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maybe there won't be any music news forever???

lyrics are on point...beat is good...what really disturbs me is that he stole 50's flow and the hook is really whack! From what i heard from his new album... Don't take this personal (4 mic)>scratchyour head (3.5 mics)>queens (3mics)

I didn't expect that Lost and Found is ghost-written, too! I thought that was just in the "Big Will Era"! Will should write his own rhymes just like in the FP era!

It's simply a shame that they ignore Will on that list! money or not not..will smith is rapper/actor...for a reliable and serious source like forbes it's very ambarassing when they don't count will as an rapper!

Great video, fits perfect to the song...track sounds like bow wow or cassidy(hotel/get no better) rapped over it...for today mainstream rap standards its very good...nice pop-rap....he didn't curse and with omarion on board he should have his breakthrough! Sounds better than anything 50 released this year!!! And if he thinks he will be the next fresh prince he should step his game up...(Will's GOAT) :wickedwisdom:

Great review! But it drops a little bit late!

This will be a hit...sounds like bow wow's stuff...and omarion on the hook is great...did will produce the single or 50?

Kanye will win because the singles he put out were fire....50 released 4 singles and all of them were garbage! His BET performance sucked....Curtis time is definetaly over!

Can't tell me nothing>stronger Both have dope videos and are better than what curtis dropped!

Will is nominated twice! Choice Movie : Chemistry — Shia La Beouf & Bumblebee (Transformers), Ocean's 13 (Ocean's 13), Seth Rogen & Paul Rudd (Knocked Up), Will & Jayden Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), Will Ferrell & John Heder (Blades of Glory) Choice Actor : Drama — Ashton Kutcher (The Guardian), Leonardo Di Caprio (The Departed, Blood Diamond), Channing Tatum (Step Up), Adam Sandler (Reign Over Me), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness)

I agree with statements of Hero and AJ (The title bothers at most)! Rhymefest is an talented MC, but he is no one who could take Will's spot! In the current state of hip hop chicago is the capitol...and even there he is on an MC level in the 3rd place and in general on 4th if you count Kanye, too. (Kanye West/Producer)>Common>Lupe Fiasco>Rhymefest>Gemini

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1552462/story.jhtml Michael Bay Divulges 'Transformers' Details — And Word Of 'Bad Boys III' Blockbuster director talks voice-overs, truck-destroying stunts and sequels. By Josh Horowitz Del.icio.us Digg Newsvine Send Print You Tell Us Few figures are as polarizing to movie fans as Michael Bay. He's been knocked for his supposed style-over-substance approach to filmmaking even as his movies have nearly all achieved blockbuster status. From "Bad Boys" to "Armageddon," Bay knows big-time summer entertainment. And this summer, he's back with his most anticipated flick yet — the feature-film version of "Transformers." Do we really need to tell you what it's about? Cool cars turn into giant robots. Got it? Bay recently spoke exclusively to MTV News about his upcoming film, slated for release this July 4. (To watch the director talk truck-smashing stunts and sequels, click here.) MTV: So you have Steven Spielberg producing a Michael Bay film, a July 4 release — it seems like all the planets are aligned for "Transformers" to be huge. What can we expect from this film? Michael Bay: It's a magical movie in a lot of ways. There's some awesome action in it. I've done action my whole life. I don't get excited about action anymore, but I'm excited about this. When robots transform at 85 miles an hour, you can do a lot with that. There are some mind-blowing visual effects and we're not even going to show them in the commercials. Normally when they advertise movies they show everything. Steven and I are just going to show a few pieces. MTV: It's that old Spielberg axiom of never revealing too much. Bay: Yeah. You've got to leave a lot hidden. We'll never show transformations. You'll never really get a good look at the robots until the release. MTV: You've directed action of a pretty high caliber before. Can you compare the kind of action we'll see in "Transformers" to what you've done before? Bay: You can do a lot with 30-foot and 40-foot robots. It's just very unique action. It's just mind-blowing. [Effects studio Industrial Light & Magic] does so many movies and I've never seen a crew so excited. A lot of them were "Tranformers" geeks and were totally in love with these effects. Ironhide's gun has 10,000 parts. It's because of the über-geeks at ILM who put so much craft into everything. MTV: Is there one set piece you're itching for an audience to see? Bay: There are 14 set pieces, actually. I counted. We got a lot of bang for our buck on this. It cost $150 million whereas the "Pirates" movies cost over $200 million. MTV: What can we expect in the last reel of the film? You've hinted that it's pretty big stuff. Bay: It happens in a city and it happens with a lot of robots fighting. The kids are at the center of it. You're going to have to go see it. MTV: Cars turning into alien robots is about as far-fetched a concept as it gets. So how do you make it feel real to an audience? Bay: It starts with the digital models and how you make these things emote. It's all about how they're made so they fit in the real world. I'm very adamant when we do computer graphics that it looks dead real. It seems like a dying art, but I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera. A lot will do these stunts in CG world whereas I will do it mostly real and add elements. There was one extremely dangerous stunt where we had to take a bus, jackknife it and split it with a guy driving and then we add the robot coming through. A lot of people would just make a CG bus and crash it [but] the audience can tell what's fake. MTV: There was that famous tagline for "Superman": "You'll believe a man can fly." Do you think this summer we will believe that cars can turn into robots? Bay: I've shown kids some of the movie and they've said to their dads, "Where did Michael Bay get those robots, dad?! Where'd he get them?!" MTV: "Transformers" fans can be pretty fervent, and they were picking you apart from the get-go. Did you pay attention to what they were saying? Bay: Absolutely. They all think I wasn't listening, but I was. MTV: So what can the über-fan ... Bay: Are you an über-fan? MTV: I am. Bay: I could see it. I could see it in your eyes! MTV: So why should the über-fans be confident that Michael Bay has led us down the right path here? Bay: Listen, I just didn't want to make the boxy characters. It's boring and it would look fake. By adding more doo-dads and stuff on the robots, more car parts, you can just make it more real. I was listening to the fans and I know they hated the Optimus paint job with the stripes. Why did I do it? Because I liked the ribs. That caused a lot of grief. [He laughs.] MTV: Tell me about the voices we'll hear in the film. Bay: The only one we have done is Peter Cullen for Optimus. MTV: Are you casting name actors? Bay: No, not name actors. MTV: Will any other voices come from the old cartoon? Bay: I can't really say yet. It's still an ongoing process. The voices are the next thing we're going to be doing. MTV: Do you view this as an ongoing franchise? Is there an arc for future "Transformers" movies? Bay: [He takes a long pause.] MTV: I see a smile. Bay: Yeah, of course you want to create a franchise. If you do "Transformers 2," we definitely have to go bigger. MTV: Are there certain Transformers you'd like to get into a sequel? Bay: Absolutely. Yeah. I can't tell you yet because the script's not written, but the writers, after they saw the movie were like, 'I don't know what we're going to write now.' It's like, what else do we do? We'll figure it out. MTV: Do you feel like you made this giant film your own? Does it still feel personal to you? Bay: Oh, come on. It's not personal. This is popcorn. MTV: But there's that Michael Bay stamp ... Bay: There's totally my stamp all over the place because I basically write all my own action. I do that to keep myself from getting bored from the stuff I've already done. MTV: I can watch a couple of frames from your films and know it's a Michael Bay film. Is that something you take pride in? You obviously have detractors. Bay: Oh yeah, there are tons of people that hate me and hate my movies. But hey, my movies have made a lot of money, two-something billion dollars. That's a lot of tickets. They said that I wrecked cinema. They said that I cut too fast and now you see it in movies everywhere. It's easy to bash a movie but until they know hard it is to actually make one ... Do I take pride in people knowing my style? I think it's nice people know a director has a style. And you can reinvent yourself too. MTV: Will we see that with you? Bay: Absolutely. I've got some smaller little movies, quirky movies, I want to do. MTV: How about another "Bad Boys" installment? Bay: I don't know. Will Smith's people called. They're fun to work with, those guys. MTV: Was that a recent call? Bay: I actually heard it through [Jerry] Bruckheimer. MTV: And you'd be open to it? Bay: Yeah, they're great fun

Jay-Z ain't the best rapper alive...he isn't even close to that spot! I like Dead Presidents and Renegade!

First of all track is trash...LL, Mobb Deep and Kool G Rap had decent rhymes but it is nothing special! On LL working with 50 is just protesting against Jigga! LL's last two albums were bull****, even with more promotion it wouldn't have sell more! LL is certainly Mr. Def Jam, but he have to admit that in his 22 year career he didn't help to create a new artist! If he really wants to battle Jigga he needs to get away from G-Unit camp! After Will LL is my second favourite rapper, he should make a album on his own like on Mama said knock you out or G.O.A.T., but it seems to be that it will be... Jay & Nas vs LL & G-Unit! In this constellation the G.O.A.T. will end his career himself!

Great article!

But still made 31mill last year...I don't understand why 50 is so high on that list?

The next movie will be Tonight he comes, other projects are just speculation or overbrook distributions!

dope trailer!

Congratulations to Jaden! How old is he again ? :lolsign:

I hope this gonna be confirmed...I don't care what the title of the song is as long it is a good track!

there are also a few mistakes on the site like big willie style 8x plat(10x plat) or he's the dj i#m the rapper 1xplat(3xplat)!!!

who thought in 1986 that there would be after 21 years such a request for a jazzy jeff fresh prince album??? if this stuff goes on at the end of 2007 they will have more hype than dr. dre for detox!!!

As we all expected...If there is coming an JJ+FP album it will be 2008...after I am Legend or Tonight he comes!!!

I didn't expect anything else...Jeff will probably make Little Brother numbers!

THE BRIDGE: WHY HIP HOP SUCKS by Darryl James on May 15, 2007 I knew that the integrity of rap music was in trouble when a young Black man in the mix of everything relevant, timely and hip told me that Eminem was the dopest artist to ever come along. My disagreement wasn't because Eminem was white, but simply, because the artist was just not that good. Before any fans of Eminem begin to launch attacks, please understand that I was raised on REAL hip hop. REAL hip hop was about the music, it was about the lyrics, it was about the flow, or delivery, it was about the lifestyle. REAL hip hop dissed and dismissed artists for biting someone else's rhyme style or content, but today's crap rap features a generation of artists who are mimicking a bunch of second rate, talentless losers. When hip hop had talent and creativity, MC Hammer was clowned, even though he was funky. He was clowned not because he was talentless, but because many of the artists of that day were so stellar. Play Hammer's best music today and he could tell any artist "U Can't Touch This," and most of them truly could not. Will Smith is the epitome of what a smart rapper needs to be, even though some people want to claim he's corny. But he has been consistent and he grew linearly and with Hollywood calling his name to the tune of $20 million, who knows if he will answer any call to rhyme again? Tupac was conflicted, but just as beautiful when he was ignorant as when he was poetically celebrating Black mothers or encouraging sister to keep their heads up. Today there is always Common, Mos Def and Outkast, but their voices are few and no longer of the majority. The voice that is most popular in Rap music really has nothing to say. How is rap the voice of the people when it isn't saying anything to the people? The things that it says are being said by everyone. There is nothing revolutionary about an art form where everything at the top of the game is monochrome. Just think about the end days of Disco. I look at these bitches who are hoes for the record labels, talking about bitches and hoes and I am torn between a strong desire to throw up and a compulsion to lash out and pass out beatdowns. And, I could pass out those beatdowns easily because these fake gangster emcees are posers who fool no one-not even the Italian Mafiosos they suck up to. It never made any real sense to me that rappers named themselves after Italian gangsters. First, I found it silly that Black men were naming themselves after gangsters. Second, I found it silly because none of the rappers with Italian gangster names were Italian. Finally, it was silly because if they really wanted to take names of gangsters, there were plenty of Black mobsters around to celebrate. There is no revolutionary voice in this art form that was once dubbed "The Black CNN." Twenty years ago, NWA raged against the police and outlined tales of drugs and gangsters in the neighborhood. The so-called Gangsta Rappers of today are repeating those same stories without the wit, or the reality. Most of them sound like they grew up in Middle America, listened to The Best of NWA CD and began to rhyme. These are third generation, fourth rate, Gangsta-Rapper wanna-bes. Twenty years ago, PE talked about fighting the power. Now, we aren't even focused on power, focusing instead on the accumulation of trinkets and trash, which loses its value long before it loses its minimal luster. It's nearly impossible to name all of the Rappers who have given praise to Jacob the Jeweler, a white man who takes the scraps of diamonds from his floor to make their gaudy, worthless junk jewelry. Chuck D spoke about the fear of a Black planet, but that fear is long gone where rap music is concerned. It was revolutionary when Luther Campbell and Eazy-E's labels were independently owned and made simple distribution deals. It's not revolutionary when today's so-called "moguls" enter into partnership deals with corporations that eat away at their ownership, while pretending to the public that something else is in play. I remember when AZ was "Thinking of a Master Plan," and when X Clan was taking us "To The East Blackwards." Now, the one true desire of the hip hop movement is to bling bling the hardest and to be thugs? That movement is in the wrong direction. Some may point to Russell Simmons' recent awakening to activism as a move in the right direction, but I say take a closer look and you will smell something very foul. First, the question has to be asked, why did it take Simmons more than twenty years to use rap music icons as well as his own visibility to move the masses? Second, one has to ask what his real motives are since he has only selected specific movements to jump behind. For example, where was his activism when Public Enemy, a real activist group was being mistreated on the label he owned? Finally, why does Simmons only choose to align himself with other high-profile artists and icons? It is impossible to completely eliminate the revolutionary spirit of an entire generation or of an entire movement. There are of course many artists who are still activism-oriented and who still deliver real revolutionary content in their lyrics and in their lives. Dead Prez, for example, harken back to the days and ways of The Black Panthers. Standard revolutionaries such as Public Enemy refuse to go away, and with their recent alignment with ultra-revolutionary rapper Paris, the rhyme revolutionaries will continue to bring the noise. With all the sucking in hip hop, it is comforting to know that some of the few proud rhyme activists refuse to lose. Now, there are those who will attack me for reminiscing over the days of revolution, but the same people who claim to live and die for hip hop and also claim to be faithful to its roots, completely ignore what it was and what it was supposed to be. We can hear people talk about what hip hop is supposed to be, but really, only remnants remain. It's like a zoo. Hip hop is cool to look at, but it's kept harmless and toothless. Everything that hip hop is supposed to be has been sucked from it. Now, it just sucks. Darryl James is an award-winning author who is now a filmmaker. His first mini-movie, "Crack," was released in March of 2006. He is currently filming a full length documentary. James' latest book, "Bridging The Black Gender Gap," is the basis of his lectures and seminars. Previous installments of this column can now be viewed at http://www.bridgecolumn.com. James can be reached at djames@theblackgendergap.com. http://www.afronetwireless.com/afronet/articles.asp?i=46