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LOL! Such a great time in music and JJ+FP's history. I'm wondering if any of those "Will 2K" singles cracked anyone in the head...LOL

I can't remember the last time I was this hyped for a new artist!!

I don't mind the song, but I'm hoping it's a filler track. I have mixed feelings about the video. I like that it's simple. I miss music videos that don't have costumes, make up, special effects. I like that it's just a straight video to a song. However, there isn't anything unique or special about it. It's better than "Ratchet" was for the original version of Authentic, but this song definitely isn't going to be added to any LL mixes I make.

I feel like he'll definitely do cameos after 40, but I think it'll take inspiration to commit to full albums. He seems so far from music most of the time. If you've read recent interviews about the OutKast reunion, he was kinda reluctant to do it.

LL just dropped a couple of verses on a remix of Tinashe's (R&B's sexiest legit newcomer) "2 On." While it's lyrically nothing groundbreaking, it's dope and something to nod your head to in the car. Plus, the reworking of Dr. Dre's "G Thang " sounds NICE!

Check out this video with Snoop Dogg and Shawn Stockman (of Boyz II Men) giving JJ+FP crazy props and talking about their impact during the 80's. They talk about them early in the video, but the whole thing is actually very interesting and funny.

My thought exactly. FP wouldn't promise something like this to Jeff if it wasn't going to happen. At this place in his music career and where music stands, it makes more sense to do a JJ+FP album than a Will Smith album. All 80's, 90's, and some 2000's artists that are still making music aren't doing it for the mainstream (other than LL Cool J and Emininem...because he can). All the Drake/Future nonsense is so far from FP's style, that it's hard to see him trying to compete like he always has. Regardless, if he's working with Jazzy, we know the sound and the essence of the music will be correct. If he does end up doing another Will Smith album, the frame work will be properly set during that time with Jazzy.

This is big deal...great thing are going to come out of this!!

Well, I can't say I respect his reason for considering this. Age ain't nothing but a number...and saying you love terrible commercial rappers like Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Future shows a truly twisted look at the music game. http://www.centrictv.com/music/articles/2014/09/03/andre-3000-to-retire-next-year.html Andre 3000 To Retire Next Year? The 39-year-old rapper set to bow out after he turns 40 Justin Dwayne Joseph Posted: 09/03/2014 10:34 AM EDT Filed Under Andre 3000 Music News Antwan Patton Big Boi Outkast Big Boi Andre 3000 is considering retiring from the rap game next year after he turns 40. "I remember, at like 25, saying, 'I don't want to be a 40-year-old rapper,'" he told the New York Times. "I'm 39 now, and I'm still standing by that. I'm such a fan that I don't want to infiltrate it with old blood." The Outkast star, born Andre Benjamin, also revealed that he recruits his teenage son Seven (his son with singer Erykah Badu), to critique his verses because he is no longer confident about what will resonate with young music listeners. "I struggle with the verses. I don't sit around and write raps, I just don't. Now the only time I'm really inspired to write raps is if an artist that I enjoy invites me to their party. So if Future calls and says, 'Hey man, I want you to do this,' I don't want to let Future down. I don't want to let Lil Wayne or Drake down, because I love them ... My son, he's 16. Him and his buddies, they'll be in the car, and I'll say, 'Hey, what do you think about this verse?' That's my gauge at this point. I don't have the pulse. Part of art is knowing when not to put paint on. And when to change your medium." Benjamin, who recently reunited with his Outkast bandmate Antwan "Big Boi" Patton for a series of shows this past summer, will most likely mark his retirement with a new album.

MARKY MARK + ONE LOVE - Irie Vibe Fear Soundtrack (Unreleased) (1996)

HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! It's comin.'

That scene sounds really interesting; I'd love to see it. It's important to know that we haven't heard FP's side of the story. On top of that, he was in a very different place in his career and mind state. I admire how he stood up for himself, whether or not his opinion of the scene was correct. p.s. I think Seven Pounds is a great and original movie! I also don't think After Earth was that bad....he should have just had another project coming out within a few months to counter the dry role he played in it.

Man, this is soooooo good. The feeling I get from listening to this reminds of how rare it is for me to actually listen to new Hip-Hop music. There's nothing like real Hip-Hop music.

In this day and age, real battling isn't done in a spot light. It's arrogant rappers just bragging an insulting. It's nothing like it used to be.

For me, the words "who cares" come to mind. For me to care about a battle, I have to care about the emcees and think at least one of them is lyrically decent. I don't care for Drake and I don't even know who Murda Mook is. He's not like Lil' Wayne, but his appearance on the LL song didn't spark my interest in hearing more from him.

This is excellent and a perfect example of the direction mainstream and commercial R&B should be headed back to. It's never surprising with a genuine modern day talent like John Legend is collaborating with a legend how paved the way. The watered down talent of today only collaborates with other watered down talent of today. This is feel good music for sure. I'd love to see it actually chart.

RICH CRONIN - Zoom Zoom (Unreleased...I'm guessing around 2005) Check out this song, Rich loads the song with classic 80's and 90's Hip-Hop lines/references. We'd talk about Hip-Hop and specifically made a connection when we talked about our love of PM Dawn, so this made this song extra special to me since his sister just shared this song for the first time.

No, GOAT 2 is going to have a different flava. He talks about it in recent interviews. Nearly none of the songs off Authentic would make the cut for what he's aiming for with GOAT 2. He did switch up the tracklisting for Authentic after he pushed it back, but he's been hitting the studio heavily for this new material.

Thank you, Hax! I was thinking that it really sucked that the forum was down after the JJ+FP performance, which always stirs up the fans.

Early 90's classic right there. TANK - Missing You Stronger (2014)

MC LYTE w/ BEENIE MAN - Propa 7 & & (1998)

I flipped when I saw this!

If you listen to/watch the video, the actual interview doesn't start until the 9:40 mark. I like how he says that album represents his anger. While All Eyez On Me is a production masterpiece, I've never considered it to be anywhere nearly as good as Me Against The World. This is mostly due to the fact that it is mostly free from his more introspective side. I always thought that this was his choice and that his future music would have been more substantial. The interview also shows how he already had the 7 Day idea in his head. Like Shock-G said in Thug Angel, 2Pac was always thinking ahead. I'm sure a few of you will find this interview interesting.

