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Yeah the NBA draft's on tonight, I'm probably gonna "switch" back and forth between BET and ESPN all night so I could cheer on the Bulls and JJFP/Jada!

I'm not worrying about the sales and neither is Will, let's just enjoy the performances and everything'll take care of itself, with JJFP being the greatest performers in hip-hop history people'll buy the albums, wait and see! :jazzy:

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wtf 50 Cent and Mike Jones still in the top 20? Well hopefully after the BET and Live 8 performances, he'll surpass them.

I agree with fuq, it gets kinda annoying to hear the media say that Will's a "squeaky clean rapper" 'cause he ain't the only rapper out there not cursing in his rhymes, people don't call Rakim a "squeaky clean rapper" but the albums he did with Eric B. including the one of the greatest albums ever "Paid In Full" had no PA stickers on them either, but they don't say that about Rakim probably 'cause he ain't as popular as Will, I think it's just jealousy by the media, I hope Will performs "I Wish I Made That" tonight, that'd be quite a statement right there! :chuks:

Thanks for the pics, oh damn he is going grey though, lol.

Dope pics! :2thumbs:

We could chat when a wack rapper comes on to perform too! :lolsign:

TLC "Girl Talk"

:yeahthat: Schnazz droppin' some knowledge there! Hey y'all I think the lyrics to "I Wish I Made That" is relevant to this post: "Yo, ain’t no better man for this hype track Just the veteran taking the mic back David Letterman even said he like that track man Even though he ain’t a rap fan Black radio, they won’t play though Ever since “Summertime” they ain’t liked none of mine Even though the fans went out & bought enough I guess they think Will ain’t hard enough Maybe I should just have a shoot out Run up in the bank, bustin’, grabbin’ all the loot out Whoop somebody ass, taking my boot out Right on TV so ya’ll can see me Just ignorant, attacking, actin’ rough I mean, then will I be black enough Oh wait maybe I’ll jack a truck Full of cigarettes, guns & drugs & stuff CHORUS – (2xs) Get that I wish I would of made that Lean back I wish I would of made that I wish I woulda told the girls to ‘drop it like it hot’ Summer, Summer, Summertime Seem like all I got I always envied how ya’ll rock wit Dre & the Chronic The way that Tupac, Biggie, 50 and Jigga got it A lot like L.L., Chuck D, Slick & Dougie I think ya’ll love me, but ya’ll place other rappers above me & I don’t know if you feel my flow & be at my show & you’ll see where I should go On the charts of rhyme arts & thoughts in rap form Damnit, I expanded the platform Damnit, this Cat’s on a rap song Yeah, it ain’t no braids or plats on Ain’t on stage wit no gats on You know I’m afraid, getting’ my act on It might have stunted my growth But I wanted them both & I hope that it would be less tougher You do two things & then they both gonna suffer I chose to act & it broke my heart not to rap Prodigal son, clever, better than ever, back"

Thanks for posting that mimi, Will gives some great advice, I wish more peeps would pay more attention to the knowledge he gives.

It ain't Dr. Dre's fault, he's a great artist, it's the million people who try to copy Dr. Dre instead of being original is the ones I blame, you should be yourself if you wanna make it, I don't wanna be the next Chuck D, Will Smith, or Dr. Dre, I just wanna be myself, but not many people think like that. This reminds me of what I was reading in a book called "Where You're At?": "I'm talking to Bobbito Garcia, one of the most celbrated hip-hop DJs in New York. Bobbito, with his parner Lord Sear, is the host of CM famalam on WKCR but is best known for his show with Stretch Armstrong that just about spanned the 90s between WKCR and Hot 97. a member of the Rock Steady crew(the original B-Boy crew), in his time Bobbito has been a professional bsketball player(in Puerto Rico), a journalist for the likes of Vibe and The Source and head of the respected Fondle 'Em label, and he's a DJ who's in demand the world over. “Look”, he sighs. “When people say hip-hop is dead it just shows they're not in touch. People talk about the elements of hip-hop culture, but, I tell you, in any period of hip-hop, the best stuff always had to be searched for. That's why I say that search and discovery is the most neglected element of hip-hop.” But these days hip-hop is a global buisiness... “So? Just because hip-hop is accessible globally, that doesn't make it good. But people can always find a way to hear good music. I can't tell you the number of places I've gone where they know my show, through the Internet or their friends making tapes or whatever. It's just about good music. If people want to listen to Jay-Z, they can. If people want to listen to my show, they can. Everybody has choices and nobody has to listen to anything they don't want to.”

50 Cent stepping to Pac in a battle would be more dumb than when Cannibus tried to knock off LL Cool J 'cause at least he had some talent, new rappers coming out shouldn't battle veteran mcs, I don't think 50 Cent would be that stupid to battle Pac 'cause he ain't dissin' Will Smith or KRS-ONE even though he disses a lot of mcs, he knows not to diss a real legend and Pac wouldn't waste time battlin' those wack rappers in the 1st place.

:word: The public doesn't know any better so you can't really blame them, I realise that after I think about it 'cause it ain't there fault that they only want to listen to what's advertised, instead of searching for something else that isn't advertised, I think these independent artists are very talented and if they had the same promotion as 50 cent they'd have successful careers but major labels don't sign them and sign only ones that sound like 50 cent 'cause that's the majority of what they hear on the radio so they rap like him, 10-15 years ago you'd have all kinds of different styles on a major label but since "The Chronic" came out, gangsta rappers became the majority signed on major labels, there's 1000 50 cents and eminem for every Will Smith and LL Cool J on major labels now, the problem would be fixed if there was more variety out there.

I also find it kinda disturbing too that black radio hasn't supported Will as much as they should've who's been a positive role model for blacks and embraced gangsta rappers like 50 Cent that set a bad example, we can blame the people all we want but I think the media should be blamed too, if they played more positive rap on black radio, maybe 50 Cent and Eminem would sell less and Will Smith and De La Soul would sell more.

Well those pics don't show everyone that's scheduled for performing so it's still a possibility that JJFP are performing there.

:word: This ain't nothin' new really, most of the people who buy albums are white, that's been like that ever since hip-hop crossed over, whether it's gangsta, conscious, mainstream, or underground hip-hop, hip-hop is universal, if only black people bought hip-hop albums it wouldn't be popular anymore, but the point is how many blacks have sold out from buying the rap about their culture where they could learn something and just buy the ignorant fake gangsta crap that makes them ignorant like Tim just said, which I find kinda disturbing myself.

Hey I guess they're doing it live after all, I thought they did it this weekend already. :lolsign:

That's a good idea for whoever records here, maybe Will could come by to drop some freestyles and kick all of our asses! :lolsign:

I'll just be happy to see JJFP perform, so far there's a not a mention of them performing on any of the commercials for the award show! :thumbsdown:

WILL SMITH - "potnas" ←

Yeah Pac would be 34 now and be considered ol' school, it's amazing how many peeps in hip-hop we lost over the years: Jam Master Jay, Left Eye, and Aaliyah are a few others that we didn't mention, if all them were alive still a lot of talentless artists wouldn't be signed.

:word: Will's still in the prime of his career even after all this time and Eminem seems to be past his prime since "The Eminem Show" album, his prime was only 2 years, so I don't expect Em to respond.

:metoo: Thanks for that article!

Tom Cruise has the right to express his opinion however he wants as long as he doesn't physically hurt anybody, so if people don't go to see his movie just 'cause he likes a different religion or has a different opinion on drugs than they do, I find them narrow minded, this is America where people could say whatever they want to, maybe Lauer said something Cruise didn't like so Cruise got pissed, so what? He's human and I might not agree with him but I'm not gonna hold a grudge 'cause of his opinion.