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Well the question was who makes the best albums, now if it was best lyrics it'd be Big Will now barely, he's been consistantly strong, but albums consist of lyrics and music, now nobody produces better music than Jazzy Jeff, Pete Rock, etc., I'll take them over Trackmasters, Freshmen, etc anyday, now if Will brings strong lyrics over Jazzy Jeff and Pete Rock music again, it'll truly be the greatest hip-hop album of all-time...

that song has grown on me a lil' bit since i first heard it, i like that he sampled Afrika Bambattaa on there, i was ranting on the hot 97 site last week 'cause i was dissapointed that they put bow wow's song on rotation and they ain't playing LL's song much yet, i got some others to go along with it but somehow bow wow won, probably JD and Ciara paid for it to win, lol, it was funny hearing angie martinez talking about how a lot of people on the site dissed bow wow even though he won in the poll, lol, she took my suggestion and put LL in consideration this week, that made my day to know that what i said made an impact on a radio station, maybe we could make suggestions for them to play "tell me why" next week when we vote for LL this week since the peeps at hot 97 read the feedback, it might work...

I think the storytelling category is something Slick Rick owns but nobody could tell a funnier story than the Fresh Prince, who's the king of hip-hop comedy....

Hey y'all vote for LL's song with J-Lo to get on Hot 97's playlist this week and leave feedback there too: http://www.hot97.com/music/angies_music.aspx

Spike Lee's now criticising 50 Cent and Irv Gotti: Spike Lee Bashes 50 Cent and Irv Gotti in New Ish of Complex Monday - February 6, 2006 by Carl "H.D." Chery Spike Lee criticizes 50 Cent and Irv Gotti for promoting violence in hip-hop in the February/March issue of Complex Magazine. Never one to hold his tongue, the controversial movie director blamed Gotti and 50 for helping perpetuate violence in hip-hop in a Complex feature. "I love hip-hop," Lee told the magazine. "But there are certain elements that are just [problematic]. You name your company Murder Incorporated, your logo's got bullet holes in it, you changed your name to Gotti, and you wonder why your ass is in court? I mean, come on. You want to be a gangster? Alright, well gangsters go to jail; gangsters get shot. I mean, look, 50 Cent has made a lot of money, but whatever you are doing that makes you have to put a bulletproof vest on your 5-year-old son, that's time for some deep introspective ****." Spike didn't stop there. The outspoken director also bashed Fif's motion picture debut, Get Rich or Die Trying, and his video game, indicating that they negtively influence impressionable kids. "That whole mantra-'Get Rich or Die Tryin'-for me that's criminal," Lee explained. "Because young brothers, they took that to heart: 'Whatever I got to do to get them rims, get my fly gear, to get my bitches and hos, I'm going to do it. **** who I got to hurt, who I got to shoot, who I got to kill.' That's crazy to me. And his video game, Bulletproof? I'm sorry, I can't get with that." This doesn't mark the first time Spike speaks out against hip-hop. He recently dissed Snoop Dogg and pimp culture during a Black History Month event at University of Florida. Complex's issue also features Lee addressing violence in video games, diversity in Hollywood and "Chappelle's Show." Complex Magazine's February/March issue is on newsstands now.

Here's some more details: Police Seek To Question Tony Yayo & Others In Busta Video Shooting By Nolan Strong Date: 2/6/2006 10:19 am Police are seeking to question G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo in connection with a shooting on a Busta Rhymes video set that left one man dead with a gunshot wound to the back. While he is not an official suspect, police are seeking to question Yayo about a heated argument that took place on the set of the video, which was being filmed on location in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, New York. Israel Ramirez, 29, was gunned down shortly after midnight on Sunday (Feb. 5), about a half-hour after a group of men were ordered to leave the building after an argument on the set. He was rushed to Woodhull Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m. Ramirez was in charge of guarding Busta Rhymes' cache of jewelry, which was being used in the video. Police are investigating what rappers' entourages were present and if any of the men were connected to the shooting. Rhymes was shooting a video for his latest single "Touch It (Remix)". The video's cameo appearance list included G-Unit members 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks, DMX, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott and other high profile celebrities. Yayo and Rhymes are labelmates on Interscope Records, home to Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and 50 Cent's G-Unit Records imprint. Contradicting earlier reports, Rhymes, Ramirez and others were in front the studio when shots were fired, sending people running for their lives. The make of the gun used in the shooting has not been confirmed: reports have cited the shots came from an AK47, while others have identified the weapon as a 9mm or a .45. Eight spent shells were also recovered. Police are scanning video footage to see of the murdered has been captured on tape but have yet to find a suspect or a motive in the shooting. According to the New York Post, police are having difficulties contacting Busta Rhymes and at least 50 other people that believe were at the scene of the shooting. Submit News!

Well the more quality you are, the less you sell, the audience that listens to "Grillz" wouldn't like "Tell Me Why" even if it did come out now, Will wants respect not high sales anyway, he ain't sweatin' over the charts, they don't measure a real mc, but I don't know maybe y'all think he should start being like Kanye West and start crying 'cause he didn't sell more and get enough awards?...

Well Will started recording his next album, it's too late now... Let's just stop talking about when it'll come out 'cause it ain't happenin', face it... :paperbag:

You actually think that Interscope's gonna drop Will, lol? The "Lost and Found" album's about to be certified platinum, they can't do that, what more could they expect from milking "Switch"? Now if 50 Cent only did that then they'd drop him 'cause they got higher expectations for him, you can't expect a clean 37 year old rapper to sell 5 million with just 1 hit single, everybody knows it ain't '97/98 anymore, times changed and nobody's anticipting Will, maybe if they actually put effort into release more singles/allowing him to perform other songs at shows besides "Switch" and it still only did that then I could see them dropping him... Nick Cannon sold less than "Born To Reign" with his album, it's not a surprise Jive dropped him, but honestly how could you expect people to have interest in an album if you release the 1st single a year before you release the album, that was the dumbest promotion move ever, lol, I think the results could be better this time for him though since "Wildin' Out" is the #1 show on MTV, he has a fanbase now...

I'm gonna check out this album and see if he improved from the 1st one, I think he could be better than a lot of rappers out now if he focuses on it, now that he got a new deal he'll be able to promote himself better, being on Jive wasn't good for him....

Congrats to the Steelers for winning Super Bowl XL, the road for the Eagles to win Super Bowl XLI begins now

:word: You gotta understand that Will don't represent gangsta rap in any of his songs, if you're a true fan of him you should know this man, lol...But anyways remember that G Unit is also under Interscope Records so if Will leaves Interscope there's no chance in hell he'll go there anyway, that'd be like staying on Interscope... If hell froze over and went to G Unit, I would stop listening to Will and never listen to G Unit either, I'd hope that he'd hang up the mic before doing that 'cause that's career suicide going against everything he was doing his entire career and breaking his promise to his grandma...

Yeah I don't think it's a diss song towards Eminem either, basically what Will said about Eminem is that he moved on from that negativity that Em threw towards him even though it bothered him, he went on to make 20 million per film, and the song as a whole is a warning shot for people not to take his niceness as a free pass to diss him, obviously some young punk didn't listen to the song....

if will said what? :hmm: i'd never listen to g-unit 'cause i think they suck!!

i would love to hear will freestyle to the "touch it" beat, that track's crazy!! busta's album comes out next week too, i can't wait to check for that.... it's an unfortunate situation that happened at his video shoot, he's a positive brother, he don't get down with that gangsta crap...

why'd will go to g-unit for? he'd start his own label and release albums before he'd go to G Unit, he might like 50 Cent but he knows that 50 Cent does not represent the kind of music he does so he wouldn't go there, those who go there are desperate for a record deal and can't afford to go anywhere else but Will is one of the richest men in America so he don't have to go that low, there's no exuse to go there!! 50 cent might be beggin will for a record deal in a few years btw though, lol... btw, Will might like 50 a lil' but there's no way that he likes 50 as much as we like Will as our favorite rapper, I don't think he'd call 50 his favorite... if will signed to g unit i'd never post here again and probably would stop listening to him, i'd be devasted...

That'd be funny if he did though :wiggle:

Well some rap artists could just be fans of hip-hop so in that sense you could call them hip-hop, now as far as their music being true I'm not quite sure about that either, lots of imitation going on these days in my opinion, you can't believe that every rapper grew up hustling but I'm sure some of them did, I think the problem of the rap game is that only pimp rappers get heard, it's like anybody who express how they didn't grow up in that life can't get a chance to get played, it ain't the rappers' fault....

well i ain't saying he's great either, but i'm willing to check him out more now that he ain't on g unit, that's all i was saying...

well i think it'll be for the better, the ones who say that game'll be worse are the ones who like watered down pop rap, now game could be more hip-hop now that he's away from them pop rappers, he might not do high numbers but he'll be more respected as an mc than he was before...

The Game really is improving as an mc since he left G Unit, I can't wait to see what his next album sounds like....

Well I think JJFP are also rap too, not just hip-hop, 'cause some of their songs are fantasies that ain't actually a part of their everyday real life, basically nobody's albums are 100% reality for an artist, some of it is fantasy for the person saying it but it could be reality for somebody else just like cartoons and movies that have real life themes even though the characters ain't real you could say, lol, rap could be fiction or nonfiction, like some songs I write ain't necessarily a part of my life but they tell a story that might be part of somebody else's life so that part of me is a part of only rapping and when I write songs about what I personally experience that makes it a hip-hop song I'm rapping, and another thing just 'cause you don't like a certain artist doesn't mean they're not hip-hop, those who hate Black Eyed Peas and MC Hammer might point out and say they ain't hip-hop just like when you hate on Nelly and 50 Cent and say they ain't hip-hop, well I think they're all hip-hop 'cause they express themselves in different ways whether you like them or not, hip-hop is their life, they were doing it/fans of it before they had record deals and they'll still have love for it even when they don't have a record deal, now somebody who just does a rap album when in reality their heart's into another entertainment field or profession and they got not passion for the history of hip-hop, they're just doing rap, that's the way I look at it... Like I said before these hip-hop artists today ain't the 1st ones to floss with ice and money and rims, what about Slick Rick's jewlery? What about LL's album cover for "Walking With A Panther" or Eric B. and Rakim's cover to "Paid In Full"? A lot of them paved the way for what a lot do now.... Nelly made that point on "Beef II" when he was battling with KRS that KRS held a gun on the cover on one of his albums and did a song on there called "Super Hoe" but then calls Nelly a negative influence but wasn't some things that KRS did were considered offensive? He said something about how KRS called him not being hip-hop for doing that but KRS says everything he does is? I mean how many people has KRS shot if having guns is a reality for him? lol, of course that part is fiction which makes some things he does rap, they ain't his reality but it exists though.... That's like what Lerkot said how KRS could be bulls***n' sometimes too much about what is or what isn't hip-hop like his s*** don't stink sometimes, he's one of the greatest artists in hip-hop history but sometimes he's doing rap too, not everything he does is just hip-hop, but sometimes he makes it seems like he's only hip-hop but he's rap too, hip-hop and rap go hand and hand most of the time, except if you ain't really that much into being a part of the hip-hop culture and you just do rap songs once in a while... If LL came out and dissed Nelly and said that he was a negative influence for rapping about sex so much then he'd look like a hyprocrite too, I mean am I really to believe that all they do is have sex with girls all day? That's the part that's fantasy which makes them rap but they also make songs on their albums that apply to their real life too so they're also hip-hop artists, of course LL does it way better but Nelly expresses himself too, being a hip-hop artist is about expressing all sides to an artist when you put the time into making albums, now if somebody just limits themselves to one thing they're rap Some hip-hop artists are better than others but it's like not everybody in hip-hop is the most skilled, it's just the NBA, some score 20 points, some score 5 points but they're a part of the NBA, and it's that way with artists like Nelly and 50 Cent, they might not be legends but they're still a part of hip-hop and they worked hard to get a record deal, hate 'em or love 'em.... The thing is though some rappers might rap about the hustling and the gang banging 'cause that's what they've experienced so that's doing hip-hop but if a white kid in the suburbs does songs about hustling and gangbanging then they're doing rap and they'll only be rap if that's all they talk about if that ain't something they personally know, that's the difference, it's fantasy for the kids but for the hardcore rapper it's reality... I personally am a hip-hop fan/hip-hop artist but until I get signed to a record deal you can't call me a rap artist 'cause rap artists have to be on record labels....

Hip-hop consists of many things like rapping/mc'ing which is a part of hip-hop, but there's also break dancing, DJ'ing, graffti art, hip-hop journalism. or even just being a spectator you're hip-hop, while rap music is basically just somebody doing lyrics when they're signed to a record label, the way I look at it hip-hop's defination is endless while rap is limited to having a contract to release a rap album, for example I'd say Shaq is an example of rap while JJFP are an example of hip-hop....

Great drawing! :1-smile:

Daily Hip-Hop News: Breaking News: Gunfire Erupts At Busta Rhymes Video Shoot, One Man Dead Sunday - February 5, 2006 by Rich Rock SOHH.com has learned that gunfire erupted on the set of a Busta Rhymes video shoot early this morning in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, NY, leaving one mad dead on the sidewalk. One man, a bodyguard who worked for the studio, is dead. The shootout took place shortly after midnight this morning outside of the Kiss The Cactus Production studio in Brooklyn where over 200 people were on the scene for the Busta video shoot. Fourteen shots were fired from what is believed to have been an AK-47 assault rifle killing one and leaving a nearby Dodge Durango SUV riddled with five bullets. The police found the 30-year-old hispanic bodyguard dead on the sidewalk in front of the production studio with one gunshot to the chest. It is unclear whether the shooting had any direct relations to Busta. Police are examining the video from nearby cameras to find more information. This is not the first shooting close call for Busta Rhymes. On February 21, 2003, Busta's SUV was riddled with bullets as it sat parked outside the Violator Records/Management offices in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. Busta and a company executive went into the Violator offices at about 10pm that night and came out eighteen minutes later to find the vehicle shot up on the passenger side. Thankfully, no one was in the car. SOHH.com will have more on this story as it develops.