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Nick Cannon shouldn't be the one to talk about record sales, his last album sold less than "Born To Reign", lol, AJ seems to be the only person who I heard of that says that likes his music, he'll never be Fresh Prince no matter how hard he tries in rapping or acting but he does make a great point that it's easier to be inspired from FP's career than it is Bow Wow, still I say impersonating somebody is just as bad as acting hard when you're not, he's unoriginal, it's ok to be inspired by Fresh Prince but he should do his own thing too, now the truth is that "Big Willie Style" has sold more albums than both Nick or Bow Wow will ever sell in their entire lives, Nick looks like a fool for responding to that lil' pup like that, Bow Wow has no credability to even waste breath on, even 50 Cent has more cred than he does, lol, Nick really needs to focus on his own career, his new single "Dimepiece" flopped harder than pancakes, I saw the video like 2 times on 106 & Park and that's it, Bow Wow's 15 minutes are up too when Ciara left him now he's doing videos with 36 Mafia like he's a g? If Nick loses to Bow Wow in a battle he should hang up the mic forever in shame, this is a battle that nobody cares about

I'd say "Todd Smith"'s selling around the same pace that "Lost and Found" did last year right now but LL's gonna do a tour this summer so it'll probably hit platinum eventually

"Go To Church" is basically just a metaphorical term in this sense, it really had nothing to do with religious matters in this case, it's just a hip-hop lyrical track so it's more of a battle phrase like you suckas better pray, btw do you think Snoop's dissin' Coolio in his verse? It sounds like a diss to me and you could see in the video they got somebody dressed up like Coolio and Snoop shoves him away when he does his verse

I doubt that LL's gonna do an album with G-Unit, they were only featured on a couple remixes and they're not really getting any airplay so I doubt LL's gonna do anything more with them since nobody cares about G-Unit anymore, if he does an album with G-Unit his career'll sink right with them, I think it'd be more interesting if he squashed beef with Canibus and did a collab with him than working with G-Unit again, to be real if you go ask most hip-hop fans they'd say LL's had a better career overall than Will but they might say that Will's better than LL now 'cause LL ain't as popular as he used to be since his albums sales keep going down album to album since "Mr. Smith" it seems, which I think is due to poor selection of singles, like I just don't get how he could choose to release "Freeze" over "We're Gonna Make It", but he's the only rapper from 1985 to still go at least gold like he did with his new "Todd Smith", Rev. Run and DMC can't anymore, Public Enemy can't, KRS can't, etc., only other rapper from that era that could is Will who did with "Lost and Found" which of course went platinum worldwide, for a while Will's sales been declining since "Big Willie Style" but now we're seeing Will's fanbase has increased from "Born To Reign" to "Lost and Found" when people thought his career was over and that he'd stick to acting, now if he's smart enough to release albums as much as LL does maybe people would start saying that he's had a better career than LL... Will has more to prove than LL that's why he needs to remain hungry, if he keeps bringin' it like "Lost and Found" people will say that he's as great in rapping as he is in acting and he'll be on more people's top 10, I personally think they're both even still, hip-hop hall of famers, both had ups and downs, they both get hated on and loved at times since hip-hop fans seem to be having different opinions all the time about what's dope, there was times then and now that others have outsold them but these rappers have come and gone and continue to fade, G-Unit will be under the radar like Vanilla Ice in a few years, but through it all Will and LL are still around, Will probably receives less hate than LL at this point but there are times where LL gets more props than Will so it evens out, they're both survivors of the game and I think they both know what it takes to stay in the game

I think it's a lil' bit hard to compare somebody who played for 3 years to somebody who played 10 years but I think Wade's mature beyond his years, ever since he came into the league his rookie year he's been a leader, you can't say that about Kobe when he started and I myself been questioning his maturity for a while still but this year I was impressed that he was able to lead the Lakers to the playoffs when they don't really have that much talent Now as far as Iverson vs. Kobe which might be an easier comparison to make since they've both played 10 years, I'd have to go with Iverson overall considering most of his career he hasn't had the type of players surrounding him as much as Kobe has had, the Lakers were a playoff contender before they drafted Kobe and they signed Shaq in his rookie year so he's basically in a winning situation already, the Lakers always seemed to have deep rosters for many years, their bench players could've been starters on most teams, but the Sixers were a lottery team when they drafted Iverson and he was basically carrying the team into playoff contention himself for many years, their roster was thin for many years, Iverson basically made up the team for many years and still does it seems but I actually think that this year Sixers had a better roster than the Lakers did but they still could'nt make the playoffs, I think that's the reason why people might've voted Kobe at the end of this year 'cause they looked at the standings, Sixers should've won their division with the type of talent that they had, people were actually picking them to contend in the East this year with the Nets, Heat, and Pistons when the season started, Lakers were counted out this year in the beginning, many thought they were going to the lottery, so the edge goes to Kobe currently 'cause Kobe proved for the first time that he could lead a team with less talent into the playoffs but the Sixers this year had the most talent in years and they choked and Iverson gets the blame for it by most people, of course Webber ain't in his prime anymore, maybe if he played on the team in 2001 the Sixers would've beat the Lakers in the finals, basically they didn't have any big man to pound the ball into, Mutombo is a defender not a scorer

T-Bone got a lot of skills, he was featured on a song called "The Struggle Continues" that was featured on KRS-ONE's "Spiritual Minded" album in '02

I picked the Heat to win the NBA championship beating the Mavericks when the playoffs started 2 months ago and I was right, this could've been back-to-back champions if Wade was healthy in the playoffs last year, he's definately a special player, having something that Lebron and Melo don't have which is an NBA championship ring, it's also nice to see Mourning finally win one after all he's been through over the last few years

He does, could you please point it out for me where in the song he says it? I musta heard that song a million times but I don't remember hearing it in that song

Yeah "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" track is classic, I'd have to give that a mention myself

I ordered a mixtape "Countdown To The Big Bang" online a couple weeks ago but it sold out already so I wasn't able to receive it, that's how much buzz he has right now, I was a lil' dissapointed I wasn't able to get that since it had a lot of exclusive tracks that weren't gonna be on this album but I was able to get the album a couple days ago, it's definately more versatile than his last couple albums, he shows the world with this one that he could do more than just be animated with club bangers, I'd rank it a 4.5/5, the only problem I seem to have with it is that I don't get why the "Touch It" remix wasn't on there since it was all over radio and TV, it's tough to compare his album to LL's and Ice Cube's 'cause they all got different styles but they're definately all still going strong in keepin' real hip-hop alive in their own ways, they should all tour together to promote their albums

I personally would love to hear Pete Rock produce more with Will again, he should also hook up with the other producers on "Code Red" like Dallas Austin and Teddy Riley since that was the best produced album of his career but I think his popularity would increase more if Dr. Dre produced for him since everything that he produces seems to hit platinum plus in the last 20 years, you could see the wonders that he's done in resurrecting Busta Rhymes' career, he produced quite a bit on Busta's new album and it sells as much in the first week sales as his last album did altogether, since Will's on Interscope I don't think it'd be that hard either for them to do something together

I think I might of started the league too early, I pushed our draft back a week to see if more are interested

Yeah on this album production could be a lil' better but I think Ice Cube's powerful flow overshadowed any weak beats there might be, I definately consider it one of the strongest albums released since Will's "Lost and Found" came out last year, I like it better than Kanye's 2 albums combined, like he said on "Child Support" there ain't no other kings in this rap thing, he's the real king of the west coast and hip-hop in general, he deserves the throne, he had a big first week selling over 145,000 copies so he'll probably go platinum with this one, I was watching Rap City today and saw that there's a video for "Go To Church" already, it looks hot, btw I gotta get Busta's album this weekend, I see he's been hosting on there all week... I've been so busy working lately I haven't had a chance to get it yet, when I get a day off from work next week I'll probably post reviews for both albums, most likely I'll probably have to order KRS' new album online 'cause stores never seem to carry his new albums most of the time but I'll be looking for that one too, I'm also looking forward to Hammer's album after hearing what he posted on his myspace, he's coming back big himself I think, it's great to know that there's some mcs out there worth checking for, it's been a dry spell for a while as far as having so many weak mcs dropping....

Well to break to you man, Tra-Knox broke up a while ago, they ain't doing music anymore, sorry...

Well I know I'm gonna sleep on a lot of stuff but I think I'll try to cover a lil' bit from each album: "Summertime" "Brand New Funk" "As We Go" "The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff" "Tell Me Why" "I'm Lookin' For The One"(To Be With Me) "Jazzy's Groove" "Potnas" "Born To Reign" "Don't Say Nothin"

You need to show this person this quote by Jazzy Jeff and it'll clear everything, Will wanted to bring Jazzy more into the spotlight around the "Men In Black" times but Jazzy didn't want that, it was his choice to play the background, Will didn't leave him behind: "During the times of Men In Black Will had the chance for one of the best contracts at Sony. He wanted me to join him, but I didnt feel beeing signed at a major label. he totaly understood, and I let him do his thing. I would have worked with him forever, I would make beats for him, tour with him.. But I just didnt feel the major label thing".

I swear the people who hate on Will are so ignorant, if they knew anything about him they'd know that he wouldn't sell out on Jazzy Jeff

How could Will be ranked higher than last year if he didn't release a movie during that time? Well on that note I gotta hand it to you Max you're definately right, what's the point for Will to rap anymore right? I honestly can't complain now if Will decides not to rap anymore 'cause it seems like the so called hip-hop headsforgot about him already even though he released his best album last year. Will wants to do something where he gets a lot of love for, the hip-hopcommunity turned its back on him but it seems like he could do no wrong as an actor. It's easier for somebody like Ice Cube or LL to say that they don't wanna act anymore and do more music 'cause the hip-hop community embraces them and people wouldn't laugh at you if you put them on yourtop 10 all time rapper lists and they're not as big in Hollywood since they ain't mentioned here in Premiere magazine like Will who's vice versa. He wouldn't be caught dead being mentioned as an all time rapper but he's considered an all time actor already even though he rapped longer. So I can't be mad at him for doing more movies than music 'cause it seems like people in the hip-hop community, mostly the media and fansseem to throw the middle finger at him all the time whenever he does something with music but he don't have to deal with much hate doing movies. It probably wouldn't change much even if he did another album with Jazzy 'cause the hip-hop community called him popcorn then too, he catches as much hate as MC Hammer does. The problem is that most hip-hop fans are sheep, if the media calls somebody wack, they go along with it but the truth is these rappers today wouldn't be having success if it wasn't for cats like them. It's frustrating that a lot of those who put their dues in don't get the full recognition they deserve, but it seems with movie fans, it don't matter about how hard or soft you are, as long as your movie's hot, that's all that matters, people look at image for hip-hop more than anything, none of these pop rappers would have deals if they didn't have an image but their albums are wack, they only got a cartoon thugged image, Will don't have a fake image, he just drops quality albums, it don't matter anymore though sadly. It's like with all that hate he gotten as a rapperyou figure he'd thrown in the towel already and gave up rapping 15 years agobut it's obvious that he got more love for the game than so called hip-hop heads do, he could release 100 albums it seems and he still won't get the recognition as a rapper while Hollywood has embraced him, you can't say that Will turned his back on the hip-hop community for doing more movies than albums, it's really the opposite. The hip-hop community got no love for Will even though he's got love for hip-hop, it's heartbreaking but true and it'll probably never change, if more of them went out and supported "Lost and Found" and listed him as one of the top mcs ever then maybe we'd see him decide to do music as much as movies, and we'd see these pop rappers being motivated by his message to put more messages in their music but the game is about as messed up as it was before the album came out. He didn't impact with that album, there's no exuse for why it wasn't at least nominated for a Grammy award for best rap album this year, at least he has something to fall back on with his Hollywood career unlike a lot of his peers that got forgotten and trashed on like MC Hammer

I'll admit that he's done better albums in the past but by far it's superior to everything out now, you can't expect him to make another "Amerikka's Most Wanted" everytime, it's another solid album in the heavy catalog of one of the greatest mcs ever, it'd be a crime if it don't hit platinum, the true hip-hop heads need to support this album, and I think he said he's gonna be doing more music now and less movies so I don't think we'd have to wait 6 years for another album either, the way I see him spittin' on this album he's gonna be on top for many more years to come, hopefully Will follows his lead on that one, we need real mcs to bring hip-hop back to where it should be and put those wack pop rappers like we all know who out of buisiness

So who got the album? I got it last weekend and I gotta say that it's lived up to the hype, it's definately the best album this year so far, when I get more time I'm gonna post a full length review later, I give it 4.5/5

Some of the songs y'all mentioned have special meaning to me too, Boyz II Men's "CooleyHighHarmony" was one of the first albums I ever heard and one of my favorites ever, I know every song by heart, I used to sing some of those songs in a charaoke contest we had at the elementary school dance, I won 1st prize for singin' "End Of The Road", I still have the certificate that I won for it, back around that time there was a class project and we were dancin' to Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It", I got it on tape too "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" was the song that helped get me into Will's music, I got "Big Willie Style" on cassette as a Christmas present that year LL Cool J's "Hey Lover" with Boyz II Men brings back memories of the first girl I had a crush on when I was 10 years old, she liked another guy in my class though, it seems to be the song I always go back on whenever I have a crush on a girl, around that time I started to gettin' into LL's music and basically around that time was when I started to get into hip-hop music period, I listening to mostly r&b before then,speaking of LL, the other dayI went through a tape I had of baseball games from about 10 years ago and I noticed I taped the commercial that LL did for Major League Baseball back then, he was chillin' with Albert Belle and Ken Griffey Jr., lol I could go on and on till the break of dawn since so much music makes up the soundtrack of my life, my earliest memory of music was when I was 3 years old and I was dancin' to whenever my parents played Michael Jackson

He put some tracks for his new album on his myspace page, it's some dope stuff, check it out, btw I was bumpin' "The Funky Headhunter" today: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=27933337

The link I put is ok now, there should be no problems for anybody

He looks like Kel Spencer in that picture, lol, he should be sporting baseball caps like LL if he's gonna keep his head like that

I started a JJFP fantasy league on Yahoo for the upcoming NFL season, the ID is 59368 and the password is 2345, the online draft'll take place on July 12th at 5PM EST, join if interested: EDIT: I got the correct link, sorry http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1