JumpinJack AJ

Ha ha...his face is so happy it's ridiculous. Probably becuz he's happy that the string of lackluster movies in the family is being broken with this one. Ohhh...did i just say that?

I'll never understand suicide. Johnny J was truely a talented person. He was one of 2Pac's best friends 2. I was hoping Johnny J would be working alongside Afenie for future 2Pac releases so there weren't anymore garbage doctored albums. I have countless 2Pac documentaries and Johnny J was humble and down 2 earth in all of the ones he's in. My prayers go out 2 his family.

CHRISTINA MILIAN - Up Against The World (new album) (2008)

Well, if u like D.U., u should like it...but like the trend of all legends that are releasing albums, i feel this is their weakest. Some of the beats just aren't on that D.U. level. Most of the songs only have 1 staple member on the track joined by other artists. Only 2 or 3 songs acctually have Shock-G/Humpty Hump and/or Money B 2gether. They say this is their last one which sucks...but Shock-G has "retired" at least 2 other times sooo.... SMOOTH - Don't Sleep Reality (1998)

I agree...other than the over all quality of his last 2 albums...or any of his albums in the past 10 years in comparison 2 his early classics. I just wish he's be ALOT more picky about his production becuz his lyrics are always on point. I haven't watched the video since reading this article. I'll have 2 do that soon. Lord knows no networks will be playing it. I wish Musiq came out for the video. On another note, did anyone hear Musiq's new song with Mary J. Blige...it's 1,000 times better than that garbage "Radio" single he put out. His new album is soon. I can't see Ice Cube returning the favor for a cameo. A remix however...

I never formed an opinion of the O.J. murder. I remember kinda following the trial back in the day an didn't know what 2 think. I hate judging anything cuz it's not my place 2 judge. I'm a firm believer that things work themselves out which makes me think about everything from his past even tho' the case was totally seperate. For those who care... --------------------------------- Simpson Comes Up a Loser in Vegas By LINDA DEUTSCH LAS VEGAS (Oct. 4) - In a city where luck means everything, O.J. Simpson came out the big loser — and his unlucky number in a case full of bizarre twists was 13. He was convicted of an armed robbery that happened on Sept. 13 and was found guilty on the 13th anniversary of his Los Angeles murder acquittal. The Las Vegas jury deliberated for 13 hours after a 13-day trial. O.J. Simpson was convicted in his armed robbery and kidnapping case late Friday in Las Vegas, 13 years to the day after a Los Angeles jury acquitted him of two murders. Here, Simpson's attorney embraces him after the guilty verdict is read. And then, as only the racking sobs of Simpson's sister broke the silence late Friday, the lights went out. Court marshals flipped on flashlights and shouted for everyone to stay seated. Only the judge knew what had happened. It was 11 p.m. and the courthouse lights had shut down automatically. "Timed out," Judge Jackie Glass said in a fitting epitaph for the story of O.J. Simpson, which has long haunted America. The 61-year-old Hall of Fame football star was convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and 10 other charges for gathering five men a year ago and storming into a room at a hotel-casino, where the group seized several game balls, plaques and photos. Prosecutors said two of the men with him were armed; one of them said Simpson asked him to bring a gun. Once convicted, Simpson, the sports-idol-turned-celebrity-pariah, was handcuffed and led from the room with his co-defendant, Clarence "C.J." Stewart. They could spend the rest of their lives in prison. "There is justice," said attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented the family of his slain ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. "Justice was delayed, but in this case it was not denied. Now that he may spend the rest of his life in prison, the law, and not O.J. Simpson, will have the last word." Still, many of those in the courtroom couldn't believe the verdicts. Simpson's sister, Carmelita Durio, fainted. The sister of Tom Scotto, whose wedding precipitated the hotel confrontation, wailed. His wife, Sabrina, wept. Some observers said the Las Vegas case paled in comparison to the "trial of the century" in 1995, a yearlong opus in which Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ronald Goldman. A rapt nation followed the Los Angeles trial. Tales of a gruesome murder and a bloody glove, as well as the celebrity defendant, drew a media frenzy. In Las Vegas, Simpson's fate played out in a small courtroom dotted with empty seats. Even the stunning verdict came as most of America slept, oblivious to the irony that Simpson might spend the rest of his life in prison for what most perceived as a petty crime, a tussle among dysfunctional middle-aged men. Simpson's Las Vegas defense tried to tell the jury that the two cases had nothing to do with each other, but it was a losing battle. "I don't know that one trial cancels out the other," said Loyola University law professor Laurie Levenson, who attended Simpson's murder trial. "People will always be troubled by O.J. For the people troubled by the Los Angeles acquittal, this case will make small amends. Saying finally there is justice, at least from a legal perspective, is very crude way of looking at justice." She predicted that Stewart, 54, will have a strong chance for reversal on appeal because he was forced to stand trial beside Simpson. "O.J. was toxic, and he has been toxic since 1994, and this jury was just ready to clean up the mess," Levenson said. Simpson lawyer Yale Galanter said Saturday he felt bad for Simpson but even worse for Stewart, who got dragged along in a campaign to convict Simpson. "This was just payback," he said of the verdict. "They were on an agenda." Galanter and Stewart's lawyers promised to appeal, in part because unlike the predominantly black jury that decided Simpson's murder case, this panel included no African-Americans. Neither Simpson nor Stewart testified. Tom Scotto, who wept in court, called it "a public lynching." "Was this something to put someone in jail for the rest of their life for? It's a total injustice. There was no justice served in that courtroom," Scotto said. It was Scotto's wedding that had brought Simpson, a close friend, to Las Vegas on that fateful week in 2007, and details of wedding plans, flowers, a cake and parties formed an ironic counterpoint to testimony about Simpson gathering up a posse that included two gun-toting men to confront memorabilia dealers who were peddling Simpson's personal property to the highest bidder. The case was set in motion by Thomas Riccio, a collectibles broker who tried to bring in the FBI when he heard that two memorabilia dealers were planning to sell a trove of Simpson artifacts. Failing to get their attention, he helped set up a "sting" by promoting an anonymous buyer who turned out to be Simpson. Riccio, who has peddled goods including video of Anna Nicole Smith's breast implant surgery, saw a chance to profit by recording the confrontation between Simpson and collectibles dealers Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong. He rented a cramped hotel room away from the Las Vegas Strip for the meeting and planted a digital recorder atop an armoire. Riccio then sold the recordings of the six-minute confrontation for $210,000 before turning them over to police eight days later. Although they couldn't be authenticated, the recordings became the heart of the prosecution's case, along with audio recorded by gunman Michael McClinton at two wedding parties. The recordings were sometimes garbled, but Simpson's voice came through loud and clear: "Don't let nobody out of this room." The words formed the basis of the prosecution's kidnapping charge. The former football hero also was heard accusing the men of stealing his possessions. His lawyer would argue that Simpson was on a recovery mission to reclaim the artifacts of his life. But District Attorney David Roger argued that ownership was not a defense to robbery. Kidnapping is punishable by five years to life in prison. Armed robbery carries a sentence of at least two years behind bars and could bring as much as 30. Simpson and Stewart were taken to the Clark County jail, where the football star will live in a 7-by-14-foot cell, far removed from his ranch-style home in the lush Miami suburbs. The once-gregarious entertainer doesn't have a cell mate. He lives in the company of white concrete block walls, a small toilet and sink, and a wooden bed covered with a thin cushion. He probably has a view of a scruffy Las Vegas street through two slit windows. It will be his home until at least Dec. 5, when he and Stewart are scheduled to be sentenced. They would then be sent to state prison. Even before the verdict, Simpson appeared resigned that his luck had run out. He had been prepared for the worst, his lawyer said. And in a conversation with The Associated Press on Thursday, Simpson implied as much, saying, "I'm afraid that I won't get to go to my kids' college graduations after I managed to get them through college." Associated Press writers Ken Ritter and Kathleen Hennessey in Las Vegas and Greg Risling in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

I found this article on AOL. I saw the video the other day. It's probably my favorite song on the album. ------------------------- Teen athlete's killing lamented in Ice Cube video By THOMAS WATKINS, AP The unlikely stars of Ice Cube's new video are the grieving relatives of a 17-year-old high school football star who was shot to death outside his home. The song "Why Me?" speaks out against senseless violence and gun crime devastating communities. Cube says Jamiel Shaw Jr.'s family is a powerful illustration of the pain that lingers after a murder. "It just was a tragic, tragic story of why," Cube says. "Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere." Shaw had been on track for a college sports scholarship when he was gunned down in March a few yards from his house in a working-class neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles. His mother was serving in the Army in Iraq at the time. Pedro Espinoza, an illegal immigrant and suspected gang member who had been released from jail a day earlier on weapons charges, has pleaded not guilty to murder. Prosecutors say Espinoza drove to Shaw's neighborhood and shot him after asking him about his gang affiliation. Police have said Shaw was never in a gang. The rap video begins with the tightly framed, sorrow-filled faces of Shaw's parents and aunt. His father recounts a final conversation with his son. "To drive this home, it was only right to use real family and not use a bunch of actors," Cube says. His video features photographs of dozens of other crime victims blowing from a tree, then across the sand in the desert. It also depicts a young man in a football jersey being gunned down on a street. As he lays dying, he asks, "Why me homie, why me?" Espinoza's early release from jail led the Shaws to call for the passage of "Jamiel's Law," which would push Los Angeles police to crack down on illegal immigrant gang members. Cube says the video is not meant as an endorsement of the move. "It ain't really a commentary on that," he says. "You've got a person being killed by a person he don't know for a reason he don't know ... Who cares if it was an immigrant or if it was a taxpaying citizen?" For the Shaws, appearing in the video was a chance to further their petition drive to qualify the proposed law for the November ballot. "Every time I start watching it, I start crying," Jamiel Shaw Sr. says. "At the same time, I feel good that we are getting the word out." — On the Net: "Why Me?" video: http://www.myspace.com/icecube

I refuse 2 waste energy disagreeing and fighting on something like this cuz i have a certain level of respect for anyone believeing in whatever they want. When i said someone without faith has nothing 2 stand up for, i was speaking spiritually. If u have no one way 2 believe, u do have nothing 2 say in that area. I'm not saying they don't have an opinion on this or that, i was speaking on believes of a spiritual matter. And when it comes 2 being married. I'm okay with gay couples having a civil union or whatever. But i am against them being officially "married." Marriage is something in the Bible that is to be between a man an a woman. I know a good bit of gay people. I have no prejudice towards them. Some of them are some of my best friends and we've even had this same conversation. Even as a gay Christian, many of them respect that it's between a man and a woman. Of course, in these days of church and state being seperated (and they wonder why the world sucks), marriage is viewed as generic kind of thing that u can do at a courthouse after filling out paperwork...which i don't consider marriage at all....and we also wonder why 50% of marriages end in divorce. Touchy subject...i bow out. Nothing i've said is intended 2 insult or offend anyone so i apologize to anyone who views a difference of opinion as me attempting 2 do so. Like i said in the beginning...People are people, we have our beliefs but there is no reason 2 openly insult or try 2 upset people who don't agree with u.

DRAZTIC - I Damage The Mic The Image of Pain (2008) Okay, y'all never peep stuff i suggest. Peep this guys. He's a Chicago emcee who i found out about when i ordered the new "last" Digital Undergound album...the suggested i check him. This guy is NICE. Reminds me of 90's underground Hip-Hop that's not trying 2 be hardcore. U can peep and by this album at this link. His album will be widely available at the end of the month. CHECK IT!! http://www.cdbaby.com/draztic

Sounds so good...i can't wait. De La has been screaming "We hate this song" when they do "Me, Myself, and I" for over 10 years...ha ha. Tho' i don't they did that when i saw them live 8 years ago.

This sounds insanely annoying. I doubt i'll go anywhere near a theater showing this. People are people, we have our beliefs but there is no reason 2 openly insult or try 2 upset people who don't agree with u. Period. People with no faith at all should keep their mouths shut becuz they don't have any reason 2 stand up for anything. They are just running their mouth 2 get attention and make others unhappy or uncomfortable which i believe is a pathetic way 2 exist.

I'm right with u. I used 2 watch BET all day long. Now i almost never watch it. I put 106 + Park on when they have a guest that i like on. Other than that, i watch TV show reruns that have nothing 2 do with BET that are, for the most part, on DVD. I remember a report that was done about 10 years ago. They compared MTV, VH-1, and BET and BET got the best review. They played the least amount of videos that had something explict in them (lyrics, images, etc). BET was once views as a very respectable network. Once it left Maryland and more than half of the offices went to New York, it started unwinding.

BET is almost as bad as MTV these days. The recent issue of Vibe has an article on how they declined since the 90's. Back then, they had 70% music programing compared to 20% today. They talked about how they dumped relevant shows like Teen Summit, BET News, and Caribian Rhythms (Rachel was soooooo fine). All their shows now suck and they are leaning more and more towards a commerical-only support of music. VH-1 should start a Hip-Hop sister station. After all, they've had Behind The Music specials on LL Cool J and other artists. They put together great documentarys like Last Days of Left Eye. Their Hip-Hop weeks and Hip-Hop Honors are some of the best specials i've ever seen.

KENNY LATTIMORE - You Are My Starship Timeless (2008)

I've slept on Murs. This sounds pretty good...i think i'm gonna scoop this album up.

I can't say i really care. Commercial Rap sucks. All of it. I haven't watched Rap City in a few years. I never say Big Tigger as corny. I grew up listening 2 him on the radio so when he got on Rap City, i was hyped. Around the time he left, the commercial side of music had gotten so bad that i couldn't bare 2 watch it anymore. As far as i know, Rap City no longer repped Hip-Hop music or culture for awhile. I remember back in the day when they would air all old school and 90's videos. Those were my favorite. When stuff like this happens, it's a reflection of what's popular. It takes fools like 50 Cent, Lil' Jon, Young Jeezy, and Lil' Wayne to do this. If JJ+FP, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah were runnin' the mainstream with intellegence and class, this kinda thing would never happen. The real Rap City has been off the air for years which is why i'm used 2 missing it.

U know your message board is large when people start spamming it on the off-topic board! ha ha

Hmmmm.....this sounds like it should be album filler...not a single. Q-Tip is on point. The concept is nice. The beat is lacking and D'Angelo's chorus is uninspired.

MARIAH CAREY, BEYONCE, MARY J. BLIGE, RIHANNA, FERGIE, NATAHSA BEDINGFIELD, LEONA LEWIS, KEYSHIA COLE, ASHANTI, CIARA, SHERYL CROW, MELISSA ETHERIDGE, MILEY CYRUS, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, LEANNE RIMES - Just Stand Up Just Stand Up To Cancer (CD Single) (2008) This is a good R-N-B/Pop song with a killer line up!! 100% of the proceeds of this single get donated to a cancer organization....go get it!!!

Excellent interview. I think she was a bit over dramatic at a place or 2 but this sounds like the accurate story from her point of view. She does need to let it go tho.' I don't see how publishing a book will do that. Writing that should have did it...not releasing it, but whatever. I hope she's done with it all after this. Her and FP really need to make up.

Wow...alot of negative energy. Movies like this are closer 2 where my mind is at these days. After I Am Legend and Hancock, i deserve a movie like this. I could only want a new BB or MIB movie over this. I bet u this movie is gonna be huge and that overall, audiences are gonna love...beyond it being a "Will Smith" movie.

Hey, at least Dre fans aren't waiting like Guns + Roses fans...ha ha.

It must be a joint effort of Columbia Records and Puffy.

The crazy thing is i already have a frame for it. I planned on framing my Homebase one as well. There's a crazy big He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper poster i remember seeing in music stores back when i waz a kid. Every once in a awhile i see it on ebay but i haven't gotten it yet. I'd love 2 have them displayed side by side one day.

Oh heck, i couldn't resist and got one. Ha ha. 5 left!!