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:werd: That's why a lot of hip-hop fans don't like Em 'cause he's a hypocrite, if he really didn't give a damn 'bout the Grammy's like he said he doesn't, he wouldn't show up there like when Nas was nominated a couple years ago, he didn't go and didn't win, I personally think that they've been rigged over the last 10 years or so except for a few like FP and Fugees 'cause the true albums don't even get consideration. :ditto: I used to like Dr.Dre a lot but now that he's produced all these crap albums and dropped Rakim off of Aftermath, I lost respect for him 'cause he's selling out his talent for $$$! :nhawong:

I don't really hate any rapper, I'm more like Common 'cause "If I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm hatin'" but I don't really see the justice until Nas and LL win Grammy's in February and knock Eminem/Nelly/Jay-Z albums off the charts to pave way for JJFP's dominance in '05 and bring talented hip-hop back to the top of the charts again, who knows maybe people'll even pay attention to when PE drops their new album next year! :rock:

How could you be a legendary R&B singer if you have average vocal talent, in that case anybody can make an R&B album then??!! :nhawong: Let's be real about another thing too, if anyone here is under 18 now, it's a possibility that you were conceived off of a Keith Sweat song. I find Usher's voice annoying but I'll give props for him being an excellent dancer, but don't get it twisted though, he ain't on Michael Jackson's or James Brown's caliber when it comes that, and as far as crowd interaction Keith Sweat could get the ladies more excited than Usher could.

I'm gonna popst this statement that Chuck D made on PE.com in March '03 that's relevant to what we're talking about here concerning 2Pac's legacy: "With the latest 50 CENT “GET RICH OR DIE TRYING” phenomenon sweeping the nation, again I’m amazed at the selling power of black death and the masters who pimp it. There’s a lot of blood in IODINE’S bank just as BRYAN TURNIP, formerly of CALIFORNIA RAISIN, launched gangsta turned PRIORITIZE RECORDS wayyy back in the 90s, courtesy of the west coast. I actually dug 50 CENTS’ original take on ‘fake gangstas’ and the idea of bringing some cats down to the reality of the harshness of the ‘real streets’ instead of studio imagery. As I dug NWA’s early rebellious take on how a brother couldn’t get ahead in society. But in the case of the swirl around 50 I can’t even say its entirely his fault, that his take on the road to rap is along the BIGGIE “Born to die” steez. It’s the usual suspects that cash in at the end, that resonate the statement of the amazing profit of black death. There are glaring facts about this contribution to this millennium cointelpro of the rap game. From DJ SCOTT LAROCK to JAMMASTER JAY and everyone KILLED in between there hasn’t been a murderer found yet. Number two, in the case of TUPAC selling 5 million records while living and at least 30 million in his death. The case of the white exec hiring and doing business with the negro so he can create, recreate, cultivate, endorse then sell niggers doin ‘niggativity’ has never been more apparent. These execs would never do business with a ‘black man’, whereas a black man would draw a line on what would be said about his people. A man would tell another man that he couldn’t compromise a people for the sake of some false god named ‘profit’ and his son named ‘bottom line’. The charge to the top of suspicious chart is paralleled at the same time by R KELLY who again has found love from peeps. The picture drawn here is that anything can be said and done against black people, and the damage that appears to be self inflicted is none the less assisted by cats lurking in the shadows. The blood banks are spilling over at this time as it’s the easy way out to cover the fact that 50 has already been shot at point blank range, so that’s the story that INTERDOPE’S marketing team sharply rolls and promotes their head to. Now everywhere he goes it’s covered the fact that he sleeps in a bulletproof vest and there are ample heapings of bodyguards in surround sound. It brings to question... what makes a cat hate another brother who looks and talks just like him whereas they never even met? Radio, hype and video talk to all folks on behalf of the perceived and conceived opinion of black people, masterminded by the thought of ‘the streets’. Problem is that this NY-LA pimp biz mentality didn’t ask ALL the streets, they’re telling and programming them. At the tail end of those same streets are the businesses of jail and death. They could care less about the streets in betwixt. The one sided control of sepia images the past 10 years has the masses Pavlov- trained into actually thinking there’s little wrong with being abused, like the wife who gets repeatedly beat down by the man she still loves more with every ass whipping. The slave who proudly places his master’s last name on his first after being whipped to say it, while not being able to spell it. Trained to love the level and status of nigger granted by his master’s ideology while daring all to challenge that love. Whereas the first 12 years of recorded rap reflected the love of hip hop, the artists rhymed love, spread love like BOB MARLEY and thus got love from the peeps. Rap was a passport to visit other hoods representing love in the words thus reconnecting the thought of ‘FAM’ aka family. Now the family for rappers is the corporate pimped pseudo-record companies they spit for. Many no longer rhyme for the people they cointelpro against the folk. The radio stations and Viacom help pour the verbal sewage of self hate back at us, thus endorsing little option for 50 CENT to take. The fact is not whether his guns are bigger than little BOW WOW, but the fact of it can be pointed directly at someone in his family. I don¹t want that cat to be a bigger target than he claims to be. Lets hope that 50 has a long career and a greatest hits record while he’s living, rhyming about ‘birthdays instead of death daze’, and his black self doesn’t add more red and green to JIMMY IODINE’s notorious skull and bones INTERDOPE blood bank."

Great artists don't lipsinc at all, that's all I gotta say about that! :ditto: Hey nobody here likes Keith Sweat? :dunno: He may be over 40 now but don't sleep on him, his 2002 "Rebirth" album was great, he could perform circles around Usher anyday, that's the real king of r&b! And as far as Ludacris, there's 1000 mcs better than him, so don't even say that he's a great mc.

:werd: That's why hip-hop going mainstream has ruining the essence of it, a lot of the rappers that have no skills end up winning awards 'cause they're on the highest promoting record labels in the world, while a lot of the mcs that have talent get no recognition. 20 years ahead in 2024, if hip-hop makes it to it's 50th anniversary, we'll see that this '94-'04 decade has been the death of true hip-hop, if 2Pac was still alive and never got shot or went to jail, his career record sales would probably be only about 5 million, which is what KRS-ONE's career sales are after 17 years in the game, while Jay-Z and Eminem both sold over 10 million in 5 years! :bang:

:werd: Who gives a damn 'bout what Eminem says, the only reason why he's so famous is 'cause he's white, if he were black his fame woulda ended back in 2000, he's hip-hop's version of Elvis Presley 'cause his career was overhyped too since there was a lot of great soul singers out at that time who were better than he was but sold much less too. If Eminem was a dope mc he would sell 30 million copies for each album, racism still exists! :sad6: Well that's it for me posting on this topic! :ditto: JJFP'll knock Em and all the other wack mcs out the game next year and bring real hip-hop back! :ali:

Hey man I'm feeling that a lot, it's one of your best so far! :thumb: Sorry I took so long to reply, hey is there a way that some of us here that visit the site could buy your album?

If you think Eminem is one the greatest rappers out now then you obviously only listen to pop rap that's on heavy rotation on MTV, try listening to some true hip-hop mcs like KRS-ONE, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, De La Soul, Aceyalone, and Wyclef Jean that have quality albums out now but don't get much or any airplay then you'd say that Eminem is wack, his whole career is overhyped, acting like someone that he's not, he says that he's dope repeatly but hasn't done anything creative enough to prove it, he hasn't grown up yet, at 31 years old, he shouldn't be making corny statements like this anymore, he ain't a teenager anymore, even I'm more mature than he is and I'm 12 years younger than him. :ditto:

That's a discusting situation there, that's why people don't trust the police 'cause they're supposed to stop violence not promote it by doing idiotic things like this! :nhawong:

I'm not a big fan of Usher or Ludacris so I probably won't be buying this but I think that if you wanted to the best of R&B and hip-hop album over the last 20 years, I would have to say that a LL Cool J/Keith Sweat album would be legendary, imagine all the panties that'd be thrown on stage if they toured! :kekeke: I wouldn't mind being the opening act for that tour. :lolsign:

"God's Son" is a better album than "Stillmatic", I actually rank that album up there with "Illmatic" as another definite classic, his other albums may not be considered classic, but arguably they're better than most mc's classic albums. And as far as sounding bling-blingy, what about FP doing songs like "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" and "Miami"? People might put FP in the same category as P.Diddy and Nelly if they didn't hear the whole "Big Willie Style" album, it's the same thing with the "Nastradamous" album, not every song on that album sounds like "You Owe Me" and as far as being egotistical, I think every mc in the game has been egotistical, and that goes all the way back to the early hip-hop songs like "Rapper's Delight" and the early hip-hop battles with Busy Bee vs. Kool Moe Dee, hip-hop is all 'bout battling, being the best/having punchlines and the ones that've been creative for a long time have been considered the best and that's what hip-hop is, Nas is hip-hop like FP, KRS-ONE, and LL are.

Eminem's producing the whole album?!!! :nhawong: I hope that he doesn't hurt 2Pac's legacy either. :ditto:

You didn't like "Stillmatic" or "God's Son"? They were 2 of the best albums that came out since 2000 that you could listen to from start to finish, it'd be kinda hard to say that there was other hip-hop albums released since then that're better than those 2 unless you're talking about KRS-ONE's or LL Cool J's albums, he's a legend 'cause he's been able to drop dope album after dope album for more than a decade now, not many mc's have done that, there's a lot of mcs that can drop one dope album but that's basically it, that's why they can't stay in the game as long as Nas has, give credit where credit's due, after Eminem's and 50 Cent's fame is over that's it, but it doesn't matter with Nas 'cause he brings hip-hop from the heart so he'll stay in the game for a long time to come.

In case y'all didn't know Nas' new album "Street's Disciple" dropped yesterday November 30th, what a fitting way to end hip-hop history month, another album from a hip-hop legend! :rock: I'm gonna pickup the album sometime this week. If y'all are looking for an alternative to that EMINEM/JAY-Z/NELLY/50 CENT trash out now, this album should be it 'cause Nas has always been an innovative mc!

:werd: I don't listen to rappers like Eminem and 50 Cent much anymore so I don't consider them my favorites but they used to be dope before they got famous you can't front on that, I'll buy their bootleg albums since most people buy the real copies,but most of my favorite artists ain't toppin' the charts. I think mainstream hip-hop would be much better if artists like KRS-ONE were selling 10 million albums but basically everything that tops the charts is 'cause of controversy and gimmicks, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear about Ron Artest's rap album going platinum now after what happened in Detroit 'cause controversy sells! :sad6: BTW, I'm listening to KRS-ONE "South Bronx 2002" right now

:werd: He spit with more passion on that album than he does now!

u have to make yourself know to him, man. maybe tim can hook you up or something, he does have connections. :sonny: :werd: Maybe the next time FP comes to 'Jersey and performs maybe we could make something happen! Does he sign any new hip-hop/r&b artists to Overbrook Records still? :dunno: It'd also be more fun to see FP also collaborate with some of the artists that he grew up admiring like James Brown, Michael Jackson, and Grandmaster Flash rather than Jay-Z, Eminem, or Ludacris 'cause FP should collaborate with legends and artists that came out when he did and the rare few that're coming out or are ready to come out now that represent hip-hop's culture the most. :ditto:

Hey is it a new song? I never heard of KRS-ONE doing a song called "Gangsta House" before, I gotta check out that Jazzy Jeff album as soon as I could find it, I'm still looking for KRS' new album too that he released in July, a lot of underground stuff's hard to find! :bang:

That's dope! :thumb: Happy late thanksgiving to y'all, I hope y'all enjoyed it!

I saw the video today, that girl got moves!

Oh damn I missed it! :bang: I've been playing that "All Balls Don't Bounce" CD a lot lately man, that album's so dope! :thumb:

Thanks! :thumb:

I hope Ja Rule and Eminem both retire from rappin' 'cause they're selling themselves out by putting out gimmick songs that no true hip-hop fan could enjoy now! I have more important things to do than to waste time or energy on buying or even downloading their new albums. :ditto:

I'd like to see FP collaborate with Stevie Wonder Aretha Franklin Patti Labelle Isley Brothers Michael Jackson James Brown Grandmaster Flash Afika Bambattaa KRS-ONE Nas Boyz II Men Keith Sweat Snoop Dogg Public Enemy LL Cool J Ice Cube Talib Kweli The Roots DMX De La Soul Rakim Wyclef Lauryn Hill Queen Latifah Naughty By Nature and inspiring young artists like Big Ted that're looking for a break :lolsign: