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They had this post over at PhiladelphiaEagles.com about posting a rap about the Philadelphia Eagles and the excitement of the upcoming season, my favorite NFL team, I posted this on May 6, 2004(4 months before the season started, that's how much of a hardcore fan I am) It went somethin' like this... The fans going out of their minds to cheer The demand of the lifetime is clear The Eagles'll be damned if they don't shine for our devoted peers We'll smash the Giants for all the trash they're supplying The Redskins will get ripped Portis will need life supportment after a Dhani Jones hit That lost last year to the Panthers Will make that clear that the Eagles will go mad bizerk To take no prisoners Demonating all them counterfeits to the dirt The motivation to win is the word So pass it around To silence all them critics, Mcnabb will pass many touchdowns The new school James Brown We'll be sayin' it loud This will be one hell of a season For many overwhelming reasons! We got Mcnabb and TO A combo steamin' hot like Janet exposed :touche: I think I'll write a full length song about 'em if they win the Super Bowl this year! :rock:

Hey Michael that's no problem I could put it in the Numero Uno Forum 4 y'all to check out, other Eagle fans put rhymes in there too about the Eagles, but I'll only post mine though. :cya: NBA training camp starts next week, man I can't wait! Yesterday was great when the Eagles destroyed the Lions 30-13! :clap: They might go 16-0 now, I don't see any challenge this year for them!

Don't forget about the "Street Disciple" who has that "New York State Of Mind" I live in 'Jers, but like Rakim said "It ain't where ya from, it's where ya at"

Thanks for the shout out! I'm not even at 700, I remember a couple of months ago I was at 500 and you were at 400, damn you do need a posting diet man! It's been fun getting to know you and a lot of y'all cats here, it's been a fun experience, good luck with your album man, one day we gotta hook up for a collab, me, Jim, and u should collab and do an east coast hip-hop album! :grouphug: I hope to be a 1,000 post member by the end of the year! :ditto:

Hey Tim I like those poems! I just got a chance to check 'em today. There's so many posts, not enough time to check 'em all. :werd:And Kimmie, I like "Hate makes the world go 'round" where u talk about the war, deep stuff, sounds like something that Chuck D would say. :clap:

Slick Rick was one Nas' favorite rappers when he was growing up, there wouldn't be an "Illmatic" if there wasn't "The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick", you gotta put Slick Rick up there as one of the all time greats, 'cause he paved the way for storytelling in hip-hop, even 2Pac was inspired from it I'm sure. I think he's also the most known mc in the game that came from Britain(I'm sure y'all UK cats probably consider him an icon). There's no question about it if you're a person that enjoys ol' school hip-hop, you'll enjoy listening to Slick Rick!

Slick Rick's too much of a legend to just download off the internet, you should go out and buy some of his CD's, especially "The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick" it has a song on there called "A Teenage Love" which is something that I know you'd enjoy listening to!

Hey what up Jim, u gotta holla at me when you get a chance, I like that rhyme, thanks for sharing it wit us! :thumb:

[quote=J-o-e,Sep 19 2004, 07:51 AM]"Hey Lover" is a track, but born to reign which song or the actual song born 2 reign? i think Maybe would be a good song for Boys II Men could do for will, that would be dope[/quote] I was refferring to the entire "Born 2 Reign" album, no disrespect to Tra-Knox, but they should've only been on 2 or 3 tracks at the most, a full length album with JJFP and Boyz II Men would've been legendary, but of course I'm only dreamin', right AJ? :dunno: :ditto:

The more that I hear your voice and your flow it reminds me of Slick Rick's I don't know why! :dunno: Anyway dope song ur gonna be known, keep it up! :thumb:

As Andre 3000 of Outkast says "Stank You Very Much" for the comments y'all. As I look over the song I see how much my skills has grown over the last 3 years but the foundation of the song is strong and the little adjustments I could make won't be the concrete of it 'cause these were my thoughts back then and they still exist now about what happened that day. I'm glad that I could share it wit y'all.

