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Everybody could relate to Will's songs like "Chasing Forever", "Just The Two Of Us", "Tell Me Why", "The Rain", "Afro Angel", "Twinkle Twinkle..." "Who Am I?", "Could You Love Me", and "Ms. Holy Roller" though to name a few, Will doesn't always talk about money and jewlery in all his songs, neither does Jay-Z, but Jigga does talk about money and jewlery sometimes though, he can't say that all of his music everyone could relate to.

FP and Mary J. Blidge "Tell Me Why", everytime I hear this song, the more I wanna see the video! :toetap:

"Tell Me Why" must came out this month or the album could fall off the charts.

Dr. Dre "The Watcher"

Well this could be a good move, I'm not a big fan of Jay-Z' music but I admire his hustle as a buisiness man, you can't just live off of making albums, it's good to endorse yourself, and he obviously respects Will for being a smart buisinessman too, this could be a nice movement for hip-hop here! :thumb:

Yeah there's a lot to think about from what he's saying there, I saw him on ESPN2's morning show "Cold Pizza" today talking about his experiences in college.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.d...415/1002/SPORTS Chapman: Racial taboos affected stay at UK Says dating habits bothered many By Michael Smith mssmith@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal LEXINGTON, Ky. -- He was "King Rex" on the basketball court at the University of Kentucky, cheered by a multitude of fans who adored his scissor-kick jump shot and high-flying romps to the basket. Off the court, Rex Chapman was told by UK athletic officials to lead a lifestyle that didn't agree with his own beliefs, he told The Courier-Journal yesterday. With all of the attention for his basketball exploits at UK came an unwelcome scrutiny of his private life, which included interracial dating. On the court, he was the "Great White Hope," he said, but off it his dates with African-American women created a stir among UK athletic officials and others. "I went down to my car one morning and somebody had keyed 'nigger lover' into the door," Chapman said. "It's the climate of how things were. People were bothered by the fact that sometimes I dated black girls. Most preferred that I keep it confidential and hide it." Chapman, 37, now the director of basketball operations for the Phoenix Suns, drew attention last week during a TNT telecast for saying race might have played a role in voting for the National Basketball Association's MVP award. Suns guard Steve Nash, who is white, won the award by a narrow margin over Miami's Shaquille O'Neal, who is black. Later in the week, in an interview with Jason Whitlock for a story on ESPN.com, Chapman talked openly about the role of race in the MVP voting and the intense scrutiny on his dating habits at UK. Reached yesterday by The Courier-Journal, Chapman said the racial climate and his treatment by UK athletic officials, boosters and others played a large role in his decision to enter the NBA draft in 1988 after leading the Wildcats in scoring his freshman and sophomore seasons. "It was a big deal to me," he said. "I was being asked to lead a lifestyle that was absolutely wrong, simply for the fact that some people didn't like that I dated somebody of a different race. I mean, what is that? Is that America? "I won't name names, but I can think of at least a half-dozen times or more that somebody with the university asked that it stop or to be sure that it was kept inconspicuous. At the time I just nodded my head and said the things they wanted to hear because I was 18, 19 years old and an older person was telling me to do something. To me, that was just wrong." Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton, who was UK's coach when Chapman played, declined comment yesterday through a spokesman. Larry Ivy, an athletic administrator during Chapman's time at UK and later the school's athletic director, said he had no memory of anyone asking Chapman to stop dating African-American women. Creating a stir Former UK star Kenny Walker, one of Chapman's best friends, said he has heard Chapman's stories about racism for years. "I understand the pressures he went through and the decision he made to leave when he did," Walker said. "I've known him long enough to know that he's speaking the truth. "… Now I never had anybody specifically tell me not to date white girls, but maybe that's because a black guy and a white girl is more acceptable. Rex dealt with it in reverse, and that put a different spin on it for him." Chapman now is married with four children. His wife, Bridget, is white. He said he had no agenda for talking about racial issues he encountered at UK. It's just that this is the first time he's been asked about it. He said that he has been barraged with interview requests after the story appeared on ESPN.com and that no one from the Suns or the NBA has discouraged him from talking about race. "I don't have an ax to grind," Chapman said. "I love the University of Kentucky. I bleed blue. Hey, Steve Nash is my best friend. I look at him like a little brother, and he deserved the MVP award. "But it's asinine not to think that some people voted for Steve because he's white and some people voted for Shaq because he's black. I don't think it was enough to influence the outcome, but at the same time, there's this elephant in the room and nothing is ever going to change unless we talk about it." Part-time fans Chapman said he saw the effects of racism growing up in Owensboro, Ky., and later in Lexington and Charlotte, N.C., where his pro career began with the Hornets in 1988. Most of his friends as a child were African-American, he said, and his best friends at UK -- Ed Davender and James Blackmon -- were African-American. He said they, too, were discouraged from interracial dating. "I can think of at least three times that we were invited to dinner at the home of a friend of the university," Chapman said. "Lo and behold, one of my teammates has an interest in that person's daughter or the daughter has an interest in the teammate and when the family found out, they raised hell. They called the coaches, the AD; they stopped being involved with the program. It was crazy. "They liked the players enough to cheer for them at games, but they didn't like the players enough to let them date their daughters." On one hand, Chapman said he was the object of adulation from fans and students. Lexington was referred to as Rexington. A group of students staged a campaign to elect Chapman as president of the Student Government Association. Women wore T-shirts that read, "I love Rex." At the same time, vandals scarred his car, Chapman was the subject of obscene jokes and somebody who didn't appreciate his interracial dating called his mother in the middle of the night, he said. "It wasn't normal," Chapman said. "It made me uncomfortable. At one point there was a rumor that I was sneaking around with James Blackmon's black girlfriend and Ed Davender's sister. Well, Ed didn't have a sister, and James was dating a white girl. Rumors were flying around everywhere. "There were certain aspects of my time there that were really ugly. I don't know how it is today, but that's how it was 20 years ago." He's seen it before Chapman said hardly any aspect of his life in or out of basketball has been untouched by race. As far back as the seventh grade, when his AAU team finished third in a national tournament, he remembers hearing everyone from white sportswriters to relatives tell him how happy they were that he competed on the same level and flourished in a game dominated by African-American players. Kentucky's Mr. Basketball award also is tainted by racism in the voting, he said, because white players often receive preferential treatment over African-Americans. Comparisons among current and former stars often are based on race, which is unfair, he said. "Every white kid who goes to UK is the next Rex Chapman," he said. "Why can't they be the next Derek Anderson or the next James Blackmon? It's unfair. "I grew up in Kentucky, so I was somewhat prepared for the racism that existed. But if I had come from another state, I probably would have been a mental patient after two years."

Damn that looks like you had a rough fall there, take it easy bro.

LL Cool J "Feel The Beat"

Damn let it go! I heard the situation a million times about the 2Pac/Biggie beef, he basically dissed every rapper from the East Coast except Will, that was the east/west beef but if Pac was still alive I'm sure he'd squashed any beef with LL 'cause it wasn't as drastic as the one with Biggie and if he continued to diss rappers all the time I wouldn't like him at all, in fact that's the weakest point in his career when he did, he shoulda took time off from music and got his life together before recording again, 50 Cent should learn from the mistakes that Pac made but his imitating Pac's weakness. Like I said before if 50 ain't doing drugs good for him but that doesn't make him better than anybody else, he should lead by example then maybe I'll respect his ass! So what if Jessie Jackson had an affair too? 50 Cent was a drug dealer before too, nobody's perfect like I said before, but Jessie Jackson has done many more powerful things than 50 Cent ever will, and for you to say don't judge 50 Cent and then criticize Jessie Jackson is hypocritical. I said I don't like 50 Cent as a hip-hop artist but as a person I have no idea what he's like 'cause I don't personally know him, and you defend him so much like you personally know him, and that's retarted! I wasn't defending LL as much as a person I was depending him as a hip-hop artist but there's enough good things that he's done to prove that he has a good heart as well as his lyrics, that's just also retarted for a female to defend 50 Cent more than LL 'cause LL was never accused of beating up women or anything of that nature and has shown nothing but respect for women.

Outkast "The Way You Move" :afro:

LL didn't say one line about 2Pac in "I Shot Ya", 2Pac must of misunderstood what LL was sayin' there 'cause he just got shot or might've dissed LL 'cause LL dissed Pac's good friends MC Hammer and Ice-T in the song, LL never said anything bad about 2Pac in his interviews either so I don't get what that beef would be about? 50 Cent is nothing but a 2Pac wannabe, LL originated his style 20 years ago and is the "G.O.A.T." so don't even think about sayin' 50's better than LL! Hell Nick Cannon has more heart than 50 Cent, his new song "Can I Live" is more powerful than 50's entire career! If 50's dumb enough to diss LL in any way his career will be finished, please don't act like a 50 cent groupie, you made your point already! Jessie Jackson needs to be respected 'cause he did a lot for the civil rights movement, nobody's perfect like I said, none of us are angels, like Pac once said "Only God Can Judge Me"!

Well after Will gave Tim a shout-out, it's more believable that he's checkin' this site out now! :kool:

I was hoping for it to blow up more than it did, but realistically I didn't think it was gonna do that well 'cause I didn't see it getting much airplay, but I'm starting to see the video more and I'm just happy to see the legend get some airplay 'cause a lot of other legends don't get no airplay at all, anyway I have faith that "Tell Me Why" is gonna blow up though so it's all good. :thumb:

I decided to open up this topic one more time to get one thing clear, I know more about 50 Cent as a hip-hop artist than I do as a person so my opinion on him is based on his music, his music is meaningless, but I don't know that much about him as a person so I ain't dissin' him for that, but he did admit to not take care of his kids so I ain't feelin' him for that, all these negative comments he makes in the media too give me the impression that he's doing all this to sell records, some of this could be the media possibly trying to bring him down, but if he doesn't do drugs good for him, I ain't trying to be a hater and I ain't perfect either. The fact is though Chuck D, Al Sharpton, and Jessie Jackson criticize him too when they usually back any black man doing good things in society so it's not like fans are the only ones to criticize him. LL's a legend musically making songs about many things besides booty shaking and love songs although they're effective hits on his resume, but even 2Pac made song called "I Get Around" and "How Do U Want It?" about being a playa, but it's aight for him to do that 'cause he put a lot of heart into his other songs as well that 50 Cent never did so far, LL makes deep songs like 2Pac did also, in fact Pac gave LL props before, if he was alive they'd do a track together for sure, have you ever heard "Power Of God", "Can't Think", or "Big Mama"? I haven't seen anything inspirational from 50 Cent at all, some of his songs on his mixtapes had nice punchlines but not really inspirational material for me to listen to that much. Keep in mind also that Ray Charles was a drug addict but didn't put that negativity in his music. That's my last 2 cents, chill y'all! :peace:

Tribe Called Quest Feat. L.O.N.S. "Scenerio"

Well I'm most known for my poetry, freestyling, and songwriting skills that I love to do the most on my free time, but I also love playing basketball, jogging, and lifting weights, dancing, spending time with my family and friends that take time for me, reading books to give me ideas for the songs I write, studying a computer programming college course I'm taking, I have plans to become a computer programmer one day, saving my money up and further my studying even further and eventually starting my own independent record label one day to not record some of my songs but to help out peeps in my area that have talent too in whatever music they do, give them a place to express themselves, I wanna try to make a difference in my life and be an inspiration for people more than being famous, just like the way JJFP and a few other of my inspirations inspire me! :thumb:

Well rappers like LL and FP tend to make songs about what's currently going on in their lives more than Jay-Z does even though they're all known more for their club tracks, but everybody's different and has different tastes in music, Jay-Z likes to reminise off his past more so if some wanna hear more 'hood stories they'll listen to Jay-Z but if they wanna hear somethin' about everyday life in general, they'll listen to FP or LL, a lot of people buy their albums so you can't really hate on them for that.

My prayers go out to her!

Yeah this show could put Rev. Run back in the spotlight again, I'm looking forward to it! :thumb:

Guy "Spend The Night"

Hey I don't like him that much as a hip-hop artist, but I don't see nothin' wrong with LL doing love/party songs, people could relate to them, I don't see anything that would influence the kids to go down the wrong path, but with 50 Cent he raps about doing drugs, getting high, and having shootouts in the street, do we want our kids to grow up and get influenced from that, but this is only entertainment even though some don't think so, damn chill y'all! :blabla: I actually like of 50's earlier stuff before "Get Rich Or Die Trying", but I don't like a lot of his stuff now 'cause I think it's corny, I have a right to my opinion and you don't have to like LL as an artist but you should at least acknowledge that he ain't trying to be a fake gangsta just to sell albums.

Well the interview is 6 years old and Jigga probably would've learned to be more open minded but if he still says that his music is more real than Will's that'd sound awkward 'cause he's rich too and doesn't live in the streets anymore either but that doesn't mean he ain't "real" just the same as Will who's still "real" too and just 'cause he might've grew up in a tougher 'hood than Will doesn't make him more "real" either, people who say that Jigga's music is more real than Will's are ignorant 'cause both of their lives are different, I personally like Will more than Jay-Z but that's just my opinion and this is a forum so I'm gonna express it, and the thing about Will's originality, a lot of rappers bite their styles off of him by putting out party singles, Will always rap about his life in his music so I'd say that he's still an individual representin' his art but I think his most original work was the 5 albums that he did with Jazzy Jeff, even though I think "Lost and Found" is great, he needs to go back to doing what he does best and not worry about addressing haters, not everybody's gonna like him, but back in the day it was cool to be original, but now if you ain't gangsta you ain't cool or "real", so he should just continue what he does best with Jazzy Jeff: 2 turntables and a mic to rock the house with a lil' ol' school/new school flava to please all ages.

:werd: Those pics don't looked that far advanced from what PS2 is, but there is an extreme difference between PSONE and PS2, I think I'll stick with PS2 and get the games cheaper now. :poke:

Hey like I said before I could honestly care less if 50 Cent was doing drugs or not, that's his buisiness, but why does he have to talk about it so much in his music? Chuck D said in his last terrordome that he felt it's disturbing for parents to buy their kids a 50 Cent CD 'cause of the subject matter he talks on there. Adults are mature enough to not try to immitate they see or hear but children are not and the majority of the peeps that listen to 50 Cent are underage, is this the message that we want our kids to hear? This is just as disturbing as Eminem making a song about killing his wife, it's only entertainment but some kids don't think so, so if kids end up going down the wrong path 'cause of that I don't consider that keepin' it real. You're saying that he's keepin' it real 'cause he talks about it in his music, so those that don't talk about it in their music are fake? If somebody was dissin' LL sayin' he's soft, you'd say that he's wack too, I don't get why would you then turn around to defend 50 Cent this much? Hip-hop is becoming like any other pop music now, if you don't follow a certain format, that ain't keepin' it real, it used to be real to be yourself, that's why 50 Cent is a pop rapper and not a true mc 'cause he doesn't speak reality in his music, but LL is 'cause he puts his life in his music and should get more respect for doing that, just 'cause your CD doesn't have a PA sticker shouldn't make you soft!