http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2014/08/tupac-explains-why-all-eyez-on-me-was-so-different-from-his-other-albums-audio/ August 14, 2014 | Published By 34 Tupac Explains Why All Eyez on Me Was So Different From His Other Albums A week removed from the artist’s return from prison in 1995, L.A. Times journalist Chuck Philips sat down with Tupac Shakur to talk about the making of his album All Eyez On Me and the societal implications of his music in between listening sessions at the studio. From the day he was released from prison, Tupac hit the studio to begin recording the classic album that recently hit 10 million in sales earlier this month. “I been in the studio since the day after I got out,” he said. “I got out Thursday, I been in here since Friday. About twelve hours a day. Up until they kick me out. It be dark and everybody gotta go to sleep, people be passing out, so I’m like, ‘Okay, I guess we gotta go home now.’ So then we go home, come back early in the morning, and do it again. I think we broke a record this time for any recording. I’m trying to do my album in less than a week so I can call my album 7 Days. But if I change the title I might do a couple more songs.” For Tupac, it wasn’t just about releasing new material. There were people who discredited his name, his music, and his lifestyle inside and outside of the media. With the firm belief that the messages behind his music were being relatively unnoticed and under appreciated, Tupac began creating an album for the ages to set the critics straight. When asked about the “sermon” style lyricism he buried in his previous material, Tupac explained his new approach to his music and what the “perfect album” means to him. “I’m not doing it no more cause I’m going unnoticed. Now I’m just gunna put out an album full of just, anger. Cause before that’s all they were saying. When I want you to cry, you gon’ cry. When I want you to feel sorry for this person, you going to feel sorry for that person. When I want you to feel, you know, we’re having fun. I want you to feel like you’re really, really having fun when you’re listening to the music. So, at the same token, life is not just beautiful. It’s not just having fun. It’s not all killing and drugs though. I’m not going to front. But, it’s not all fun. So the perfect album to me is when you talk about the hard ****, the sexy ****, the fun ****, the sad ****, the hurting ****. Know what I mean? And I feel like I have all that on all of my albums. This album right here, it’s not too many sympathetic songs cause I’m not caring. I’m mad, cause I’m like, all the critics all y’all talked about was **** that wasn’t on my album, so I figured I don’t even have to write that no more I can write whatever I want now. I thought I was being politically correct when I wrote my ****. But, um, now I don’t care. My **** is very un- PC. Maybe, you know what, just sitting here talking to you Chuck, I might call my ****, NC-17, no children under 17. Maybe they won’t get mad at me. What you think I should do?” Tupac also described the differences between his material before All Eyez On Me and after: “This album is a reaction to the backlash from C. Delores Tucker, Bob Dole, all those people that kept sweating me about the music,” he said. “Now, I feel as though this album is something for them to sweat. Before my album wasn’t even bad and they was calling me a gangster and just messing up my whole credit line and ruining my reputation. Look at my songs. On the first album, ‘Brenda’s Got A Baby.’ On the second album, ‘Keep Ya Head Up.’ On the third album, ‘Dear Mama.’ Where is the killer music? Where is the make-a-kid-wanna-jump-off-a-bridge ****? I just don’t see it. So now, this album, I didn’t try to make any ‘Dear Mama’s,’ any ‘Keep Ya Head Up’s,’ I just came straight with dealing with my own anger. I’m doing this just for what the music is [to vent] my anger. Getting everything I wanna say out since I can’t express myself in any other way. Plus I was locked down for eleven months so I gotta lot of stress and pressure to get up off my chest. I think I did it on this album. That’s why I stayed in the studio…I wrote only one song in jail. Everything else I wrote while we sat up in here drinking Budweiser. After the Budweiser is gone we have a song usually. With Daz, Johnny J, and I’m about to do one with Sam Sneed right now.” When asked for his own opinions about his music, Tupac described his real life approach to his sound, the implications of his personal actions, and the public’s own reaction to his music and personal life. “I think my music is good music,” he said. “I think the **** that I say, no one else says. Who was writing about Black women before ‘Keep Ya Head Up?’ Now everybody got a song about Black women. Who was writing about that when I was writing about that? Who was writing about their own problems? I wasn’t talking [blah blah blah], I was talking my real problems. I was really having problems with police. I was really having problems with life and just being Black and why the hell we gotta get stepped on so much? But then I’m making it, I thought I was successful when I’m still getting stepped on. How come I got a boot-print on my back and I’m successful? I just couldn’t believe that. So instead of me just bugging out and doing a post office move and just shooting everything up and going to jail for a million years, I just said, ‘**** it. I’m in here rapping. Why not just rap about some **** that’s really happening?’ That’s what I did. That’s when they started really kicking my ass for real. The IRS, every cop everywhere, any kind of candidate wanna come. It was to the point I was having cases everywhere I went. People just bump into me and be like, ‘Tupac hit me.’ It was getting retarded. Then you got the Vice President on TV saying your **** ain’t no good so of course it makes people think, ‘Oh my God, he’s a true menace.’ Then the newspaper going, ‘Oh, Tupac spit at the cameras,’ I’m spitting at the cameras because everybody—I’m not gonna do that no more, let me just say that, I changed—but I bet you everybody who hasn’t been in that position where you’re in your private life, you’re getting in your own car, you’re not at no premiere nowhere, and it’s fifty cameras there shoving there way into your car, you wanna hit…There’s a camera right here and I didn’t ask for it to be there and that’s my own personal space.” Tupac was eventually released from prison after Suge Knight and Jimmy Iovine posted his 1.4 million dollar bail so that he could begin recording the multi-platinum project, in addition to an agreement that he would record a grand total of three albums with Death Row Records. As the ink was drying from his recent signing, Tupac candidly revealed why he agreed to the contract. “There wasn’t nowhere else to go, no one else wanted to take me but the Row,” Tupac admitted that his upcoming double LP, like it or not, would be exactly the type of “trouble” that his naysayers were expecting. “They gon’ feel all eleven months of what I went through in this album,” he said. “I’m gonna hit’em with nothing but trouble, but good trouble. Trouble that bring money don’t bring pain. All I’m doing is talking ****, and I should be allowed to talk as much **** as I want.”