Hero1

dope..let us know what he says :thumb:

the new brand nubian..with all members is dope!! :thumb: u can listen to traxs off the album here ..some real dope hip hop 4 a change!!and they are sayin somethin [url="http://flashenhanced.com/brandnubian/player/"]http://flashenhanced.com/brandnubian/player/[/url]

dont even worry about that man..thats just a few people who have nothing better to do than spread trash on a message board... :blah:

Will Smith gets serious instead of jiggy Mon 12 July, 2004 19:25 By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - So rapper-turned-actor Will Smith, whose new action movie "I, Robot" debuts this Friday, picks up the phone a few weeks back and dials Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations. This is no joke, even though Smith is known for his humour. "I just basically offered my services," he told Reuters in a recent interview. "I don't know what I can do. I just know that America is a better place than the reputation we're getting internationally right now." Smith's wisecracking has made action movies like "Men in Black" huge box office hits and 1990s sitcom "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" a television sensation. His music, whether singles like "Getting Jiggy Wit It" or CDs such as 1999's "Willennium," come packed with Smith's own style, not to mention smile. But this time, Will Smith is serious. "I don't even know what it is, but I just know that there is influence that I can have, and I want to find a direction." He puts special emphasis and energy into "find a direction." Smith said he's been hanging, recently, with Tom Cruise and U2 singer Bono who often lend their support to causes far outside their creative realm. He doesn't want to go into politics. It is "too confining." He doesn't want a formal job, either. Whatever it is, he said, he would work through the private sector. "Acting," he said. "is kind of a stepping stone to whatever that greater purpose is." At age 35, with a wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and kids, life is changing. Not coincidentally, Smith said his work is changing too, and his fans can see that in "I, Robot." THINKING MAN'S ACTION FLICK The sci-fi thriller blends parts of writer Isaac Asimov's book of the same name with a murder mystery about a Detective Spooner of the Chicago police department who, in 2035, suspects a robot of murdering the scientist who created all robots. The robotic models of mechanics and software perform mostly household functions like cooking and cleaning, and according to laws Asimov laid out, they cannot hurt humans. Their inability to do harm is written into their computer code. But Spooner (Smith) distrusts all robots. Also, he is a survivor of a tragic car accident, and he lives with guilt from having survived. Spooner is not the in-charge, happy-go-lucky character Smith normally plays in movies like "Bad Boys" or "Men in Black." Spooner is angry, conflicted, confused. Smith called Spooner's story in "I, Robot" a "wonderful, emotional journey you don't find in summer action movies." There is a deeper level to the movie, too. Humans in 2035 treat robots like second-class citizens because they do the jobs no one else will. In some cases, robots are reduced to slaves, and often it is African-American Spooner who has the least regard for them. Those themes are for audiences who like to think. For fans who just want to see Smith crack jokes, flex muscles and blast robots, there is plenty of that, too. Smith divides "I, Robot" into a "big story" of jokes, gunplay and action, and a "little story" of Spooner's journey. "The big story is robots taking over the world ... but the little story is why people love a movie," Smith said, "And the little story is a guy who experienced a traumatic situation and is trying to come to grips with the way the world is." For nearly two decades, Smith has lived a big story in rap music and in hit movies like "Independence Day" and with an Oscar nomination for "Ali." Now, it appears, the time is right for him to begin a newer, little story. [url="http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=546017§ion=news"]http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticl...17§ion=news[/url]

NEW YORK - In Will Smith's new sci-fi thriller, "I, Robot," his character drives a motorcycle. But in real life, Smith says he's driven by fear. "What people believe is my self-confidence is actually my reaction to fear," he tells Parade magazine in its July 11 issue. "All it takes is just one person telling me I can't do it, and I'll use the fear of failure as fuel." In the article, Smith recounts a day in Jamaica when he was about 20 years old, watching people jump off a high cliff into the ocean. "I can't swim, and I was terrified," he said. "So for about three minutes, I stood there, thinking, `This is ridiculous.' Then I jumped off the cliff, feet first, and went in the water." Now 35, Smith has lived through going broke, after making millions, and a failed marriage. He's had success in music, television and film, and has been married to actress-singer Jada Pinkett Smith since 1997. "I keep going because I doubt myself," he said. "It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success." "I, Robot" opens in movie theaters Friday. theres somethin from that article

Will Smith Talks 'I, Robot' Nude Scene [Mon July 12, 2004 06:29PM] Will Smith, who stars in the upcoming I, Robot movie, says that the film features his first full nude scene. He adds that the scene was very important for the plot. "Oh, absolutely, absolutely," Smith told Sci-Fi Wire. "My character suffers from a psychological condition called survivor's guilt, all right? … I sent a script to a group of psychologists and asked them, 'Tell me what this character's behavior would be.' And they said paranoia was one of the things." The scene sees Smith's character, Del Spooner, taking a shower, which begins the paranoia. "The shower door [is] open," he said. "[There's] no shower curtain, with the gun hanging over the thing, and they said he would never be able to wash his hair, because he wouldn't close his eyes in the shower. So it's, you know, those kinds of things. But you probably have to have a degree in psychology to take all of that out of it. But it gives it a certain level of reality when … you know that that much thought went into it, and even if you don't, it’s just kind of a cool naked guy [laughs]." Smith adds that the scene had to be digitally modified for the American audience. "It's interesting, because America's the only place that it's really a big deal," he said. "Actually, you know, the scene in this movie was actually a full frontal nudity, but they had to digitally remove … . Yeah, it was the most expensive CG shot, just to remove it, for the American audience [laughs]." [url="http://www.killermovies.com/i/irobot/articles/4205.html"]http://www.killermovies.com/i/irobot/articles/4205.html[/url]

hook up the track man looking good

ohh this is the same interview from a few days ago.. :ohnoes:

nice 1 willie :cya:

i think you cant judge will's career properly on born to reign..that album did not have one track from it released to radio..not 1 track.. black suits comin was out to promote men in black 2... when its promotion was handles so poorly you cant say will isnt gonna sell any records any more.. with the time will is gonna put into this record i think it will go platinum easily..and sell millions around the world... lets hope the 1st single is really strong

yeah im not really in2 the rock traxs..but the rnb ones rule :ditto:

every1 make sure u check the calendar..ive already added most of this stuff 2 it :thumb: [url="http://jazzyjefffreshprince.com/forum/index.php?act=calendar"]http://jazzyjefffreshprince.com/forum/index.php?act=calendar[/url]

spiderman will rake in about 23 million.. i robot will do 60 million + so the answer is.. hell yes

[quote=JumpinJack AJ,Jul 12 2004, 12:26 AM][quote=WildWildWillennium,Jul 11 2004, 07:02 PM] DROP A DOUBLE ALBUM WILL!! :call:[/quote] Let's not get carried away...only if every track is that good. No fillers or soundtrack songs!! [/quote] if wills gonna record 40 traxs..and still recording more now..i think he should release a double album! we've only had one album in 5 years..so why not? of course im expecting the traxs to be quality..which im sure most of em are... i just had a thought..image one album was a jjfp album with every track produced by jeff..and the other was will and all other producers..now that it'd be dope

[quote=fan 4ever,Jul 12 2004, 12:24 AM]thanx man!!...looks like i know what the get myself for x-mas... :action: Oh and Tim, was dis the huuuuge news y'all were talking about? Seems like Will just messed up your suprise huh... :nana:[/quote] theres more to come :thumb:

[quote=Hero1,Jul 11 2004, 05:43 PM]"It is the same type of blockbuster zone, but slightly more mature, and more elevated intellectually. That is sort of where my music is now, but still fun."[/quote] i am loving that quote! more elevated..more mature..im ready for it man! sounds like some dope hip hop :thumb: i was hoping it would come out sooner than christmas..but who knows..

yeah..everyone join us if u can

[quote=DevilsJim89,Jul 11 2004, 05:52 PM]nice so we should expect to drop around the same time Willenium did.... Tim, can you please for now on post the source links to every article you post?[/quote] the source is on that post from silvertiger in big will forum..im just keepin all the news on the album in this post

that lineup is awesome slick rick big daddy kane and jazzy jeff..hell yeah! then blackalicious..love em!..and murs(been a fan since the beginning..when i bought a f'real tape off him)

im sure u got caught up in all the decadence :roll: welcome back..you've come back to good news!

While Smith says that it is his acting that pays the bills, he still loves making music. "I have an album coming for Christmas, which I haven't compiled yet, but I have about 40 songs so far. The technology of making music today is ridiculous. I just programmed the music, laid the vocals, mixed the record and burned a CD on my laptop in my hotel room. I am like 'Wow!' that it has come to a point with technology that I was mixing a song with my headphones on the plane flying back here." Smith says that he sees parallels between his up-and-coming album and I, Robot. "It is the same type of blockbuster zone, but slightly more mature, and more elevated intellectually. That is sort of where my music is now, but still fun." If the music takes off, Smith may give up the acting - well at least a certain type of movie. "I feel like I have got five or six more years of action movies and blowing stuff up. I probably want to hurry up and get those while I can still take my shirt off in a movie."

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July 11, 2004 -- IT'S hard to steal a scene from Will Smith. Tommy Lee Jones couldn't do it. Martin Lawrence couldn't do it. Jazzy Jeff definitely couldn't do it. But just wait until you meet Sonny, Smith's android co-star in his new high-tech thriller, "I, Robot." Despite a great performance from the Fresh Prince, Sonny manages to upstage Smith in scene after scene of the hard-edged futuristic mystery story. In one sequence, he does it with super-human skills, leaping 20 feet across the room and then skittering up a wall faster than Spider-Man. In another, he captivates with his amazingly expressive computer-generated face - the most touching display of computer generated acting since Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings." It was important to get the robot right in this movie, which is based on the "I, Robot" collection of short stories of the most respected science-fiction writer of the 20th century, Isaac Asimov. The movie takes place in the Chicago of 2035, at a time when there's one robot for every five people on planet Earth. These animated beings smile and speak just like we do. They cook and clean for us and come to our rescue when we get hurt. But then one of them - Sonny - appears to go berserk. The movie stars Smith as Del Spooner, a police detective who is trying to unravel the mysterious death of the world's leading robotics researcher, Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cameron). On first glance, the death looks like a suicide, but Spooner isn't so sure, especially after he meets Sonny, the highly advanced prototype robot that Lanning was working on when he died. Sonny not only has super-human powers but also something else that the other robots don't - feelings. Including anger. You really sense Sonny's emotions in the movie, even though he was actually created on a computer. That's because Sonny was made in much the same way that Gollum was for "Lord of the Rings" - with an actor, Alan Tudyk, acting out all the scenes dressed in a special green-screen suit and computer artists going in afterward to animate Sonny's robotic features. It took three years and 41 different designs to come up with Sonny. "We had one Sonny that looked more like the Terminator, with gleaming metal," recalls art director Oana Bogdan. "Others were just plastic shells." In the final design, Sonny has a semi-transparent plastic shell over a metal body - a design influenced by iMac computers, according to Bogdan. His innocent-looking face comes from angel statues Tatopoulos saw in churches. "We liked how they looked really androgynous," Bogdan says. "We wanted you to think that Sonny could be either male or female." Androgynous robots aren't the only odd things in the movie's future. As he works on the case, Det. Spooner walks through a future world in which the cars drive themselves, with spherical wheels that turn in any direction. It's a world almost completely devoid of trees and grass, in which Lake Michigan has become, of all things, a landfill. But while it's odd to see Smith's car park itself in a huge, revolving parking garage, other elements of the movie's future seem very familiar. When Smith pays for a couple of beers at a bar, he doesn't drop cash on the table - he just swipes a card over a scanner. When the price comes up, it reads "$46.50," which isn't that far from what you have to pay for two drinks at some of Manhattan's swankier boites. "We've gone with a believable and realistic view of the future," says the movie's director, Alex Proyas. "I didn't want to have flying cars and stuff. I wanted it to feel like a real and natural 30-year progression from now." And indeed, much of the sci-fi technology that would make Sonny possible is already science fact in cutting-edge labs around the world. Driverless cars, for example, is a dream shared not only by sci-fi buffs but also by real-life Defense Department officials, who have a Congressional mandate to make sure that at least one-third of all military ground-combat vehicles are unmanned by 2015. In April, the Pentagon sponsored a race for robot cars, offering a $1 million prize for any team that could build an unmanned car that would drive across 142 miles of desert from Barstow, Calif., to Las Vegas. The contest, unfortunately, was something of a disaster: Only 13 of the 25 cars entered were even able to even start, and the best performer only made it 7.4 miles before veering off the road into a ditch and bursting into flames. But driverless cars are coming, and so are androids with faces as expressive as Sonny's. In February, a Texas company called Human Emulation Robotics unveiled a robotic head that can smile and frown. Hertz, as company president David Hanson calls the head, is hooked to a laptop computer "brain," and has features modeled on Hanson's girlfriend. Her skin is made of a high-tech polymer called "f'rubber," and she has video cameras in her eyes follow you across the room. Some scientists believe "social robots" like Hertz (or Sonny) will one day take care of disabled people or work menial jobs. Today's scientists are even working on robots that can think on their own - although none of them are even close to drawing the sort of beautiful pictures that Sonny can. So far, the smartest ones can only play catch. Recent science also inspired Proyas' vision of Sonny in "I, Robot," - especially some of the amazing breakthroughs that doctors have had with bionic artificial limbs. Just last November, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago attached a mechanical arm to an amputee and connected it electrically to his nervous system. Unlike the old-fashioned prosthetics, this one reacts just like a real muscle. These sort of artificial limbs - which sound like something out of the 1970s TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man" - inspired the cords on Sonny's joints, which will remind you of anatomical drawings of human muscles. But all this technology, and even the $100 million Fox reportedly spent making "I, Robot" isn't what brings Sonny, and the film, to life. At the center are compelling human performances, including Tudyk's. "When we were shooting, it was just an actor running around in a little green suit," says John Davis, one of the movie's producers. "But on screen, Sonny has humanness to him that's not like Terminator or any other robot I've seen before." 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silvertiger i agree with a lot of what u said.. i aint mad at 50 cent or g-unit etc selling a lot of records..what disappoints me is really talented cats arent having any commercial success.. back in the day there used to be all kinds of artists co-existing together and doing really well..from political rap - public enemy , gangsta rap - nwa - fun rap - jazzy jeff and fresh prince etc etc... now u take one look at the charts and a lot of it is the same ..rubbish... :bang:

[quote=PTluv777,Jul 10 2004, 11:51 PM]According to 'Rock on TV' he's going to be on this time, on Wed. the 14. Maybe for real this time...?[/quote] yeah i hope he turns up this time..because im sure he'll talk about the new album on TRL :ditto: