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Shuman "Rap Critic", one of the young mc's drafted by the legendary KRS-ONE, this cat is sick! :dj:

Looking dope! :thumb:

:werd: Hell yes it does, if you listen to Will's albums, he addresses a lot of different topics, but the difference between him and a lot of other commercial mcs is that he knows how to have fun too, all they do is talk about killing(which they don't), 'hood life they don't live anymore, and f'ing b****s(they don't get none 'cause they're really broke, lol), so if you think it's cool to talk about that all the time, enjoy. Well if you want to keep on talking about why you don't like "Switch" so much, I'll keep talking about I like "Switch", I get ur point already if u don't like it!

This Will/Eminem topic is a hot topic on a lot of hip-hop boards, it's up to us JJFP fans to represent and show them that he has more skills than what the image that Columbia potrayed Will as, he ain't a pop rapper, he's a true mc. Let's represent y'all! :thumb:

FP's a smart man, I bet his opinion of Jay-Z has changed though recently, especially since Nas exposed how fake he is! :lolsign: I posted an article on Chuck D over in the 'Caught In The Middle' forum(go check it), where he says similiar things that FP does, "Rappers today don't live the rhymes they write, they just do it for money", bottomline ol' school mcs are fed up and want a change.

I found this over at the Enemy Board this morning: "Chuck D. to today's young rappers: Respect yourself By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News February 18, 2005 It's the lineup hip-hop lovers might have in their wildest dreams: the Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Naughty By Nature and Kool Mo Dee, topped off by Public Enemy. Saturday's Legends of Hip-Hop concert at the Fillmore is one show that uses the word legend correctly. Public Enemy generally doesn't do this stuff, but entrepreneur/longtime Will Smith collaborator Charlie Mack pulled it together. Advertisement "We don't do one-offs, but this is an interesting area to build," Public Enemy rapper Chuck D. says. "Charlie Mack is trying to organize a structured, hip-hop legends concert series, trying to add that tier." And that's vitally important if hip-hop as a genre is going to not only survive but have any overall cultural meaning. While hip-hop is becoming one of the dominant forces in modern music, it's not treating itself with the respect it deserves, says Chuck D., the man who's single-handedly credited with bringing rap to the mainstream while creating some of the most lasting yet incendiary music of the modern era. "If hip-hop is supposed to be the music of the young world, it's very important not to treat it like a hustle," he says from his New York home. "When it comes down to rap, not only do the people within the circle treat it like a hustle, but everyone in rap and hip-hop treats it like hustle music, something that's disposable." The blame lies with the media (which still discounts the music), big corporations (which exploit the music without understanding it) and blacks themselves (who sell themselves short in the genre they created). "It's just how black people are still treated in this country. Because we're treated like that, we give in and treat ourselves as something of the moment. You see more white kids at a blues festival than black people. You know that something's gotta be wrong," Chuck D. says. "The things we create are not being revered. Why is Eric Clapton the (bomb) and Eric Gale is not? "That's what the NBA is about. It'd be cool if we paralleled off some of the marketing of the NBA. There's no Dr. J/Michael Jordan when it comes down to hip-hop respectability. The league brings the past, present and future to the table." Given that hip-hop is an ever-evolving genre, it takes some work, says Chuck D. (real name Carlton Ridenhour). "(Hip-hop) was always rebelling against the status quo," he says. "If three people decide to wear their pants baggy and braid their hair up and the rest of the crowd didn't, that was considered hip-hop. Once everybody starts to do it, the conformity of it all makes whoever goes against that be hip-hop. When we see Jay-Z wear a suit, he's being rebellious to the status quo." With its groundbreaking records of the '80s, Public Enemy was once more than the status quo - it was what every other rapper aspired to be. "We look at ourselves as the Rolling Stones of rap. The Rolling Stones are an event. Public Enemy is an event," Chuck D. says. The Stones don't make an impact on the charts with new records these days yet retain loyal fans, he notes. "We're not going to be in the same circles of publishing and recording as Nelly. Just as you wouldn't compare Green Day to the Rolling Stones." For Chuck D., it's all about communication, whether it was through Public Enemy classics such as It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear of a Black Planet or other avenues. New music continues to come out, including the recent single MKLVFKWR. He also did a full-time talk show on Air America Radio during the presidential election and still does an online top-20 rap countdown through AOL. PublicEnemy.com and RapStation.com have his fingerprints all over them. Chuck D. hopes his work on radio and AOL helps fill a glaring need for intelligent discussion about the genre. "Radio, when it's presenting hip-hop, has always done it wack. . . . The information and facts need to be delivered about the genre and the music," he says. "People just blindly go out and buy music or are blindly swept into it without talk. DJs used to talk about music. They do talk about music when it comes down to classic rock. They don't do that in rap music and black music." His radio work "allows you to get a voice of clarity out there," he says. Sometimes that voice turns against rappers, even as he hangs with them and they revere him. "Hip-hop grosses a lot, but it doesn't mean it's satisfactory to the genre and history of it," he says. It's disjointing for him to hear young rappers praise him, then create music that's lyrically the opposite of the things Public Enemy stood for. "A lot of people are doing things that are lyrically removed from what they truly believe. They look at the nodding acceptance from their marketing company to continue to make the dollars, and it's a dollar game," he says. "(Music) is a big extension of what you believe in your soul. When it comes down to it, I have a lot of doubt that a lot of these cats really believe what they say. Are they doing it for their companies? They might be being paid so well, but . . . I don't believe they're doing it for the sake of art as (much as) they're doing it for the sake of their pockets. That's cultural strip-mining." That's why hip-hop has to start treating itself with the respect and sense of purpose that other genres of music do, he says. "Classic rock is wonderful. That's why you'll see a teen-ager wear a Led Zeppelin T-shirt. I ask you 'why?' When a 14-year-old kid buys a Beatles record, you wonder, 'How the (blazes) did that happen?' I get a lot of e-mail from kids 14 years old saying, 'I like Public Enemy.' This is why an organization of old-schoolers needs to be in place. You need fewer entertainers and more structural-administration people in our industry."

Rakim "Stay A While"

Mostly everything played on BET and MTV is corny, it shows that only a bunch a bunch of young kids that have no taste of music are voting for these corny videos.

i finally heard the track and i agree with you defcem ... i gave it 3 points out of 10 .... that hhhhheeee-eeeeey-eeeyy and uuuuh-uuh is just terribly awfull and boring!!! what i like most is the sax in the hook... i usually like these fast clap beats - in honeymoon days by arrested development it's just incredible dope - but the one in switch doesn't really fit with its bass in my opinion. it just gets boring at the end of the song. will's rapping is good...not great, not bad. i think this is will's worst first single out of an album ever ... like defcem said: i don't think it's true what everybody here says: that will is soooo different from all other artists in the mainstream. all the others are not real, but will is ... Will's just jumping on this boring kind-of-hiphop-dancehall-ass-shaking train. i'm honestly and deeply disappointed by this track. If u don't like it, u don't like it, that's ur opinion, but why u gotta keep on talkin' about why u don't like it so much? U have the right not to like it, that's just ur opinion, but I personnally find it extremely catchy, clever, and representin' what hip-hop should be about, having fun. If u ain't got nothin' nice to say, don't say nothin'! :ditto:

Most of my favorite hip-hop songs of all time weren't ever released as singles, FP's not the only mc like this, u can't get a full idea of an artist by watchin' MTV or listening to the radio, u go out and listen to their albums, I think that there's a lot of mcs that make great singles but wack albums, everybody has different tastes, but you should put 100% effort in every song, not just singles, it's impossible to please everyone with singles, that's why u buy the album! :ditto:

Nice job man, keep on posting! :thumb:

Hey I love that song, that's such a dope album too! btw right now I got on FP feat. Tatyana Ali and MC Lyte "Who Am I?"

Hey the 'Born To Reign" album was a good album, I still listen to that once in a while, but it ain't a great album without Jazzy Jeff, and I think there was too much Tra-Knox on it.

Will doesn't need help selling albums, he's sold 30 million plus already, and think of it this way as he said before: "jeff+prince=hit records"

Yeah it's a shame, hopefully they could negotiate over the next few months so there'll be NHL in the fall.

JJFP "Twinkle, Twinkle"(I'm Not A Star)

That track is so inspiring to me! :thumb:

Rakim "The 18th Letter"(Always And Forever)

Talib Kweli Feat. Faith Evans "We Know"

I posted there a few times, it is kinda wack! :lolsign: This forum is easily better but I'll post there once in a while to show my support to FP.

:werd: Let's wait until the album drops to see who's on it, personally I'm hoping for less guests apperances and more JJFP 'cause we hear everybody else all the time, but we haven't heard tracks from JJFP in over 5 years!

Well like I said on "More Feelin"(Wit My Songs): "Since you're in control of the rap you rip You can either sound low to just rap foolish garbage Or you can make the decision to master something That the true fans are just missing" The truth is Eminem just does rap for the money and it shows, but FP does hip-hop to give what the fans want, bottomline, that's why FP's skills shine and Eminem's don't(that doesn't mean he doesn't have any, he just doesn't apply them).

It's "Love's Gonna Get Cha"(Material Love), that song I recommended to when you were doing the disc on '90 hip-hop tracks btw right now I'm listening to Jazzy Jeff Feat. Cy Young and Raheem "We Are", I can't wait until "The Return Of The Magnificent" comes out

Rakim "New York"(Ya Out There)

:werd: Any track on that album's a hit, that's why it's classic! :thumb: