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Well it depends if Will's still gonna be on a major label, if Will's still signed to Interscope I think there's a slim chance that we'll see them promote a JJFP album if they didn't even promote L&F that well, there ain't really any label that'd release/promote a JJFP album, most labels want the rappers to work with all the big name producers/artists and if that happens we won't see another JJFP album, we'll be lucky if we get one JJFP song let alone a whole album, if it's another album on Interscope maybe we'll get Jazzy on the intro and that's it again, I think Will should release the album himself like Ice Cube did this year that way he could do all the things the way he wants it to and promote it the way he wants it too, I wouldn't mind if there was a bonus DVD either with some performances and videos

I like a lot of those comedians that was mentioned here but I really prefer watching them perform their jokes over listening to them on CDs, btw the mini pimp on "Wildin' Out" is Money Mike, he's in "Friday After Next" and he actually does a song with Game on a mixtape called "Palm Pilot", pretty funny song, he's actually putting out a comedy rap album on Dipset this year

I heard on SOHH.com that Nas is trying to get DJ Premiere to produce some tracks for his album right now to make the final deadline I guess and DJ Premiere's also working on Whitney Houston's comeback album and he did great work on Christina Agulira's album this year of course, Premiere really doing his thing this year

Happy Birthday Turntable, Enjoy it man!!! :woowoo:

Well it'd be that way if these kids didn't have parents to raise them and tell them what's right and what's wrong and don't imitate everything you see on TV or hear on the radio, the kids who need entertainers to raise them have major problems at home, what kids need most is guidance from home and education in schools for them to succeed, a lot of these kids go in gangs not 'cause rappers tell them to or what they see in movies but 'cause of their surroundings, you need to understand that, btw Pepsi allowed Ozzy Osborne to advertise for them even though he cussed a lot in his reality show and then they told Luda that they didn't want him, that's wrong, shouldn't it work both ways or none at all...

Well in all fairness he don't own Def Jam, he works for Def Jam under a contract that could expire anytime the owners want it to, and he only owns 1% of the Nets even though he makes it seem like it's more, and I don't thinkrespect should come from how much somebody is worth either or popularity, I really don't put any celebrity on a pedestal, they're all human like us, they're just in the spotlight that's all

I ain't no hater, if I don't like some artists I don't listen to them that's all, I really like positve rap more than gangsta rap but I could understand why the gangsta rappers say the things they do, it has to be a balance in hip-hop, without gangsta rap hip-hop would be just party music, if there wasn't no NWA hip-hop wouldn't have the same feel to it, gangsta rap brings more reality to hip-hop 'cause not everything in life is about partying and throwing hands in the air, not everything in life is positive and fun all the time, there's darkness in life too, it just lets out that frustration....

Well I was :shakehead: to the thought of her running for office but that's a good thing that she's doing, being positive don't sell records in the music industry, and this won't make me listen to her music but I'm calling a spade a spade here, more than likely she was being sincere, a lot of times it takes the hard way for some to learn

Well Jay-Z does have songs on his albums that have more subject matter than his singles do but they don't get airplay, I do find him to be one of the most overrated rappers but I call a spade a spade, he did have a song called "Renegade" with Eminem who also gets quite criticism for his lyrics of course and basically in that song it was dedicated to their critics and Jay-Z said a line in there: "Do you fools listen to music or do you skim through it?" It's like if you watch one scene of a movie and make a judgement off of it if you just criticise artists for their singles and like Ice Cube said in "Why We Thugs" which really wasn't that big of a hit since it was a rap song with a message he said "They give us guns and drugs/Then they wonder why the f we're thugs?", as long as the government don't clean the streets gangsta rap will remain a reality, a lot of these rappers come from that reality where being in gangs and violence is a way of life, like Snoop said in a recent interviews: "I know some people are gonna judge me for aligning myself with a gang but hey if they step in my shoes they'll feel the same way, they only talk that way through a typewriter but I've been through it, I'm trying to show them a better way, they could relate to me helping them more than you 'cause I've been there", art immitates life, and if everyone in life gets their act together then maybe there'll be better music

Yeah and I think I remember AJ saying something in the thread about how it wasn't fair that Snoop wasn't allowed to perform, I think I remember saying that if this was 50 Cent or another rapper he didn't like that he wouldn't say that and this thread proves my point, lol... Now really like I said before a lot of these artists today were inspired off NWA, that was 1987, not 1993, after that is when rappers started to exercise their freedom of speech more to use more profane language following NWA's lead, they're the reason why many albums today have parental advisory on them from their influence, before them there really wasn't any albums with parental advisory in rap, now the government here tried to censor some rappers here in America like them, Too Live Crew, and 2Pac, but they weren't able to do so since we have freedom of speech, now if this country was like China that'd be a different story, it's their rule, I heard that they don't even have their own music channel over there, the government over there is a lot more controlling than here.... And of course now when rap was more clean before NWA there was still a lot of kids getting into drugs and violence, etc., there was gangs, drugs, and violence for a long time, it didn't just start when NWA rapped about it or there was mafia movies depicting it, even though sometimes the government here tries to make it seem that way since they don't want to take the blame on what they don't do, lol, you couldn't blame rap for that then, that was more the Regan administration then respectfully speaking that made more of an influence to the economy getting bad and didn't control the drugs that hit the inner cities, really entertainment plays a small influence, the government makes a bigger one, now the upcoming census says that there's 300 million people in America, only like 10 million listen to rap now most likely, probably a lil' more that watch movies at the movie theaters, how could entertainment be destroying America? Everyone is influenced by what the goverment does, they play a bigger role, I don't think 50 Cent sent the troops to war right?

You're laughing 'cause you don't like Jay-Z' music but if it was another rapper that you like more that curses a lot like DMX or Ice Cube that got their concerts cancelled you wouldn't be laughing, you'd be saying that's not fair, China probably don't have much freedom of speech like here in America

Thank God he regained consciousness

Well we each build our own teams of NBA players through draft, trade, signing/waiving, and those statistics that the players put up determine what teams win when our teams match up every week

dope stuff!!! :bowdown:

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:ohdear: I think I'll move to another country if this happens :shakehead:

Sounds like quite a bit of interesting collabs on this album, btw I had no idea that Chris Webber's a producer too, that's dope

Yeah a bird flew by at the exact point the photographer took the photo! Ain't that right Julie! what's happen with Julie ? i am sorry man but the cover says to me : Dont watch me in the face look my breast ''... :yeahthat: You might have to go back to the drawing board on this one

MTV News Exclusive: Nas Previews Hip-Hop Is Dead ... The N 10.10.2006 6:01 AM EDT MC works with Dre, Kanye, Will.I.Am; says he's about to be the 'craziest [artist] on Def Jam.' Nas Photo: Mat Szwajkos/Getty Images Nas said he's less than two weeks from finishing his next LP, Hip-Hop Is Dead ... The N (due on December 19), and he already has a prediction. "All respect to all rappers on Def Jam, I love the label," Nas said. "Without disrespect, "DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing. ... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop." — Nas Photos, audio and video from this story Nas "Bridging the Gap" Street's Disciple (Sony Urban Music/Columbia) Nas Celebrates His 33rd Birthday I'm about to be the craziest sh-- on Def Jam. But that should go without saying." Nas has a lot to boast about this time around. After his last project, the 2004 double LP Street's Disciple, had a lukewarm reception, the New York legend feels confident he has another classic on his hands. MTV News had a chance to preview some tracks last week — and to dispel some rumors, Nas is not leaving his roots. His LP is very much street, and there aren't really any commercial tracks. Lyrically he still commands the vocal booth. A bulk of his criticism the last few years has been his choice of beat selection. On Hip-Hop Is Dead, he worked with the best, including Dr. Dre, Just Blaze, Kanye West and others. You can hear the excitement in the producers' music — they've given him top-grade material. "It's cool," Nas said Monday about working with Dre on "QB True G," which features a guest appearance from the Game. "I worked on Dre's [1996] Aftermath album when he left Death Row. The second Aftermath album was [intended to be] the Firm album. I think him and [industry mogul] Steve Stoute got into a lot of beef, so the record got hurt when it came out. But that album is still a platinum monster. I know Dre was saying that n---as was bothering him, saying the Firm flopped or he turned pop, but that Firm album was not a flop. That record was a monster. Back then, [interscope Records co-chairman] Jimmy Iovine was ready to send me a jet, trying to get me off of Sony because he was seeing my potential and what I needed to do. "Since then, I hadn't seen [Dre], but I bumped into him in a studio and he said he was ready to do my whole album right there on the spot," Nas continued. "I just knocked out the joint I did with him." The beat has the feel of the dark party track Dre gave 50 Cent for the "Outta Control" remix, but it has a bit more bite. Nas raps on the beat that he and the Game came to "sprinkle a little bit of heaven for your ears." The Game starts his verse by rapping that over a decade ago, he was a kid in a record store and had to decide whether to buy Nas' Illmatic or Dre's The Chronic because he only had money for one purchase. He decided to steal both albums. "Game is a megastar, man," said Nas, who appears on the Game's upcoming The Doctor's Advocate. "That n---a shut down a whole crew by himself. That's big." Kanye West raps on and produced "Still Dreamin'." Nas starts one verse scolding hangers-on who are looking for handouts, and on his second verse, he tells a story of a female newscaster who gets caught up in a drug dealer's lifestyle. " 'Ye is that n---a," Nas told. "His music is right. I wish I could've got more time in with him, actually. He comes through. N---as just be kicking it. Next thing you know, he plays me his sh-- he's working on, I play my sh--, then it comes from there. He'll play me some sh--, and I'll say, 'Let me get that.' " The song "Blunt Ashes," where Nas talks about the missteps and betrayals of R&B legends like Prince, Alexander O'Neal and Bobby Womack, came about from the wordsmith just kicking it in the lab with another one of his friends, Philadelphia 76ers forward Chris Webber. Webber produced the track. "We was in the studio in Kelis' session," Nas said about working with his wife. "We had a room next door, because I didn't want to mess her session up, but I wanted to listen to something. I went in the other room, we was chillin'. One of my mans told Chris to put on one of his [beat] CDs. We was in there freestylin'. I started freestylin' to one joint about sh-- we just be talking about, and I was like, 'This is my sh-- right here. This is my joint.' But Chris is my homie though. One of my closest homies." Another person you wouldn't necessarily picture on a Nas record is Will.I.Am. The multitalented Black Eyed Peas frontman concocted the LP's title track. Where some may expect a real pop sound like on Busta Rhymes' "I Love My Chick," Will went left and very dirty. He actually brought back the same bassline from Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," which was also used for Street Disciple's "Thief's Theme." "It felt like the 'Thief's Theme' to me," Nas said. "It was one of the low-key Nas joints that you know about it, but you don't want to look over there. You don't want to deal with that. This [song] reiterated the vibe of 'Thief's Theme' at another level. The title track is Will.I.Am taking pieces of sh-- I did before, pieces of old-school hip-hop, slappin' it all together and letting me do me. That's what it is." Nas throws out a few punch lines on the album, including "If hip-hop is dead, we die together" and "Like my girl Foxy, a n---a went Def." His lyrics are also very tough on radio and DJs. Nas says on the disc that if the impossible happened, if hip-hop did die, DJs would be the first people he'd punish. "Let's be real," he said of the song on which he insists his wedding to Kelis was his second marriage — he married hip-hop first. "DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing. ... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. We don't challenge DJs by making enough crazy sh--." Nas also said that the phrase "hip-hop is dead" has a much more important meaning than just music. "When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically America is dead," he clarified. "There is no political voice. Music is dead. B2K is not New Edition. Chris Brown is great, I love Chris Brown, we need that, but Bobby Brown sticks in my heart. Our way of thinking is dead, our commerce is dead. Everything in this society has been done. It's like a slingshot, where you throw the mutha----a back and it starts losing speed and is about to fall down. That's where we are as a country. "I don't wanna lose nobody with this, but what I mean by 'hip-hop is dead' is we're at a vulnerable state," he continued. "If we don't change, we gonna disappear like Rome. Let's break it down to a smaller situation. Hip-hop is Rome for the 'hood. I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop. ... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers." Snoop Dogg appears on the Scott Storch-produced "Play on Playa." "Unforgettable," which uses a sample of the Nat King Cole song of the same name, has Nas looking back on his life ("Mom's cooking used to wake me up/ Deep/ 'Cause now my wife's cookin' puts me to sleep"). "War" finds the legend going political, lashing out against what he calls unfair media views and "the white man's paper." Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley co-stars on that reggae-flavored track. Nas hasn't yet chosen a first single for Hip-Hop Is Dead, but said he's leaning toward going with a real street record first, like the Game did with "It's Okay (One Blood)." "Every n---a under the age of 28 that raps — except for maybe five of you — needs to shut the f--- up for eight months," he said about what some of his peers should do in preparation for this album. "Get your mind right and learn what the f--- to say. That's gonna be a wakeup call. With all respect due, because they're my comrades." — Shaheem Reid

It's hard to name one, I'll name five, chronicalogical from his 20 years in the rap game: 1986-1989: "Brand New Funk" 1990-1993: "Somethin' Like Dis" 1994-1997: "Don't Say Nothin'" 1998-2001: "I'm Comin'" 2002-2005: "I Wish I Made That/Swagga"

Update: Cassidy Remains Hospitalized, In Grave Condition But Expected To Survive Tuesday - October 10, 2006 by Jolene "foxxylady" Petipas Full Surface/J Records rapper Cassidy still remains in critical condition at Jersey City Medical Center, six days after being involved in a car accident in which he suffered severe head injuries. As SOHH previously reported, Cassidy (born Barry Reese) was in New Jersey en route to a Yonkers, NY studio session on Wednesday (October 5), when a U-Haul truck swerved into oncoming traffic, striking the side of the SUV Cassidy was riding in. The Philly bred rapper, who was sitting in the rear passenger side seat, suffered severe injuries, including a fractured skull and broken bones on the left side of his face. According to Theola Borden, a publicist for J Records, who spoke to The Star Ledger yesterday (October 9), Cassidy is in grave condition but is expected to survive. "We don't know whether he is in an induced coma or heavily sedated," Borden told The Star Ledger. "The results of a CAT scan were okay." Both Borden and Jersey CityMedicalCenter officials wouldn't provide any more information about his condition or release any information about him. Jersey City police said they have no record of an accident in the North District involving the rapper, despite the account from his publicist and others. Borden revealed that friends and relatives were at the rapper's bedside. "Other rappers, such as Remy Ma, have called and asked to visit, but I think they're just allowing close family members and friends to visit," Borden said. "He's on the same label as Swizz Beatz, who I'm sure has been over to visit." Cassidy had been preparing his return to the rap game with a third album via Full Surface. He was released from prison in April for an involuntary manslaughter

Report: Cory Lidle Was on Crashed Plane By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - A small plane with New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle aboard crashed into a 50-story condominium tower Wednesday on Manhattan's Upper East Side, killing two people and raining flaming debris on sidewalks, authorities said. There was no immediate confirmation Lidle was among the dead. A law enforcement official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lidle was on the plane. And Federal Aviation Administration records showed the single-engine plane was registered to the athlete, who was a new pilot and had repeatedly assured reporters in recent days that flying was safe. The crash came just days after the Yankees' humiliating elimination from the playoffs. The official said he did not know whether Lidle was at the controls; two people were aboard, and Lidle's passport was found at the crash scene, the official said. The plane had issued a distress call before the crash, according to the official. New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a news conference, stopped short of confirming that Lidle was on board, saying that until next of kin are notified, no names would be released.

Ice Cube Re-Releases "Laugh Now, Cry Later" With Bonus DVD Tuesday - October 10, 2006 by Dick Johnson After reaching gold with Laugh Now, Cry Later, Ice Cube is slated to release a limited edition version of the album later this month. The limited edition CD will be accompanied by a DVD featuring exclusive live video footage, music videos for "Why We Thugs," "Go To Church" and "Chrome and Paint" and commentary from Cube. The live video includes backstage footage of Cube's Laugh Now, Cry Later tour, which featured Dub C, The Clipse and Dogg Pound. In related news, Cube was among several hip-hop legends honored at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors this past weekend. The show will air on October 17th on VH1 at 9 pm ET and 8 pm Central time. Ice Cube's Laugh Now, Cry Later CD/DVD hits stores October 31st.

Hey I was reading this interview on allhiphop.com today too, Snoop seems pretty focused about this album, that's cool how his kids are motivating him to step his lyrical game up, and those are really strong points about how he wants to bring unity in gangs and keepin' peace with other rappers instead of starting beef, that's keepin' it real

I was reading the rumors on allhiphop.com a couple weeks ago and it said that the Bobby/Whitney divorce might be a promotional gimmick since they're both working on new albums and that they really might not divorce after all