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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:

That's great to hear that peeps are feelin' it! :kool:

I'm gonna buy one on Tuesday that's for sure. :afro:

Hey if the music is dope nuff props to whoever produces it, it'd be nice if FP produced some of these tracks himself too. :wiggle:

:werd: You made some great points there fuq, I get the same impression that the music buisiness hasn't really changed much after all these years, I just got finished reading "The Death Of Rhythm and Blues" and it talks about how a lot of the most original artists really didn't get any airplay, Dave Clark, the grandfather of r&b never got the recognition he deserved, he was a smart buisinessman though and would have his own record label called Malco and was a pioneer in gospel, soul, and blues who never sold millions of albums, but Elvis Presley for instance sold millions of albums that nobody ever sold then but he was doing basically the same thing that r&b cats like James Brown and Chuck Berry were doing for many years(and people still praise Elvis more than them), he just made it popular, but he wasn't original at all, it's just like Eminem selling millions of albums now, hip-hop existed for 25 years already when he came in the game but some people who don't know the history think that he originated hip-hop. Another good point in that book that's still relevant, basically a lot of the songs sounded similar on the radio, except some of that music was more quality than now, everybody started to copy each other, while James Brown and Aretha Franklin couldn't get on major labels to sell units like the Disco artists were 30 years ago, it's sorta like how KRS-ONE, Public Enemy, and Keith Sweat don't get airplay now but still make quality music, some things never change, life repeats itself a lot, Marvin Gaye wasn't that popular until he was murdered just like 2Pac didn't get popular until he was murdered. :confused3:

You can't front on Foxy Brown, I heard she's working on a new album that's gonna have KRS-ONE(he actually gave Foxy Brown props on one of his songs: "I'm hot and foxy like the "Ill Na Na"/whoever you think is hot I'm hotter) and Luther Vandross on it, now those legends don't collaborate with everyone, so that says that she does have skills and her 1996 album "Ill Na Na" is actually more of a classic in my opinion than "Reasonable Doubt" was and she outshined Jay-Z when they collaborated and that's when Jay-Z was dope.

I love that song too, they don't make r&b like that anymore. Speaking of classic 90s r&b I got on Keith Sweat Feat. Ronald Isley "Come With Me", what a collab! :kool: and I love Run-Dmc's "Tougher Than Leather" album too, '88 was the greatest year in hip-hop, every album released that year was a classic it seemed, including "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" of course

:werd: That's what I'm talkin' about, all this negativity gets promoted heavily, I wouldn't be surprised if Beanie does make the top 10 this week 'cause we all know how subrban kids love controversey in hip-hop(A.K.A. "G Unit Publicity Stunt 101"), as far as his music is concerned he's aight he was dope when he came out but now it's the sos and that new single of his is garbage he sounds like he's mumbling the words, emptv better do a special on FP this week and put "Switch" in heavy rotation or watchin' his performance on TRL might be one of the last times I turn on emptv 'cause everytime I turn on that channel lookin' for "Switch", I see a corny video and that's pissin' me off. :nono:

Well let the fans decide how much the album sells, sky's the limit, but as long as people enjoy it, it's all good to me! :peace: