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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.'

Happy B-Day!!

I have no idea how he is but Rest In Peace.

Yeah, one of the best songs they've ever done. I like the Live Version better tho.' BEYONCE, MC LYTE, MISSY ELLIOT, + FREE - Fighting Temptation Fighting Temptations Soundtrack (2003)

Yeah, I really liked the second Joy song. That Sarah video is completely ridiculous...but musically, it isn't that bad of a cover. ALICIA KEYS - Girlfriend Songs In A Minor (2001) Such a classic album. I can't help but nod my head every time I hear this. I was just listening 2 this in the car. Takes me back.

For some reason I'm not able to hear stuff on YouTube at the moment. I'll be checking out those Joy and Sarah songs when I have things fixed. Jennifer Love Hewitt actually has for albums. Her first was in the early-mid 90's and it was only released overseas. I believe it's more teen poppish, her first US album came out in '95 I think. It has a few good songs but I'm actually a fan of her 1996 self-titled album and her 2003. She has an overall light pop and soul kind of vibe. Her lyrics are a little quirky sometimes but I really do like her music. Especially on a mellow day. I don't think she has any plans for a new album but with her career at a slow spot, I wish she would record. YouTube has her 2 most recent videos as well as the song/video she did for the "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" soundtrack plus a live performance from her self-titled album. COLBIE CAILLAT - I Never Told You Breakthrough (2009)

I read/heard him speak on all of those topics before but never read this specific interview. It really takes me back to a good time. I've tried to chill on my ebaying a bit but I might get back into to find magazines that have interviews like this again soon since they are typically cheap. Thanks for sharing this. I remember back in '96, I really wished he wouldn't have ended the show. Shortly after that I agreed with what he had always been saying. The one thing about this interview that I had never heard was how he "thought" he was "kind of" retired from music. Since he's 1995 interview with Rap Pages, I had only ever heard him say he was retired...period. This is the 1st interview where he didn't sound 100% sure. And he was right...if u pretend that we are unaware of how bad the mainstream and commercial face of Hip-Hop and Rap has gotten, it was totally different back then. From 1992, especially 1993 thru' 1996, it was mostly explicit, dark, overly fake gangsta rap that was getting play. I appreciated some of it for what it was, but I was even saying back then that "gangsta rap was wack...the music is fake...the vibe has changed." It had a slight pick up on it's morale in 1996, leading into the overly materialistic party era in the late 90's...leading to common street thuggary off 2000ish. From there it's gotten dumber, weaker, and overall completely pointless. Who can be motivated when they are considered an outcast who will struggle for recognition when they are clearly more intelligent, more talented, and more hard working than the idiots who are successful?

I'm not saying 80's and 90's artists didn't get in trouble, but isn't their a severe lack of common sense possessed by rappers who came out after in 2000 or later? Their like a bunch of unmotivated little kids who have no desire to grow up or better themselves. ------------------------------------------------------------ Juelz Santana Arrested on Weapons and Drug Charges Juelz Santana was arrested in New Jersey Wednesday afternoon (Feb. 2), just two weeks after his studio was raided by authorities. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli announced late Wednesday that Santana, born Laron James, was busted on four counts of narcotic and weapon offenses. The arrest comes as a result of a 10-month investigation of Santana and his cohorts, conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutorís Office Gang Unit. According to a press release put out by the Bergen County Prosecutorís Office, Santana is believed to be a member of the Bloods street gang. He is also suspected to have founded the Skull Gang, which is said to be a subset of Santanaís rap crew, The Diplomats. Following the raid on his New York studio, on January 20, authorities uncovered two loaded 9mm caliber handguns, several boxes of ammunition, and 17 small zip-lock bags of marijuana. The rapperís associate, Toby M. Raynor, was arrested at the scene. Raynor, 24, was busted for selling marijuana to undercover officers. Despite the seriousness of the matter, Santana remained optimistic about the allegations and the raid. "They always picking on me, that's the best way I could put it," he said during an interview on Chicago radio station Power 92. "But by the graces of God, everything should be OK. I wasn't really caught with anything in my possession. They said they found some things in the studio, which I have no idea about. We'll see how everything pans out, man." Santana is currently being held on $125,000 bail.

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT - Just Try Can I Go Now (CD Single) (2003) One of my fav songs by her. I'm pretty sure this was written by Brian McKnight.

Halftime gig 'dream come true' for Black Eyed Peas Updated: Feb 3, 2011 - 19:49PM DALLAS -Even the Black Eyed Peas are protecting their Super Bowl playbook. "We're not allowed to give away the set list, but it will be packed with energy — what the Black Eyed Peas bring," said band member Fergie at a news conference Thursday. The band said they are excited and honored to give the halftime performance during Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers "We want everybody to have a good time and just dance, party," will.i.am said about the performance that's expected to include R&B star Usher and former Guns `N Roses guitarist Slash. A person familiar with the plans for Sunday's halftime show told The Associated Press that both musicians were slated to make surprise appearances. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Wednesday, because the musicians' performances were not going to be announced. "Hopefully we will bring the heat because it's cold as hell here in Dallas," said Black Eyed Peas band member Taboo. The band spoke at a news conference in downtown Dallas on the third consecutive day of subfreezing temperatures during a rare cold spell that greeted the first Super Bowl week in North Texas. Taboo said the opportunity to provide entertainment for the NFL's ultimate game is "a dream come true for us as football lovers." Fellow band member, Fergie, said it was a "huge honor" to be picked as halftime performer. "Sunday football is a serious day in our homes," said Fergie, who is a minority owner of the Miami Dolphins. "Super Bowl Sunday is the day that I can go all out — cheat — eat the seven-layer dip, all the Italian food and scream at everybody." The six-time Grammy award-winning Black Eyed Peas have sold more than 28 million albums worldwide and are known for songs such as "Boom Boom Pow," "I Gotta Feeling" and "Imma Be." "Some people write songs for radio. Some people write songs for clubs. We like to write songs for life," will.i.am said, adding that he is proud that many of their energetic songs are featured at sporting events. At the news conference, band member apl.de.ap showed off his nod to his band playing at the Super Bowl: He had the band's initials — BEP — and XLV — for the 45th Super Bowl — shaved into the back of his head. The band also will bring some technology to the show as will.i.am will be tweeting during the performance. Keith Urban and Maroon 5 will be performing during the pre-game festivities on Sunday. Christina Aguilera is set to sing the national anthem and Lea Michele of "Glee" will sing "America the Beautiful."

I cut and pasted the article...lol. It speaks for itself. Sounds like someone has an addiction...and it's not to common sense.