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:word: I see more 50 Cent hate posts coming so I'm gonna lock up the thread but I'll leave it to check out the track if you want, I might check it out myself, lol...

Yeah this is a huge surprise, everybody been talking for months that Reggie Bush would be the #1 pick, this should shake up a lot of draft boards today...

Wow that's great for a mixtape to sell over 1000 copies, especially since you could only get it online...

Yeah Mark you seem to be making a lot of negative posts lately here that's not necessary and like WesSyde said there might be certain things about both Busta Rhymes and Twista that're better than Will but Will's all around a better lyricist than they are, although Busta's pretty much on the same level, I can't say that about Twista, he got a fast flow but he's just not that consistant as an mc to be a legend, you have to do more than just rap fast to be an all around legendary mc, there's many factors that make up being a legendary mc, Will's got that swagga that most mcs don't have to simply put it, lol, and he ain't a musician, Jazzy Jeff, Trackmasters, Freshmen are the ones who make the music for him to rhyme over, now you might have him confused with Kanye West, he's a good musician with a boring flow as an mc so he ain't no legend, now that's who you could mention that about...

Twista's a better mc than Will? :rofl: Busta's on the same level as Will but not Twista, hell no, come on now Will's been in the rap game for 20 years now, he's a hip-hop legend, not many mcs have had the career he's had, his body of work from "Rock To House" through "Lost and Found" makes Will a legendary mc, he could switch up his flows, and perform with any mc onstage, now if that don't make Will a legend what does? I'd say you're not a real fan if you can't acknowledge that, I personally think it's all a matter of opinion of who the G.O.A.T. mc really is 'cause there's quite a handful of legends that deserve to mentioned that come from different eras, how do you compare 2Pac to Will? That's like comparing Willie Mays to Barry Bonds, they're all legends though, that's a fact no doubt and when you talk about legends Will's name has to be in discussion...

You should be banned for saying something like that, Will's a legendary mc, he's much better than Nelly, I agree Nelly should never be on lists like this 'cause he ain't no dope mc... :stickpoke:

I just sent you a PM too :word:

Yeah looks like Snoop's friends did more than he did, he just needs to be more careful in who he chooses who he rolls with, that's all, Snoop is one of the gangsta rappers that I like...

I don't know how you could say LL's selling out, I'd say he's one of the realest in the game right now, I like how he does different things on each album he does, and you could see the diverse taste in music that he has with the different flavas he brings on his songs, he shouldn't have to do the same thing all the time for people to feel him, he's a true artist that evolves, it seems that fans don't evolve with the artist since they want the same thing all the time, I mean what's the point of still recording music if you're gonna do the same thing you did 10 years ago? If that's the case then Will should never make anymore albums either and just perform "Summertime" at shows, lol... LL also came out in 1985 not 1989 buddy, that's how much you know about LL, btw did anyone see the new video for "Freeze" that was shown on 106 & Park the other day? Def Jam's really pushing this album, it's good to know they ain't just trying to milk "Control Myself" even though it's in the top 10 on the Billboard charts now...

yeah i don't think i'm gonna bother voting on this unless i have nothing else to do to pass the time, this ain't like it's gonna help his album sales or airplay or things of that nature...

It's about damn time! :rockon:

