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VH1 reps real hip hop the best these days, that 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs Doc they're doing is brilliant, BET don't have the guts to do anything like that anymore

VP Debate's On...

BET's Rap City To Be Replaced By The Deal October 1st, 2008 | Author: Edwin OrtizBET’s Rap City could well be considered one of the quintessential shows for promoting Hip Hop on television. Along with an organic vibe, it gives in-depth interviews and freestyles from the artists we love. Sadly, all great things come to an end. According to BET.com’s Sound Off blog, Rap City and its two decades of Hip Hop history will be hanging its close sign up. Serving as a platform for well-established rappers and newcomers alike, Rap City made its debut in 1989 with host Chris Thomas (known as “The Mayor”), quickly becoming a must-watch for Hip Hop heads. By 1999, the show changed its name to Rap City: Tha Basement, and with new host Big Tigger, further supplanted itself as a major music source that lasted well into the next decade, with various hosts latching on to bring it new flavor. However, recent times haven’t looked so great for the BET mainstay. After losing financial sponsorship this year [click to read] and with ratings slowly decreasing, Rap City became a question mark that wasn’t leading to any significant answers. In turn, BET has decided to replace the show in an effort to bring ratings back to a comfortable position. The show taking its place, The Deal, has been described as a multi-faceted hour-long segment. Hosted by DJ Diamond Kutz, The Deal will begin its tenure on November 10th, following the official finale of Rap City. Along with artist drop-ins and Hip Hop commentary, one of the main proponents of The Deal will feature a similar scheme to Vh1’s Pop Up Video, which aired from 1996 to 2002. As BET puts it, The Deal will play “the latest and great videos that include pop-up information, facts and quirky tidbits on the artist and/or the song itself,” a description closely resembling Pop Up Video’s “info nuggets.” Rap City’s most symbolic segment, "the booth," will also continue its presence on The Deal. HipHopDX will keep you posted on any new developments concerning the end of Rap City and the emergence of The Deal.

What a nice laidback song to brighten up ya day, some real hip hop for your soul, check it out! http://allhiphop.com/stories/multimedia__m...1/20545119.aspx

Obama's been doing better in the polls since the debate, definately because he held his own in Mccain's strength of foreign policy, it'll be interesting to see what happens tonight between Palin and Biden

LL Cool J "Marley Marl Freestyle"

That was like the only show I was feeling on BET, now I got no reason to watch that channel, screw you viacom :thumbdown:

I'm definately pleased with how I started off the 1st four weeks, it's a long season though...

This economy is ruining everything! First MTV announced that they were canceling its long-running pop culture show, TRL. And now I just got word that that BET is calling it quits on a hip-hop staple. My source tells me that the BET's Rap City is done. I hear the change will take place on October 26th. After a year of hearing whispers that the Viacom owned cable channel was thinking of canceling the sh*tty rap program, it looks like its finally happening. Though the news isn't surprising to me, it's still sad to see one of television's longest running hip-hop shows go out like this. Where would Hip-Hop be if not for shows like Rap City? I mean, Big Tigger was corny as all hell, but he definitely made Rap City watchable. However, once Tigger left the show no other host could make it work. J-Nicks, Mad Linx and Q45 tried their best, but have all failed miserably. With MTV's TRL leaving the airwaves, and now Rap City receiving it's curtain call, you know it's only a matter of time before Rocsi and Terrence get their walking papers. Let's all hope that BET performs a proper send off. There were so many great moments to relive. http://www.sohh.com/2008/09/gyant-scoop--16.html#more

LL Cool J "It's Time For War"

Today's the start of the playoffs...

Souls Of Mischief "'93 Til Infinity"

That was an exciting game last night, Steelers looked dead for awhile but they played well in the end, and more importantly I got the point I needed to win this week :wickedwisdom:

I feel you AJ, I don't think 50 and Em are really that much anticipated as they used to be 'cause they both sold themselves out, Dr. Dre hasn't really done anything great in awhile either, it's really a shame what he's become over recent years himself too, I lost a lot of respect for him too but I think he might have a chance to turn it around, "The Chronic" album's artistic genious, it played out like a movie

With these type of lists its hard to please everybody but I think they did a good job balancing out the history of hip hop

I need 25 points to win tonight, come on Desmond Mason and the Steelers D if that makes sense since they'll cancel each other out, lol

I can't believe Brett Favre threw 6 TDs yesterday and I didn't start him

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This VH1 list is more credible than most but no list is complete without "Summertime"

01 Public Enemy / "Fight The Power" 02 Sugarhill Gang / "Rapper's Delight" 03 Dr. Dre / "Nuthin But A 'G' Thang" 04 Run-DMC ft/ Aerosmith/ "Walk This Way" 05 Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five / "The Message" 06 N.W.A. / "Straight Outta Compton" 07 Notorious B.I.G. / "Juicy" 08 Snoop Doggy Dogg / "Gin and Juice" 09 Salt-N-Pepa / "Push It " 10 Kurtis Blow / "The Breaks" 11 Jay-Z / "Hard Knock Life" 12 L.L. Cool J / "I Can't Live Without My Radio" 13 Wu-Tang Clan / "C.R.E.A.M." 14 Tupac / "I Get Around " 15 Eminem / "Stan " 16 Missy Elliott / "Get Ur Freak On" 17 Sir Mix-A-Lot / "Baby Got Back" 18 50 Cent / "In Da Club" 19 Ice T / "Colors" 20 Kanye West ft/ Jamie Foxx / "Gold Digger" 21 Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force/ "Planet Rock" 22 Naughty By Nature / "OPP" 23 Outkast / "B.O.B." 24 Eric B and Rakim / "Paid in Full" 25 Fugees / "Killing Me Softly" 26 MC Hammer / "U Can't Touch This" 27 Beastie Boys / "Hold it Now, Hit it" 28 Ice Cube / "It Was A Good Day" 30 Digital Underground / "The Humpty Dance" 30 Tribe Called Quest / "Check the Rhime" 31 Kool Moe Dee / "How Ya Like Me Now" 32 Puff Daddy & The Family ft/ Notorious B.I.G., Lil' Kim and The Lox/ "It's All About The Benjamins" 33 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony / "Tha Crossroads" 34 Cypress Hill / "Insane In The Brain" 35 Queen Latifah ft. Monie Love / "Ladies First" 36 Nelly / "Hot In Herre" 37 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock / "It Takes Two" 38 Coolio / "Gangsta's Paradise" 39 Tone-Loc / "Wild Thing" 40 Run-DMC / "It's Like That" 41 Funky 4 + 1 / "That's the Joint" 42 Roxanne Shante / "Roxanne's Revenge" 43. The Game ft. 50 Cent / "Hate It or Love It" 44 Method Man ft/ Mary J. Blige / "I'll Be There For You /You're All I Need to Get By" 45 Geto Boys / "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" 46 De La Soul / "Me, Myself, And I" 47 Young MC / "Bust A Move" 48 Nas / "One Love" 49 Boogie Down Productions / "My Philosophy" 50 Lil' Wayne / "Tha Block Is Hot" 51 Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew / "The Show" 52 Foxy Brown ft. Jay-Z - "I'll Be" 53 Lox ft. DMX and Lil' Kim / "Money, Power, Respect" 54 MC Lyte / "Cha Cha Cha" 55 Terror Squad ft/ Fat Joe and Remy / "Lean Back" 56 Busta Rhymes / "Woo-Ha! Got You All In Check" 57 Big Daddy Kane / "I Get the Job Done" 58 Ludacris ft. Shawna/ "What's Your Fantasy" 59 Ol' Dirty Bastard / "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" 60 L.L. Cool J / "I Need Love" 61 Slick Rick / "Children's Story" 62 Digable Planets / "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" 63 Kid 'n Play / "Rollin' With Kid N Play" 64 The Roots / "What they Do" 65 Spoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three / "Love Rap" 66 House Of Pain / "Jump Around" 67 Mase / "Feel So Good" 68 T.I. / "What You Know" 69 Common / "I Used to Love H.E.R." 70 3(rd) Bass / "Pop Goes the Weasel" 71 Whodini / "Freaks Come Out at Night" 72 J.J. Fad / "Supersonic" 73 Black Sheep / "The Choice Is Yours" 73 EPMD / "You Gots To Chill" 75 Lil' Kim ft. Lil' Cease/ "Crush on You" 76 Big Punisher ft. Joe/ "Still Not A Player" 77 Cold Crush Brothers / "Cold Crush Bros. at the Dixie" 78 Arrested Development / "Tennessee" 79 DMX / "Ruff Ryders' Anthem (Stop Drop)" 80 Three 6 Mafia ft. Paula Campbell/ "Hard Out Here For A Pimp" 81 PM Dawn / "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss" 82 Chubb Rock / "Treat 'Em Right" 83 2 Live Crew / "Me So Horny" 84 UTFO / "Roxanne Roxanne" 85 Black Star / "Definition" 86 Heavy D. and the Boyz / "Now That We Found Love" 87 Wyclef Jean ft. Refugee All Stars / "We Tryin' to Stay Alive" 88 Jungle Brothers / "What U Waitin' 4" 89 Cam'ron / "Oh Boy" 90 Pete Rock & CL Smooth / "They Reminisce Over You(T.R.O.Y)" 91 Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone / "Ridin'" 92 Yo-Yo / "Can't Play with my Yo-Yo" 93 N.E.R.D. ft. Lee Harvey and Vida / "Lapdance" 94 Master P ft. Sikk, Fiend, Mia-x and Mystical / "Make 'Em Say Ugh" 95 L'Trimm / "Cars With The Boom" 96 DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince / "Parents Just Don't Understand" 97 Eve / "Who's that Girl" 98 Warren G ft. Nate Dogg / "Regulate" 99 Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz ft/ Ying Yang Twins / "Get Low" 100 Biz Markie / "Just A Friend"

Hey I'm the only one in the league so far, playoffs are coming soon, sign up if interested

I just signed up, I don't think minutes played is that big of a stat to be counted

I've been watching it since it started over an hour ago, they started out talking about the economy for the 1st part and now are talking about foreign policy, here's a live blog I found that covers the debate: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09...y-night-fights/

Nice to see Will enjoyed his birthday with his fam

KS keeps dropping that fire, thanks for posting those vids Da Brakes! :thumbsup: