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Props to both but I got Julie on this one

This was a tough choice but I'm going with ash trey

Luigie gave it a nice try but like the majority have said Tim's verse is stronger

Both came strong but I think Da Brakes was a lil' better

I'm down for a battle

Nas should win best rap album of the year

That's dope, lookin' forward to getting this, is this mixtape gonna be sold through cdbaby?

:yeahthat: I'm with Bob here, Eagles'll go all the way this year

Yeah Will could easily balance out both music and movies but that seems easier said than done at this point

Wyclef Jean: International Zone Coaster Published Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:00 AM | Email this| Print this| RSS 2.0| Atom 1.0 By Archna Sawjani While the world steadily inquires about reunions, The Preacher's Son stays on his international grizzly. Lead Fugees rapper Wyclef Jean was the first member of the group to embark on a solo career [The Carnival (1997)], and he proved ambitious and eclectic on his own. As the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef became Hip-Hop's unofficial multicultural conscience; a seemingly omnipresent activist, he assembled or participated in numerous high-profile charity benefit shows for a variety of causes, including aid for his native Haiti. Wyclef's political consciousness also informed in his recordings, which fused Hip-Hop with as many different styles of music as he could get his hands on. In addition to his niche as Hip-Hop's foremost global citizen, Clef was also a noted producer and remixer who worked with an impressive array of pop, R&B, and Hip-Hop talent, including Whitney Houston, Santana, and Destiny's Child, among many others. With no Fugees reunion still in sight, Wyclef is continuing to focus on his solo projects; which includes a new album Memoirs of an Immigrant and helping aid his hometown of Haiti. AllHipHop.com: How are you? Wyclef: I’m good. How are you? AllHipHop.com: Great thanks. So let’s get right into your new album… Wyclef: Well, you know how Carlos Santana has Supernatural and Quincy Jones has Back On The Block? Well, this is Wyclef Jean, Memoirs of an Immigrant. This is the song-writing EP that everybody has been waiting for, where I go ahead and put all this mad music together and then find the sickest cast to perform on a piece of music. It’s crazy! AllHipHop.com: You’ve collaborated with so many people in your time. Collaboration wise, what are we to expect on this record? Wyclef: I won’t really call them collaborations. Collaborations often occur when you call someone and be like, "Yeah let’s collab." However, with this album, I already had the vibes written and the energy in place and I just went and found a believable cast. So you can expect Wyclef and T.I. you know? T.I. comes in over a guitar that Wyclef is playing. Wyclef sings on the right side of the speaker whilst T.I rhymes on the left side. Every time I sing a line he rhymes a line. It’s sick! We also have Chamillionaire on a joint called "Immigration" cause it’s a serious topic back home in Haiti, and of course the return of Mary J. [blige] and Wyclef with the 911 everyone is waiting for. Then you have Clef and Shakira rhythm; which is a new sound I’ve come up with called the Columbian Swing. It’s a sound that has a bit of an Indian twang to it. It’s mad, trust me. AllHipHop.com: You and T.I. seem to have struck up a real friendship… Wyclef: Yeah he is one of my co-executive producers for this album. You know me as a producer, I get to bond with great artists. The bond just came naturally between me and T.I. We just clicked. AllHipHop.com: You’ve also worked with Akon. Why did you choose "Sweetest Girl" as the first single off the album? Wyclef: The music game is like a game of chess. Akon and I go back in the days of the Fugees. He is kind of like my little brother. He even flew 26 hours to come do the video. It’s like, I’m from Haiti and I have a style and he is from Africa (Senegal) and he has his style. When I heard his sound, heard his flow, I knew that we had to work together at some point. For me, the first joint had to be perfect and feel right. We both had to do a record together so people can understand the swagger, “This is what Clef does. Now we understand.” Think of it as Haiti with Senegal. We also have Weezy from New Orleans. It was the best of swaggers put together, but on a record where we can actually sing and you can feel the emotion. It’s some real stuff being talked about. AllHipHop.com: Do you consider Lil Wayne the best rapper out there? Wyclef: He' definitely one of the best, his work ethic is probably the best right now bar none. He’s definitely killing it right now. AllHipHop.com: Now we are in the digital age where more ‘ringtone’ music and disposable songs seem to be in fashion; do you worry you will find it hard to stay relevant? Wyclef: Well I tested the waters with the Shakira track ["Hips Don’t Lie"] and that did well. So I think I’ll be ok [Laughs] AllHipHop.com: You have been in the music business for so many years now. How do you feel about its current state? Wyclef: I mean it changes. The business changes. Things may change but the struggle and drama people go through is still going on. As long as I focus on my part and what I bring to the music industry, I don’t really worry about whatever else is going on. AllHipHop.com: You’re last two albums didn’t do so well commercially as some of your previous work. Why do you think that is? Wyclef: Every album is a reflection of what I was going through. You know what I mean? When I did Masquerade I had just lost my father, so then after that I did The Preachers Son. Everything I do usually appeals to the masses but those two albums I think were kind of therapy for me and dealt with personal demons that I was going through. AllHipHop.com: I know that your late dad was a man of the church. I'm assuming that that had a whole heap of inspiration on you also... Wyclef: Yeah definitely, with my father being a minister. Pastor's kids are supposed to be the worst kids; don't think that because my dad's a minister that I won't kill you, I'll kill you! What he did was he showed me spirituality, which is the most important thing. You can have everything but if you don't have no spirituality and no culture, money doesn't equal respect and culture. So he taught me the spiritual side of it. The spiritual side is to know your culture and where you're from. Without him I probably wouldn't be here, I'd be lost definitely. AllHipHop.com: Within your music you have always outlined the struggles of your country as well as for refugees. Is that still important to you now? Wyclef: That is the most important thing for me. You know you watch the BBC and you see there version of everything that is going on around the world and the opinions people have against refugees but without my past and me being a refugee, I wouldn’t even be hear right now, you know what I mean? There would never have been no "Fugees" AllHipHop.com: Ok so as you have brought up the Fugees. What is the current state of your relationship with Lauryn Hill? Will the Fugees ever make another album? Wyclef: Right now? No. At this point I really think Lauryn needs psychiatric help. Once she gets better I think that would definitely be a possibility but until she gets help and admits she has a problem, no one can help her. At this point I really think it will take an act of God to change her. AllHipHop.com: When did you last speak to Lauryn? Wyclef: I haven’t spoke to her in like what? I think it’s been two years now. AllHipHop.com: Can you not help her? Can you not reach out and offer her help? Wyclef: I stopped reaching out to Lauryn because it got very confusing, you know? I would never know who and what personality I would get on that particular day. AllHipHop.com: Different personalities? Wyclef: Yeah. I think Lauryn is Bi-Polar. AllHipHop.com: What are your current personal feelings towards Lauryn? You both have a very complex history… Wyclef: I mean I think the people who were booking her for these shows recently need to be questioned. Why were they booking her when she’s in this state? Why is she keeping everyone waiting 2-3 hours before she comes out to perform? Why has she got blue eye shadow on one side of the face and green eye shadow on the other? She looks like a clown. I mean come on, You’ve seen the pictures, right? AllHipHop.com: Yeah. It’s really sad to see her like this…. Wyclef: Quote me as saying this “Clef say’s Lauryn is Bi-Polar. She need’s help.” Maybe she’ll read this or it will get back to her and she will realize that, Damn she really does need help. I’ll even pay for the Psychiatrist myself. If she can get better it would be a great thing. I’ll pay for the Psychiatrist and I’ll even give her money to record another Fugees album and once it becomes a hit; she can pay me back. [Laughs] AllHipHop.com: There were rumours that Akon, yourself and another female were going to put a group together and make it the new Fugees? Wyclef: That's never going to happen. You can't make another Fugees. The fans would never accept that. They would never go for that. AllHipHop.com: Do you consider yourself the most relevant member of the Fugees at this current point? Wyclef: I have been the most active and visual over the years. Sure. But as far as relevance; we are all still relevant and all hopefully still have a lot more to give and do musically in our lives. AllHipHop.com: Ok so music aside; you've also started up your own foundation called Yele Haiti. Could you give us a little info on what it is about? Wyclef: I was raised in Haiti and I moved to New York when I was 10 years-old. We started this foundation because there's a lot of gang violence in my country, kids fighting and what not. I wanted to go in and talk to these guys and give them alternative programs. So I went in and gave them just that, as well as sponsorship for schools. We empowered the youth where they had to give up their firearms and in return we produced recordings from them. I have a television station so I was able to put them on T.V. Then they were able to sell their CDs and become like a natural network

