JumpinJack AJ

There's no excuse 2 be downloading album music...PERIOD. If u can get on the internet and download a song, u can get on the internet and buy it from CDnow.com, ebay.com, half.com, etc. No excuses. Now u know it's dope...now go buy it!!

I hear u on that!! I don't think anybody here wants true old skool music 2 make a comeback...cuz it's time and place is in the old skool. I think what many of us are craving is the way it waz during the late old skool era and the golden ages of Hip-Hop. Back when people where themselves on records, when they had their own style, when there were all kinds of different sounds and subject matter. That's all gone....95% of the successful people are just rappers, not emcees. They don't have real background in their music, they don't know how 2 perform....they just walk across a stage, rapping in2 a mic over an instrumental while they posse adlibs 2 no end and grabs their crotch. It's a shame cuz young kids and people new 2 Hip-Hop don't know what good music is. What would happen is an emcee came out NOT talking about sex, money, and drugs...what if they didn't wear baggy cloths with name brand labels all over them...God 4bid anybody do anything original.

Rap in general sucks. It has been going thru' a downward spiral since the mid-90's. Only ignorant people are getting record deals. These cats don't know how 2 rock a show, they can't write decent lyrics, they don't care about their fans or the kids that hear their music. Nearly no artists who get commercial success are actually REAL artists anymore. Back in the day, parents and adults hated Hip-Hop cuz they thought it waz explict, awful music, but they were so wrong. Now Rap music gets it pretty easy...but now the music is awful. Real artists find it hard 2 get decent record deals much less proper promotion. Labels only wanna sign ignorant young cats who talk about money, sex, drugs, and violence. When music had a heart, emcees would bring up drugs and violence 2 say "hey, this is how life is 4 some people...FIX IT"...these days they just talk about it. Most of the guys who talk about this stuff these days don't live that lifestyle and never seen a gun until they put it in the music video. Time's aren't gonna change until we have another big tragedy like another murder. I don't see how the young kids who are buying these records will ever know about better music since it isn't getting played.

Thanx 4 that!! That waz cool...i bet that guy listens 2 Before The Willennium every day. However, if i might snap if i read another interview where somebody says "LEVEL" one more time!!

"Now that's what i call a close encounter!!" Thank goodness they came 2 their senses and realized that a sequel 2 that movie would have been probably the stupidest, most far-fetched sequel of all time. WELCOME 2 EARTH!!

The other day i saw a used copy the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack at a really low price...so i had 2 get it (since i've wanted 2 hear a few of the trax on it for YEARS. I has that Jazz (of Dru Hill) and Jill Scott track "Love Again" and also that Musiq and Redman track...both good...and both produced by A Touch of Jazz. Other stand out trax 2 me are the L.L. Cool J joint and the Montell Jordan track (which i already got of his import-released 4th album. Most of the album is commerical Hip-Hop that is good but dosen't stand the test of time at all. Not bad music...just forgetable. Still alot better than the Bad Boys 2 soundtrack of course.

Yeah, just 2 know they are touring 2gether is really cool. Maybe we'll be lucky and we can talk Jeff in2 letting us know when and where they might be.

Wow!! I can't wait...i just wish they'd release it a month earlier so i could vibe with it at the end of the summertime.

Hopefully the chemistry will fly and more stuff will pop off. Hopefully they'll also get a really good response which could lead 2 announced dates, cuz if they are here on the east coast, u know i'll be there.

U aren't the only one...when the re-printed the album, they added it on 2 the tracklisting (but not on the insert). I have both the original release of the album, and the re-release on cassette. I actually didn't own a CD copy of Homebase until 1998...ha ha.

The way u all have replied 2 this post is only support what i'ma say...so don't get offended. People are just 2 ignorant these days 4 people 2 do anything creative, new, or different without people misunderstanding it.

I like the new joint...but i think Never Say Never is a master piece.

My definition of Gangsta Rap is anybody who copied N.W.A., Ice-T (and related artists at that time in the late 80's). They made hardcore Hip-Hop....it waz a different branch of Hip-Hop...but all the wannabes who monopolized and copied it are gangsta rap. Phoney guys who lie in their music, try 2 be hard, and have not one drop of creativity in their music....that's gangsta rap. That's why JJ+FP stands against it so much...who would wanna be a part of that. "Afro Angel" is a perfect example of Will being as real as it comes, but it wazn't "gangsta wack" at all. It's just honest and depicts life in all honesty...almost sounds like something straight outta 2pac's rhyme book.

I don't "hate" anything...i just can't stand his music. Don't get me wrong, i like a few trax he's been on, but overall, i hate his music. One of the 1st trax he did waz "Fat Rabbit" on Timbaland's solo album and i loved that song....i've just been more and more disappointed in what's he's done in recent years.

Please tell me u are kidding. There isn't any "gangsta" rap on the album at all...so that's definitly not why he didn't include any stuff from Will. Jeff would never wanna do a gangsta rap track and even if he did...Will wouldn't do it.

If Ludacris knows what good music sounds like...why dose his suck so much?!?

Will waz right when he said nobody could say anything bad about "Summertime."

Thanx everybody!! 2day waz a nice laid back day. Got plenty of calls, voice mails, and e-mails from friends. Some of my friends came back from their colleges 2day which waz extra special and i just spend all nite hanging out. I also got spoiled with all kinds of stuff which i'll talk about later. Thanx again, y'all!!!

Thanx, man!! The last year has been very hard, painful, fun, confusing, etc....but it's definitly been an experience. 2day i plan on just letting all the struggles and stuff sit so i can have some fun and spend time with good friends. After the day is over, i'll just return 2 "life" and see what moves i can make 2 get things back on track.

I don't know...i think it could be a bit self-indulgent or cheezy 2 put yourself out there like that. I think the style of Hip-Hop that he featured on it waz kinda tight...very much the same kinda stuff. If JJ+FP waz on there, he would have had 2 put more different kinds of Hip-Hop from different extreems of Hip-Hop on it. Sure, Wu-Tang and Tribe Called Quest are very different Hip-Hop groups, but the sounds he chose by them (or their respected members) kinda fall in2 the same area. On his "The Vibe I'm On" mixtape, he puts the SoulPower Remix '98 of "Summertime"'s instrumental undera DMX track.

No way...he probably even 4gets about some of the songs he's recorded. Infact, during Willennium, there waz an interview where Will talked about not knowing one of the lyrics 2 "Parents Just Don't Understand"...so there's your answer...that's even one of his biggest hits.

That is so cool!! Talk about timing. 2day is my birthday, that kinda stuff is supposed 2 happen 2 me...ha ha.

Everybody knows i'm very much against the whole internet music sharing/swapping thing. However, i waz wondering how many JJ+FP MP3s we can find on the internet of unathorized stuff. Anybody who can find any interviews or UNATHORIZED DJ remixes of JJ +/or FP stuff, post it here. U obviously can't buy radio interviews or DJ made remixes that aren't copywritten and i think we are all desperate 4 something new 2 hear from them 2gether or individually. I just got extra interested in stuff like this after that 2001 Will Smith radio interview waz posted a lil' over a week ago. I'll be looking around the internet when i have time. Whoever finds anything, discribe it and post the link here. p.s. Somebody please find Will trying 2 sing "Mmmbop" or those crazy covers of "Summertime" and "Boom! Shake The Room"..ha ha.

FP won't release an album unless he feels the time is right. In a 1997 interview (with some magazine...Source or US i think), he makes a comment something like "i've been ready to record this album for years but the time wasn't right until now"...basically saying he waz ready 2 come out 4 awhile but with the murders of 2pac and Biggie and Hip-Hop being ready 4 some fun again, he felt it waz time 2 grace Hip-Hop with that Fresh Prince style it waz missing for so many years.

Def Squad (Erick Sermon, Keith Murray, Redman) did a cover of that 6 years ago...i think it may be a bit 2 early 4 another remake. I don't think any of those rapper y'all suggested would fit on a posse cut remake of that song tho'...most of those rappers don't know how 2 rock a track house party style. Leave it 2 the legends and those qualified 2 record it. JJ+FP, Run, L.L. Cool J, MC Lyte, etc.