http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/8824/1 Before Eve, before Foxy Brown and before Lil' Kim, there was Lyte. Back when female hip hoppers were rocking door knocker earrings, one MC proved that she could hold her own in the male-dominated world of hip-hop and commanded respect in the process. Hailing from the planet of Brooklyn, she commenced to dropping hits like "Cha Cha Cha" and "Roughneck" to the scathing "10% Dis," "The Ether" of its time. MC Lyte played the game by her own rules and proved that females could in fact get on and be appreciated for their lyrical prowess without having to put on a Vanity 6 routine. The MC born Lana Moorer dropped her debut album Lyte As a Rock in 1988 and kicked down the doors and made the world take notice. But as hip-hop has gotten a little darker over the years, we've in turn been subjected to less Lyte. With a new album, Back to Lyte, on its way and a new book already on shelves, SOHH caught up with the pioneering MC to talk about her ventures away from the mic, the negative messages that hip-hop sends to youth and women and why the Smithsonian is recognizing game. "It wasn't easy, although most of my struggle had nothing to do with other rappers," Lyte says of her days coming up as a female MC. "My struggle had to do with promoters who had to pay me and felt as if they didn't have to pay me what they paid male rappers." Obviously unaware of how the Lyte gets down, naive promoters would soon learn that there would be no half-stepping when it came to the amount of money or respect due to the Brooklynite. Turning adversity into an advantage, MC Lyte only used the temporary set backs as a motivational tool, which only made her work harder as a person and an artist. And while you may think that someone who has earned as many stripes as she has would understandably be a little cocky and possess a "diva syndrome," Lyte stays true to her humble beginnings when it comes to her props or lack there of. "I've never been one to be resentful or come across as resentful towards the way that I'm treated in hip hop," she says. "I get my accolades from the people who express to me what I've done for them." A renaissance woman to the fullest, MC Lyte has been flourishing away from the mic for years by honing her acting chops in several independent films including 2000's Luv Tale and a recurring role on the UPN sitcom Half and Half . She has also recently opened Shaitel, a Los Angeles boutique that specializes in accessories from belts to sunglasses that's sure to keep heads in LA looking fresh to def. "We sell a mixture of new and vintage [items]," explains Lyte. "We also have a few signature pieces that are done just for the store. We boast to bring a little New York flavor out here to California." Between reading scripts and keeping shop, she still found time to pen her book, Just My Take, which she bills as a mixture of poetry, self-help and words of wisdom. But as with any true MC, their first love is always the mic. Lyte is readying her new disc, Back To Lyte, for a late spring/early summer release. The album features guest appearances by Kay-Gee of Naughty by Nature, Sadat X and DJ Premier. "It's totally a hip-hop record," she exclaims. "I don't mean hip-hop as in just slamming beats, kicks and snares that make you want to bop your head. I mean hip-hop as in coming from the heart. People are gonna relate to it because its not fluff. I'm talking about real circumstances, real issues that can effect people's lives." Some of the people's lives that she feels are being negatively affected by certain images in hip-hop and the media are the younger, more impressionable audience. "I want to address [youth] in a positive light because so many rappers aren't," says Lyte. "With the way that the media is pushing them, they come out knowing more at 13 and 14 [years old] then I knew at 18." Lyte also takes issue with the misogynistic practices in hip-hop that have seemingly become commonplace. She believes that the viewers and consumers must take more of an active approach if the cycle is to be broken. "I want [the public] to understand their self-worth and let them know that they should not be so easily entertained," she candidly laments. "Record labels have, to some degree, convinced artists that they're not enough, so they have to add all of this other stuff for people to be entertained." Though hip-hop definitely has some growing left to do, the culture still has impacted many lives in a positive light and was recently recognized with an exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History entitled "Hip-Hop Won't Stop," of which MC Lyte was a part of. She donated a rhyme book and journal with handwritten lyrics to the prestigious exhibit which will forever enshrine the artist's work. With honors in hand and a new album around the corner, MC Lyte is poised to bring back integrity and lyricism to the art of MCing. Fortunately for us, the future is in good hands. "It's almost like watching theatre or a movie," Lyte says. "It's like watching a bad ass actor, and I think a lot of hip-hop is comprised of that right now. But luckily, I'm here to save the day."

Yeah Snoop's a gangsta rapper, it's not surprising that he gets arrested, he's trying to hold onto his "street cred", man it's getting rediculous with the rap game these days, every day I seem to be hearing more about rappers getting arrested or shot than I hear them releasing good music, cats need to step their game and cut out the bull****

Well he was talking about starting a label with his brother in that interview posted on this site last year, I'm not quite sure if that happened yet though...

Yeah I don't understand how he could go away for years without doing anything for his music fans but he always does something every year to cater his movie fans :paperbag:

Skillz' is definately one of the slept on peeps in hip-hop even though he writes for half of the industry it seems, it's quite surprising though that he'd say the n word so much though like you said there

Well I think the so-called beef started at the Nickelodeon Awards, they're probably trying to do something to boost Romeo's TV show ratings, lol...

Rapper Snoop Dogg has been arrested after a disturbance at Heathrow airport. The US star was detained by police when a row broke out after his 30-strong entourage were told they would not be able to board their flight. Initially they were refused entry to the British Airways first-class lounge at the airport's Terminal 1. Snoop's party is to then said to have moved to a duty-free shop where it is alleged they threw bottles of whisky on the floor and argued with staff. Police were (Advertisement) called and were escorting the group away from the scene when a further disturbance broke out, Scotland Yard said. Seven officers received minor injuries - mainly cuts and bruises - while one suffered a fracture to the hand. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "The party was told that they would not be permitted to board their flight and officers then attempted to direct the group to baggage reclaim. "A number of the group became abusive and pushed officers." Six men aged in their 30s, including Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, 34, were arrested on charges of violent disorder and affray and held at two west London police stations. They had been due to board a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, before the row broke out. In 1993 Snoop Dogg was tried and acquitted for murder - the same year he found fame with debut album Doggystyle. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27042006/14...rport-row.html

Nice to see Will as the G.O.A.T., I think I'm gonna vote for all those behind Eminem so he'll finish last :kekeke:

Skillz: Mad At All Of You Wednesday - April 26, 2006 Josephine Basch We all know Skillz ain’t mad no more. But outside of dropping the first half of his name, he’s been busy working behind the scene: ghostwriter, filmmaker, and label owner. Having made his mark on the underground in the mid 90’s via Rawkus Records, he went on to establish himself as the king of punchlines, synonymous with his slap-in-the-face-‘cause-you-done-****ed-up-homie “Year End Rap Ups.” Now with a new day on the horizon, Skillz sits down with HHDX to give us a sneak peak of what he has in store for his 2nd Round Knock Out… Tell me about your Big Kidz label and film company. The label is just an extension of me trying to help people that I think wouldn’t necessarily get a chance from where I’m from. The film division is more or less a new passion that I got. I don’t know what it is about film, but I think I got a bug for it like I had when I first started rapping, because it all pushes to story telling. I got a couple stories that I think I can tell. I think if you write songs that actually take people away from where they’re at, and they can visualize what you’re saying, then you’re already a writer. I got two scripts that I’ve written. So this summer I’ma try to shoot this little 20-25 minute movie. I’ve been buying film equipment and software. I’ve been shooting movies with my daughter. Just little things – and it’s kind of funny, ‘cause now she thinks she’s an actress. You were around during the heyday of Rawkus and you’ve seen a lot go down. How do you feel the game has changed? I guess now it’s cool to be ignorant. I don’t condone it, but it’s cool to not give a ****. And I ain’t mad because the music is gonna do what the people are doing. If the people are ignorant, then the music is gonna be ignorant. If the people are righteous and conscious of what’s going on, and “we ain’t gonna take this **** no more and we gonna stand up and make a change,” then that’s gonna be in the music. I’m not mad at the music they play, I’m just mad at the music they don’t play. If you give “Laffy Taffy” a shot - cool, but how come you wouldn’t give Little Brother the same shot? When you think about it, people get into a rhythm where they don’t want to hear **** from certain people. So it’s the yin and the yang man. If you’re going to show the messages, then show them. ‘Cause some of these ni--as have been through hardships, but they still don’t want to tell nobody about that… Like, ni--a you almost went to jail! That **** ain’t cool – don’t portray jail like it’s cool. Megan Good is not coming to give none of y’all ni--as some ass in jail… like ni--as actually think jail is cool – till they get there! Ni--as better come out here and start saying something. Especially y’all mother ****ers that just got off by a hair - and you still talking about how, “I’m on the block, I’m slingin’ them crills.” You just got off ni--a! You almost did not make it. Then when ni--as get locked up, everybody wanna free their boy. “Free James!” “Free Rodney!” Ni--a: Rodney ****ed up. Rodney knew what the **** he was doing. Rodney was out there with a 20-pack in his pocket. Rodney knew what the **** he was doing – why I got a shirt on saying “Free Rodney?” I should have a shirt on that says, “Rodney Should Have Known Better.” Be real! Come on man – kids walking around with “Stop Snitching” shirts on. Like ni--a, you seven years old, who the **** snitched on you? Your fourth grade teacher? Stop! So where do you see yourself in this equation then? I don’t ****ing know, yo. I just want to make music. And people like it, so… ni--as tell me, “you’re one record away from blowin’.” I’m like, “Am I? Did I already make that record and it just didn’t get the push?” Like, I understand the demographic of the music now. I understand if I really made a dumb ass record and it blew, my hardcore audience would flip… You can dumb down your flow, but that don’t mean they’re gonna accept it. I’d rather stick to who I am and if it happens, it happens, and if it don’t then it don’t. I ain’t chasing it. I know my bread and butter is my show. You won’t hear this on the radio, right behind Freeway or before Juelz Santana…I’m trying to invest more into my show, because I know that when you got a good show and you got a good record, you’re gonna be alright. Do you feel like ghostwriting allows you to express and touch on the other side of your personality? Right. It’s like almost becoming somebody else. I look at it as a challenge. I wanna act – I think acting is just an extension of what I do. ****, I’ve been acting like Mad Skillz for the past 10, 12 years. I’m not Mad Skillz 24 hours a day. So who is Mad Skillz? He a father, a writer, a regular mother ****ing dude. I got the same flaws; some of the same **** happens to me that happens to everybody else. That’s me – that’s Shaqwan Lewis. I’ll be like, “don’t try to separate me from you because I make music.” That’s bull****. I don’t make music 24 hours a day. You might catch me helping my daughter with her homework. You might catch me cooking, because I love to cook. You might even catch me watching some porn. Has being known as a battle MC helped or worked against you? I think ni--as really respect me as a songwriter, because most of my songs have punch lines in them. I mean I’ll be honest – my first album was all ****in’ battle raps with hooks thrown in there. I would write a song where the hook would be like, “yo, you look hot tonight.” And then the rap would be, “yo, what the **** is you lookin’ at?” My first album was 85% battle raps because I didn’t know… But I think through the Rawkus run and through ****in’ with Timbaland, I’m learning now that a good songwriter will be an alright rapper any day. Because I can rap ‘til the cows come home, but I gotta be able to make a song too. I think it has been a double-edged sword because when I write a song where ni--as be like, “that’s a hot ass song” they think I got lucky, like, “damn, Skillz stumbled onto magic.” Nah ni--a, I planned that ****. Being able to evoke emotions is only gonna build on other things. Like it still baffles me to this day how the **** I could make Shaquille O’Neal, who was in the middle of the playoffs, go into a vocal booth and say some raps about me. What did I do to get under his skin that much? I still have no idea what the **** that dumb-ass ni--a was thinking... I cannot imagine what it could be. I mean, look at how much money you make. You’re trying to win another ring. And you went and got in a booth? Come on man! But evoking emotion – I love to do that. Tell me about your Year End Rap Ups. When did that start? The first Rap Up came from a freestyle that I did on my Neptunes mixtape. So the Common song [“Come Close”] was hot and I did the Rap Up. I’d been watching all these year-end shows and I was like, “yo – someone should do that with hip hop.” So I did a Rap Up and **** took off. **** was bigger than me. 2002: **** was nuts. I performed that record ‘til August. I sat at home and MP3ed it to damn near every DJ in the country – individually. And the next thing I know, I’m on the road from a Rap Up. I’m on tour with mother ****ers that I ain’t even supposed to be on tour with because of a freestyle. Musiq Soulchild, Xzibit, 50 Cent when he first popped… It got to a point where, with 50 and them, in the middle of the tour, these ni--as was at the show. Like he had no reason to come to the venue early, but the last two weeks of the tour we lookin’ to the side of the stage and we see Banks and them. Next year comes around, I do another one – it ain’t as hot as the first one, ‘cause the year wasn’t that good. 2004 I did another one. I said I wasn’t gonna do one, but I did one anyway. It was ok, it got a couple chuckles here and there. But the one this year feels like the first one. It’s long as a mother ****er – it’s like seven minutes long. The beat is slow and the Rap Up ain’t one of them songs where you need to be rapping – you just need to say it so everybody can hear it and digest it. It’s the ultimate barbershop record. It’s like I found something that’s mine that people only want to hear from me. In hip hop that’s unheard of. I started wearing the Kobe jersey under my other jersey. When I took that shirt off and said, “damn Kobe/in high school you was the man Kobe/what the **** happened to you” they just went crazy. I was in Bolder, Colorado, two nights, sold out, and somebody sent me a Lakers jersey with the number 8 on it that had Bryant on the back and Colorado Penitentiary on the front, in the Lakers lettering. And I was rappin’ that **** and I turned my back and dropped my **** off so all they could see was Bryant number 8. And when I turned around – they went nuts. And it was all white people. Yo that **** is way bigger than me - dude offered me $2,500 for that jersey that night. Have you gotten any other reactions to things that you’ve written – in particular with the year end rap ups? That’s what’s crazy. Here’s the thing – I’ll tell you what it is: Ni--as don’t **** with you or feel like they gotta say nothing to you if you’re not on their level. Like ni--as are like, “ok, I hear your little song at the top of the year, whatever, then I don’t hear about it no more. Cool.” I guarantee you, if I was on 106 & Park ni--as would have a lot of **** to say! Put me on the cover of a magazine and let me say all of the **** I say… Flex said something, but he never followed through, and Jermaine Dupri had some words with me, but he never thought he would see me again. Jermaine Dupri said something to you? On the radio, he said some slick **** out his mouth. They were talking about the Shaquille O’Neal beef, and he said something like, “yeah, I heard his little record. But I wanna know, what else does he do? Does he do something else besides talk about ni--as?” Not knowing that the radio ni--a got my personal number, and was like, “well, I got his number, I can probably call him if you wanna holla at him.” And Jermaine called his bluff, like, “yeah – do that!” He called me at 7:30 in the morning, and ni--as emailed like, “yo Jermaine is on the radio talking **** about you.” I called the ****ing radio station, and this ni--a starts dancing around the question. “I mean I just asked a legitimate question. I asked what else do you do? I wasn’t trying to be funny when I said it.” He said whatever, but he never thought he’d see me again. Then I saw that ni--a at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors, he was behind me in line. Can you imagine how ****ed up that is? And I’m like, “yeah, I’m picking up some credentials for Skillz.” And he had this look on his face, like what the **** is this ni--a doing here? And you know me, I’m like, “yo what’s good playboy? What’s poppin’?” I’ma always be like that. I’m an asshole. I can be a dickhead. At the same time, that’s allowed you to be able to say whatever you want without repercussions. I mean, [knocks on wood] I ain’t saying ni--a ain’t gonna steal me coming out of mother ****in’ LAX. It just hasn’t happened yet. And I said it in 2002, ni--as better say something ‘cause I’m getting too ****ing cocky. And I’ve said some slick **** about Eminem, but he said some slick **** about somebody that I’m cool with, and I ain’t appreciate it. You know, “Mr. I don’t care if you dis me on a record that only comes out in Japan – if I hear it, I’m gonna address it.” He didn’t address me. I wonder why. I’m a ****ing problem. I’m sorry, but I’m a ****ing problem. That’s the last thing ni--as want: a mad Mad Skillz. You piss me off and I will do some Shaq **** to you. Like I made a whole mixtape against Shaq in like two days. I overdid it. That CD had 14 tracks on it. I had comedians on that. I had me coaching him in the booth. It’s the funniest **** ever. I sold like 20,000 of them ****ing mixtapes – thank you Shaq! There was this one skit where I was in the Staples Center shooting freethrows, and I was like, “yo, this **** ain’t hard dawg.” And I said on one of the songs, “yo dawg, I understand, if you see me, if you wanted to beat my ass. Because I would be that mad at myself too.”

If DMX releases the album this summer right around the time his reality series comes out his record sales'll be through the roof...

Well either way even if he does all these films or not, it's dissapointing that he's in line for all these films after saying in all interviews last year about how he was planning on touring and how he wanted to be more involved with music but then all we hear is him being involved with all these film projects, I mean come on now I'd like to hear some news of him doing a performance or a guest appearance in between, come on now he got a recording studio in his trailer on the road and at his house, it's not that hard to release some music for the fans in between, it's like you just don't go from saying how you're gonna be involved more with music and then sign up for all these films, wtf? :hmm:

I was chatting with somebody on the okayplayer board who has all the album sales and I asked him how much "Lost and Found" sold at this point and he told me that the total now is 686,086 copies for anyone still keeping score, basically it's at the same amount it was a few months ago when Frenetic was saying it's close to shipping platinum so is that enough for him to ship platinum?

It'd probably take everybody who bought "Lost and Found" to sign it, too bad not all of them have internet access....