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HEAVY D + THE BOYZ - You Can't See What I Can See Don't Curse (CD Single) (1991) Man, what happened to Hip-Hop?

Jaden's rap isn't going to make any waves in the Hip-Hop world...but he is good. You can see a bit of the Fresh Prince in him. He could actually be a good emcee in a few years. I wonder if who wrote his verse. None of the lines made me say "Yeah, FP wrote that" for sure, but some of them had that FP kind of feel 2 them. Didn't FP say Jaden didn't have any rhythm in an interview a few years ago. His flow was right with the beat and he can dance a bit...lol.

RAW FUSION + 2PAC - #1 With A Bullet Live From the Styleetron (1991) I can't believe I've never heard this before. Back in 1991 I was already a Digital Underground and 2Pac fan but I just now bought this album.

World Class Wreckin' Cru wasn't exactly gangsta...my issue is that once he left Deathrow, he pretty much purged that vibe from his life style. I have an interview from 1996 taped somewhere with him saying Aftermath was about making real Hip-Hop music and that Gangsta Rap was dead. He said he wanted to make real music and even release records with no profanity. But when Chronic 2001 came around, more than half of the album was riddled with the same kind of weak, stupid subject matter. Some of the production was great, some was average. Some of the guests were great, some weren't. My argument on Gangsta Rap will always be the same...if u are really sexin' so many ho's, u'll get some disease and die. If u are really toting a gun ready 2 kill someone, u will and u'll be in jail...if someone doesn't kill u first. If u are addicted 2 drugs u'll be in jail or too wasted as an individual to create music. Gangsta Rap is fake. It's ridiculous and wack. No grown man should be seriously promoting that image unless they wanna be considered a joke. In the words of KRS-One (on Arsenio Hall's sofa, sitting right next to Eazy-E)..."Real gangstas don't rap." Let me hear Dre talk about real things. He was seeing things most clearly in 1996. The Aftermath album was a nice 1st step...but then he abandoned the vision. And how many albums has he released in the past 15 years?!?!?

Why are we turning a topic about a good album into another Lil' Wayne post?

I like that Ice Cube is on it and I like that he says it's a departure from his previous stuff. I'm sure wannabe gangsta stuff, ho's and weed will come up somewhere on the album but I'm really hoping there's a lot more real subject matter on it. There's nothing gangsta about Dr. Dre other than his roots. It's time to do what Aftermath was ORIGINALLY all about...which was being real, honest, and making real Hip-Hop music. I don't like that Scott Storch is producing on the record tho.' Why would ANYONE else be producing. I think Storch is pretty overrated as a producer. Yes, he's created some good beats but he's certainly not one of the greatest to ever do it.

This is good to hear. I like how they used the word "squeeze" as if it was done and waiting to be released in 2 weeks...lol.

I have this album and I love it!

Very funny. I like your sense of humor. This reminds me of some of some of the projects I had to do when in school and trying to work some comedy in to them. I don't know how much "meat" this project needed but I hope it was enough to balance out the comedy you put on it. Well done. Next time, maybe rehearse a bit more. There were dozens of "ahh"s in there where you were collecting your next thought.

J-LIVE - Timeless The Best Part (2009...sometime between 1995-2001...whenever it was recorded even tho' the official release of his "debut" album was last year...lol) This album is DOPE! The instrumental disc idea was perfect.

Oh, apparently this is off of I Am...Sasha Fierce. That's show's how much I listened to that album. I thought it was a new song. They video didn't look the same as all the others off of that album...plus it's almost been 2 years she she dropped that album.

BEYONCE - Why Don't You Love Me (2010) Hmmm...I kinda like this. It's a lot better than the sound of her last album, but why won't she make straight R-N-B again?!?

Yeah, this hurt my heart. I grew up watching DIff'rent Strokes. That show really was brilliant in all it's simplicity. When BET started showing reruns a couple of years ago I fell in love with it all over again. Unfortunately he caught a raw deal because it was hard for him to get other roles that had weight to them due to his condition. I always wondered if his personal problems were strictly from his character or the frustration he had to deal with after the show ended. Either way, he was very talented and very funny. And most of time, he showed a lot of heart. R.I.P.

I don't wanna be a party pooper but this beat is average. With a talented emcee, it would take it to that next level. Kanye is not lyrical and his voice and flow are just annoying. It's better than what dominates radio airplay, but that hasn't been a compliment for many years. He peaked with "All Falls Down" in my opinion.

I'm not a fan of Drake so I'm finding this a bit hard 2 swallow. I also an not familiar with the original version 2 compare. The vocals match up and that's what matters most...lol.

Happy B-Day!!

There was never anything serious between the two of them. When FP went on the show one time, he was acting all crazy, making it very hard for Arsenio to interview him. It was all in good taste. They put up this front that they were acted like they were always dissing each other but it was really this thing they started from that one interview. I know at some point this interview was on YouTube. I'm not sure if it still is. I know there was an interview he did another late night host or a radio personality and they joked "I'm not gonna mess with you...I saw what you did to Arsenio."

