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BUSTA RHYMES + Q-TIP - Thank You (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pImWbM8yii8&feature=youtube_gdata_player Not sure why Lil' Wayne's or Kanye's vocals need to be on this. Fu Schnickens did better with this beat in 1992, but this sound is definitely welcome. I don't like how Busta's voice has changed over the years.

I agree. After "Switch," the promotion was over. He stopped performing on TV shows and at events. "Party Starter" had a visually interesting video, but it didn't fit the song. It broke away from the simplicity that the video for "Switch" had. The time between videos is what truly killed it though. If he would have released it on the heels of "Switch," it would have been a huge hit as well. In 2005, he could have easily had three videos had he approached promotion properly. Music isn't going to slow down the millions from Hollywood, so I doubt there's anyone who cares what he focuses on.

This is the perfect example of two people being silly and some playful pictures getting put on a magazine and a story being added to it. Anyone who would use Star magazine as a source of news is an idiot, which is why this story is dead from the start. The Will/Jada separating story has been published dozens of times over the past 10 years and will continue to be published with any thing they can find, twist, or create to make it fresh.

So, what are everyone's thoughts on the album. I've only listened to it a few times, but my first thoughts are that his delivery is great and the lyrics mostly good. I like how he continues to stay more open with his subject matter, but I'm not crazy about what he music he selected. "Berzerk" grew on me some, but I wish that and the other old school joint on the album were mixed differently...so they had the energy of the tracks on Rev Run's album. Some of the production is just underwhelming. The worst part is that "Don't Front" is the best track he recorded, but it's not on the album?!?!?!?! If anyone can get their hands, PLEASE send it my way!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1656266429&feature=iv&src_vid=2yBKqqA6WaY&v=M9ll262gdI4

News is getting around. Check out this article... http://keepittrill.com/online/2013/11/grandmaster-jay-angers-hiphop-community-beamz-marketing-gimmick/

I have been following Jazzy's posts since he first brought up this guy. I watched a few of his interviews too. He's a freakin' joke. He talks like an over arrogant 10 year old living a fantasy life that nobody knows about or cares about. He talked condescendingly about Jam Maser Jay and Jazzy Jeff...WHAT?!?! It was funny because in the same interview, he calls himself a billionaire, and then later says how he's a Hip-Hop legend and that others are getting paid for what he's created. LOL What an idiot?!

The rhyme is old, but he sounds so good spitting it. I vote this as the best rap spit from the top of a latter for all of 2013.

His performances on SNL seemed legit...except for him lipsyncing one of the songs!?! Rick Ruben and Skylar Grey were there too. http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/11/fans_accuse_eminem_of_lip-sync.html

RUN DMC - The Kings WWF Aggression (2001)

I agree completely. There's nothing worse than a "sequel" album that doesn't have the artist channeling the original. I suppose it's nice that he tried a different direction with the sound, but the music isn't as good as Recovery. I'm not crazy about what I'm hearing, though it could be much worse.

TLC - This Is How It Should Be Done OoOoOoOhhh...On The TLC Tip (1992) Produced by Marly Marl

I remember being 11 years old and pushing the record button in my parent's living room. JJ+FP is that big of a deal to me. I remember those moments clearly...lol. Maybe one day I can get the video for the other performance up.

I taped this when it aired and I STILL have the VHS. They also performed "The Things That U Do" after the ball dropped. FP was acting super free during the second performance. My friends used to say they thought he was drunk...lol...but I think he's was just in the moment and having fun. They lipsynced the second performance as well.

Here's an excellent article that focuses on the new album. I found it on the CyberTLC message boards.... TLC ready to move on to the next phase Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and a team of producers are huddled behind a sprawling control console, bobbing their heads as they listen to a bass-heavy track off TLC’s first album in more than 10 years. After the music played out, Watkins received notes on which harmonies needed another take. But it could wait. She shuffled down the hall to check on Rozanda “Chili” Thomas’ progress on “Pretty Little Scar,” a song Watkins penned for the mark left behind after a 2006 operation to remove a brain tumor. Their yet-to-be-titled album is more than a decade in the making, and things are down to the wire: the two have to deliver new material to the label before an evening deadline. PHOTOS: Supremes to Dolls -- Girl group evolution “Some real pressure … right,” Watkins laughed before asking their manager, who is pacing, if the label is nervous. TLC’s last album, 2002’s “3D,” came just months after the group lost its core -- the flamboyant Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes -- in a car accident. The trio was a dominant force in the 1990s, setting the tone for the era’s R&B with their feisty anthems, bold feminist statements and pure swagger. But in the years since Lopes’ death, one question lingered: Could there be a TLC without Lopes? “We’ll never forget her,” Thomas said weeks later in a dressing room at Hollywood Center Studios. “But we are at a point in our careers, and our lives now, where we are able to properly move on to the next phase of TLC.” Tonight, VH1 will premiere “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” a biopic on the triumphs and tragedies of one of the most successful girl groups in history. Watkins and Thomas served as executive producers, working with director Charles Stone III (“Drumline”) and writer Kate Lanier (“What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “Set It Off”). A compilation of their work titled “20” hit stores last week and serves as the film’s soundtrack, and marks their 20-year anniversary. “Timing is everything,” Watkins said of the biopic. “Before Lisa passed, it didn’t come together and I think that was for a reason. It wouldn’t have been the time to do it.” “I always wanted to tell our story, from the very beginning,” Thomas added. “I felt like it was going to be a movie. I think people will now understand [us].” Discovered in 1991 by Perri "Pebbles" Reid, TLC helped put Atlanta label LaFace -- founded by famed R&B producers Antonio "L.A." Reid (Perri Reid’s then-husband) and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds -- on the map. PHOTOS: A guide to the current top pop ensembles Witty videos and eye-popping garb (e.g. condoms as accessories) turned heads, yet their slinky, empowering jams, such as “Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg” and “Baby, Baby, Baby,” kept the attention. But as the hits poured in, so did the drama. The trio continuously deflected breakup rumors, Watkins was diagnosed with sickle-cell anemia, Lopes torched her boyfriend’s mansion, label battles erupted and while their breakout sophomore record, “CrazySexyCool,” logged massive smashes (“Creep,” “Red Light Special,” “Waterfalls”) and millions of sales, the girls were broke and soon bankrupt. “[People] remember certain headlines like the fire and the bankruptcy, or whatever,” Thomas said. “Now they are gonna know why all that stuff happened.” “When I found out Kate Lanier was doing the script, I had to pull over and cry,” Thomas recalled. “It was too much. Lisa and I watched ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ together at the theater and I told her, whoever wrote this, has to write our movie. I really feel like Lisa had a hand in some of this because it was just too crazy.” The film is bolstered by eerily pitch-perfect performances from Drew Sidora (“The Game”), rapper Lil Mama and Keke Palmer (“Akeelah & the Bee”), who portray Watkins, Lopes and Thomas, respectively. Watkins and Thomas cast the actresses and taught them their signature dance moves. Album covers were re-created, as were those iconic videos and memorable interviews. And the actresses even donned some of the trio’s original costumes. It’s not all fluff though. Thomas’ decision to terminate a pregnancy with the group’s frequent producer, Dallas Austin, is depicted (she eventually had a son with him). So is Watkins’ hospitalization, and both still find it trying to watch the scenes that show Lopes’ funeral or the sequences Lil Mama shot that mirror Lopes’ time at a Honduran healing village -- which served as the basis for VH1’s 2007 documentary, “The Last Days of Left Eye.” PHOTOS: Celebrities who died young Like their music, Watkins and Thomas are brazen in conversation. Not much is off limits, a rarity for pop’s often controlled, media-savvy stars. Not everyone is pleased though. As Watkins and Thomas made promo rounds for the film, their former manager, Perri Reid, implied via Twitter that she would pursue legal action “now that the slander continues.” And L.A. Reid -- who reunited with the group and inked them to a new deal through LaFace/Epic Records after visiting the film’s Atlanta set earlier this year -- declined to comment for this article. A source close to the group said L.A. Reid had a problem with his possible portrayal in the film and that the issue is “compounded” by Perri Reid’s depiction. TLC’s public fallout with Perri Reid was infamous and they were frank when discussing dealings with their former manager, including purchasing back the ‘TLC’ name for $1 million per letter. [Editor's note: In a 1999 Los Angeles Times article, the Reids cited the nasty legal battle as a factor in their 1996 divorce]. Given their tumultuous history, the women’s renewed relationship with the label is surprising, to say the least. “You’re always going to disagree about something. It’s a damn record label and he was running it. Of course you’re going to have ups and downs. And just like anybody else, we cuss him out when need be,” Watkins offered. “But it feels natural, like home. It’s a new day and time. We’re putting LaFace back on the map -- again.” The new album is as much about securing TLC's legacy as it is about stepping into what Watkins calls their "transitional period." Their longtime manager, Bill Diggins, was on the verge of launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project before L.A. Reid stepped in to do the new deal. “Everybody knows the stakes are high,” Diggins said. “We all have a lot to lose on this. If we can’t do excellent, let’s not do it. We’re not gonna settle for mediocrity. You give me one hit with TLC and it’s all over.” Interest is certainly there, and the hip-hop world in particular has already embraced the group's return. J. Cole recruited TLC for his single “Crooked Smile,” which netted TLC its first Top 10 R&B single since 1999, and Drake recently invited them to perform a surprise set at his annual OVO Festival. PHOTOS: Supremes to Dolls -- Girl group evolution “I knew how big [‘Crooked Smile’] could be,” Cole said. “When I finally got the hook, I heard TLC singing it because of [their] songs like 'Unpretty' and 'Waterfalls.' I wanted to hear their voices because I was such a big fan. And because those songs were so huge and impactful, but had a message behind them, it made sense.” TLC recently issued “Meant to Be,” their first single since 2003. The saccharine, Ne-Yo-crafted ballad is the lone new track from the biopic’s soundtrack, “20,” and came from recent sessions that include collaborations with Dallas Austin and Lady Gaga, who penned a track called “P.O.S.H. Life.” They also hope to log studio time with Drake and 2 Chainz. The album will pay homage to their fallen member; the same goes for live performances. Fans shouldn’t look for unreleased vocals from Lopes on the new record, however. Watkins, Thomas and producers turned to Lopes’ limited-released solo effort, “Supernova,” to pull vocals to complete “3D.” “First off, there isn’t anything else, as far as her raps,” Thomas said. “And then you have to think about it, there are conceptual songs with certain subject matters,” Watkins added. “Rappers are deep. Do you think everything [she recorded solo] matched up with what we were doing?” Over the years Watkins and Thomas have been accused of marginalizing Lopes’ legacy -- especially after a 2005 UPN reality show competition, “R U the Girl,” offered a prize to record and perform a track with them. And rumors that Lil Mama, who performed Lopes’ raps alongside TLC at recent gigs, would become a permanent fixture have incited fans. The two say they are not -- and never were -- interested in finding a replacement for Lopes. It’s the one topic that gets them the most visibly upset in conversation. “It's almost offensive,” Watkins said, along with a few unprintable words. “We built this together and we are always gonna have this together. It seems like no matter how much you're saying it, you're still always explaining yourself.” Whether TLC finds a new generation of fans remains to be seen, but its comeback campaign is forging ahead. Gail Mitchell, a senior writer at Billboard, believes it will stick. “There's enough love and legacy of the time they were together that they can do this,” she said. “A next generation of R&B seems to be tapping into the '90s R&B, which is when TLC was big, so this might be perfect timing.” Back at the recording studio, Watkins is discussing the new material and what could work as a potential first single. She was partial to a particular track, but a producer was lobbying for another that could hit multiple radio formats. “We had to beg L.A. [Reid] to do a video for ‘Waterfalls,’” she argues. “That was our version of going alternative.” After another check on Thomas, Watkins slid into a dimly lit booth to take a stab at another song -- an angsty, guitar-driven pop-rock ballad called “Breaking Bad.” “If I die before I wake, at least I know I lived for something,” she sang. “If this breath is the last I take, I don’t want it to be for nothing.” “We’re back on the train now, and just going,” Thomas said. “This movie has opened so many doors for us. We have a new record deal. We’re back with L.A. Reid. It’s amazing how everything is falling into place. We’re just ready for the ride.”

This is where the video SHOULD have been posted, but it was previously on the Smith family board (I think). I'm sure it'll catch more views on this board.

Ha, if there are two scripts, one has to wonder what the quality of EITHER of them is.

I think it's important to say that Homebase was truly the last complete JJ+FP album. While JJ+FP took on Code Red as a project, a lot of other hands were in the pot. Pete Rock, Dallas Austin, Teddy Riley....all dope and legendary producers/artists, but Jazzy didn't get enough time on the boards or the wheels. Code Red is jam packed with great songs, but it isn't seamless like their other album. Sure Hula + K. Fingers worked on a couple of songs for Homebase, but they were just a small part of the big picture. I think it's silly to want one or the other. I want more albums and a show. Why are we limiting to only one. I think the bottom line is that Jazzy is more than optimistic, he has had some studio time, and he embraces grabbing the mic on TV. Just because it's been a long time doesn't mean the chances have decreased that we'll see him again. Plus, FP is better on the mic while he's promoting NEW music.

If you need any JJ/FP instrumentals, let me know. I might be able to help out.

Why are we limiting it to an album OR a tour? I'm waiting for BOTH. I see an album being more likely than a tour. At the same time, a concert is for just one night, but an album lasts forever. I WANT IT ALL.

In my opinion, the movie is EXCELLENT. I always find it awkward when people are portraying celebrities from just 10 and 20 years ago, which was still the case for some of the supporting roles (L.A. Reid, Clive Davis, Puffy, etc), but I thought the main cast was amazing. Drew as T-Boz was a stand out performance to me, but Lil' Mama stole the show. Keep in mind, Left Eye is my favorite female emcee of all time and I am not a fan of Lil' Mama's music, but I wasn't going to let that impact my opinion on her performance. To see how Lil' Mama transformed herself is nothing short of amazing. Her stance, facial expressions, voice, laugh, THIS GIRL HAD IT DOWN! I think people on this board know I have dozens of albums, singles, etc of TLC. I have stacks of magazines. I have HOURS of performances and interviews on VHS, DVD, CD, and cassette. What they did to keep this movie so close to reality is like nothing I've ever seen. Certainly some things need to tweeked to condense 20 years into 2 hours and adjustments had to be made to make it a quality film, but they are wearing the same clothes that TLC wore in actual videos, interviews, etc. They are quoting some things verbatim from interviews I have. They actual read Left Eye's quote out of the actual magazine that she said it in. Truly amazing stuff. Of the top of my head, the only things that seemed different from reality is how Crystal is portrayed in the movie. The portrayed her as untalented when she really was hesitant to sign with Pebbles, which lead to her being kicked out of 2nd Nature (soon to be TLC). In real life, when they first hear "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" on the radio (not "What About Your Friends" like in the movie), it was just T-Boz and Left Eye (who got out of the car and danced in a Taco Bell parking lot. Chilli wasn't there, like in the movie. There was also another moment in the movie that included all 3 girls that only had 2 of them in reality. I didn't like that they didn't mention their album 3D. They could have at least mentioned it in that follow up interview without actually focusing on that era. I thought it was interesting that they tackled the topic of Chilli's abortion and that they avoided Pebbles saying Chilli was cheated with L.A. I also thought it was interesting that instead of saying Suge Knight was signing Left Eye, that the movie said Master P was. The scene after the fire where T+C find L in the woods is false and unnecessary...I think they just wanted to set up that similar moment towards the end of the movie. Supernova wasn't being pushed out while they were promoting FanMail, so that conversation in the bathroom was also placed in an incorrect moment. Her solo albulm was still Fantasy1.com at that point. The only other thing I didn't like was the scene at the end that starts with "10 years later..." It makes it look like the aren't sisters and didn't stay in touch, didn't do a couple shows, didn't record a few songs together, didn't have their reality shows, etc. Enough of the negatives though. Stressing them makes it sound like I didn't love the movie, which I do, and I hope they release it on DVD. Of course TLC fans should love it, but I think the movie itself can be appreciated way beyond Hip-Hop. It takes domestic abuse, health scares, the music industry, love, family, and music...things we can all relate to. It tells the story of three underdogs who rolled with the punches and came out on top. If you get a chance, please watch this movie. It stands as VH1's best premier for any original movie. It holds the best ratings for anything they've aired in the past 5+ years!! The music industry has been buzzing about it on Facebook and Twitter. Best of all, TLC is back, and this movie gave them a huge boost. They are working on a new album that will be released next year. Also, they 20 album has jumped from a spot in the 40's to being in the top 10. It's the number 1 album in iTunes! The movie ends with the real TLC in the studio with Ne-Yo. Here's a link to see that part of the movie... http://vimeo.com/77503727

I believe we'll see one. I believe it's not coming too soon, but that it won't be tooooooooooo far either. He's an emcee and people are so fond of his music. Whenever he performs semi-often to let us know he still has it and every time he's reminded how the masses love the music. We know he's recorded music over the years hear and there. He testing himself and the people he works with. When things click, it'll take off. Keep the faith!

The album is out. TLC fans, GO GET IT!! On another note, a few years ago, T-Boz leaked a solo song called "Miracles." Well, she re-recorded it as a duet recently and you can download it here: http://jams.to/lil-eddie-miracles-feat-t-boz-of-tlc-full/

I listened to this in the morning. Love the flow, like the lyrics, not crazy about the beat. I wasn't crazy about "Berzerk" either, which sucks since I loved Recovery. I do like "Survival" though.

I have a few old school Hip-Hop groups on my Facebook. They post videos everyday and post album covers that tell you how when they were released (which makes me feel old sometimes...lol). Anyways, today they posted a video of a song/artist that I'd never hard before. I was a bit surprised, so I gave it a listen. I instantly fell in love with the song, peeped the album, and bought it. Do yourself a favor, listen to this song!!! ED O.G. + DA BULLDOGS - Love Comes And Goes Roxbury 02119 (1993)

I like "Parents..." and "Boom!..," but they are amongst my least favorite tracks on the album. They are great singles, but the other songs on their respective albums are better. Hands down! I have no idea why he thought "A Touch of Jazz" wasn't as amazing as it is though.