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Well he lost me! :ridepony: I keep open mind to all levels of hip-hop: gospel/underground/gangsta/mainstream/general, it's all the same game 'cause it's about skills and flow, and 50 just doesn't impress me, bottomline that's how I feel and I'm gettin' to enjoy some "Lost and Found" soon. :peace:

Naughty By Nature and Queen Latifah "Wickedest Man Alive", 'Jersey's finest :kool:

10 years from now if 50's still alive he'll probably still rap like a 12-year old, he's like all the other pop rappers, but he'll gradually fade away and won't be able to go to the underground again 'cause he lost all of his original fans already he had during his underground mixtape era, the teeny boppers love him right now though 'cause he's immature like they are. :poke: I don't think Nas would ever take him seriously.

It's official now that Nas will not waste time to respond to 50 cent, good for him 'cause there's important things in his career to do, from emptv.com, I just wanted to let y'all know 'cause all their was fake lyrics roaming around on the internet of Nas responded: Nas: '50's Got Five To Six More Albums To Go Before I Can Really Respond' 03.25.2005 8:33 PM EST 'If [a response record] is meant to be, it'll happen,' rapper says. Jadakiss and Fat Joe have responded to the challenges from America's top-selling artist of 2005, and Nas says he keeps being asked if he'll be next. Hip-hop's most lyrical newlywed has been addressing 50 in British publications with comments "There are lot of people waiting for me to make this next record and go after 50. If it's meant to be, it'll happen." — Nas like one that appeared in New Nation: "He's out there posing for cameras like the Incredible Hulk and sh-- ... It's sad for a lot of real guys." Rumors on the Internet of Nas threatening 50's career definitely haven't slowed the questions. So is it going to happen? Asked during his U.K. tour last week, Nas left a veil of mystery around whether or not he'll respond on wax. "Of course, there are lot of people waiting for me to make this next record and go after 50," explained Nas, who says he's still in honeymoon mode (see "Nas And Kelis Tie The Knot") and is about to get his "grind" back on and record some new material. "If it's meant to be, it'll happen. I don't think it's really that deep. We all love hip-hop. It drives people crazy, 'Come on, come on! Respond with something! Respond!' You gotta chill and let us do our thing. People are gonna talk, the media is going be like 'Nas do this, do that.' At the end of the day, I'm the one that goes into the studio and lays it down. You gotta wait. "To sum it all up, 50 is still a new artist," he continued. "I would say he's got a good five to six more albums before I can really respond to him. With my other battles, it was different. This is not really my thing right here. I would say he would needs about five to six more albums." When asked about being called out in "Piggy Bank," the rap veteran didn't seemed too fired up. He simply charges it to the game. "It's reality, being put in a big publicity stunt," he said. "My name being in stuff like that is not out of the norm — it's just hip-hop music. You have moments where you'll be like 'Ah, this is not cool. Then you have moments when you're like 'I think this is cool. It keeps people listening.' So either way, it's all good. "Why is it always Nas that people wanna go after?" he considered. "I think something about me intrigues a lot of artists. I'm not so crazy with media. I'm not so out there. Still, I care just the same as somebody who tours all year, who has 50, 60 videos a year," he joked. "I care about my music and I care about the game just the same. I think people are just curious."

It would take a real long list for FP to thank everybody, he's not a new artist anyway, he gives props to the people close to his life in his songs so I think that he doesn't really have to do Thank You's.

If Chuck D responded it would be in a positive way 'cause he's friends with JJFP and Charlie Mack and they toured together back in the days.

Queen Latifah "Set It Off"

Hey that poster is dope, I have that pic on my avatar. :kool:

I heard of T-Bone, he's on KRS-ONE's "Spirtual Minded" album on a couple songs, that dude can really spit, you gotta bring heat to collaborate with KRS, that's one of my favorite KRS albums, every song had such a deep meaning to it and had no curses on them(I know you'd feel it AJ), he produced a lot of them himself too(his wife produced one song on there too), I noticed that he's always produced a lot of his songs that he did in his career by going over his album credits, including "Criminal Minded" and "South Bronx", a lot of KRS songs are meaningful. btw, I'm listening to LL Cool J "Power Of God", this is what the meaning of today is really about: "Somethin real smooth Yeah, yeah Yeah We'll get into the groove Power of God move Somethin real smooth Somethin you need to take heed to A basehead cleaned up his act He stopped smokin crack and took his soul back Decided, he could find a much better way to live You know the way - positive Without all the negative chemicals and drugs Without all the hangin with the envious thugs Never before was a man so far behind And came back to rule for a long time Positive will explode when you light me My enemies lurked, and they held the dagger tightly Wanted to taste my blood, but they got scarred When they felt the power of God Wickedness got crushed when the Lord came Down with the King, cause he's evil and vain He doesn't understand the power of a pream Doesn't realize I'm rollin with a team Avengin angels will come and burn All those who saw, but refused to learn He has no color, no shape, and no form And like I told you before, I'm just gettin warm Get up, get down, get on it, it ain't that hard You can feel the power of God Money is small and the soul stands tall All those who don't realize this, fall The mind of a drunken fool is a useless tool And it's cool to be in school And overcome and overpower, but still uplift Your mind is a gift You're somebody, whether you know it or not Outside the weather is hot People walk around with their minds in a daze Never take the time to stop and give praise You're lucky to live in this world Even the starvin boys and girls Cause life is a gift in itself And only certain people are blessed with good health I'm Uncle L, but you can call me Todd I can feel the power of God Youknowmsayin And G is the seventh letter made Yeah G is the seventh letter made The power of God Yeah The babies, we gotta teach em, and hold em Send em to school, so we can teach em, and mold em Shape em, and make em take form Cause their mind is like a ball of clay when it's wet and warm Harmless and innocent Until they're taught to be violent, and militant This mentality gotta be erased by faith The 12th hour is comin, we're close to the 8th Get a chapter, and gain some knowledge If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college It's not about bein black or white It's about everybody bein a right I pulled out my mic, and the devil got hit hard He felt the power of God And G is the seventh letter made Power of god G is the seventh letter made That was just a word to the wise Uprise Cause we definitely gotta unify And we need unity in times like these We got to stick together Cause we as a people All people Gotta make it to the promised land Peace" :peace:

Well they tend to compare commercial mcs to other commercial rappers, but the truth is most commercial music sounds the same, that's why they do this, they don't understand though that FP isn't the average commercial rapper, he's an individual artist who tells truthful rhymes while commercial rappers make gimmick songs and cry over sales, putting that 1st before their art which they never express. :poke:

Hey I threw on LL's "The Definition" album today and his lyricism and flow on the album is just as strong as it was when he 1st came out, this album shoulda gone at least platinum and won a Grammy but I don't think that concerns him too much, he justs like putting out good music for people to enjoy, Nas is the same way too, the sales for "Street's Disciple" are considered low for commercial standards now but it's a quality album and he's now getting ready to work on a new one already, sales don't faze him either, I wish more mcs would be like this instead of crying over their sales, it remains to be seen if The Game, Kanye West, and these other new mcs comin' out could do it for the love when their sales are lower, even if "Lost and Found" doesn't go multi-platinum, I think FP will continue to rhyme and perform with Jeff still 'cause he does this for the love too and he's said that many times, that's why he did this album, it'd came out sooner if he found a label faster 'cause he started to work on this 2 years ago but didn't have a label, oh well it's here now and that's all that matters! :peace:

I would buy the import album if I had money for it, the DVD's coming soon too, and I gotta get myself a job. :poke:

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Happy Easter Everyone, spend some time with your fam today and have fun! :peace:

I'll tune in! :kool:

Nas Feat. Quan "Just A Moment", the deepest song in hip-hop until "Tell Me Why" gets released

What kind of fantasy world this person's living in? This isn't the 1st time he's rapped about sex and girls, he's done it many times before, but unlike most rappers, he raps about it more tasteful and I don't see anything distasteful in "Switch" either that you'd find offensive, obviously this person ain't a fan, it's just a hater starting trouble. :poke: btw, isn't there some sex, violence, and language in some of his movies, if this person really got offended by that stuff, they wouldn't even watch the movie, and the kids are gonna gradually find about sex anyway when they get older, it's a way of life. :toetap:

Hey nice verses y'all, all this excitement about the album got me hyped to write something about JJFP too, I wrote a lil' somethin' today actually, when I get it typed I'll post it for y'all :peace:

There's some good lines in there, you have better rhyme structure than I did when I started, good job again! :kool:

Hey I wanna see the video if they had it. I need to get JJFP Greatest Hits Video collection too, where could I get that?

Boyz II Men "A Song For Mama", such a deep song

People don't really talk about female mcs at all though really, not even Queen Latifah gets mentioned much when people talk about hip-hop legends, even though I consider her one of the best mcs period just from hearin' her greatest hits album. I'm sure not too many are dissin' her though, she got a nice flow, Lil' Kim has no flow at all, I don't know why FP would ever collaborate with her, that's the worst move of his rappin' career in my opinion To those who doubt Foxy Brown's skills check this verse from "Affirmative Action" on Nas' "It Was Written" album: "In the black Camaro Firm deep all my n----z hail the blackest sparrow Wallabee's be the apparel Through the darkest tunnel, I got visions of multimillions in the biggest bundle, in the Lex pushed by my n---- Jungle He money bags got Moet, Sean Don Bundle of sixty-two, they ain't got a clue what we about to do My whole team we s----n hard like Czar Sosa, Foxy Brown, Cormega, and Escobar I keep a fat marquis piece, laced in all the illest snake skin Armani sweaters Carolina Hebrera Be The Firm baby, from BK to the 'Bridge My n---- Wiz, operation Firm Biz, so what the deal is I keep a phat jew-el, sippin Crist-ies Sittin on top of fifty grand in the Nautica Van, uhh! We stay incogni' like all them thug n----z in Marcy The Gods, they praise Allah with visions of Gandhi Bet it on, my whole crew is Don Juan On Cayman Island with a case of Cristal and Papa Chula spoke Nigga with them Cubans that snort coke Raw though, an ounce mixed wit leak that's pure though Flippin the bigger picture, the bigger n---- with the cheddar Was mad dripper, he had a f-----n villa in Manilla We got to flee to Panama, but wait it's half and half Keys is one and two-fifth, so how we flip Thirty-two grams raw, chop it in half, get sixteen, double it times three We got forty-eight, which mean a whole lot of cream Divide the profit by four, subtract it by eight We back to sixteen, now add the other two that 'Mega bringin through So let's see, if we flip this other key Then that's more for me, mad coke and mad leak Plus a five hundred, cut in half is two-fifty Now triple that times three, we got three quarters of another ki The Firm baby, volume one uhh.." btw, "Pretty Girl Bulls---" is the only song on the Bad Boys II soundtrack I actually liked except for the Mary J. Blidge song, that'd been a nice single for the soundtrack that summer.

welcome to the board, you're gonna enjoy it here! :thumb:

Well I wouldn't say that she's a hip-hop legend but her stuff is more bearable to listen to than mostly anything out now, I wouldn't be upset if she sold more albums than Eminem, look at the state of hip-hop right now on a mainstream level, Kanye West wins 4 Grammys and goes double platinum, having more success than Common and Nas ever had who've been making dope albums for over 10 years, when he hasn't even wrote rhymes until he got into a car accident 2.5 years ago, he was a producer, he said it himself many times, that accident inspired him to rap, I've been even writing rhymes longer than him, he was signed as a producer not as a rapper, and you mean to tell me that Foxy Brown can't compete with that? :hilarious: I ain't trying to offend those that like Kanye West, I like that he's rappin' more deeper than most commercial artists, but not in any means do I consider him one of the best mcs now, he's one hell of a producer though, I ain't no hater, I'm just puttin' things in perspective.

Yeah they have a non-musical silence on some of The Roots albums but it ain't listed on the album tracklisting, so you think the album's over already when there's some bonus tracks hidden after waiting for 5 minutes. :ridepony: