JumpinJack AJ

I'll be checkin' 4 this!! THANX!!

Hip-Hop is not big. Only Lupe Fiasco and Common Sense are getting any support. All these other guys are making processed Rap music that has no ties 2 Hip-Hop culture...which is why u can't classify it as Hip-Hop. Albums like Jazzy Jeff's, Rakim's, Pete Rock's are all overlooked by the mainstream. They aren't even TRYING 2 get mainstream success becuz they know how the industry...which is a shame. No disrespect, but anyone who is okay with the mainstream state of Hip-Hop (there not being one) simply doesn't even know what Hip-Hop is. No Hip-Hop head is thinking people like Lil' Wayne are Hip-Hop, making good Hip-Hop music, representing Hip-Hop culture, etc. Nobody. I refuse 2 think my favorite kind of music (that i'm listening 2 less and less) is dying. That's why i'm gonna keep a hopefully attitude thru' the whole thing and diss these idiot-fools like Jim Jones and educate anyone who's willing 2 listen 2 Hip-Hop is introduce them 2 good music (new or old). And i'm not content with real Hip-Hop being an underground thing...becuz it's harder 2 get those albums and the budget behind them is so limited that it often effects the quality of the music. When u have passion 4 something like that, u are gonna willing go down like a solider even when it looks like that's what'll most likely happen. Hip-Hop Forever!! JJ+FP Forever!!

Q-Tip isn't a complainer. If he was after money, bling, and pop, he'd be dropping uninspriring verses on all the commercial rappers albums and remixes...he'd be cutting albums on just any label and using Scott Storch, Swizz Beats, and Lil' Jon beats. Q-Tip is one of Hip-Hop's greatest emcees. He's a big part of of a culture and music and used 2 be something 2 be proud of 2 the mainstream. Now mainstream America thinks Rick Ross is an ill emcee?...that Lil' Jon makes good beats? That's discusting. That's a shame. Anyone who loves Hip-Hop, who loves the culture is ashamed with that kinda crap. The charts don't represent Hip-Hop at all. It's just a bunch of ignorant puppets doing what everyone else has already done 100 times for 100 years which is instructed by 50 year old white guys in air conditioned offices at major lables. There's a whole generation of emcees, DJ's, producers, and Hip-Hop heads who get sick when they turn on the radio. That means there is something wrong. Without change, Hip-Hop's mainstream coffin will be buried in a few short years.

"I think it's pretty evident - and everybody says it - that hip-hop is definitely not as good as it once was. It's sort of like disco was. There was a time when disco was the **** and Steve Rubell had Studio 54. But the minute you heard "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees, that was the telltale sign that disco was over. I think that if hip-hop continues on the path that it seems like it's going down, then it looks like it's not going to hold up." -- Q Tip The A Tribe Called Quest star tells Inteview Magazine rap is destined for the same demise disco suffered, if the latest batch of stars can't reinvent the musical genre in time.

Interesting thought... ------------------------------ Keys Talks About Her Conspiracy Theories AP Posted: 2008-04-11 18:31:44 NEW YORK (AP) - There's another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: "`Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist." Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead," according to an interview in the magazine's May issue, on newsstands Tuesday. Another of her theories: That the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing." Keys' AK-47 jewelry came as a surprise to her mother, who is quoted as telling Blender: "She wears what? That doesn't sound like Alicia." Keys' publicist, Theola Borden, said Keys was on vacation and unavailable for comment. Though she's known for her romantic tunes, she told Blender that she wants to write more political songs. If black leaders such as the late Black Panther Huey Newton "had the outlets our musicians have today, it'd be global. I have to figure out a way to do it myself," she said. The multiplatinum songstress behind the hits "Fallin"' and "No One" most recently had success with her latest CD, "As I Am," which sold millions. On the Net: Blender: http://www.blender.com/ Alicia Keys: http://www.aliciakeys.com/

BEYONCE + FABOLOUS - Get Me Bodied (Timbaland Remix) Get Me Bodied (CD Ringle) (2007) Why on earth did she marry Jay-Z...still can't wrap my mind around this. As long as they are happy, i guess. I still think i could have made her happier. :tantrum:

...i just realized that Rakim and Pete Rock dropped new albums in the past month and we are busy here posting 4 pages worth of Lil' Wayne crap...

DOMINO - Like Dat!!!!! Domination (2004)

Great interview!! Thanx 4 posting this. This is FP in classic interview mode. Everything that makes an FP interview is in this one.

Yeah, i think it'd be ridiculous if Eminem actually performed or attended it the event. I thing i would be even more ridiculous if JJ+FP did not. Would it really surprise anyone if they did?

JOHN MAYER - Say The Bucket List (Soundtrack) (2008) I love this song.

QUEEN LATIFAH - Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here (Fort Greene Instrumental) Latifah's Had It Up 2 Here (CD Single) (1991)

My prayers go out 2 all those effected by this loss. I can't say i always follow the speed limit, but my days of crazy speeding are long over. I don't wish death or pain on anyone, but it's always really sad when it's the person who wasn't driving like an idiot who suffers the most.

Good one! LEONA LEWIS - Forgive Me Spirit (2007/2008)

He got banned 4 talking about 50 Cent in every post he ever made and fighting everytime anyone dissed commercial rap. I will give him props for not letting things get out of control like before.

Man, this is a topic that has weighed on my mind all year. I have 2 people that were supposed 2 be my bestfriends and 2gether, they did some really foul stuff involving me. Just really awful stuff. It's been months and everytime my mind really focuses on it, i get furious. Anger isn't naturally a part of me and i work crazy hard 2 not think about what has happened...which is probably why the situation still has such and impact whenever it crosses my mind. I'm a very forgiving person who gives out 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc chances. I think that's they way we are supposed 2 be as humans, but at the same time, there is a time and place where we may have 2 walk away from a situation. I wreck my mind trying 2 think how they could do the things they've done and still honestly be my friends. I don't know. When it comes 2 telling someone who it is, i think that's fine as long as u do it respectfully. U can't talk 2 someone u call a friend like they are stupid just becuz they aren't seeing life clearly. Becuz they are your friends, u need 2 share what u think if it would benifit them. At the same time, we need 2 listen when they do the same for us. The way my life has been has really taken me away from the many things that are important 2 me. I really need 2 get things under control at work so i can really live again. I keep in moderate touch with lots of my friends and i need 2 water those relationships before they dry out. I don't really wanna go on with this at the moment...just a touchy topic for me at the moment.

CYPRESS HILL - Insane In The Brain Black Sunday (1993)

"Lollipop" is what i see as the start of the burn out phase. The song is so wack. Thankfully, u can't even hear his voice on the track due 2 bad delivery and mixing. I had the radio playing while i waz in the shower the other day and thought an instrumental was playing. I went 2 change the station and when i got really close 2 the radio, i found out Lil' Wayne's annoying voice was indeed on the track. Snoop's track is much more of a hit than this crap. The production on Snoop's joint is at least musical. Like most of Wayne's trash, the processed beat is nothing but a rushed commerical instrumental. Snoop rips a good verse and has an interesting song overall. Kill the comparisons. It's like compairing Curtis to The Return of The Magnificent.

Ha, just yesterday i bought the promo of this for 4 words "Radio Edit Without Rap"....ha ha YO YO - Homegirl Don't Play Dat Black Pearl (1992)

QUEEN LATIFAH - Black Hand Side (Jay's Lab Groove) Black Hand Side (CD Single) (1994) Someone bring back the 90's...dope artists making their dopest music and dropping CD Singles with a handful of dope remixes....

...cuz kids listen 2 the commercial crap that u like instead of real Hip-Hop. Do u really know Yo Yo??

Working a double kept me from checking the board since before i left early for my conference call. And now i'm 2 tired 2 stick around....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....................

Yeah, it's one of those kinda akward UK remixes that doesn't really fit in much with the regular remixes. Infact, it's just a slightly different version of one of the UK Flavour remixes on the other single. By memory, i think it's just a bit longer...i can't even remember if the production is different. If it is, it's just barely different (not a different version or anything).

U've never heard of Yo Yo?...say it ain't so.

ALICIA KEYS - Loving You Songs In A Minor (Import) (2001)