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND - No Nose Job (Fat Bass International Mix) No Nose Job (CD Single) (Sons of P - 1991) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O8AyJ2rvy8

Yeah, I wouldn't mind hearing him on a SoulPower beat either.

That Riff song was my JAM in 6th grade. I still have the cassette single...lol. I think Riff only had 1 album. After hearing this I really wanted them 2 drop a follow up cuz "White Men Can Jump." Was flawless. Straight New Jack Swing. Comparable to groups like New Edition, Guy, Hi-Five, etc... ONYX - Throw Ya Gunz Bacdaf**up (1992) I'm having a bad day. Onyx always helps me channel and dissolve that anger without having to beat the crap out of something. This is what real street Hip-Hop sounds like. Darn near makes me wanna do a drive-by...lol.

Wow! What can I say? I don't respect 50 Cent that much. I haven't heard lyrics or talent from him that make me respect him as a rapper. I've heard him say a lot of stupid things in interviews that make it hard for me 2 respect him as a person. But I gotta give him props for that kind of commitment. I didn't know he was THAT serious about acting. He looks awful in those pictures. It says he's playing a character with cancer. Are those pix of him "in character" or does he naturally look that bad at that weight. All I can say is "WOW!"

Ted, I've got that Marley album but I rarely listen 2 that track. I've been thinking of burning a new LL mixtape with that rarities like that. Ale, that probably my favorite Nas song. JASON MRAZ - Mudhouse Gypsy MC We Steal Things EP (2008) This is one of my favorite songs by him.

Was it Project Pat or Petey Pablo? They should really put out some kind of "Lost Tapes" album...Just a collection of unreleased material from over the years... Yes, Petey Pablo...all I remembered was that it was a garbage rapper with 2 P's in their name. lol

"were"!?!? Man, The Arsenio Hall Show will forever be my favorite late night show. I used to stay up late and watch it almost every night. I missed alot of the JJ+FP performances tho' which is weird because I have tapes and tapes of stuff Arsenio performances and interviews from back in the day.

D.U.'s "final" EP is out. If you like their stuff, I think u'll like this 7 track EP. It's a collection of unreleased stuff, mostly from the 2000's. Here's a Shock G interview I found... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shock G 'Fesses Up About Humpty Hump By Phillip Mlynar, Tuesday, May. 25 2010 @ 10:15AM ​ Rap ruses get no better than Humpty Hump. The alter-ego of Digital Underground's leader Shock G, Humpty's mythology has him wearing a fabulously-personalized Groucho Marx-style nose to cover up horrific facial scars incurred during a (fictional) accident with a deep-fat-fryer and rapping about randy escapades that, according to lyric lore, took place in a Burger King bathroom. The persona has also been a profitable jape: Humpty's anthem, "The Humpty Dance," was a number one pop hit around the world and has been sampled by over 50 other artists-- which presumably means that to this day, Shock's cashing royalty checks from one-time girl-power icons The Spice Girls. With Digital Underground's final group release, the Greenlight EP, dropping last week, Shock G took time out to pull off the mask and reveal the four people who've played Humpty in the public eye over the years, plus tell all about the groupie who insisted on wanting to get busy with Humpty, not Shock. There's a live version of "Same Song" on the EP. Did you perform both the Shock G and Humpty Hump parts at that show yourself? That was at a KMEL summer jam, in 1991 at the Shoreline Amphiteater in Mountain View. My little brother Kent Racker, who's a rock guitarist, doubled as Shock G on that show so we could pull the double-act off on stage. Kent is the one who was dressed in the Shock G robes, the zebra print and the African-style kufi hat with the dark sunglasses. He walked out on stage with a dead microphone lip-synching the first verse. I'm back-stage dressed as Humpty Hump with a live mic, rapping the Shock G lines: "I came for the party/ To get naughty/ Get my rocks on/ Eat popcorn..." Kent's walking around on stage pretending to rap them. Too $hort and people who swore that they knew me had bought into me being Shock G on stage at that point, but then Humpty walked out--it ****ed their heads up! Obviously Kent didn't sing nothing for the rest of the show, but he was on stage walking around. With 2Pac and Money B running interference, no one figured it out. To this day, those 60 or 70,000 people at that Summer Jam still argue about whether it was the real Humpty or not. Did Kent ever perform as Humpty on other occasions? Yeah, he was there in that movie with Dan Aykroyd, Nothing But Trouble, plus when we [Digital Underground] performed the "We're All In The Same Gang" song on the Arsenio Hall Show with Eazy-E and Tone Loc and them. But at that time he was Humpty, cause he could pull the Humpty voice off. If we both had to have live mics then it was better to let him be Humpty. His diction wasn't totally like mine so real fans could tell something was different. But when I was Humpty and Kent was Shock G, everybody bought that as Humpty. Did anyone else ever play Humpty? There were four Humptys ever. Michael Webster, an artist who draws for a living in Oakland, looked enough like me to play Humpty. He was Humpty on the cover of B.A.M. [bay Area Music] magazine, and also in the 8x10 glossy of Digital Underground that Tommy Boy used to circulate in the first two years. One of his upper two teeth was a little darker than the other one--that's the only one you can tell, cause the nose covers up so much and then there's the clothing. Also, in some photos I was Humpty and Kent was Shock G cause he didn't have to do anything but stand there. In the "Humpty Dance" video, when Humpty would walk by Shock G, that was Rod Houston, the video rep from Tommy Boy who happened to look enough like me. So that's three different Shock Gs and four Humptys. Who was the fourth Humpty? I don't remember his name, but it was my ex-wife's boyfriend! I was married around that time, from about '91 to 96, and my wife, Melissa, had a high school sweetheart who was still around and remained friends with her. He was trying to do music and wanted to be cool with me-- he couldn't believe that his little Melissa married Shock G! But the guys in the group, like Money B and 2Pac, they used to joke that not only was he wearing the Humpty outfit but he was gonna be tapping Melissa again! They'd be like, 'Shock gon' come home and find Humpty f****n' his wife!' They were all cracking up. I mean it was risky letting my wife's ex-boyfriend be all in the limo with us, but to this day I don't believe anything happened. kmel.jpg Backstage with 2Pac at KMEL Summer Jam 1991 ​ How many Humpty noses do you have left? I might have a few in my closet ready to go, but they're all Caucasian. They don't make the brown one any more. I don't make the serious Humpty kit any more. The most at once was six: four gold and platinum and two regular brown ones connected to glasses. These days I paint the nose the day of and sometimes even the hour of the show. I use Sharpies and different designs depending on where we're playing--I might put a Playboy bunny on the side if we're playing the Playboy Mansion, or I might put HH on the side like the Gucci logo, the double letters. I have a lot of fun with it now; I don't take it as serious as I used to with having a case with a variety of noses inside. I just stop at the costume shop or the party store of that city and get some Sharpies and fix it up. Sometimes I'll draw stripes, sometimes make it blue, or if it's a more serious show I'll go with acrylic paint and then a clear coating on it to lock it on. But they don't even make 'em good any more. They used to make 'em connected to the stern Woody Allen-type glasses, but now it's the cheaper, bendy glasses. The slightest pull and the ear-thing pops off. So I buy 'em, tear the mustache off, pop the ear-strap, whatever, and rest it on my nose and put a real pair of glasses on to lock it to my face. What happened to the gold and platinum noses? I might have one of the four gold ones left in a drawer broken somewhere... Do you ever give the noses out to the crowd at shows? Yeah, after each show I give the new pair out with whatever night it was, like it might say 'Spring Break '99,' 'Happy Birthday 2Pac,' 'R.I.P. Guru.' I always ask if anybody needs a souvenir from the show and the first hand to reach the sky, I make sure they get it. Even if it's someone right at the back, I'll be like, 'Her in the blue, get her towards the stage.' There's always one hand that's distinctive and that's who gets it. So I figure I have between 500 and 1000 Humptys out there. One day I'm gonna put the word out and get the Humptys to unite. It'll be an army of Humptys! Did you ever meet any groupies who insisted on the Humpty nose being part of the experience? Yeah, once, and it was a big joke in the clique. It was the night after we played Drexell's Class, which was a sitcom that was kinda like a less popular Cosby Show. Digital Underground were the featured guests. The episode took place on a cruise ship and we were the entertainment on the ship. Also on the cruise were the Sports Illustrated models. That's the plot. So after the show wrap we all got to know each other, everybody had girls-- the girls were mostly actresses playing Sports Illustrated models. We all wound up shacking up with certain ones. The one coming home with me is real pretty. I've already spun all my schtick in the club, already rapped to her, already took pictures with the nose on, so I'm assuming that's all dead in the water. Now it's private, just me and her in the room. It's getting touchy-feely, we're making out in the bed, she rolls over on top of me and she looks up at me. I pull her in, her shirt flies off, I get her bra, I reach for her panties and she says, 'Wait! Put the nose on.' I'm like, 'Ha ha, stop playing!' I pull her in again and start playing. She's like, 'No, I'm serious, don't touch my underwear or even my hip area.' So I get up, go get the nose, put it on, look at her and go [in a Humpty voice] 'Yeah!' I could see in her eyes that she was melting down to me at that point. She'd go as far as I wanted to after that. She actually wanted to have sex with Humpty! Did the rest of the group find out? Yeah, when I told them the next day they were cracking up, man: 'Humpty ****ed one of your chicks!' I didn't think it was that funny, but they laughed double hard. I wish I never told nobody. So that was the only time you got busy as Humpty? Yeah, no other girls ever took it that far. They might ask me to do the voice a little, but nobody else wanted to keep it going into the bedroom. That could officially be the only time Humpty's ever gotten laid. Although I have heard about cats at shows masquerading as Humpty and luring chicks to their rooms that way. And I might have been drunk or at a rave and maybe gone with a quick zip-your-pants-down type thing. But yeah, that time the girl insisted was the only time Humpty took some ass from me.