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Get Fresh Crew(Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick) "The Show", it's amazing how many rappers sampled this track, phenominal skill here! :afro: btw, welcome back 3cookies, did you hear "Lost and Found" yet?

They showed the video for the 1st time on 106&Park, it's a cool video, Mya lookin' pretty nice in that video! :kool:

:werd: I agree with that as a Bulls fan it's hard to be all sentimental about Reggie after what he did to us during his career but he has to be respected, he's one hell of a player, the Pacers'll crumble after he retires. :ali:

Good luck DJ Silver Tiger! :kool:

The Sixers are one of the hottest teams in the East right now but they're playing the defending champs, if they beat them, they could possibly go to the Finals, anything can happen. Anyway, Go Bulls! :ridepony:

That'd be dope if we could ask Will some questions on the board and he answers them, hey I might start posting there more now!

Hey I think they should re-release and remaster all the albums that he made while he was living, 'cause that's the work that should solidify his legacy.

aight here's my picks: Eastern Conference: Heat sweep Nets 4-0 Bulls beat Wizards 4-2 Pistons beat Sixers 4-1 Pacers beat Celtics 4-2 Heat beat Bulls 4-3 Pistons beat Pacers 4-1 Heat beat Pistons 4-2 Westerern Conference: Suns sweep Grizzlies 4-0 Rockets beat Mavericks 4-2 Spurs beat Nuggets 4-3 Sonics beat Kings 4-1 Spurs beat Sonics 4-1 Rockets beat Suns 4-3 Spurs sweep Rockets 4-0 NBA Finals Heat beat Spurs 4-3 :ali:

This isn't about whether I come up with a win or a loss This isn't any doubt of me being a winner, in the end you'll be the one lookin' soft I paid my dues here and this isn't me being a boss I make rhymes to stear away from mcing to floss Your defensive lines are about to clear away when I charge Since I'm the favorite 'Cause of my intelligent statements Look at my posts that I've created I could make a book from them So step away from the room 'cause you're ruined I'm about to shake up the room like the Fresh Prince I'm able to keep on the move even when I'm resting You have to manage everything you do before you try contesting DJ Silver Tiger, you can't debate the ill words of the main lyrical writer You were just booed of the stage so it's my turn and I'm gettin' this crowd hyper

Donations to help poor kids, kidney patients Associated Press MIAMI -- Alonzo Mourning is donating his Miami Heat salary for this season to charities that serve the city's underprivileged youth and help poor kidney patients. Mourning, a former Heat All-Star who rejoined the team in March as a backup center, will give about $300,000 to organizations that promote literacy and education for poor youths. That represents the Heat's share of his NBA veteran minimum salary of $1 million shared with his former team, the New Jersey Nets. Other donations are earmarked for charities that provide food to poor kidney dialysis patients. Mourning, whose basketball career was interrupted by bouts of kidney disease, received a transplant in December 2003. Mourning said Thursday that his main goal in donating his Heat salary is to publicize the work being done by a variety of organizations in South Florida. "The impact of the money is important, but it's also to create awareness about the impact these organizations are having on people's lives," he said. "The more we are able to make people aware of that, the more likely we are to find solutions for these problems." The donations will be made through Mourning's foundation, Alonzo Mourning Charities, which he founded in 1997 to assist a variety of charitable organizations in South Florida, New Jersey and the Hampton Roads, Va., area where he grew up. The foundation has donated or raised more than $1.5 million for Miami's Children's Home Society over the past nine years.

I wouldn't mind if Shaq started rappin' again, he could at least smack those G Unit fools around like he does to opposing centers. :cwm: One song from him that I liked was "Biological Father", that's a deep song. btw, those end of year wrapups by Skillz are funny, I like them, he should actually perform on a song with FP.

Chuck D released a song called "Free Big Willie" on his "Mistachuck" album in '96, I don't think that has nothin' to do with FP. :kekeke: A lot of rappers used that term big willie back in the mid-90s, I really don't hear too many rappers using that term now, they use "bling bling" and "crunk" more now.

:werd: Well that's what they should do on this final album, have them produce the entire album and none of today's pop rappers should be allowed to get on it, I think we should get some of the living legends like KRS-ONE, FP, Rakim, and LL Cool J on this album, it'd only be fitting.

Let 50 and Jada destroy themselves out of the spotlight! :chuks: Now back to topic, the reason why I think "Tell Me Why" is so incredible is 'cause FP matches the same energy as Mary J. Blidge, the chemistry is perfect, most of the times when Mary J. Blidge collaborates with other rappers the rapper doesn't usually match the energy of Mary J. Blidge, I'd put this one up there with "All I Need" that Method Man did with her, it'd be awesome if "Tell Me Why" could have that kind of success.

Like I said before JJFP have to keep on performing 'cause they're the best performers and their energy'll get people to buy the album faster, performing more tracks off the album too besides "Switch" would also help and yes this album's doing better than LL's "The Definition" at this time, surprisingly 'cause LL went on a promo tour before the album dropped and actually was touring for a while after the album dropped but when he got sick and cancelled the tour, the sales slipped unfortunately, which shows that FP has a bigger fanbase when he doesn't have to promote the album as much as LL had to, without a tour this'd go platinum on its own, but if a tour happened, the album'd go multiplatinum for sure.

Alicia Keys "Slow Down"

Well since we've been talking more about the history of hip-hop lately I might as well post some of the best albums in my opinion over the last 25 years, check it out: '80s Top Ten 1-Public Enemy "It Takes A Nation Of Millions" 2-Eric B. and Rakim "Paid In Full" 3-JJFP "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" 4-Run-Dmc "Raising Hell" 5-Slick Rick "The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick" 6-BDP "Criminal Minded" 7- NWA "Straight Outta Compton" 8- LL Cool J "Radio" 9- Beastie Boys "Licensed To Ill" 10-LL Cool J "Walking With A Panther" '90s Top Ten 1-Nas "Illmatic" 2-Dr. Dre "The Chronic' 3-JJFP "Code Red" 4-KRS-ONE "Return Of Da Boom Bap" 5-2Pac "All Eyez On Me" 6-LL Cool J "Mama Said Knock You Out" 7- Pete Rock and CL Smooth "Mecca And The Soul Brother" 8- Public Enemy "Fear Of A Black Planet" 9-Salt-N-Pepa "Very Necessary" 10-Rakim "The 18th Letter" 2000s Top Five 1-Will Smith "Lost and Found" 2-Nas "God's Son" 3-KRS-ONE "Kristyles" 4-Common "Like Water For Chocolate" 5-LL Cool J "G.O.A.T."

You know I'm down! :ali:

Yeah that song is bangin', just doing it with 2 turntables and a mic, back to the basics on that track with JJFP and Snoop, it gets no better! :kool:

Well 200,000 is not bad at all for less than a month, it'll be gold by the summer for sure, hopefully it'll eclipse past 50's fast declining album soon.

I actually like the way this collab came out a lot 'cause there wasn't a hook on it, you don't need to have a hook on every song for it to be dope.

:werd: Jazzy Jeff was tearin' up the wheels on "If You Can't Dance", that was great, how could you hate on that, I think it'd been better if Nicole wasn't on the track and Jazzy was just scratchin' instead of a hook, I wish there was some ol' school type tracks with no hooks on some of the tracks 'cause sometimes hooks could ruin a song.

:werd: People only buy albums based on catchy beat and hooks with garbage rhymes, I think the beats are above average though(sound more creative than a lot of production out now), the hooks are simple, and the rhymes on this album are phenominal, I wish that Will could do an album with only Pete Rock, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Premiere, and Teddy Riley producing and that'd be the best album ever made!

I can't choose, but if I had to I'd say "Switch", but that track has a lot of energy too.

Why don't we ask Will, he gave some props to both of them, Nick Cannon was in MIB2 with Will and Will did a song with Kanye that didn't make the album, I think he likes both of them for what they do best, that's all I gotta say. :blabla: