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Ahhhh! I'm 99% sure this is when FP performed for the MTV event tied to the Super Bowl. As I remember, Jazzy wasn't there. Later on he performed "U Saw My Blinker."

Link 2 more pix... http://www.hollywoodheavy.com/detail/008511/will-jaden-smith-begin-fliming-after-earth-in-costa-rica/#content-8511

I couldn't believe this when I first saw it. It just came out of no where. I don't even wanna say anything until I can process this. One of the greatest is gone. Period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZFJ9POm1Rs&feature=g-logo&context=G226f082FOAAAAAAAAAA This is great...even tho' he's working with Icky. LOL

That was fun. I definitely never would have come across this online so I'm glad you shared it.

Some of you know that I was heart broken back in October when my local dinner theater, somewhere I've worked on and off for the past 14 years may have to close its doors due to a tough economy, marketing challenges, and a struggle to create a fresh buzz in the area. We'll we've officially announced our next season starts in May. This is an answered prayer to myself and and many other performance and audience members. Thanks to those of you who acted when I posted about it in the Prayer/Support topic. We shot something for the local news earlier today and you can see me (a very mellow, serious me...lol) for a moment in the video at the link below. http://your4state.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=236392 HAGERSTOWN, MD - The Washington County Playhouse looked like it might be heading for its final curtain call, but now it's getting a second chance and nobody's cheering louder than those who perform under its lights. Kelly Kozlowski grew up with a passion to perform. She visited the Playhouse as a kid and now she's a star on its stage. "I was lucky enough to be exposed to theater at a young age, but a lot of kids don't get that opportunity now," she says. But now they could get that chance. She was thrilled to learn the Playhouse would stay open for another season after almost taking a final curtain call. "I had been losing sleep wondering what was going to happen to the theater," says owner Jeff Czerbinski. "And now I'm losing sleep because I'm excited and enthusiastic about what we will be doing with it." Enough patrons committed to season tickets this week to help the Playhouse stay open. Now they're hoping with more outreach, they can turn things around. "The word of mouth is going to be critically important," says Czerbinski. For those who work there, it's not just dinner and a show. "There's really not an outlet for performers in this area to work with other people with the caliber of talent that we have here," says actor Adam Blackstock. The Playhouse's new production, comedy-musical Nunsense II, is currently showing. To find out how to buy tickets, head to www.wcpdt.com

I agree 100%!! Easily one of the greatest half time shows ever! Even with trash like LMFAO and Icky Minaj on stage with her, she killed it. Madonna may have done some moderately crazy things in her career, but that fact that she's so honest is what has kept her around and so relevant over the years.

Congrats! That is awesome! I can only imagine how surprised you were.

BRITT NICOLE - Set The World On Fire Lost Get Found (2009) I really wish her music was invading the charts. I love that there is another Rich Cronin fan on the board! I've always identified with his music and was fortunate to be cool with him.

I'm sure her album will do fine. They'll release a single shortly before it drops and it'll likely do well. As long as it's decent, I'll get it, but I can't say I'm that interested in the album until I know that FP is rhyming on it.

This is on the US CD single...possibly on a few other versions. There's another version with the chorus sung in a different language. I never really listen to them tho' since I don't know what they're saying and since Sauce perfectly complimented the original. The Darkchild Remix is dope...I wish they reworked the footage of the original 2 do a video for it.

It hurt my heart when I heard the news earlier today. I didn't watch Soul Train religiously until the 90's so I only caught his regular hosting duties the first few years I watched it, not that I didn't occasionally stumble upon it in the 80's. He truly is a legend in music (without being all that musical). If Soul Train wasn't airing at 1 and morning and if the popular side of urban music hadn't gone to crap, it'd probably still be airing. It's hard to believe he would take his own life, though I know he had rather extreme health issues and a bitter divorce over the last few years. God have mercy on his soul and may his legacy keep on. If it wasn't for him and his vision, R-N-B, Soul, and Hip-Hop would have never become as big as their are and were in the past. Love...Peace and ...Soul

I love this JJ+FP "Summertime" influenced shirt. Check it! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cajmear-Fresh-Prince-DJ-Jazzy-Jeff-shirt-Grape-v-aqua-jordan-8-Tv-show-spizike-X-/320834876180?pt=US_Mens_Tshirts&hash=item4ab33fb314

I was quickly scrolling through Facebook posts when my eye barely caught a glance of the pic....but my brain sparked and I scrolled back up. Part of me had this excited energy while the other part of me was like "of course....JJ+FP ain't going anywhere."

SWV In Studio With Jazze Pha; Planning New Album by Roman Wolfe January 23rd, 2012 @ 11:02am (AllHipHop News) Popular 90s R&B group SWV has announced they are working on a new album titled I Missed Us, which is due for release in April eOne Music/Mass Appeal Entertainment. The women are in the studio with producer Jazze Pha and Brian M. Cox, who are both contributing production to the album. The first single from the album is titled “Co-Sign,” which was produced by Lamb. “It’s a great feeling to be back recording together again! Something special always happens when we come together,” the ladies said in a joint statement issued today (January 23). SWV, which consists of group members Coko, Lelee and Taj, released their debut album It’s About Time in 1992. That album alone consisted of hit singles like “I’m So Into You, “Right Here,” “Downtown,” “Weak” and “You’re Always On My Mind.” I Missed Us will be released April 10, 2012 on eOne Music/Mass Appeal Entertainment.

http://allhiphop.com/2012/01/23/dj-jazzy-jeff-ft-senor-kaos-peter-piper/ This is dope! Straight Hip-Hop!!! I'm not familiar with Senor Kaos but I like his flow. Jazzy's cuts are flawless and I like the way barely touched the original production.

I must say that I waited on peeping this because I didn't think it would be anything special. I was wrong, this is awesome!

AHMAD - I'm A Star (2011) http://player.vimeo.com/video/19791006?autoplay=1

I have mixed feelings. I think it's funny....REALLY funny. At the same time, since it's stealing from that video about bullying, I just don't know if I like how it makes light of that video which I found really powerful.

I think I like the new album better than Be. Either way, I don't consider one to be too much better than the other.

Skee-Lo has always been one of my favorite emcees. I Wish is easily one of top 20 favorite Hip-Hop albums of all time. Every line, every song is just dope. I was heart broken that it took him 5 years to get another album out. I Can't Stop was a good album too but some of the production was a little basic. Still good, you could just tell he was doing it all on his own financially on a couple songs. If u get I Can't Stop, make sure you get the 2nd version with the "At The Mall" remix and "When I Was Comin' Up" as the last 2 tracks. "When I Was Comin' Up" is one of his best songs and is only the 2001 version of the album. Back in late 2009/early 2010 he released and EP called Overdose. I bought it off his website back then and I have a mixed feeling to it. It's a mix of traditional Skee-Lo with an influence of today's Hip-Hop and Rap. I hardly listened to it. I also wasn't thrilled that after over 10 years of only making non-explicit music and non-sexed up music, he went there. His subject matter just got more common and predictable. There's still "Skee-Lo" in those tracks but a lot of his charm is gone. The same year he also released a few "single"...the "I Wish (2010 Rock Remix)...which is dope, and "I Love L.A." He's also been on some mixtapes. "Fly Away" on a Rappin' 4 Tay mixtape is a song that finally has proper Skee-Lo/West Coast sound to it. A couple months ago a song was released that he did with some guy named King Kong and his literally sounds like every other unsigned/uncreated rapper. It's really disappointing. Hopefully he's rejuvenated himself for this new album. Originally he was going to release an Overdose LP which would have bee an extension of the EP. Since a few years have passed, I'm hoping he's back to his own musical identity and not "that guy" I heard on that King Kong track.

Skee-Lo Wished He Was a Little Bit Taller. Then He Promptly Retired By Jeff Weiss Wed., Jan. 18 2012 at 3:30 AM ​[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The directions haven't changed. If you want to find Skee-Lo, take the 110 to the 105 and get off on Crenshaw. It's everything else that's been altered since "I Wish" transformed the Snapple-size South L.A. rapper from obscurity into an evanescent national phenomenon in the summer of 1995. The gold-certified smash yielded Grammy nominations, stints as an MTV VJ and a spot on the television adaptation of Dangerous Minds. Then he disappeared. "I retired five months after it was released," Skee-Lo says, drinking coffee at the Denny's on Crenshaw and 37th, a few blocks from the home he shares with his wife and two children. "Not only did my label [sunshine] take credit for producing 'I Wish,' they took all the profits. So I refused to shoot any more videos, promote or record music. I'm not their slave. I wasn't working for free." You expect to hear rappers indict the improprieties of a corrupt industry. But you don't expect to hear Skee-Lo inveigh against its sheer "wickedness." It's like hearing the Easter Bunny go off on Big Chocolate. For those foreign to the charms of "I Wish," the rapper born Antoine Roundtree plays an endlessly endearing ne'er-do-well. "I wish I was a little bit taller," he posits, adding that he's saddled to a Hatchback with an 8-track, where "Everywhere I go, I gets laughed at." The indelible underdog anthem reached No. 13 on the singles chart but branded him a one-hit wonder. "The one-hit-wonder thing used to really irritate me. But no one knew the true story," says Skee-Lo, the spitting image of his '95 self, plus a few pounds. He graduated from high school in Moreno Valley, and while attending El Camino College performed every week at the Good Life in Leimert Park, the Left Bank of early-'90s underground hip-hop. That's where he unveiled "I Wish," one week after writing it during a study session gone wrong. "I wanted to do anything but school. So I started listing wishes and wrote the whole record without music," Skee-Lo says. "Two days later, I'm cleaning my room and in the middle of an ugly old record. I heard a beautiful horn section that made me feel like I was at a casino, on a beach or a boat. I threw my broom down, got on my MPC-60 and made the beat." The hook floated into his mind that Thursday night at the Good Life, following a successful preshow freestyle in the parking lot. When Sunshine Records (the parent company of Scotti) heard it, he received a $150,000 advance. The song's success created a familiar paradox: His music was omnipresent but he never made a penny. Nor did he get with Leoshi (though she did appear in the video). After a half-decade of legal battles, Skee-Lo wrangled back his publishing rights. He proudly notes that he receives every cent when the song is purchased and played today. But even though he kept busy doing shows during his "retirement," his recording hiatus left him adrift and depressed, even after the royalty money kicked in. "It got to the point where I told my wife and children that I didn't want to live anymore," Skee-Lo says of his low ebb five years ago. "Then a voice spoke to me clearly and said, 'At what point in your life were you truly happy?'" The religious vision caused Skee-Lo to rededicate himself to the Nation of Islam, which he had joined at 16. His raised spirits and reaffirmed spirituality inspired him to form his own indie label, Skee-Lo Musik, whose flagship release will be April's Fresh Ideas, Skee-Lo's first real record since "I Wish." But no matter the outcome, he's achieved the crucial goals of his lone smash: People still remember his name, and he'll be played on classic rap radio until the day everyone is 6 foot 9. "I've had people from prison tell me how much that record helped them through the years they were locked down," he says. "People treat me well wherever I go. How can you hate on Skee-Lo?"

Amen.

I gotta admit, I really wanted 2 like K'Naan when he first dropped but I just couldn't. I peeped the album multiple times and just couldn't get into it. I just don't like his voice. I listened to this new song and it's not bad. The beat is interesting. It's not bad but I don't love it either. I think I like K'Naan better on this than on his past stuff. I'm still not crazy about his voice and I don't feel like he keeps up with the beat completely. I think Nas sounds dope on it tho.'

Are there tho'? There's so much mind numbing dance pop out there it's disgusting. Most of the songs are interchangeable and have no identity to them.