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LL Cool J "Dear Yvette", it's hard to believe that he was only 16 when he made this song and that whole "Radio" album, it shows you that these young rappers should not be getting a free pass these days for being so wack

Digital music is cool but CDs should never die, I'm really still pissed that cassettes are gone, I still love banging them on my CD/cassette boombox, there's enough room in the world for it all to exist... but anyway I don't see what Will would see in Lady Gaga that's so fascinating, her music is dime a dozen, nothing's unique about her at all, ain't nothing wrong with dance music either, but there's much better dance music than that, especially that was out around the time that JJFP was at the peak of hip hop in the early 90s, those artists that AJ mentioned stood out

damn how did i miss that post back then? i was seeing what others were viewing and came across this, i'm gonna have to see if that link works 'cause i never could get enough good music, everybody that ever wrote a rap should always show respect to james brown

I enjoyed hip hop ever since I was a young boy but I'd say I fell in love with hip hop somewhere in the mid-90s('95/96/97 ish) when I was around 10/11 years old, around the time that LL Cool J released "Hey Lover" with Boyz II Men, I was more into r&b at that time and Boyz II Men were at the peak of things and my favorites, that song just blew my mind, I got LL Cool J's "All World" CD which was the first hip hop album. The love affair with hip hop just grew more from there. I started watching a lot of the hip hop and r&b videos on MTV Jams Countdown everyday after school(Nas' "If I Ruled The World", Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise", Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre's "No Diggity", KRS One's "Step Into A World". and of course Will's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" were among my favorites at that time) and tape the videos on VHS tapes, listen to Hot 97(which is the top hip hop/r&b station in NYC/NJ area) and make audio cassettes from them, and watch the "Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" more around that time, I had a lot of those episodes on VHS tapes as well, still have a lot of that stuff, converted them over to DVD format when I got the VHS/DVD recorder back in '06, the mid 90s was a great time indeed. Around the time I was in high school back in '99 I started thinking about rapping myself, studying all the flows of the great mcs, I wrote my first song back 9 years ago now April 9, 2000 called "Playa 4 Life" inspired from Biggie's "Big Poppa" 'cause I wanted to impress a girl I liked at the time, lol, that was a lot of fun, I started out with the mc name Phat Teddy then later on I became known as Big Ted. I'd start freestyling and writing rhymes at a bigger pace a lil' while after my grandmother passed away on December 17, 2001, she liked to write poetry herself, it felt like her spirit went in me when she left, I just kept going to express myself and I know that's not gonna ever stop no matter what. I really haven't been feeling too much of that pop stuff that was out in this decade of the 2000s on the most part that the radio and TV has been playing, I would always search on the internet for the real hip hop. By the time I graduated high school in 2003, I noticed that my passion for hip hop was above most of my peers that graduated with me from there, some of them doubted me but I didn't pay much attention to them and kept it moving. The greatest thing that happened was when I got this computer back in February 2004 and started posting on here in March 2004 at JJFP.com, my passion has grown knowing that there's peeps from all across the world that feel the same as I do about this great culture known as hip hop, the real hip hop will never die as long as we're here.

That's great to hear AJ, it's true that good things come to those who wait

Method Man and Redman "Mrs. International"

Gonna have to check that out

J Holiday Feat. Kel Spencer "Be With Me" Remix

:yeahthat: Happy Birthday!

Hey I didn't know there was a version of Brian Mcknight's "Grown Man Business" with Heavy D, is it on some remix album? FP "Just Crusin'"

I just found Jazzy Jeff and Little Brother's "Whatever U Want" on Youtube, this song is so cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzw1i751lEQ

Happy Birthday!! :wickedwisdom:

I'm gonna check on the internet for those TROTM EP tracks Wyclef Jean Feat. Neville Brothers "Mona Lisa"

I don't have that song on my TROTM CD

They're showing some sneak peak videos on the E! website: http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/ths/index.jsp

RIP Harry Kalas, sports broadcasting will never be the same

LL Cool J "Stand By Your Man"

The Game "Scream On 'Em"

I'm surprised nobody here mentioned it yet but here it goes: Happy Easter To The JJFP.com Fam!

The Game Feat. Common "Angel"

Whoah what a lineup, a whole bunch of legends on that tour

Slick Rick "Top Cat"

Listening to that new Redman/Method Man song "Mrs. International" makes me feel like I'm 12 years old and back in the '90s again, hearing about some of my favorite NBA players from back in the day like Jordan/D.Robinson/Stockton going to the hall of fame brings that feeling back too Right now I'm listening to BellBivDevoe "Ain't Nothin' Changed"(the remix), they were saying in an interview on allhiphop.com that they're working on another album

LL Cool J Gets E! True Hollywood Story April 7th, 2009 | Author: Jake PaineRap icon LL Cool J will be the topic of an upcoming E! True Hollywood Story documentary. Premiering next Wednesday, April 15 at 10pm EST, the story of the Queens rapper will come to life on the small screen from the famed entertainment network. The special will include interview commentary from Def Jam Records co-founder Russell Simmons, Diddy, as well as LL Cool J and his wife and children. Reportedly included in the episode of the long-running classic TV documentary is LL Cool J's self-proclaimed "G.O.A.T." status, deeming himself "greatest of all time" with his 2000 album title. The episode will also chronicle James Todd Smith's love affair with Hip Hop, stemming from his mother taking him to see The Sugar Hill Gang through his first single "I Need A Beat," complete to last year's Exit 13 album. The other component of the feature is an in-depth look at Cool J's lengthy marriage, despite his role as one of Hip Hop's most enduring sex symbols. LL Cool J previously wrote about many of these issues in his 1998 autobiography I Make My Own Rules. Other rappers previously covered on E! True Hollywood Story include Eminem, Diddy, Snoop Dogg [click to read] and Missy Elliot.

It was fitting that North Carolina won the championship on the day Jordan got selected to the hall of fame