JumpinJack AJ

Nah...the album version is more agressive. The radio version is just 2 common.

PUSSYCAT DOLLS + BUSTA RHYMES - Don't Cha Just got done listening 2 Kanye West "Diamonds"...i think that he thinks he waz really doing something big when he did this song....but he just wasn't.

Ain't nothing wrong with comparing them. It's a good thing that there are people out there that can be compared 2 FP...cuz i don't think i could stand another 50 Cent or Nelly. And i like both Nick Cannon and Nitty. It's depressing that some people won't give them a chance simply becuz they don't cuss and talk about drugs, guns, and sex.

NATALIE - Can't Wait

I never really got in2 that stuff. I did kinda like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" tho.' I remember seeing it premire on MTV and something about it just stood out. As i look back on their singles i remember from back in the day, it made me wanna give them a better listen. I almost got their greatest hits album when it came out thinkin' that would be a good way 2 figure out what they were about. Half of my friends back then were in2 the rock/grunge thing so i defintly got a heavy dose of them back in middle skool...and even high skool which waz after Cobain killed himself.

Rich Cronin's comeback Six years after 'Summer Girls,' the leader of LFO battles leukemia By Sheela Raman, Globe Correspondent | July 7, 2005 The past two years have not been easy for Rich Cronin, former lead singer of the boy band LFO. As soon as LFO disbanded in 2002, three years after striking gold with the song ''Summer Girls," Cronin hoped to release a solo album, but lawsuits with managers over royalties and publishing interests kept getting in the way. When Cronin, who is 30, finally disentangled himself from the lawsuits and began recording new songs early this year, he got a phone call that would change his life. It was his doctor, telling him he had leukemia. ''I just know that four hours before I got that phone call I was just some dude with mono, then all of a sudden I was a cancer patient," he says. Cronin spent April at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he received 20 blood transfusions. A bone marrow sample revealed that he had acute myelogenous leukemia, which most often afflicts adults over the age of 60, says Cronin's oncologist Dr. Robin Joyce. ''The drama of leukemia is that it's like a bullet," Joyce says. ''It can easily kill you in a couple months." If it hadn't been for the observant eyes of his parents, Cronin says he would never have seen a doctor at all. His only symptoms were fatigue and weight loss, which he ascribed to a diet plan gone too far. At the beginning of March, he was preparing to shoot the cover of his album and had stopped eating unhealthy foods. ''I was like, 'Wow this diet really works,' " he says. But in late March, Cronin thought he would visit his parents in Kingston after traveling from his home in the Orlando, Fla., area to New York to meet with record producers from his new label, Hydrogen Records. When he arrived, his health-conscious father immediately knew something was wrong. ''He kept telling me I had to see a doctor and I didn't look right, and I was actually getting pretty annoyed with him," Cronin says. ''We really ganged up on him," says Cronin's mother, Doris. ''We had relatives over for Easter, and we all kept saying, 'Look at him, look at him, doesn't he look bad?' " she says. After constant insistence from his family, he agreed to see the family doctor, Dr. Gary Trey. Cronin didn't have the slightest idea his visit would land him in a hospital bed. A few days Cronin arrived at Beth Israel, nurses wheeled him into the hospital corridor after checking whether his heart was healthy enough for chemotherapy. One of them told him an orderly would be around soon to push him into his room, which was a few floors up. ''That was the psychological slap," Cronin says. ''It is the antithesis of being a star. People used to say, 'Oh, that's the 'Summer Girls' guy or 'That's the guy who went out with [Jennifer] Love Hewitt.' Now there's people looking down at me with a mask on my face because I'm too sick to breathe the air." Cronin is no stranger to psychological struggle. On his rocky path to fame, he became well acquainted with intense disappointment and unexpected twists of fate. At first, Cronin pursued stardom with a vengeance. Growing up in Kingston, he had a poster of Vanilla Ice hanging in his room long after the rapper went out of style. He looked up to Ice as a role model for an aspiring white hip-hop artist. He worked at the Blockbuster Video in his hometown while studying at Bridgewater State College, watching movies starring his future girlfriend Hewitt and dreaming of dating her. When BMG Records signed LFO (which stands for Lyte Funky Ones) in 1996, the band toured Europe for three years performing pop music that wasn't Cronin's style but was supposed to help the band build an audience. But the tour proved crucial in teaching Cronin that the price of success in the music business can be too high. He could not stand his label telling him not only how to comb his hair and to dress in a certain way but also to play music he didn't like. After the tour, Cronin returned to his parents' home, far from LFO's base in Orlando. ''I was ready to call it quits," he says. But as Cronin sat in his parents' unfinished basement on his father's Soloflex machine, watching spiders crawl around his feet and feeling depressed, he unwittingly wrote LFO's ticket to fame. ''I just thought back to when I was young, happy, no worries," he says. '' 'Summer Girls' was all about a summer on the Cape. Inside jokes. I never thought that anyone besides my close friends would ever hear it." But the song was leaked to a radio station and climbed Billboard charts. Teenage girls everywhere were singing the rhymes Cronin wrote to combat his disappointment. ''I would have definitely taken out the line about Chinese food [making him sick] if I had known that would happen," Cronin says. Now, battling leukemia, Cronin uses the same tactic of positive thinking that he used to recover his spirits after the European tour. After returning to his parents' house from his first round of chemotherapy in April, Cronin played Bel Biv DeVoe's ''Poison" over and over. ''I was immediately back at a ninth-grade dance," he says. ''I didn't have time for depressing things." Joyce says Cronin has lightened the atmosphere for everyone in the cancer ward of the hospital with his clever imitations of the doctors. He tells admiring nurses where they can look up LFO pictures on the Internet. But when these same nurses have to help him when he throws up, Cronin demands no special treatment, Joyce says. ''With people I've dealt with in the entertainment industry, if money and fame have come too quickly to them, they have no skill in dealing with the tragedy of leukemia," Joyce says. ''Rich is a really hunky guy, you know, nice muscles. I thought he'd be a jerk, like very macho. But he's not." Joyce adds that leukemia patients usually have one of two extreme reactions to their diagnosis. ''They either say, 'This is no big deal and I'm gonna lick this,' or they become paralyzed by fear," she says. ''Neither reaction is facing the truth." She says Cronin has taken a more realistic path in dealing with his leukemia by rationally discussing his fears with her. Mike Caputo, Cronin's best friend, who also helped produce some of Cronin's solo tracks, says Cronin has not complained to him once about having cancer. ''God has a plan for Rich," Caputo says. ''I think this happened to him for a reason, 'cause I know he'll come out of it and do something positive." After one round of chemotherapy, Cronin's leukemia went into remission. He is now back living with his parents in Kingston, although he visits the hospital almost every day for blood tests and to finish four additional rounds of chemotherapy to complete his treatment. Cronin plans to sell his house in Florida and move in with his parents indefinitely. Cronin's mother says Rich is the most connected to the family among her three children. ''He's always been back every chance he gets," she says. ''He's very spiritual, very caring. For him to get hit was especially unbelievable." Cronin now has shadows under his eyes, and at 6 feet 3 inches and 185 pounds, he looks a little thin. Yet he exudes energy. As he talks about his experience, his eyes open wide and his leg shifts restlessly in his chair. He tells of all the phone calls he received, from people he hadn't spoken to in as many as 12 years. Fellow boy band stars Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block and Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees visited him in the hospital. Johnny Damon called, even though Cronin had never spoken to the Red Sox center fielder before. And even though Cronin only knew the daughter of Hulk Hogan, the wrestler called him repeatedly in the hospital to say, ''Hey, Richamania, enough of lying in bed!" As terrible as lying in a hospital bed is, Cronin says, it has taught him lessons that hundreds of arena performances could not. The outpouring of concern from friends as well as doctors, nurses, and fellow cancer patients helped him put into perspective the aggressive side of people he has encountered in the music world. ''In the music business, everyone's all me, me, me," he says. ''But at the hospital, I've been on the brink of breaking down, and Dr. Joyce would sit down with me for, like, two hours to make me calm. To me, that was unbelievable." His disease has also given Cronin a new purpose in life. As soon as he is fully well, he says, he will work to educate people about bone marrow donation, which is crucial for leukemia patients who do not have a match among their siblings. Often, because of the short supply of donated marrow, patients do not receive a transplant in time. Neither Cronin's brother nor his sister match his marrow type. If his leukemia were to resurface, he might require a transplant from an anonymous donor. ''I don't want to be the poster boy for cancer. I'll leave that to Lance," Cronin says, glancing down at the yellow Lance Armstrong Foundation wristband his mother gave him. ''What he went through was much worse. What I want to do is just talk to people." But Caputo says Cronin will probably take a strong activist role. ''Knowing Rich, he's not going to take it only halfway," he says. Cronin says he will continue to make music, although now he does not mind if he plays only in dive bars and coffeehouses. He will finish his solo album as soon as he can, he says. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Keeping with his usual style, the new album's tracks will be lighthearted. ''I would never write about morbid, scary things like leukemia," he says. ''A song won't take away a problem, but it might distract you for three minutes."

Man, i can believe u just drove by. Next tyme remember 2 charge your phone! :haha:

Judge Orders L.A. to Pay Slain Rapper's Family By RYAN PEARSON, AOL Wire Services LOS ANGELES (July 8) - A federal judge has ordered the city and police department to pay slain rap star Notorious B.I.G.'s family "fees and costs incurred as a result of defendants' misconduct" in the family's wrongful death lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial in the case, rejecting the city's argument that LAPD Detective Steven Katz had forgotten about documents in his desk drawer until his office was searched last month. The documents detail Katz's investigation of a prison informant's claim that corrupt former LAPD officers Rafael Perez and David Mack were involved in the 1997 killing of the chart-topping New York rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace. Cooper said the LAPD still has not turned over other files to the plaintiffs, including about 15 personnel complaint investigations into Mack. "The detective, acting alone or in concert with others, made a decision to conceal from the plaintiffs in this case information which could have supported their contention that David Mack was responsible for the Wallace murder," Cooper wrote in an order released Thursday affirming the family's request for a mistrial and sanctions. Attorney Perry Sanders Jr. said the family would refile the suit, but he didn't know when. It is expected to accuse the LAPD of racketeering and to name Perez as a defendant. Wallace's mother Voletta also spoke publicly about her son's death for the first time in years. "Eight years, three months and 29 days (ago) today, my son was murdered in this town, in this city. For all that time I've labored with pain and sweat just to find out the truth of what happened," she said, adding that her suit "was not about money." "It was about honesty. It was about integrity. It was about cover-up," she said, jabbing a finger in the air to emphasize each point. "It had nothing to do with dollars and cents." Police Chief William Bratton, in a separate news conference, forcefully denied the department had covered for Mack, currently serving a 14-year prison sentence for bank robbery, or his one-time partner Perez, the key figure in the LAPD Rampart corruption scandal. "What the hell do we want to protect those two scumbags for?" Bratton said, noting that LAPD and FBI investigations failed to implicate either man. He added that the department was investigating Katz's "oversight." Wallace's family claims Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight ordered Mack to kill the rapper, and that Mack's college roommate was the gunman. The link to Perez emerged only after an anonymous tip during trial. LAPD documents show that Kenny Boagni, who became friends with Perez in prison, told detectives in 2000 and 2001 that Perez had acknowledged moonlighting in a security role for Death Row on the night Wallace was killed, and had called Mack just before the shooting. Perez's attorney, Winston McKesson, said that if the Wallace family sues his client, he will respond by suing them for malicious prosecution. 07/08/05 09:21 EDT

NATALIE feat. BABY BASH - Energy

"Get Crunk Shorty" waz released as a promo single!! But nobody supported it. I don't like 2 much of that dirty south stuff...but that track waz pretty good, even tho' i like pretty much every other song better than it. I think the video would have taken the album 2 higher sales.

That's funny. That line is great tho'...much more than just a dope lyric in a song. Really living life is about loving what u do and doing what u love. Of course sometimes u gotta do what u don't love 2 get 2 a place where u can do what u do love. So many people have fallen in2 a routine in life...those are the people do need 2 do love what they do, and do what they love.

I think the Radio Edit makes it more comparable 2 stuff on the radio. This'll make it stand up against stuff on the radio. But i think the original version is still easily better and would do the same damage as the Radio Edit will do on the radio.

People don't know how amazing JJ+FP is live until they witness 4 themselves. I love that review. AOL has a feature on FP at Live 8 saying how he rocked the crowed "Philly-style." It's great logging online and seeing his face pop up 4 all of AOL 2 see. Good promotion 2!

I'm gonna have 2 get this since i missed it!!

