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Jadakiss Feat. Styles P, Common, and Nas "Why"(Remix), music like this should be going diamond, great selection of songs on this page:

I agree with what you said there, Vanilla Ice is not as wack as media and fans make him out to be, I ain't his fan either but I heard some of his stuff on the internet and some of it's actually good, and I read some of his interviews too and he shows more intelligence than a lot of rappers that are out right now, hell if people could accept rappers like Officer Rick Ross and the Lollipop Lil' Wayne then why do they write off Vanilla Ice, they're dillusional, the same ones that also hate on Fresh Prince and Hammer and think Eminem and Jay-Z are the rap gods.... I was reading the 2008 XXL year-end wrap-up and they said that LL's lyrics on "Exit 13" were below average and that Lil' Wayne's lyrics on "Carter 3" were XL, I wanna know what drugs they're on to say something that foolish, LL could spit 2 bars and it would destroy Lil' Wayne... As I said before whoever people think is the worst rapper to have a hit record has to have some kind of talent, it's like being the 12th man on the Knicks, there's millions of arm chair quarterbacks but it's not like they all could make the team, it takes some sort of talent, people need to stop player hating...

JJFP "From Da south", if FP released an aggressive lyrical track like this as a single, peeps would stop sleeping on his mc abilities

MC Hammer "Sunshine In The Summertime" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqjHftkMBE

Speaking of classic Neptunes production:

Dope, dope, dope! Rappers like Lil Mama and Nicki Minaj, hell most men rappers for that matter need to take notes when Rah Digga and Eve spit, this is real hip hop!!

LL Cool J Feat. Kelly Price "You And Me"

2Pac "Dear Mama"

Will Smith "Just Cruisin'"(Remix)

Kool Moe Dee "Go See The Doctor"

Xzibit "MMX The Mixtape", people always seem to fail to mention him when it comes to best mcs in the last decade but he's definately one of the dopest: http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/12596/xzibit_mmx_the_mixtape.html

It seems like Jay-Z ain't taking Hammer serious enough here but that's all right, Hammer said on Twitter today that he's gonna drop new music around the holidays since he's always recording so if Jay-Z or any other rapper runs their mouth again then he'll have something ready for them, it's like what Fresh Prince said on "Mr. Nice Guy", "it's just a warning shot", he's "too legit to quit", this is Hammer's Twitter post today: "I have ton of songs .. I Never stop recording ... Holidays I'll drop something."

MC Hammer "Full Blast", this is better than 90% of Eminem's stuff in the last 10 years, too bad the teenyboppers will never figure that out:

I gotta give it up to Hammer for how he's handled this whole situation with Jay-Z, like he said in that article too many rappers have kissed up to Jay-Z over the years, it took heart and balls for somebody to come out with a diss against him, Hammer been standing up for himself like a man for damn near 25 years, he always responded to his critics throughout the years, he did it on "Turn This Mutha Out", "Funky Headhunter", "Full Blast", and now on "Better Run Run", he's in the class of all the great hip hop artists like LL, FP, and KRS, first class all the way... and hate him or love him he damn near got a million views on youtube in less than a week, maybe Kel Spencer should diss 50 Cent next to get some street buzz going, lol.... Here's the article from sohh.com: Rap veteran MC Hammer has responded to Jay-Z days after the hip-hop entrepreneur denied intentionally wanting to spark a beef with him on his "So Appalled" track. Writing on Twitter, Hammer said he felt confident in "defeating" Jay. "@MercedesRay320 Big Play Ray.. I already won. I addressed a man that most men fear. Used him as a warning to others. And checked him too..," Hammer tweeted Thursday (November 4). "Nothing worse than a Spineless Man (ask any woman) .. I ReBuke Weakness.."Why you gett'n at J" .. Shut up 'Gurly Men'.. govenator lol" "He Blindsided me with "So Appalled" and now he "wines" me with his new book.. Sean Carter is a genius.. But don't sleep on me .." (MC Hammer's Twitter) Earlier this week, Jay denied trying to intentionally slam Hammer. "I didn't know that wasn't on the table for discussion," Jay laughingly told DJ Semtex. "I didn't know I was the first person to ever say that? Am I? [laughs] I'm not, am I? I know I've heard that before, I didn't think I was the first one to say it. I guess, you know when I say things, I think people believe me so much that they take it a different way. It's not rap anymore at that point. I didn't mean it. I said some great things about him in the [Decoded] book that I have coming out -- he's gonna be like, embarrassed. I said some really great things about him in the book and about people's perception of him and how he's from East Oakland. It is what it is. He took it the wrong way. I didn't know I said anything wrong. I don't know if I said a lie." (DJ Semtex) On the Kanye West "So Appalled" collaboration, Jay comments on Hammer's fall from fame and publicized bankruptcy despite being a platinum-selling artist in the early 1990's. "And Hammer went broke so you know I'm more focused/ I lost 30 mil so I spent another 30/Cause unlike Hammer 30 million can't hurt me." ("So Appalled") In response, Hammer released a diss music video called "Better Run Run" at Hov. The track includes several lyrical references to the rapper, as well as an apparent lookalike. In one verse, MC Hammer raps: "Yo Jay I gotta reason to doubt, if I knock on your door would you come on out? "If I knock on your door that mean I'm knockin' you out, if I knock on your door boy I'll bust you in ya mouth." (Gigwise)

LL Cool J "Deepest Bluest", his soundtrack songs are underrated

Why can't these politicians and these so-called critics of rap give credit to strong character rappers who make positive music and don't go to jail or do drugs? To me they're polluting it more by giving credit to negative thug rappers cause the people who look up to these politicians and critics for their opinion will go along with it, "Oh this rapper's not too bad, I might as well buy his CD" and ignore the positive rappers, it's a f'n shame, Bill Clinton obviously don't respect hip hop so he shouldn't comment on it at all... By the time Lil' Wayne gets off drugs and stops having unprotected sex he'll either have lost his popularity like Vanilla Ice did or he'll be dead from AIDs, wow what a role model, I hope my future kids grow up to be just like him, lol....

Talk about a dope cover! This should be a great substitute for all the weak music out

When Bill Clinton was president I remember he said that 2Pac was an uneducated thug now he turns around and praises Lil' Wayne, if Bill Clinton wants to make that point you mentioned he could of acknowledged a million other rappers before Lil' Wayne...

Oh yeah, I had to find this quote from Chuck D's " Fight The Power" book that he made on MC Hammer, I wanna give this to every kid and so called "hip hop head" who thinks Jay-Z' the greatest while Hammer's the wackest, they need to get slapped back into reality, I went to bed last night after reading that disturbing Bill Clinton comment on Lil' Wayne so I was restless to say the least, he has to be checked for Alzheimers if he thinks Lil' Wayne is smart while he had the damn nerve to say 2Pac was uneducated when he was president, 2Pac's rolling in his grave right now, that statement the former president made is disrespectful to real hip hop... I'm probably gonna write 5 songs to get this energy out my system, anyway here's the quote, Chuck D sums everything I want to say: "Headz are a category of people who are into being totally immersed in the thickness of the Hip-Hop culture. Headz dictate which way the culture is running at a particular time. A lot of times the headz in Hip-Hop, those that are at the forefront of the culture, dilute the culture with a lack of proper information about Black life in general. We as Black people have had to disacknowledge a lot of things that we have done in our past. Hip-Hop's history and culture have been disacknowledged and pushed to the side, even by headz. We can't think that a lot of things that have happened in Hip-Hop have happened for the first time. You have people out there that call themselves headz in the 1990s who can't even name the five members of the Furious Five. Whether they're headz or not is questionable. For somebody to come off and call Hammer whack to me is a typical white-oriented statement to trigger off the ignorance of Black ill-formed "Player hating." We have a crab-in-the-barrel mentality amongst us to say, "Man, he's making it too good, f him." There was nothing wrong with Hammer rapping over what he was rapping over. He was rapping to the best of his abilities coming out of the west coast. He danced. A lot of Black people on the East Coast were like "What the f is that?" without even taking into consideration that dancing is part of our makeup. He didn't do anything different. He danced, he rapped over a certain aspect of music that he picked. But what I was as being the first strain of the virus was when Black kids were saying: "Man,he's getting too big. F Hammer." White kids would jump on and mimic the same sentiment. When white kids would jump on what they heart of the jealous "player hating" in the black community, it end up being written about in magazines and newspapers. I remember meeting Hammer in 1987 with Daddy-O of Stetsasonic. He started his own independent thing out on the West coast like many guys did: Too Short with his whole operation, Eazy E, and all those guys out on the West Coast. I saw him go from "Let's Get It Started" then he did the song "Turn This Mutha Out," which moved him into the next realm where he used a Parliament Funkadelic sample, and rapped and danced over it. This turned a lot of Black people on around the country. A lot of black people gravitated to Hammer at first. The rap community in new York looked down upon his style because itwas rap that was coming from another place with another feel to it. So the rappers in the east thought it was corny. That was still player hating because when rappers went to perform in houston, Texas, and Hammer would be on the show performing with them, Hammer would get the largest crowd response. I've seen it happen in front of my own face. Then Hammer did the groundbreaking album "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em". That record came out and was tremendously popular in Black communities outside of New York because the samples could be related to by older people. Hammer's raps were simple enough, he danced, and he put on a show. So a lot of people could relate to that. The rap purists from the East Coast, who were black, trashed the idea. They were killing the idea. Just like they "player hated" and killed a lot of ideas that were coming from places outside of New York. Artists that had accents in their voices were relating with their audiences a lot better than artists from the Northeast. Artist that used funk in their records were getting better results than artists that used faster aspects of soul in their records. Artists that were doing more things with their shows were getting results. Therefore it fostered this "antisentiment" toward anything that didn't come out of the Northeast. When white kids follow black culture they don't come in with their own point of view or opinion, they follow the black pinion. Then they come with an opinion on top of that. That's where the danger comes in. It was like, "Hey, I'm white, I'm inside the culture now because there's this black antisentiment toward this situation. I agree with that and now I can add more fuel to the fire." A lot of the white kids would pick up information that was lying around the side and actually be legitimate in their criticism, then whites would go from just criticizing to damn near being considred authorities. When white folks consider themselves authorities on something Black we have to watch that. Hammer didn't do anything different on Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em than anything he did before. He rapped on nontraditional rap music: things like Rick James and the Chi-Lites, rapped over them in his own particular way, performed well over them, brought a whole different performing style that was not traditional to the rap game, and I saw Hammer go from starting out on a Black vibe to this thing that everybody thought was nonBlack. I couldn't understand where the nonblackness was in it. He was dancing, which we do. He was using the Chi-Lites and Rick James, which we listen to, and he was rapping over it in his own way, which was. as a matter of fact he was using aspects of gospel that had never been used. When I saw that happen to hammer that's when I started to see the dreaded apocalypse for certain things that eventually happened to us. I did things that I thought cut through as being diferent and against the grain of the expectations. Hip-hop is bigger than any one person's opinion of what it should be."(Pgs. 149-152 Chuck D)

I wanted to make a point clear from what I was saying in that other post, rather than keep editing and editing, lol... There are plenty of real hip hop fans who do appreciate versatility 'cause it's a fact that back in the golden era JJFP, LL Cool J, MC Hammer, Heavy D, NWA, and Public Enemy all toured together and the shows sold out, if more variety was promoted it'd do well... Today though kids are forced fed with the same crap being promoted that's why they think Jay-Z and Eminem are so great but those who know about the golden age hip hop don't think so highly about them, that's the final point I wanna make in this thread, peace....

I always respected Bill Clinton as a president, his intelligence is unquestionable to me, my favorite prez in my lifetime, and I respected that he'd have my 2 favorite mcs FP and LL perform at the White House back in the '90s so for him to give props to Lil' Wayne has me scratching my head for real, politicians criticize rappers for making negative music and yet they praise rappers like Lil' Wayne, lol, this is some bs, this is the first time somebody over 50 has said anything positive about Lil' Wayne... Former United States President Bill Clinton has shared his enthusiasm over Lil Wayne being less than 24 hours from exiting Rikers Island and how intelligent he believes the Young Money leader truly is. Admitting he has not been a longtime fan of hip-hop, Clinton wished Weezy the best upon his release tomorrow. "I'll tell you what I think about that, I know this is kind of a funny question for you to ask me but I think, my daughter introduced me to rap and hip-hop music after I said some things she thought were not very smart," Clinton said in an interview. "She said, 'Daddy, you need to listen. A lot of these people are smart.' This guy's smart and he's got ability and he's got a new chance now and what I hope is it's not just something to brand him as a cool guy but that it'll never happen to him again. I think a lot of these people, they don't get successful as in any other area of life by being really dumb. They're really smart but a lot of them had tough lives and they think it's almost cool to get in trouble every now and again or they don't know how to stay out. What I hope will happen is that he has a good life now." (Kiss Morning Freak Show) Yesterday, Wayne penned his final letter from behind bars. "As I greet you all in my last days on this island, I must reflect. I think back to when I first arrived and I had no clue of what I'd be experiencing. I was never scared, worried, nor bothered by the situation. For that, I thank God, my family, and you, my amazing fans. I prayed for you all every night, as I'm aware that I was in your prayers as well. The very first day that I received mail, it was about 300 pieces or more! I smiled like a child of Christmas. But when I began to read them, my heart smiled. I laughed with some of you, reasoned with some of you, and even cried with some of you. I responded to as many of you that time would allow. I plan to keep reading and responding after my release. I thank you all for being so very supportive, as I never imagined how much impact my words and life can have. With this knowledge, I vow to continue to be me! For you have assured time that I don't have to change for no one but God. I will be the same Martian I was when I left, just better. You fans are more than amazing, and I will for to the end of the world for your love. This isn't the last of weezythanxyou.com I will continue to thank you when I'm home." (Weezy Thanx You) This week, Wayne revealed what he would do immediately following his release from jail. "Not sure about the concert yet. And the first five things I will do is kiss Reginae, kiss little Dwayne, kiss Neal, kiss Kameron and kiss my wonderful mother Cita...All artists and friends were very supportive. Thank God I've gotten two visits a week since the day I walked in. I'd have to say the visit from Diddy was most surprising because there's a lot that you're required to go through and to think he did just to see me is more than cool. But again, everybody has been more than supportive. I never felt alone." (Billboard) Cash Money Records' Baby recently talked about how jail has changed Wayne. "Lil Wayne is writing furiously in anticipation of his post-prison return to Hip-Hop, family and the free world. "He hasn't written out rhymes since the Hot Boys," Birdman told Rolling Stone in the November edition of the magazine. "There's a different swagger coming from Wayne, different things to talk about." (All Hip Hop)

Well like I stated earlier I'm a realist, I'll be quick to tell you that Jay-Z does have talent, I'd pick up a CD from him faster than 50 Cent or Lil' Waynes of the world but that does not make him a legend, even Vanilla Ice is a better rapper than Lil' Wayne so let's not get carried away now, compare Jay-Z to real mcs like KRS, LL, Fresh Prince, Rakim, etc. and he falls short, Hammer is a much better artist than people give him credit for, he outperformed a lot of the great rappers of all time on the stage in the golden era, everybody had their own original style back then, Hammer held his own no question about it, there's a reason why he sold millions of albums back then he worked hard, you actually needed to have talent to sell records back in the day but now you could be on Disney and go platinum, he's one of the few rappers that James Brown respected for sampling him so that should count for something too.... Now it's a fact that a lot of people that listen to Jay-Z don't know about rappers like Big Daddy Kane that's what Game said on "Game's Pain" and that's true, I'm willing to bet on a stack of bibles that most who consider Jay-Z the GOAT of rap don't own a Big Daddy Kane CD.. As fans of Will we should realise that the reason why fans don't give Hammer as much credit as Jay-Z is 'cause he don't use profanity in his music, it's the reason why they think Eminem's a better rapper than Will, kids wanna hear profane songs, but they all got talent in reality as a realist I see that, since I could appreciate all sides of rap, I'm willing to bet that if FP and Hammer made 'parental advisory' rap that more of these kids would rank 'em higher than they do, that's why some kids like LL since some of his albums did have 'parental advisory' but others don't like LL him at the same time 'cause most of his don't... I don't really like hardcore rap as much as kids do that's why I play FP and Hammer more than Jay-Z and Eminem, and when it comes to hardcore rap DMX and 2Pac do it more effectively, the people who respect music with substance and want to raise their kids properly do respect FP and Hammer(rappers like Heavy D and Kid N Play also fall in this category) and that's a fact...

I don't think that Bush was as bad as some people made him to be but with him waiting this long to respond to Kanye while releasing his book shows that he's out for himself too 'cause if the book didn't come out he wouldn't say anything, Kanye's career on the decline to me as well, they're both on the same level of getting too much status then they deserve, Bush shoulda never been president while Kanye shouldn't be a famous rapper... Btw AJ, giving props to Bill Clinton is not disgusting especially since our beloved Fresh Prince said that he's the most intelligent person that he met in his life and personally in my 25 1/2 years of life I think that Bill Clinton's probably the best president in that timespan, it seems like life went downhill in the 10 years since he hasn't been president... Btw, it's nice that Kanye finally came to his senses to say something positive here for a change but he still got a long way to go in my eyes to win my respect for him again: After former United States President George W. Bush said Kanye West painted him as a racist for a slow response to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Ye has responded to the situation. Rathern than bashing Bush, West sympathized with the former president. "Well I can definitely understand the way he feels to be accused of being a racist in any way because the same thing happened to me [with Taylor Swift], you know, where I got accused of being racist, and with both situations it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw," he said in an interview. "With him it was a lack of compassion not rushing, you know, taking his time to rush down to New Orleans. With me, it was a lack of compassion in cutting someone off in their moment, but none the less I feel we're all quick to pull the race card [in America]. And now I'm more open, and the poetic justice that I feel to go through the same thing that he went [through], and now I really more connect with him on a humanitarian level ... the next morning when he felt that, I felt the same thing." (XXL Mag) Bush believes West made him appear as a racist following New Orleans' disaster. "He called me a racist," Bush tells reporter Matt Lauer. "And I didn't appreciate it then. I don't appreciate it now. It's one thing to say, 'I don't appreciate the way he's handled his business.' It's another thing to say, 'This man's a racist.' I resent it, it's not true." ("Matt Lauer Reports") Bush goes into further detail in his upcoming new book, Decision Points. "Five years later I can barely write those words without feeling disgust." Lauer adds, "You go on: 'I faced a lot of criticism as President. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.' (Entertainment Weekly) The rapper's comments gained national attention during the live broadcast in August 2005. West has had several controversies throughout his career. On September 2, 2005, during a benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina relief on NBC, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, West was a featured speaker. Controversy arose when West was presenting, as he deviated from the prepared script. Actor Mike Myers, with whom West was paired to present, spoke next and continued to read the script. Once it was West's turn to speak again, he said "George Bush doesn't care about black people." At this point, telethon producer Rick Kaplan cut off the microphone and then cut away to Chris Tucker, who was unaware of the cut for a few seconds. Still, West's comment reached much of the United States. (Wikipedia)

If you study history America's been on downhill spiral for the last 25 years or so it seems like beginning with the 'crack era' of Ronald Reagan all the way to the "terrorism/recession" under George W. Bush/ Barack Obama, a lot of disagreements among congress is also to blame for the problems we've been happening since they influence a lot of the decisions that a president makes, and now with all the musical chairs moving with all these new members in congress being elected a couple days ago I actually think there could be more chaos ahead, I'm not that optimistic about our future at this moment from a political standpoint but I don't put much faith in politics, if there's gonna be true "change" it's gonna take the citizens to work together in order for it to happen since politicians are mostly out for their own benefit...

I made this post 2 times just now so hopefully the 3rd times a charm, lol...Turntable the reason why many people think so highly about Jay-Z is 'cause they're ignorant about hip hop's history, cats like AJ and me are true hip hop heads who know about all the great rappers that's why we don't think Jay-Z is on that level, a lot of young suckas never knew about MC Hammer until now...Btw, this "Bring Our Brothers Home" video by MC Hammer displays that he can do strong and lengthy lyrical songs with intelligence about current event issues, I think classic mcs like him, LL, FP, KRS, and Chuck D would make damn good politicians since people can relate to what they say in their music and they're strong character humans: