bigted

Hey I made a post on Will's board asking for a new single comin' out, everybody here should post to show interest, keep this on the front page ahead of the silly topics since this is important: http://www.willsmith.com/message/thread.cf..._id=6771&page=1 Will better hook me up with some tickets when he does tour 'cause I've been promoting him pretty hard on my freetime. :kekeke: James Brown never makes videos anymore but his tour last year was one of the highest selling tours of the year and Will's the hardest workin' man of showbuisiness in this generation so he could get the same kinda love doing a tour, I don't see him slowing down either, those guys don't seem human to me, I wanna know what vitamins they take. :afro:

I'm sure Will's preparing to do something to help the album more, he's been in the music buisiness for 20 years, he knows how to handle this, just chill y'all! :kool:

I think I saw "Switch" played about 10 times on TV in the last 2 months, with "Candy Shop" getting airplay 10 times a day sometimes in that span, but I guess TV doesn't control everything as much as we believe it does, since everywhere Will goes to perform, peeps show him love, he's an international star, I don't think a world tour would have a hard time selling out. :poke: Maybe some of us could post over at the Will Smith board and ask if they're working on "Tell Me Why" video or preparing a tour, maybe the moderators might know.

Well looking over the album lists I made it's obvious why I think FP, LL, KRS, Rakim, and Chuck D are the greatest mcs ever since their longevity to dominate is similiar to Michael Jordan playing in an All-Star in the beginning of his career with Dr. J to ending his career competing with Allen Iverson, they've gone from the Run-Dmc era to the Nas era and still have the same power now like they did back then, 2Pac deserves to be ranked high 'cause the impact he had on such a short-period was amazin', but I think Biggie's overrated 'cause he bit 2Pac's style and there were many other rappers on the east-coast like Pete Rock and CL Smooth and Tribe Called Quest who put out great music that was underrated when the west coast gangsta rap was dominating in the early '90s, if "Mecca and The Soul Brother" was released now, it'd be the best album this decade, that album was very much slept on, "Low End Theory" would be #2 and I didn't even put it in the top ten in the '90s, which tells how much better it was then compared to now, "Willenium" and "Big Willie Style" were also classics but "Code Red" is just a lil' bit more timeless, it's amazing though not many hip-hop critics give JJFP the respect they deserve, but they could be compared with the best hip-hop artists in any era. :blabla:

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I agree with you on this list...but God's Son doens't deserve to be on there! "Stillmatic" is way better then "God's Son" in my eyes! God's Son only has a couple of great songs. You got "Get Down", "The Cross", the classic single "Made You Look" and that's almost about it!. The rest are filler tracks man! "I Can" was corny as hell! "Zone Out" was just plain wack! If you look at "Stillmatic" it's another case! "Ether" is a classic battle song! "One Mic" is a classic! "You're Da Man", "Smokin", "My Country" are all great songs! "Rewind" is a great way of story telling! This album is way better then God's Son! Only thing you could say is that the first single was kinda corny! "Got Ur Self A Gun" isn't on the same level as "Made You Look"! Yeah I love "Stillmatic" too, I was listening to that yesterday, but I say "God's Son" is one of the best albums he ever made 'cause of the tracks that he made about his mother, I thought "I Can" had a great message for the kids so even though it ain't my favorite song from him I can't put that down 'cause it wasn't your average hip-hop single with money talk, you didn't like "Warrior's Song" with Alicia Keys which I thought would've made a better single than "I Can" 'cause that was a powerful song, "Last Real N--- Alive" which was a story about his career, "Thugz Mansion" with 2Pac which was a hot single, "Book Of Rhymes" which was a witty track, or "Dance" and "Heaven" that he made about his mother passing which put the album at the top for me? The only track I skip over is "Zone Out", which I agree with you should've been off the album. I thought he poured his heart in that album, that album should've went mulitplatinum and won a Grammy, I thought "Stillmatic" was overhyped 'cause of the Jay-Z beef and "God's Son" deserved more recognition but they're both great albums that solidify him as one of the greatest mcs who ever touched the mic, if anyone doubted him before 2000, although I think "Illmatic" can't possibly be #1 'cause there were quite a few albums that set the standard in hip-hop before that album, it still deserves to be in the top 10, besides "Paid In Full" is flawless, it was made 20 years ago almost and still sounds great today, don't sleep on Marley Marl he was a legendary producer in hip-hop, the production on LL's "Mama Said Knock You Out" is also flawless, JJFP should work with him one day, I don't get either why Slick Rick's and KRS debut albums weren't on the list either?

Comin' from MTV this was pretty impressive, but it's far from a perfect, some of those artists there that wasn't even their best albums(2Pac, NWA), and Fugees "The Score" deserved to have been mentioned if "Reasonable Doubt" was mentioned 'cause that was the album of the year in '96, and I was rather impressed that they didn't mentioned any albums from 2000 and after 'cause this is the worst decade in hip-hop so far.

Allen Iverson played with a lot of heart in Game 5, I gotta give him props for keep on playing, he look like he broke his ankle, when he came back out there, I thought the Sixers were gonna pull it off. And damn, the Bulls lost a heartbreaker just now, it was one hell of comeback though, they come back and tie the game after being down 10 points with less than a minute to go, but Arenas hit the game winner with time expiring. Well I still think the Bulls could win Game 6, they need to come out strong and play the way the finished this game just now.

What up Daniel, welcome to forum, I hope you enjoy it here! :peace:

Hey I found a link with MTV's list of the 10 greatest albums of all time, for some of these mcs there it wasn't there best albums, and I thought "Illmatic" was ranked too high, "It Takes A Nation Of Millions" should switch places with that one, and there was no JJFP, KRS-ONE, or LL on the list, but at least they put "Paid In Full" at #1. http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/20...5/index11.jhtml

:werd: I say it's a three-way tie! :ridepony:

KRS-ONE "The Movement" "We ain't about selling records, we ain't music merchants We mcs, we go to the club and straight hurt s***" :ali:

P.Diddy is an overrated as a producer, he bit most of his producing style off of Teddy Riley, who was the 1st producer to blend hip-hop flava into r&b tracks, Dr. Dre did the opposite of course blending funk flava into hardcore hip-hop tracks.

The album'll go at least platinum worldwide that's for sure so stop panicking everybody! :afro:

Jazzy Jeff and Grandmaster Flash should make a mixtape together, that'd be musical genious! :bowdown:

Hey Will or Jeff if you're reading this, we need y'all to go on tour, peeps will buy the album more if there was a tour, they got give the peeps what they need! :peace:

Wow miracles do happen!

Bigted, I know that you so badly want the past to come back. But reality is, it's never going to come back. What we have now is just a different flavour of hip-hop. Agreed that 90's rap was amazing and nothing can ever replace it. But then some of the present artists are also in their own individual way trying their best. Nobody is blind or anything if they see the present hip-hop and find it enjoyable. It's just that people have different tastes in rap. Rap/hip-hop is not limited to only a certain artists, but it is a wide spectrum of different varieties of talents. So real hip-hop doesn't mean it only includes KRS 1, Rakim, etc. but it can also include 50 Cent, Eminem, etc. There is nothing wrong with it. You need not be a fan or anything of the current hip-hoppers, but maybe you should try and include some of the other artists too in the hip-hop world. Don't you think? :thumb:

Melle Mel is the greatest rapper? Well Kool Moe Dee says Melle Mel is the greatest rapper ever, have you ever heard "The Message", that song's living forever in hip-hop history, that's timeless. I wouldn't mind if JJFP collaborated with Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel, that'd be one collabo I'd be down for, but on the most part there should be less collabos and more JJFP material.

You sir, seriously need a clue. You're downgrading the audience, because not every video out has throwback jerseys, champagne, etc. A Good video is a good video, period - stop tryin to be a hip hop purist, and enjoy music no matter who puts it out.

I knew that Bad Boy Records and New Edition wasn't gonna last too long, they need to go somewhere and get more creative freedom, P.Diddy controls his artists too much. :poke:

I don't think Will will be abandoning hip hop anytime soon. About him possibly releasing wack music if he starts doing films again. That has no real basis. Look at Lost and Found. Will didn't have to take a year off to focus on the album. Even while working on other projects, he was in his music, focusing, writing lyrics for Lost and Found, even while he had I, Robot and Hitch in the works. Look how well Lost and Found turned out.

:werd: My thoughts exactly, if this album doesn't do well sales wise, commercial hip-hop'll remain wack, I'm hoping for the best, the essence of hip-hop is dying, somebody has to save it!

Hey if we don't like the Will Smith forum that much, shouldn't we post over at Jeff's forum instead? I was lookin' over there and there's hardly any new posts, we gotta show some love to Jeff too!

All the wackest s*** right now are the ones that're sellin', the best single in hip-hop this year has been Nas' "Just A Moment" but it didn't even hit the top 40, Will ain't gonna sell 5 million unless he has a video with rims, girls in thongs, champange bottles, and throwback jerseys, all these chart rappers are lost, f the charts, this album's doing very well if u ask me, Will's gettin' a lot of props for it, would you rather have him put out some corny s*** that sells 10 million and have every hip-hop head diss him or do you want him to put out music that matters that doesn't sell much? The album is far from a failure if u ask me, even if it falls off the charts now. :poke: