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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:

Pete Rock and CL Smooth "Return Of The Mecca"

Nick Cannon ain't that wack as you think he is, I think he's better than Ying Yang Twins and 50 Cent, those cats are so annoying, I wouldn't mind if Nick Cannon got more airplay than them, but he's a FP wannabe. The only young rapper at this point that has a chance to have a successful career is Bow Wow, he's comin' of age now, "My Baby" was a pretty deep song, he's starting to get away from that teeny bop rap now. Big L started the punchline level? Damn you must be young! FP, Rakim, LL, KRS, and other legends have been spitting superb punchlines for only 20 years now, today's rappers use their lines! :poke: Kanye West can't even beat Jin The MC in a freestyle battle(did you watch 106&Park 2 years ago? Incredible punchlines!) let alone FP. Anyway this is my last essay on this topic, but I gotta say this now, here's a whole bunch of all-time rappers that're better than today's pop rappers, besides the others I mentioned, don't forget about: Slick Rick, NWA, Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte, Gangstarr, Beastie Boys, Kool G Rap, Too Short, Dana Dane, Poor Righteous Teachers, De La Soul, Arrested Development, Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, Wu-Tang Clan, Leaders Of The New School, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Naughty By Nature, Snoop Dogg, Scarface, Outkast, Warren G, Whoodini, Hieroglyphics, Salt-N-Pepa, Brand Nubian, Afrika Bambataa and The Zulu Nation, Das Efx, Monie Love, Heavy D, Fugees, Redman, Masta Ace, The Roots, Big Pun, DMX, and Fat Joe(then after you could probably mention Common, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli) If you heard all these artists I don't think Jay-Z and Kanye West would blow you away! :chuks:

I have some respect for Kanye West 'cause he's giving effort to do something different than any other rapper, but he came in the game as a producer, get that through your head, FP got signed as a rapper at a time where it was harder to get signed, and the reason why I mention Nick Cannon is 'cause he came in the game as a comedian not a rapper either, although I have some respect for him 'cause he's trying to bring the comedy back, if you don't get signed as a rapper, stick to whatever else you do, come on now the game's so wack right now even Shaq could make an album. :kekeke: "All Falls Down" and "Jesus Walks" are weak efforts to top the Blastmaster, you're crazy! His "Spirtual Minded" album is more conscious and thought provoking than "College Dropout" and that wasn't even KRS best album, Kanye West ain't changin' s*** though either, he's overrated big time, Nas is the best rapper now, Kanye bit his style from Common, who's put more dues in this game to be on the sidelines when Kanye West blows up.

Don't y'all think longevity should be a factor in deciding who's the greatest rapper of all time? How could somebody with one album be put in the top of the all time list? That's like sayin' Lebron James is the greatest NBA player of all time already. :hilarious: What if I made an album that sold 10 million and won 5 grammies in one year, would that put ahead of KRS and FP that've been out for 2 decades with consistancy? Hell no! Even if KRS-ONE retired or died right this minute, his music is gonna stand the test of time, wait and see. Why ain't nobody mentioning Queen Latifah she's one of the best mcs to ever step on the mic! Her lyrics are very thought provoking. How many songs does Jay-Z have to do about being a drug dealer growing up, at least Will ain't repetative, each of his albums have different themes, Jay-Z reminds of Eminem, he says the same s*** over and over, I heard it before dog, I wanna hear something different. And since this thread started on performance none of these current pop rappers could outperform JJFP in a live show, period, Jay-Z' a mediocre performer, no energy at all, even James Brown still has more energy than Jay-Z does.

The Roots, Eve, and Eraka Badu "You Got Me"

I think these hip-hop magazines need peeps like us to drop knowledge for the mainstream heads. KRS-ONE and Chuck D are genious beyond albums, they write books too(Now run get "Ruminations"/It's a book that I published for the healing of this nation), "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back" is the greatest album ever 'cause Chuck D is set to release a book based on the idea of creating that album, how many albums could you say that drop that much knowledge to write a book about it? Like I said before it shouldn't matter how much you say, it's what you say that counts, a lot of lines today in hip-hop are fillers, back then every line mattered it seems, Vanilla Ice was the only wack mc it seemed, now there's a whole army of wack rappers("it's like a circus now/with a bunch of clowns/and a bunch of cliques i could probably rap circles around"-FP), there'd be no need for Nick Cannon or Kanye West to pick up the mic if it was the golden age, they'd got burned. Now you could like Kanye West and Jay-Z if you choose but you can't put them among the all-time greats without knowing the history, what they're doing now was done better 15 years ago and KRS' producing of "South Bronx" is better than any of Kanye West's productions, it's all love though man. :peace:

It's a shame that he's screwing up right now over drugs, he's been one of the best mcs to come in hip-hop in recent years, hopefully he could get his life together.

Former star linebacker had intestinal cancerESPN.com news services CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Sam Mills, an undersized linebacker who became a Pro Bowl player with New Orleans and Carolina and was later an assistant coach for the Panthers, died Monday after fighting cancer for nearly two years, the Panthers said. He was 45. Mills, who was diagnosed with cancer of the small intestine in August 2003 but continued to coach Carolina's linebackers between chemotherapy treatments, died at his home. "Sam was one of the finest people you will ever meet. You would never know that he was a player who made Pro Bowls and had all this attention because he treated everybody the same no matter who they were," Carolina general manager Marty Hurney said. "He never had a bad thing to say about anybody and had a great ability to laugh at himself. "He was the type of guy you want your kids to grow up to be." A five-time Pro Bowl selection, Mills spent the final three seasons of his 12-year NFL career with the Panthers, beginning with their inaugural season in 1995. There is a statue of him outside Bank of America Stadium and he is the only player in the team's Hall of Honor. Mike McCormack, Carolina's first team president, is the only other inductee in the Hall. "Words are inadequate to express what Sam meant to the Panthers organization," Carolina owner Jerry Richardson said. "We were privileged to have him as a member of our family, and we are devastated over this loss." Mills spent his first nine NFL seasons with the New Orleans Saints, following three seasons in the United States Football League. He finished his career with 1,319 tackles while starting 173 of 181 games. He joined the Panthers' coaching staff upon his retirement. "He's definitely the best coach I ever had," Panthers linebacker Will Witherspoon said. "I got to talk to him the last couple of weeks and I knew that he wasn't doing well, but he never wanted to bring that up. "He always wanted to focus on how I was doing. There's nothing better than the fact that he concentrated more on other people than he did himself." Mills was an undersized linebacker out of Montclair (N.J.) State who tried -- and failed several times -- to catch on with NFL and Canadian Football League teams. He gave professional football one last shot when the USFL debuted in 1983, and parlayed a tryout with the Philadelphia Stars into a roster spot. "The USFL came at a perfect time for me," Mills, a three-time All-USFL selection who helped the Stars win league titles in 1983 and '84, said in an interview in March. "It was the most fun I ever had playing football." Every day, Stars coach Jim Mora asked his assistants who the best player on the field was. Every day, they told him "Sam Mills." "I don't need a 5-9 linebacker,"' Mora kept saying. Mills ended up as one of Mora's favorite players and when Mora went to the Saints after the USFL's demise, he brought Mills with him in 1986. Mills went to his first four Pro Bowls with the Saints and was elected to Louisiana's Sports Hall of Fame. He is also a member of New Jersey's Sports Hall of Fame. "Sam was a member of the Saints family and the community here in New Orleans and those times will be forever cherished and never forgotten," the Saints said in a statement. "He was embraced not only by our organization but the whole community who loved his spirit, his positive attitude and his drive and determination. "He never backed away from a battle and took on each and every challenge with the heart of a champion." Mills moved on to the Panthers in 1995 and figured prominently in the franchise's first win, against the Jets on Oct. 15, 1995, at Clemson, S.C., when he intercepted a shovel pass and returned it 36 yards for a key touchdown. He led the team in tackles in 1995 and '96, when the Panthers won the NFC West and made a surprise run to the NFC title game. Mills was diagnosed with cancer in 2003, hours before he showed up at the stadium to coach the Panthers' linebackers in their preseason finale. It was a devastating blow to the team, which had learned two weeks earlier that linebacker Mark Fields also had cancer. Carolina restructured its coaching duties the next week to take some of the responsibilities off of Mills during his treatment. Originally given just a few months to live, Mills battled the cancer and didn't miss a single game that season. He scheduled treatment for off days to cut down on his time away from the team, and he often had to coach from the press box that year to preserve his strength. "The club basically gave me the option as to how much I wanted to be around," Mills said. "Hey, I am a football coach. That is what I am. As long as I have the power in me to go ahead and continue to coach, I'd like to continue to coach." He was an inspiration to the team that season as Carolina won the NFC championship and went on to the Super Bowl. Players wore his No. 51, along with Fields' 58, under their jerseys that season, and Mills gave an emotional pregame speech during their playoff run. He flew to Houston on the Thursday before the Super Bowl, one day after a round of chemotherapy, and joined Fields for a news conference. Sweating and holding on to the podium for balance, he said "You have your good days and your bad days. I am just glad I am having days, you know?" Mills continued his treatment all of last season. He was honored by the NFL in March with the Johnny Unitas Tops in Courage Award. "Although it can be said that he left his imprint on the NFL as a player, it is his legacy as a human being that serves as an example for all of us to follow," said Bill Kuharich, Kansas City's vice president of pro personnel, who was with Mills with the Stars and Saints. Mills is survived by his wife, Melanie, and four children: Sons Sam III and Marcus and daughters Larissa and Sierra."