I typed in the website and it didn't work for me

T.I. Wins Two AMA's; Giving Out Hundreds Of Turkeys Published Monday, November 19, 2007 12:01 PM By Mike Winslow Atlanta rapper T.I. took home two American Music Award’s last night (November 18) at during a star-studded awards ceremony, which took place in Los Angeles. T.I. took home awards for Favorite Male Artist of the Year and Favorite Album of the year for his critically acclaimed release, T.I, vs. T.I.P. A representative accepted the awards for T.I., who is under house arrest for allegedly attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in October. Cleveland Hip-Hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony took home the award for Favorite Band of Duo, based on their latest album Strength and Loyalty. Black Eyed Peas group member Fergie won Favorite Pop Female Artist, while singer Justin Timberlake took home the Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist award. R&B singer Akon won Favorite Male Artist in the R&B category, while Rihanna took home Favorite Female Artist. Other Winners included Linkin Park, Jennifer Lopez, Daughtry, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts. In related news, T.I.‘s Grand Hustle Record label and the K.I.N.G. Foundation will team up to distribute hundreds of turkey’s throughout Atlanta this week. The rapper will give out 200 turkeys on the West side of Atlanta and 200 on the East side of the city, while hundreds of Thanksgiving dinners are being prepared to feed the needy at Club Crucial on Thanksgiving.

:yeahthat: willsmith.com's an embarassment

RIP, my thoughts go out to Kanye and his fam

LL Cool J Remembers Jam Master Jay, Wishes Run-DMC Would Do Reunion Shows The legendary MC takes a look back at his long history with Run-DMC on the anniversary of Jay's death. by Shaheem Reid NEW YORK — On October 30, 2002, LL Cool J had been partying, celebrating and shooting the video for his soon-to-be-hit single "Paradise." But suddenly, he had a terrible feeling in his gut that something had either gone wrong or was about to go wrong. Later that night, he found out that one of his closest friends, former mentor Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell, had been killed in their home borough of Queens. "When I got to the airport [later that day], that's when they told me he had died," LL said. "That's why at the end of my 'Paradise' video I put Big Momma [LL's grandmother] and JMJ up in the sky. That was my man, B." Tuesday (October 30) is the fifth anniversary of JMJ's untimely death, but the memories of their more-than-20-year friendship are vivid in Cool J's mind. He laughed heartily in New York's Chung King studio when thinking about him and Jay nearly coming to blows during a silly argument, and smiled even bigger when he talked of opening shows for the road-hardened Run-DMC as a youngster. "What people don't know is that Run-DMC basically taught me how to perform," he said. "I had to go on tour with them every night and just get brutalized. It wasn't fun. "Me and Run-DMC, we had a lot of history and Jay was definitely a friend," he continued. "I just remember hanging around with him so many times and going around the world, going to radio stations. We been through so much. ... It was a brotherly thing." Cool J said even though Jay is no longer here, he would love to see Run and DMC get back on the road and do shows, incorporating taped footage of Jay in their concerts. For full coverage of the Jam Master Jay case, see the Jam Master Jay Reports.

Yeah it should be JJFP not Will Smith

I listen to JJFP at least a few times a month

Kel sent this track out through "The Weekly Bread" a couple weeks ago, it's definately one of his best, I'm hyped for his album

Really I sorta agree with what David Banner said, it don't matter what Nas decides to call his album as long as it's hot, "Hip-Hop Is Dead" and "God's Son" caused a lot of controversey for their titles but they're both dope albums

With 50's album flopping maybe Interscope might finally learn to promote Will more, Will could go diamond if his next album gets 6 videos

It's definately dissapointing that Will's not releasing any new material in almost 3 years now but really "Lost and Found"'s still holding me over, as long as his next album's just as dope the wait'll be well worth it

:yeahthat: dope cake

Some of the tracks that've been released so far may not be LL's best but really LL at his worst is better than most mcs, I'm looking forward to "Exit 13" when it comes out, I think Jay-Z'll promote it well too 'cause he respects LL and don't want beef, btw it wouldn't surprise me if LL does stay with Def Jam

I remember Nas wanted to originally title "Hip-Hop Is Dead" as "N***er" but Def Jam stopped him from doing it, the same thing'll probably happen again

Well like Joe said Jay-Z respects LL and probably won't even diss him, he's now saying that he'll give LL a free pass 'cause he's a legend so there probably won't be no battle, and now to the point about Def Jam I don't know if it's all Jay-Z' fault, really it's a problem of the music industry right now more than anything