JumpinJack AJ

Very cool!! When i saw JJ+FP at that MTV special during the summer of 2002, my friend actually talked 2 Jeff at the after party and he said after the party cooled out, he waz gonna hang out 4 a minute with us and sign something 4 me. However, the other person with us HAD 2 go home as soon as we could get them there. On the drive home, my friend told me this. I wigged out and would have turned the SUV around if we hadn't been driving 4 so long.

Yeah!! I know he waz working on a new album but havn't heard anything about it in 4ever. It dosen't really bug me that he's on Bad Boy b-cuz Puffy waz behind alot of the Uptown music...which Heavy waz a part of (later becoming the head of Uptown). Heavy D is an established artist, he's been in the game for nearly 20 years so i don't think Bad Boy really has the power 2 mess with his image that much (the same reason i'm not 2 upset that New Edition is signed with Bad Boy). I can't wait 4 the new album, i have faith that Heavy stands by music and that it can't get any worse than Big Willie Style waz for FP. Bring it on...Hip-Hop needs Heavy D!! If anybody wants 2 get caught up on Heavy D, check his Greatest Hits album Heavy Hitz (the 'millenium' version of dosen't do his career justice).

I agree with the 2 of u. When i started writing rhymes (around 11), my stuff waz very JJ+FP / M.C. Hammer....so i waz obviously influenced by my fav artists at the time. The difference, my favorite people were creative, they had heart...these new guys suck and kids are growing up thinking this stuff is good and that it's the standard. And what TopDawg said about The Chonic...that's looks like the case 2 me. When that album came out, everybody copied it's style...not even the Hip-Hop style...they copied what made 'gangsta rap' dominate commerical Hip-Hop/Rap. There waz lots of good Hip-Hop and Rap that came out after The Chronic, it's just that alot of wack fake gangsta rap started coming out...HOW MANY OF THOSE ARTISTS ACTUALLY LASTED?!?). The sad thing is that most of the stuff that i and some of us are dissing about commercial rap stems from the old skool. FP, LL, Run-DMC, Heavy + The Boyz all would occasioually mention name brands in their music...but when they did it, it waz like "this is my style"...these days, it's over-done and it's cuz they are saying "i have lots of money and can by these cloths that everybody else is wearing. L.L. Cool J caught lots of heat when he did that Walking With The Panther (1989) album cover with the jewelry, girls, money, and alchol. However, that's exactly what people are doing these days and getting praised 4 it. Back then, L.L. waz flossin'...these days it's just ignorant fools with ego problems who need 2 make themselves feel better.

Most of the stuff i like by Ludacris is when he's the guest artist (Timbaland's "Fat Rabbit"...Missy's "Minute Man"...Jagged Edge...Usher) but i can't stand his solo work. Sometimes he has some funny or clever lyrics but all of that gets swallowed up by the rest of them. His performance wazn't bad but it waz boring. Kinda like i mentioned in my other posts about rappers' performances these days...just walking around back and forth on stage while yelling in2 a mic w/ a small posse over adlibbing in2 their mics. He probably saw JJ+FP performance that nite (that security waz so kind as 2 NOT let me back in 2 see) and he probably thought "ohhhh...that's how u are supposed 2 do that."

When it comes 2 lyrics (whether deep, serious, clever, or funny), here's a list of my favs... Shadow Dreams The Rain Summertime Just The Two of Us Holla Back The Groove Numero Uno I'm All That Then She Bit Me (ha ha)

There's no excuse 2 be downloading album music...PERIOD. If u can get on the internet and download a song, u can get on the internet and buy it from CDnow.com, ebay.com, half.com, etc. No excuses. Now u know it's dope...now go buy it!!

I hear u on that!! I don't think anybody here wants true old skool music 2 make a comeback...cuz it's time and place is in the old skool. I think what many of us are craving is the way it waz during the late old skool era and the golden ages of Hip-Hop. Back when people where themselves on records, when they had their own style, when there were all kinds of different sounds and subject matter. That's all gone....95% of the successful people are just rappers, not emcees. They don't have real background in their music, they don't know how 2 perform....they just walk across a stage, rapping in2 a mic over an instrumental while they posse adlibs 2 no end and grabs their crotch. It's a shame cuz young kids and people new 2 Hip-Hop don't know what good music is. What would happen is an emcee came out NOT talking about sex, money, and drugs...what if they didn't wear baggy cloths with name brand labels all over them...God 4bid anybody do anything original.

Rap in general sucks. It has been going thru' a downward spiral since the mid-90's. Only ignorant people are getting record deals. These cats don't know how 2 rock a show, they can't write decent lyrics, they don't care about their fans or the kids that hear their music. Nearly no artists who get commercial success are actually REAL artists anymore. Back in the day, parents and adults hated Hip-Hop cuz they thought it waz explict, awful music, but they were so wrong. Now Rap music gets it pretty easy...but now the music is awful. Real artists find it hard 2 get decent record deals much less proper promotion. Labels only wanna sign ignorant young cats who talk about money, sex, drugs, and violence. When music had a heart, emcees would bring up drugs and violence 2 say "hey, this is how life is 4 some people...FIX IT"...these days they just talk about it. Most of the guys who talk about this stuff these days don't live that lifestyle and never seen a gun until they put it in the music video. Time's aren't gonna change until we have another big tragedy like another murder. I don't see how the young kids who are buying these records will ever know about better music since it isn't getting played.

Thanx 4 that!! That waz cool...i bet that guy listens 2 Before The Willennium every day. However, if i might snap if i read another interview where somebody says "LEVEL" one more time!!

"Now that's what i call a close encounter!!" Thank goodness they came 2 their senses and realized that a sequel 2 that movie would have been probably the stupidest, most far-fetched sequel of all time. WELCOME 2 EARTH!!

The other day i saw a used copy the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack at a really low price...so i had 2 get it (since i've wanted 2 hear a few of the trax on it for YEARS. I has that Jazz (of Dru Hill) and Jill Scott track "Love Again" and also that Musiq and Redman track...both good...and both produced by A Touch of Jazz. Other stand out trax 2 me are the L.L. Cool J joint and the Montell Jordan track (which i already got of his import-released 4th album. Most of the album is commerical Hip-Hop that is good but dosen't stand the test of time at all. Not bad music...just forgetable. Still alot better than the Bad Boys 2 soundtrack of course.

Yeah, just 2 know they are touring 2gether is really cool. Maybe we'll be lucky and we can talk Jeff in2 letting us know when and where they might be.

Wow!! I can't wait...i just wish they'd release it a month earlier so i could vibe with it at the end of the summertime.

Hopefully the chemistry will fly and more stuff will pop off. Hopefully they'll also get a really good response which could lead 2 announced dates, cuz if they are here on the east coast, u know i'll be there.

U aren't the only one...when the re-printed the album, they added it on 2 the tracklisting (but not on the insert). I have both the original release of the album, and the re-release on cassette. I actually didn't own a CD copy of Homebase until 1998...ha ha.

The way u all have replied 2 this post is only support what i'ma say...so don't get offended. People are just 2 ignorant these days 4 people 2 do anything creative, new, or different without people misunderstanding it.

I like the new joint...but i think Never Say Never is a master piece.

My definition of Gangsta Rap is anybody who copied N.W.A., Ice-T (and related artists at that time in the late 80's). They made hardcore Hip-Hop....it waz a different branch of Hip-Hop...but all the wannabes who monopolized and copied it are gangsta rap. Phoney guys who lie in their music, try 2 be hard, and have not one drop of creativity in their music....that's gangsta rap. That's why JJ+FP stands against it so much...who would wanna be a part of that. "Afro Angel" is a perfect example of Will being as real as it comes, but it wazn't "gangsta wack" at all. It's just honest and depicts life in all honesty...almost sounds like something straight outta 2pac's rhyme book.

I don't "hate" anything...i just can't stand his music. Don't get me wrong, i like a few trax he's been on, but overall, i hate his music. One of the 1st trax he did waz "Fat Rabbit" on Timbaland's solo album and i loved that song....i've just been more and more disappointed in what's he's done in recent years.

Please tell me u are kidding. There isn't any "gangsta" rap on the album at all...so that's definitly not why he didn't include any stuff from Will. Jeff would never wanna do a gangsta rap track and even if he did...Will wouldn't do it.

If Ludacris knows what good music sounds like...why dose his suck so much?!?

Will waz right when he said nobody could say anything bad about "Summertime."

Thanx everybody!! 2day waz a nice laid back day. Got plenty of calls, voice mails, and e-mails from friends. Some of my friends came back from their colleges 2day which waz extra special and i just spend all nite hanging out. I also got spoiled with all kinds of stuff which i'll talk about later. Thanx again, y'all!!!

Thanx, man!! The last year has been very hard, painful, fun, confusing, etc....but it's definitly been an experience. 2day i plan on just letting all the struggles and stuff sit so i can have some fun and spend time with good friends. After the day is over, i'll just return 2 "life" and see what moves i can make 2 get things back on track.

I don't know...i think it could be a bit self-indulgent or cheezy 2 put yourself out there like that. I think the style of Hip-Hop that he featured on it waz kinda tight...very much the same kinda stuff. If JJ+FP waz on there, he would have had 2 put more different kinds of Hip-Hop from different extreems of Hip-Hop on it. Sure, Wu-Tang and Tribe Called Quest are very different Hip-Hop groups, but the sounds he chose by them (or their respected members) kinda fall in2 the same area. On his "The Vibe I'm On" mixtape, he puts the SoulPower Remix '98 of "Summertime"'s instrumental undera DMX track.