Hey I might post this one poem called "Poetry" that I dedicated to my grandma, stayed tuned...

Yo in the 2nd verse it was a typo, I meant "as humans we should worry about dignity", i was tired when i typed it i guess, 'cause it originally said in my notebook:"as humans we should worry about dignity". As far as lyrical skills this ain't my best but it has a strong message to it though, so that's what makes this song powerful!

What's up y'all I wrote this to inspire world peace, I was inspired to write this after hearing "Can't Think" by LL Cool J "Don't Destruct Our Future" Written By Big Ted In September 2001 Dedicated Forever to the Victims Of 9*11*01 Verse One: They say that rappers don't have a heart And that we ain't that smart But like anyone else, I do have a heart However, those terroists don't have a heart 'Cause they tore the World Trade Center apart I ain't trying to point the blame Or say any names But killing innocent lives ain't a game That kind of destruction is very lame We need to do something before it's too late By making sure these cold hearts get locked away 'Cause we can't let our lives turn into vein Or lock up our hearts and hate We can't turn around and act the same Or else we'll just bring more pain 'Cause it'll kill innocent lives It'll kill innocent husbands and wives And innocent mothers and childs There ain't a need to act wild You'll act worse than the cold hater You need to prove that you can act more greater And make your point straighter By not lettin' this blow up your mind to tiny craters Chorus: Why Do We Have To Destruct Our Future? Why Do We Have To Destruct Our Future? Yo, it doesn't make sense We Need To Save Our Future We Need To Save Our Future To bring us all happiness Remember Don't Destruct Our Future Don't Destruct Our Future 'Cause destructing ain't the way to invest Verse Two: Yo, I ain't just talking about America I'm talking about all areas We need to save all races We need to save all ages That's why we built the United Nations So we can build a worldwide foundation And not let guilt turn into discrimination As well as turnin' hate into a distant seperation We should learn to love no matter what confrontation Loving one another should be everyone's occupation No matter if you're a lawyer or a street thug You should not avoid showing love Words of encouragement will get you above When you're feeling hurt and shoved Like I said if we get better 'Cause if we still have hope in this world We could unite and let realness unfurl With good vibes around the world Uniting with all the homeboys and homegirls Igniting y'all for the future homeboys and homegirls Yo, if all the denet people go on the same team Hating would go in defeat That's why as humans we should not worry about dignity So this world could be decent the way it should be [Repeat Chorus] Hook : You gotta think yo You gotta think You gotta think yo You gotta think You gotta think yo You gotta think before you destruct! You gotta think before you destruct! Verse Three: Killing ain't ever real You shouldn't do it no matter how you feel 'Cause destruction ain't the way to reveal That's part of the Ten Commandments: “Thou shall not kill” This world's already too ill That's why we shouldn't just kill Yo, you gotta help us God This world needs you a lot The ozone layer's startin' to rot And it seems that knowledge's somethin' that Some human's don't got 'Cause they kill other people and act like cannibals And they have less sense than animals It's like what's said in the Bible: man will kill man And I know it ain't in God's plan 'Cause he means that knuckleheads will kill each other 'cause they can't comprehend That's why it's important for us to hold dignity and withstand And not let knucklehead terrorists destroy our plans We can't let them just conquer And turn our lives to somber It's our time now To break barreiers and show them haters how we get down

It's harder to play football at 40 years old than it is any other team sports(except hockey but that's locked out now) 'cause it's such a physical game and it takes a toll on the body, it's amazing that Jerry Rice is in such great shape for being a football player. BTW, I don't know about this new NBA season with my Bulls, they traded a hall of fame center(Dikembe Mutombo) that they traded for early in the summer from the Knicks and then turn out to trade him to the Rockets to play with Yao Ming to make a legendary frontcourt there, they're probably gonna go to the Finals now, and the Bulls only got 3 benchwarmers for him in the trade, the most known out of the three is Scott Piakowski, nobody heard of him! :bang: The Bulls did make some great draft picks, I just hope they don't flop like Tyson Chandler, they need to get some veterans, I hope Pippen comes back and they sign Karl Malone as a free agent(he's still a free agent), come back to the Bulls MJ, we need you bad!

Yo lambert I could back up my opinion well, check this, G-Unit might be hot now selling 3 million albums but will we remember them 10 years from now even when their record sales decline? What do they stand for besides shooting guns and ****ing bitches ? Now they got skills but they don't use it the right way. This is the point that I'm trying to make, KRS-ONE is not a mainstream rapper and doesn't have to be a mainstream rapper if it means selling out his image he makes songs about God and how hip-hop can prosper by believing in him, many years from now people'll still look at him as one of the best of all time especially since he's not concern with sales and still reps his art, he released his 13th album in July and would destroy any current mc on mainstream if he wanted to, Will Smith is one of the rare mcs that've been on the mainstream and has kept it consistant with his image when he makes songs, he doesn't start cursing on songs 'cause everyone else does since he's staying true to what got him in the game and that brought him longevity success. I'm only talking about Nelly as a rap artist being a gimmick not as a person 'cause he does charity for cancer which is positive, he should be more positive in his lyrics, instead of just doing gimmick songs about Shakin' Tailfeathers! :ditto:

It's all good man, but now you know, KRS-ONE, Doug E. Fresh, Afrikka Bambatta, Reverand Run and Russell Simmons came up with the idea of having hip-hop appreciation week every 3rd week in May and hip hop history month in November I read about it on the internet. We should all know that Will Smith attnds these hip-hop summitts and was a menmber of million man march in '95, hip hop is a culture that represents to bring unity and peace for all people, it's more than just music, it's a movement.

Hey Lambert are you a member of G Unit? Do they pay you to stick up for them all the time? They're aight but they sure ain't legendary, they wouldn't be considered in the top 50 groups of all time in hip-hop if you listened to hip-hop before 2000, they're an average group at best, not to diss them, but that's a fact, they're too commercial now. 50 cent is better off as a solo artist than with them. They should put KRS-ONE on Rap City so you'll know what real intelligence is, Nelly is a gimmick rapper!

Will would have the best chance among any rapper to make it to the White House, and if he makes it he should have an all hip-hop cabinet with some of the ol' school rappers in it: Chuck D could do foreign policy, Jazzy Jeff could be his vice president, and we'll find positions for LL Cool J, KRS-ONE, Nas, MC Hammer, and Reverand Run. :rock: Oh well he's on the same label as some of the artists a lot of us really hate, but that's basically every mainstream label anyway. :ditto:

He's one of the few rappers that is a real cool person off the mic as he is on the mic, I like what he does he drops knowledge for the youth, he leaves the conscious lyrics for KRS-ONE and Chuck D to say and raps feel good lyrics, there ain't nothing wrong with that, but people should recognize that KRS-ONE and Chuck D are still in the game too and give them more respect as well.

I remember when I started writing poetry in early 2002 it was after my grandmother passed away in December of 2001, I do it to pay homage to her because she used to write poems too, she never released them, our family is trying to get them published, this talent is in my blood. I used to write in a journal when I was about 11 years old, I stopped after a lil' while, but my current poetry book is like a journal 'cause I write about a lot of the things that happened to me that I might not say in a song, I have over 100 poems written over these 2 3/4 years, I never run out of inspiration, if I did I would run out of life.

:werd:I was just looking out for you, I figured that you knew 'cause you're intelligent but there seems to be more of these type of girls than anything out there, it's hard to find a girl that's down and that works for hers like I work for mine, I put a lot of hard work in to get my money and I'm not gonna throw it away overnight when I meet a girl, my father has taught me that I should go after my dream and don't go around messing with girls all the time, be careful who you choose to go after 'cause your dreams could down in the blink of an eye, especially if you get a girl pregnant and you find out that she doesn't care about you, you still gotta pay for the kid and take care of it. Feel me! I just felt like dropping some knowledge there to understand where I'm coming from!

Hey fuq word to the wise, keep your mind on your music, if she can't except you for who you are now, you don't need her, she sounds like a golddigger to me, there's plenty of hot chicks out there, but you need one with a good personality as well as a good looking body, they're hard to find. :dunno: I'm not gonna throw cash in a girl's face for her to be my girl, like Will said in the Fresh Prince, "Ain't No Honey Fly Enough To Make Me Go Through All This" when he was trying to act like Carlton to talk to the bougey girl and then acted gangsta when he found out that she liked thug guys. That episode was funny but had a good message to it!

Check it out y'all I hope y'all enjoy it as much as I did LL Cool J: The Marathon Man By Jigsaw There are few people in Hip-Hop as dominating as LL Cool J. If you’re an adult now, he was there when you were probably still a kid. If you’re younger, LL was likely around before you were seeded. But both young and old know LL Cool J as an icon. With no sense of history, this man has reigned always. In these twenty years, LL’s made some mistakes. He’s crossed over, crossed back, and crossed out competitors the whole time. In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com, LL confronts his triumphs, some of his mistakes, gives wise insights to the oncoming election and explained his new album The DEFinition. Mr. Smith, we followed you then, salute you now, and we don’t dare mention retirement. AllHipHop.com: What was your aim for this album? LL: My aim was to make a record that could play at 1:15 in the morning in the club. And to make something new, and to challenge and stretch myself a bit and not repeat myself in terms of what I did. In terms of what single I dropped, the video I put out, my whole approach to it, I wanted to stretch myself. I wanted to challenge everything. Thus, I put out hits from the “challenge myself” intellect, to make the game interesting. I’m loving the success that it’s having and I feel great about the way it’s exploding around the country. Even internationally, it’s really doing well and I’m very thankful. I didn’t want to do anything political or social. Well, social is a different word because fun is social. But I didn’t want to do anything political. I wanted it to be pure entertainment. AllHipHop.com: Why not political? LL: I think that… for me, there is enough of that out there and there is a time and a place to do that. One of the greatest services that I can supply mankind with, apart from the interviews and my life, is to give them an opportunity to take an hour and forget about their problems, the strife, forget about what’s going on in the world and have a good time. I think as an artist, we have the responsibility. That’s part of the reason why people make music, why people paint pictures, and why people sculpt, and why they do what they do, to let people escape and give them that vibe. AllHipHop.com: I kind of disagree with that. Not that I disagree with you doing that, because that has been your zone for the majority of your career, but now there’s no balance in Hip-Hop. So when you were out, there might have been a Chuck D. LL: I understand what you are saying on that, but I think that at those times you have to listen to the deeper meaning. A lot of what Chuck was talking about and the things he was dealing with was about the government and how they treat the community. My perspective is more about how the community treats [itself]. That is very important to me. I’m very much one who believes in self help. I have faith in God and I believe that we have to raise our children. We can’t ask the government to do that. For me I would rather set the example, through the actions. By doing the things I do and not limiting myself, by being willing to take risks. A lot of times words are important but they have to coincide with what’s in your heart. Because if you speak a d they don’t coincide with that’s in your heart they are empty and meaningless. It’s important to me, whatever I do, that it coincides with my heart. Whether it’s my imagination, whatever, it has to coincide with what’s going on inside of me so that I can look people in the eye and feel good about what I do. So for me at this point in my career, making a political album would not be real for me. I have said the things I wanted to say just like on the one in the morning record when I said, “Uncle LL I got product for sale so I can bail Al Sharpton out of Jail.” Its funny but when you think about it its necessary. AG Gaston had to be around to bail Martin Luther King out of jail. So you have to read between the lines. I said, “Get my Bentley park on and them give my dogs platform to bark on.” If you pay attention to that economic empowerment is the key to all the freedom we are seeking politically. It’s the Bob Johnson’s and Oprah’s and God willing, the LL Cool J’s that are going to make the difference and make all of those political dreams that partly Chuck D and others talk about even possible. We need to make sure that the focus is correct. AllHipHop.com: Did you recently just go to the Democratic Convention in Boston? LL: I went to the convention, but I went to [perform at] the Rock to Vote concert. And what I said after I finished performing was, I’m not here to endorse any particular candidate. I said that if there is any candidate that is looking for my endorsement, we have to meet face to face and I need to know what their plans are and how they are going to affect my community, and then America as a whole, and then my community within America. I have to know what the plan is. I’m not going to lend my name and my credibility. I respect them of course. And I said it respectfully because you have to respect the people that are running for the leadership of our country because this is a great country. And I do love this country because it has given me a great opportunity. Regardless of what our ancestry is, ultimately we are all here because of our ancestry. So whether good or bad, at the end of the day we are here now and we need to take advantage of this opportunity of being Americans. At the same time, if I’m going to endorse somebody, I can’t just endorse him or her just by default. We have to sit down and talk. I have to see what’s going on, and how what you do affects the people I love. AllHipHop.com: Have you followed any of the candidates? LL: A lil’ much. I haven’t been stimulated to that point. When I hear someone talking about something other than what Bush has done wrong, then I can listen a lil’ better. But at this point I don’t know anything about what anyone is saying but what Bush did wrong. That doesn’t help me. There’s a whole focus on the problem but what’s the solution? AllHipHop.com: Back to the album, that “One in the Morning” is hot, but you are real cocky on that. It reminds me of the old L. You talk about the sucker with the potbelly on the couch, it reminded me of the LL back in the day. LL: That’s just part of what it is. That’s just Hip-Hop. I leave it on the record. It’s kind of like basketball for me. You dunk with your tongue hanging out, but you don’t walk around with your tongue hanging out. I leave it on the records and I know how to separate it. I only go there every now and then because it can get out of control but that’s just Hip-Hop to me. AllHipHop.com: One song on the album you say, “I’m a family man still hard like a rock.” What does that line mean? LL: I’ll tell you exactly what that means. It means that I love my family, but don’t think for a minute [that] I won’t stand up for my principles. That’s as real as it gets. And a lot of times, I think people associate having a family with complacency, and a lack of hunger and desire and a willingness to stand up for what you believe in. And that would never be me. AllHipHop.com: I see that R. Kelly is on the album. In light of his situation, I know that you have daughters yourself, what made you work with him and did those issues ever come to play? LL: It’s very simple, man. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone, that’s first. Second, we have all done a lot of things they just all aren’t tape. So far me to judge that man because his was on tape would be ridiculous. I’m not saying I did exactly what he did but we all have skeletons. We all have bones that need to be collected and brought back to life. So I’m not going to judge him about his personal life. That was us getting together creatively and I leave it as that. I’m not endorsing what he did on the tape or judging him. I have to let that be his personal life and separate it. And yes, I have three daughters. [But] I’m not going to judge him. AllHipHop.com: What do you think about the overall state of Hip-Hop? LL: I think that Hip-Hop is in a great place, it is bigger than it has ever been. It has probably reached critical mass; it hasn’t reached critical mass in the world. It is not where it is around the world like it is in the US. It is big, but it is ten years behind in like 1994 in terms of mainstream media. In terms of its effect on cultures around the world, it doesn’t have its same dominance. I think it is in a great place. AllHipHop.com: When you say critical mass? LL: I mean it has reached its highest point; it has permeated and saturated every nook and cranny of the culture that is critical mass. It is everywhere and has reached its highest heights as an art form. It is everywhere in every commercial, Fortune 500 companies there is still some growth left, but there isn’t as much growth left as there was. So I am glad to be a part of it at this point; it was beautiful it was almost like a mushroom cloud and I got to sit on top of it and rise with it and that is a great thing.

My dad's birthday is on the 8th of October, he doesn't like hip-hop that much though, he listens to mostly to old school Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Harry Bellafonte and a lot of the old school dance hall that's good stuff too though, can't front on the old school. Why would they show this in October when we all know as true hip-hoppers that November is Hip-Hop History Month! It's all good though! :rock: