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JumpinJack AJ

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  1. 1. DJ Premier
    2. DJ Jazzy Jeff + A Touch of Jazz
    3. Jermaine Dupri + So So Def
    4. Timbaland
    5. Easy Mo Bee
    6. Eric B.
    7. Ummah (A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village)
    8. Dr. Dre
    9. DJ Scratch
    10. Kanye West
    11. Rodney Jerkins + Darkchild

    There is somebody i'm 4getting!!
  2. If u look at the careers of Hip-Hop and Rap artists...u'll notice that the ones who have fallen off often follow the same formulas. Selling out, embracing sucess and money, trying 2 be more negative...fakely hardcore. It's just funny that they all take the same road which leads 2 the end of their careers. U think that after u saw the 1st set of Jay-Z's, Ludacris', Ja-Rule's, and Trina's fall off, why would they ALL do the same thing. People are so stupid and blinded by the business. That's why only the best (and smartest) survive.
  3. I think i'ma go with Benzino. I havn't heard much of his stuff, but i thought most of what i have heard waz trash. I don't like 50 Cent much either tho'. I don't think either of these guys write well or have decent subject matter. And from what i've heard, they don't have decent beats either (tho' i've heard 3 beats or so that i've liked done 4 50 Cent). I just don't know how u can make music and know that u have no originality. I think 50 Cent has potential, but i don't see him persuing a higher level of making music that dosen't suck.
  4. I wonder if that'll make any BWS-sell-out fans pick it up when they see it.

    Here Will's albums go 4 about the same price as any other CD. I see Willennium marked down 2 about $10 and the Greatest Hits waz originally priced for just over $10.

    When i ever i'm in a used CD place (one of them regluates the prices down every month or so) and whenever a JJ+FP CD gets down really cheap, i get it if it's in good condition.
  5. Most really young artists don't write their own stuff. ABC had Mike Bivens, Boyz II Men, Dallas Austin, Busta Rhymes writing their stuff. Kris Kross had input but Jermaine Dupri wrote almost all of their matieral until their last album. I 4get who wrote the stuff by Da Youngstas. I'll also check up on Illegal. A+ is the only young cat that i think wrote most of his own stuff. When u are 12 and 13, u probably shouldn't be writing most of your material. I waz writing back then, and when i look back on it, most of has some really good lines surrounded by stuff that i'd be embarassed 2 write these days. I'm pretty sure Lil' Romeo dosen't write much of his material tho'.
  6. Lil' Romeo makes better than music some of the current chart toppers (that suck)....ha ha..but i'm gonna go with him also.

    Alot of Bow Wow's early stuff wasn't 2 bad. I wazn't gonna hold high standards 2 him since he waz a kiddie emcee coming up. He's growing in2 a good artist. "My Baby" with Jagged Edge waz one of the best Hip-Hop singles out last year.
  7. Romeo aka Young Rome of Imx/Immature dropped his solo album 2day. The album is titled "Food For Thought" and i love this album. Of course i'm biased cuz i grew up with Immature since 1992. The album is a good mix of legit mainstream accessable Hip-Hop. The beats are good and the trax stand out from each other (which is getting harder everyday on alot of rap albums). Romeo has this uneek flow that seperates him from the rest and while he dose party type trax, the quality of lyrics are much better than your average mainstream Hip-Hop artist. This isn't De La Soul, Tribe type stuff...but it's nothing like current commercial stuff. He comes off a lil' more down 2 earth than Nick Cannon's sugar-coated album (which is dope, don't take that as a diss). Check the 1st single "After Party" or the trax Best Days, Wha Cha Doin' Tonight, Clap, if u find 'em online.

    Immature/Imx fans will be happy 2 see Marques "Batman" Houston on 2 trax (and doing back up vocals on "After Party" on the album. I think a few peeps on this board will like what Rome has 2 offer.

    p.s. Circute City has the album on sale for $6.99 this week and Wal-Mart has the edited version for $8.49...the cussin' isn't overdone either but it's there.
  8. I like Cassidy's 1st 2 singles...and 2 or 3 of Fabolous' singles. I'm not gonna buy their albums even at half price, but i think some of their songs are alot more barable than most of the stuff by Jay-Z, Ludacris, Nelly, etc. Don't get it twisted, i'm not comparing these guy 2 my favorite artists. But of the rappers who are getting airplay (not including Twista, OutKast, Black Eyed Peas, and Kanye West)...i think they beat out the compitition.
  9. Nelly is so stupid....that waz wack...ha ha. I hope he gets hit by a car.

    Anyways, 2 me Bizarre is really annoying cuz he totally personifies those "group member rappers" that are so wack that they could never stand as a solo artist. I don't think he's ever wrote a verse that actually had one topic. I think his verse in "My Band" is kinda funny...but D12 is just a garbage group 2 me.

    Chingy kills me with the overdone southern accent. When i 1st hear "Right Therr" or whatever, i didn't bug me, but by the 5th listen it had me 4 mercy. That 'holiday in' song waz so wack that even Snoop couldn't make it barable on the hook. I kinda like this 3rd single tho'...the beat is good, the R-N-B hook is dope and Chingy isn't as annoying as he normally is but i just don't understand why he has a record deal.

    Both of them are pretty bad but i think Bizarre is the wackest of the 2.
  10. However, respectable sales are kinda important. For instance, the music award shows that are totally focused on the quality of music and not sales, media hype, etc, can't have music up 4 awards if they have no success at all. Without a lil' success, they don't get considered. Touring goes the same (tho' some established groups/artists don't have 2 worry about that). If u don't have a succesfull album...not many people are gonna come out 2 support some no-name artist.

    That's not waz the biz is like these days 4 big labels. It's multi-platnium or u get dropped. Ain't nothing wrong with barely going gold, but that's looked down on these days. In Hip-Hop/Rap, there seems 2 be a popular trend of the lower quality of music, the higher sales u get.
  11. Yeah, i think they were hilarious in How High and i thought this show would have had comedy on the same level...but it's no where near it. I think that's why the show isn't that great, cuz they need 2 be behind more of the show. Hopefully they get that chance b4 they cancel it. As i look back, i can kinda see how the acting waz kinda not there...cuz they felt it waz so stupid that they didn't feel comfortable with it.
  12. Where have u been?!? Will's ex-wife Sheree is very close 2 Will + Jada and very involved in the kids' lives. When Jada and Will got serious, Jada made Will fix the problems between him and his ex-wife and ever since they've all gotten along. More people should take the advice Jada gave Will cuz they've accomplished something that shouldn't be, but often is impossible these days. After all, their situation is what their show All of Us is based off of.
  13. Like it says a few posts away, this is supposed 2 be focusing on strictly rap...not everything else. But 2 answer all your ?uestions, Da Brat's "In Luv Wit Chu" single/video did well but the album flopped cuz Arista's promotion stopped after her sucessful single. Jermain Dupri only did a few trax on the album. Bow Wow and Jagged Edge didn't leave him either, when JD waz taking So So Def away from Columbia, they offered him a HUGE amount of money for each act and accepted that. He said in an interveiw that the figures were so insanly high that it almost wouldn't make sense 2 keep them. Both of their current albums (espeically Bow Wow's) aren't making movies their past albums were doing...but JE still work with him (cuz he's a genious). And Fundisha never really got her career started.

    JD is the man, that's why he's been around for over 10 years and is still all over people's albums producing and rapping.
  14. The only other place i've seen a clip of that 2Pac + Jada "Parents Just Don't Understand" video waz on The Kenan Ivory Wayons Show back in the summer of 1997 or 1998. Me and my cousin did a video like that 2 Snow's "Informer" back in the day...ha ha. If i ever blow up, i hope they never get their hands on that video cuz i look like i'm trying 2 be really hard in the beginning cuz when they started the music, it waz by some generic guy and i got the impression i would be lipsyncing 2 the actual song.
  15. Thanx 4 that article. I love reading about family cuz it totally reminds u how Will really is, rather than seeing him all Hollywood at award shows and stuff. It sounds like the wedding waz relaxing and refreshing. It waz definitly great weather on the east coast this weeding so i'm sure Will + Jada loved getting away from it all.

    I wonder of Jazzy Jeff and the fellas from Boyz II Men got along. I heard that while A Touch of Jazz has been working on their up-coming album, they stole his microwave. :roll:
  16. I remember LL Cool J (who admitted 2 having a jacked up deal with Def Jam....from 1985 when he waz a nobody) said that touring is strictly about making money and persuading at least one person 2 buy your album. Touring is one thing where the artist can definitly take the whple thing in2 their own hands. In 2002, Will waz out there dressing like he wanted, performing "Summertime" and thinking about that stripped down tour with Jeff. U think Columbia had anything 2 do with that?!?! YEAH RIGHT!!

    If someone ever wants a good dose how money is in the music industry, watch VH-1's 1st Behind The Music special on TLC. In it, Left Eye breaks it down in detailed facts how a group can sell 10 million albums (CraZySeXyCOOl) and file for bankruptsy....it's amazing.
  17. I finally watched it 2day. 2day waz my day off so i just stayed home and popped the DVD in and watched all the extras right after it. I love the movie, it was put 2gether very well. What makes this surpass all past 2Pac documentries is the fact that it's all told from his point of view. The story just rolls along totally legit and totally honest. It's amazing the way they put the narroration 2gether cuz there's only a few spots where it obvious when the were putting different interviews 2gether.

    2Pac is one of the most misunderstood emcee ever and i think it's important 4 people 2 see this movie. Most of 2Pac's fans don't know what the man was all about and this movie clears alot of things up. I waz a fan of Digital Underground and 2Pac when he 1st went solo so i got a dose of all of his sides, ideas, etc...but not alot of fans have and my opinion and understanding of him is nothing like alot of people who got in2 him later. I think this movie is perfect 4 skooling his fans AND 4 those people who have never been in2 him that much but are willing 2 see what he's about. All that controversy and media hype totally messed up his image.

    There's a few ties in2 it that people here would definitly be interested in. It shows a good chunk of 2Pac and Jada lipsyncing/dancing 2 "Parents Just Don't Understand," a bonus feature of Jada talking about him, and footage of the MTV Music Awards where Will introduced 2Pac's and Biggie mothers.
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