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I think I'll consider not listenin' to JJFP/Big Will when the countdown gets down to the last week as well. This could be the best album since "Code Red", it's gettin' hard from him to top himself though, he has so many classics already.

Hype to sell records? I don't call somebody nearly gettin' killed only hype to sell records, that's idiotic, if 50 keep's actin' the way he does he's gonna get killed, he's from New York too, why'd he diss the place he's from on that MTV special by sayin' New York rap is garbage, I just don't get it, he ain't keepin' it real, it'd be kinda distubing if FP said somethin' negative about Philly don't u think? You're missing my point lambert, record sales don't neccessarily mean that you're the most talented artist, if that was the case Britney Spears is a musical goddess 'cause she sold 100 million albums. :kekeke: 50 Cent is the Britney Spears of rap, let's keep it real, it's all gimmicks that make the front page of your magazine. :blabla: End of story

Hey that's off the hook! :afro:

Well everyone here is gonna have their opinions and that was my opinion about Jadakiss doin' "Why" for sales and tryin' to sound like Chuck D when he's really a thug rapper, he has no right to start talking about politics when he raps about getting high and gangbangs 99% of the time. Anyway I could be here all day sayin' how many entertainers are fake, but I'd rather make this short and say that JJFP is one of the few entertainers that're keepin' it real to who they are, most of the entertainers are hypocrites and are setting bad examples with their gimmicks, if you read an entertainment magazine, you could literally see all the dirt that they do 'cause the ones that are good for society don't get much recognition, dirt sells. :nono:

Pep Love "Act Phenom"

Here's some suggestions: DMX "Get At Me Dog" Dr. Dre Feat. Snoop Dogg "Dre Day" LL Cool J "Mama Said Knock You Out" JJFP "From Da South" Public Enemy "Shut 'Em Down"

Well the only reason why MC Hammer was making so much doe back then was 'cause he had a lot of endorsement deals and had a massive tour, not 'cause he sold 10 million albums, he didn't make that much profit from the album, even though he sold that much, you can't make money off record sales as a mainstream artist, you gotta do other things. Speaking of MC Hammer ain't he on an independent label now that he released his album last year on? He's probably making better money now than he did back then, even though he ain't popular anymore. And if you think making movies is easy, Will says he works 60 hours a week on making films, that's a lot more than the 40 hour weeks the average person works, so these people earn their money. It's not like he works for a few hours then goes home to party with his 20 million. If nobody buys this "Lost and Found" album, Will's gonna have to put a lot of money out of his own pocket just to go on tour and it wouldn't be worth it, or decide to do another movie instead of touring, at least if some people buy the album, he'll be able to afford going on tour. There's music clubs out there like Columbia and BMG where you could buy CDs at a discount price if you don't feel like paying full price, the only thing is though they don't carry a new release until a few months later. But when your favorite artists albums get released the 1st week, they're usually at a discount price too, so you could end up getting a good deal anyway, you just gotta know how to shop.

I'm watching the Wolves-Heat game right now, it's a tight game in the 3rd quarter.

I'm hoping that the album comes with a poster as a bonus. :cwm:

It's irrelevant anyway whether Kanye or how many big name producers are on it or not, there's gonna be some great production from Jazzy Jeff and that's all that matters! :kool:

That's great news! It might be in the top 10 next week! :thumb:

That's why more artists these days go independant, 'cause they can't financially keep up with constantly releasin' albums on a mainstream label, the only ones that could are the ones that do commercials, movies, and other endorsements, but only a handful like Jay-Z, Outkast, LL Cool J, Will Smith, P.Diddy, Nelly, 50 Cent, and Jermaine Dupri really have that opportunity, there's a whole bunch of names on those mainstream labels who end up gettin' dumped with no money from low sales 'cause if you only sell a few thousand on a mainstream label, you'll be going poor, they could end up losing more money than they gain, that's why they have to tour, independent artists actually could make more money sellin' a few thousand albums than mainstream rappers could sellin' 1 million albums.

That'd be great if a lot of the older JJFP were re-released and remastered again, Public Enemy's having all their classic albums released within the next year on other labels instead of Def Jam for some reason. :dunno: They haven't gone platinum in over 10 years now, so I don't see any reason why any JJFP albums can't be re-released since they're the highest selling hip-hop artists in hip-hop history, if companies re-release albums based on sales. "He's The DJ, i'm The Rapper" was a landmark hip-hop album, there should be no reason to not re-release it.

Run-Dmc "Peter Piper", Hip-Hop At It's Finest :dancingcool:

:werd: I couldn't break it down any better than that AJ, there's a fine line between rap and hip-hop.

Thanks! :thumb:

Wyclef Jean Feat. John Forte and ROC "Street Jeopardy", classic '97 hip-hop tune

"Men In Black" was overrated, "Just Cruisin'" should've had more success 'cause that was the best song on the MIB soundtrack.

I was thinking the same thing too, that'd be dope if Jazzy Jeff scratched that line a couple times before the song starts.

I think MTV is corny these days, most of the times that I turn it on, they don't even play videos anymore, they play mostly those corny reality shows.

Nas "It Ain't Hard To Tell", I love Illmatic too! :kool:

It's amazin' how much people are into these gimmicks, 1 million people bought his album in 4 days? It seems that mostly anything positive in hip-hop these days is banned 'cause I don't see artists like Talib Kweli, De La Soul, or KRS-ONE get airplay, kids think that you could only get famous in rap if you're a drug addict and shoot people, is this the message we wanna give our kids?,if people learned not to buy into the propaganda, maybe these gimmick rappers would learn to do the right thing, I don't hate on 50 Cent, it's just that the way he acts makes me lose all respect that I used to have for him when he 1st came out, it's cool to have skills/talent, but if you don't know how to act as a person, that talent is meaningless, we have never seen LL Cool J, Nas, or JJFP do somethin' like this in the spotlight because they're more mature, how could they be punks when they do and say the right thing? 50 Cent is counterfeit, open your eyes lambert, it's obvious to see like AJ said if you look at his interviews, I also blame the media for putting that garbage on the air, they should learn to interview somebody that could put logical sentences together, he sounds uneducated, no offense. By the way I do buy that real s--- not that 50 Cent! :poke: Even if you give props to 50 Cent on a G Unit board, you're gonna catch some criticism 'cause even some of his fans are turnin' on him, I bet most of those people who bought his new album just bought it so they could see how corny it was. :kekeke: btw I got a link here if anyone needs a laugh: http://forums.undergroundhiphop.com/readpo...stionID=1378098

Yeah man, me too! First the game is very great, way better than NBA Live but second this isn't a gameboard and I tell u that I also like the tracks on it! I don't really know the names and that but my fav. track is this one where they rhyme almost every last word like PLAYER, WEST LA YER, RIGHT UNDER THE SNAI ER, it's a lil bit hard to write but I hope u know what I mean! And I think there was also a sentence in the track like I MAY SIT ALONE BUT I'M RUNNIN' FOR MAYER??!! Don't know, because I don't really understand the last words they're sayin' but I think u know which one I mean...

All right I got some proof right here for you lambert, Rev. Al Sharpton feels the same way some of us here do, peep this article I found: "Sharpton: Ban Artists Linked to Violence By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY AP Music Writer NEW YORK - The Rev. Al Sharpton is putting in his two cents about the latest drama involving 50 Cent. The civil rights leader on Tuesday proposed a ban that would muzzle artists who are connected to any violent acts, denying them airplay on radio and television for 90 days. Though Sharpton did not single out 50 Cent by name, he told The Associated Press that a recent shooting linked to a feud involving 50 demonstrated the need for such a policy. "There's a difference in the having the right to express yourself and in engaging in violence and using the violence to hype record sales, and then polluting young Americans that this is the key to success, by gunslinging and shooting," he said. Whether or not that's been the key to 50's success, he's certainly having a lot of it these days. 50 Cent is poised to debut at No. 1 on next week's album charts with his new album, "The Massacre. The follow-up to his 2003 debut, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" - which sold 8 million copies - "The Massacre" is on track to sell about 1 million copies in just four days. In addition, he's got the nation's No. 1 single with "Candy Shop." It comes a week after a bitter feud broke out involving the rapper and his former protege, The Game. A member of The Game's crew was wounded during a shooting outside a New York hip-hop radio station, where 50 Cent - who produced part of The Game's platinum-selling debut album - was on the air, announcing that he was kicking him out of his G-Unit clique. No one has been arrested for the shooting, and police are still investigating the incident, but some in the media have suggested it may have been the beginning of violent dispute between the two rappers, who flaunt a gangsta image: Both are former drug dealers and both have been shot multiple times. There have been comparisons to the feud between Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. nearly a decade ago; both rappers were shot to death in separate slayings that have not been solved. Perhaps coincidentally, rapper Lil' Kim is on trial for perjury and conspiracy in connection with another shooting that occurred outside the same hip-hop station in 2001. Lil Kim is accused of lying about the incident to protect the alleged shooters. Meanwhile, Newsweek reported this week that the federal government is investigating the entire rap industry for alleged crimes; already, Irv Gotti, head of The Inc. label, was arrested earlier this year on money laundering charges. A federal indictment alleges the label, home to Ja Rule and Ashanti, was part of a murderous criminal enterprise that protected its interstate crack and heroin operation with calculated street assassinations. Sharpton stressed that he was not targeting 50 Cent or The Game in his new crusade, and noted he did not know what role, if any, the two had in the shooting. But he did say there should be a process in which violent acts involving rap acts are punished by denying them publicity on the airwaves. "The whole body politic of America addressed Janet Jackson's breast, and it didn't hurt anybody," he said of the infamous Super Bowl flashing. "Here you have actual bloodshed, and people are not even responding at federally regulated radio stations. ... black kids are expected to shoot each other, and nobody cares? Well I care, and I think somebody should do something about it." A request for comment to Universal Music Group - the parent company of 50 Cent's label Interscope - was not immediately returned, nor was a request put into MTV or Sony BMG. A representative for Hot 97 (WQHT-FM in New York) said the radio station meets Federal Communications Commission standards. "We in no way condone acts of violence," station spokesman Alex Dudley said. "We hope that the perpetrators of these violent acts are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by the proper authorities." Bryan Leach, a vice president at TVT Records (home to platinum-selling rappers such as Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz and the Ying Yang Twins), said he wasn't sure Sharpton's proposal was the right way to resolve rap-related violence. But he conceded the issue needed to be addressed. "I think we can be vocal and I think we can show people that it's something that concerns us just like piracy concerns us," he said. "Violence in songs and violence in terms of how it translates in society, in particular the black community, is something that concerns a large part of the record industry." Leach said he was also concerned that the media was sensationalizing the events of the past week and potentially inflaming the situation. "A lot of it doesn't seem to be coming from people who really understand the history, really understand the parties involved, really understand a lot of the facts," he said."

FP has been in the entertainment buisiness for about 20 years now, he knows how to handle the media, so even when they say negative things about him he pays it no mind and justs keep on being positive unlike some other entertainers who fold to the pressure of the media, the hating should be expected, it's part of the buisiness. :blabla: