is shining down on me right now, and she would be so proud. What do you say to people who criticized the show? The thing about it is there were 100 million viewers. If you get 60 million people who didn't like it and you get 40 million that did like the show, that's a pretty cool thing because you can't please everybody. Everybody who is a critic is going to criticize and annihilate everything you do even if it's a good thing. They just want to bring it down. The proof is in the pudding, everywhere I'm going, walking in the streets, going through airports, everybody's like, "Great show, we love you." So as many people who are blogging about how disappointed they were, there's a lot of people in the streets who really loved the show. A lot of people complained about the sound mix. Yes, there was some trouble. There were technical problems that we had no control over. We had to keep it professional, the show must go on. People say they have sh**ty jobs, but you really did. I had the sh**tiest job on earth. During the day I would be part of this thing at Disney called the Electric Parade, and we would be wearing vests that lit up, and we would have to pretend we were part of the parade, and we would be carrying these buckets and picking up the s**t from the Clydesdale horses in the parade. And at night I was performing in the Black Eyed Peas. It was part of my routine. It was whatever I had to do to take care of my son. I had a 9 to 5 job but was still chasing my dream because I wanted to be able to give my son the best future possible. It was just me and Josh, and thank God my mom helped me out. My main motivation was to take care of Josh. Are you on your son's case to wear protection? He knows, "Hey, I'm not trying to do what my dad did. I'm not going to fall into being a teen parent and messing up," because he's a musician as well. He's a DJ. Right now his goal is not girls; he's not into wanting to be in a relationship. He wants to travel and make music. I support that. You quit without going to rehab. I credit my son and my now wife for being there for me every step of the way because Josh could have easily been like, "I can't be with my Dad, he's out of it," and my fiancée who is now my wife, she could have been, "You know what I'm not putting up with this s**t, I'm out of here." I wanted to change for them; I needed to change for myself. I remember calling my business manager and saying I need help. I got into this thing called Promeda which took away the cravings. It was just three sessions. I also became more spiritual, started really respecting myself and respecting my blessings. After that I just stayed on this path, and I'm able to speak about it. When I wrote the book, it was therapeutic for me. What was your rock-bottom moment? March 27, 2007, was the epiphany. I got arrested at 7 in the morning for driving under the influence. I was so out of it. I'd taken Xanax, ecstasy and done a line of coke. I drove my son to school; luckily, I had dropped him off. I drove off, and I got into an accident. I hit somebody from behind, and six cop cars swooped on me, and I thought I was getting punked on MTV. It seemed so fake, and I was so out of it. The cops came up and looked at my eyes, and they seen that I was kind of out of it. And I was like, "Yo I'm in Black Eyed Peas," and they were like, "We don't care who you are, you're going to jail like everybody else." Thank God you were arrested. It was the best thing. Once I sobered up in that dirty, grungy hellhole, I felt like, "Oh my God, this is going to be my life if I continue this lifestyle." The disgust and the hurt and the disappointment I felt in myself and thinking, "What is my family going to think of me, what are my band mates going to think of me and what are the fans going to think of me? I'm letting all these people down because of my destructive behavior. I don't want to let nobody down. Let's change it up. Let's find a different path." Did you write this book mainly to let people know you're actually not Asian? (Laughs) Yeah, I let people know I'm a Mexican-American from east LA, and I'm Shoshone Native American, and I represent my Latino culture to the fullest. Everybody always mistakes me for Filipino or Japanese. I'm also letting people know me as an individual and showing my vulnerable side and that I'm actually a funny dude. I'm not a scary guy with long hair that's a ninja, that's beating up people on stage. There's a perception: Oh, that's the ninja guy, the kung fu guy. All that stuff was me putting up a front because I was high or drunk. I had to pretend I had a hard shell. Ever feel like grabbing the mic away from Fergie? No, Black Eyed Peas is a unit of all-stars. We all have our individual parts, whether it's a small part or it's a whole huge part. The fact is we support each other every way, and if my niche is writing a book or designing shoes or doing a solo album, they're very supportive. I think the company I'm in, I don't mind not being the center focus of the Black Eyed Peas. I'm part of a championship team. I don't need to score every time. What's the future for the band? We're going to continue growing the Black Eyed Peas legacy. If you look at bands like U2 and the Rolling Stones as prime examples of friends who have stuck together through thick and thin. What's going on with your solo album? Right now we have a Black Eyed Peas album and single. I'm working with my good friend Juanes. We just did a song together. Right now there's no set time, hopefully when Black Eyed Peas slows down a little bit, but right now it's full steam ahead.

THANK U!!! This is Hip-Hop!

MC LYTE - Shut The Eff Up (Hoe) Eyes On This (1989) I dedicate this to pretty much every female rapper than came out after 1996.

Yeah, I was happy that a Hip-HopISH group was performing but other than that, there wasn't much 2 be proud of. The costumes were corny. This isn't 1999, the futuristic vibe is dead. The song line up was okay considering their hits of recent years. I was hoping they were gonna do "Joint + Jams." If Usher and Slash were more involved, it would have been cool but their appearances were random. Fergie didn't sound go good singing Guns N Roses. Usher's performance was also boring (which was expected since "OMG" is one of this worst songs ever)...but I guess it tied him him with BEP. The visual effects of the dancers were really cool tho.'