I just wanted 2 share my opinions on some recent albums i picked up...4 those who may be interested in them. R. KELLY - TP.3: Reloaded Wow! I expect quality from R. Kelly, but this album is blazing. R-N-B is back!! Since it's a TP (12 Play) album, i expected the smooth, sexy, and at times, really naughty moments the previous TP albums had. There are a handful of upbeat trax, which aren't bad, but definitly not my favs. "Happy Summertime" w/ Snoop Dogg is the one i really love, but it's the slow jams and soulful R-N-B joints that stand out. The 1st single, which waz overshadowed by "Trapped In The Closet", In The Kitchen is just a very naughty song. "Put My T-Shirt On" is sexy one which made me laugh cuz my last girlfriend always wore my cloths when we'd be chillin' around the house...and i loved it. Other great trax 2 peep out are Touchin' w/ Nivea, Sex Weed, and Love Is What We Makin.' While i'm not impressed with "Trapped In The Closet" like most people, his creativy can't be denied on these trax...tho i think it's stupid that the story isn't finished. R. Kelly's production is great the whole way thru' the album...but only out-shined by the lyrics. DOPE ALBUM!! MISSY 'MISDEMEANOR' ELLIOT - The Cookbook While i don't like the direction Missy has taken on some of her more recent albums (Supa Dupa Fly and Da Real World are my favs), she is still an incredible talent. Not 2 mention one of the most creative and risk-taking emcees in the game. Hip-Hop brainchild Timbaland produces the 2 opening trax 2 the album (Joy and Party Time). Thru' out the album, Missy tosses in some old skool/retro feel on the album, such as scratching, old skool song references, samples, and even classic guests. "Irresistible Delicious" is a great example...which features the one and only Slick Rick. Missy even bites his style on the track. VERY COOL STUFF! Her 1st single 4 the album "Lose Control" w/ Ciara + Fat Man Scoop is a good example of the edgy stuff she dose. It's got that Planet Rock old skool feel, yet new skool energy. "My Struggles" is a stand out track everyone should check. This one features Grand Puba and Mary J. Blige. Missy kinda steals Grand Puba's flow on this one. Grand Puba puts new skool emcees in their place in his 1st....then the track flips 2 "What's The 411" with Mary J. dropping a rap. If u loved R-N-B/Hip-Hop in the early 90's...U WILL LOSE YOUR MIND WHEN U HEAR THIS!! "Meltdown" is the 1st mellow track that i really like, even tho' it's subject matter about pleasing a guy...ha ha. The production is just dope. "We Run This" heavily samples "Apache" and is just ill all the way around. "Time And Time Again" smooths it out again. Definitly a stand out track in my opinion. I'm feelin' "Remember When" also. "My Man" is one of the best trax on the album. It features Fantasia. Nice soulful Hip-Hop on that one. BOTH R. KELLY'S AND MISSY'S ALBUMS ARE ON SALE FOR UNDER $10 AT WAL-MART AND CIRCUIT CITY THRU' TODAY (sales end 2morrow) NATALIE - Natalie Man, it took me 2 months 2 find out that it waz this honey who sung the song "Goin' Crazy." This album is amazing 2 me. It's just radio friendly R-N-B, but i can't stop listening 2 it. This underdog singer/songwriter brings beautiful melodies on every track. "Goin' Crazy" is just my song...WOW! If u like Jo Jo, u will love Natalie. "Energy" features Baby Bash and is filled with a mellow R-N-B vibe and acoustic guitars. I'm not gonna go on about this album...but i love it. If u think this is something worth checking out, i know www.CDNow.com has a snippet of every song on the album on their site. Wal-Mart and Circuit City have the album priced at just under $13. TLC - Now + Forever This is a greatest hits album so it's obvious what 2 expect. If u like TLC but never got their albums, this is a great place 2 start. U'll get all the hits, and a taste of each album. It features the 2003 track "Come Get Some" (if u liked Usher's "Yeah"...u'll like this). It also features the song "Whoop Dee Woo" which is a Dallas Austin-produced joint. The only thing that is depressing is that if u are a big TLC fan, u've heard Left Eye's rap b4 on the unreleased song "I Need That" and a similar verse on Toni Braxton's 2000 track "Gimmie Some" featuring Left Eye. A strange thing about this album is that "Girl Talk" and "Damaged" have beem re-mixed (not remixed). The vocals and production is slightly altered 4 a less sugar coated-edge). Wal-Mart has the album regularly priced at $9.72.

R. KELLY + NIVEA - Touchin'

Man, i don't think there is any excuse 4 any car made after 1989 2 have wood paneling.

THANX 4 POSTING THAT!! Man, i'm a big Nick Cannon fan. I loved his 1st album and try 2 support his films as best i can. I've seen commercials 4 his TV show and it looks hilarious. Totally my kinda stuff. His next album sounds amazing...i'll be all over that. I know there are some haters on this board....but man, Nick is doing BIG things y'all can't deny. As a young, postive, comedy-loving person of the Hip-Hop nation, i support the kinda people i relate 2, which is while i'll support everything he dose.

Thanx 4 posting that! I've been listening 2 some of his albums alot recently. Just a reminder of what a talent he waz. I waz about 2 make a mix-CD then remembered that i really wanted 2 get his 2001 album 1st. I still find it hard 2 imagin a world without Luther Vandross. I only listened 2 his albums once in awhile...but just knowing he waz doing his thing waz something i grew up with. He's truely a modern-day Marvin Gaye...but in a class of his own.

Come one Wes...u got over 2 months 2 come up with $10-$13...which is how much u'll be able 2 get for when it drops. ha ha

U guys have no idea how many times i've been arrested 4 some of those things.

The original is easily my fav. That radio has those unnecessary adlibs and stuff. The album version comes across much more solid.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT - Everyday People

Can't wait 2 hear it...even if he takes the rock road 2 Hip-Hop on this one.

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