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Here's the tracklisting for the album! I'm so happy "Hold My Hand" and "Keep Your Head Up" is on it. I'm so hyped for finally have those songs. "Hold My Hand" has been a personal fav since 2007. The titles look interesting. I just wish 50 Cent wasn't on the album...lol. --------------------------------------------------- MICHAEL is the much anticipated album of newly completed recordings from Michael Jackson. The creative process never stopped for the King of Pop who was always planning for his next album; unbeknownst to many fans around the world Michael Jackson was writing and recording songs continuously everywhere from a friend’s home in New Jersey to studios in Las Vegas and Los Angeles with a small group of handpicked collaborators. Now, through the unique stories that will be told about the songs that comprise MICHAEL, fans will get mind-blowing insight into how this artist worked and a chance to hear the songs he most recently created along with tracks that Michael had a desire to bring to fruition. 1. Hold My Hand (Duet with Akon) 2. Hollywood Tonight 3. Keep Your Head Up 4. (I Like) The Way You Love Me 5. Monster (Featuring 50 Cent) 6. Best Of Joy 7. Breaking News 8. (I Can t Make It) Another Day (Featuring Lenny Kravitz) 9. Behind The Mask 10. Much Too Soon

If The Neptunes are on Willow's album...maybe. We have to keep in mind that sometimes he's recording and we don't hear the songs until a couple years later...or never.

Oh snap! I didn't know this existed. I may have 2 track this down. I was recently given a lesson on auto-tune. Auto-Tune is different from the vocoder. I don't know the difference, but there is one...ha ha. The only other person I liked using it was DeVante from Jodeci.

That Rihanna song is good...it be better with out Drake. C+C MUSIC FACTORY - Do You Wanna Get Funky? Anything Goes (1994) I love that they put this out at a time when everything was going gangsta. C+C forever! R.I.P. David Cole.

Ne-Yo is a great artist. However, I think he's gotten weaker with each album. From what I've heard off the new album he's dipping further into that watered down dance-r-n-b-pop stuff. I want more soul music from him!!

That is exactly what I was talking about when it comes to Hammer having heart. Is that from the insert of Active Duty? I know I've read this before. Either way, none of the current day popular rappers ever promote intelligence or their view on the world beyond their block. They are small-minded, faith-lacking, ignorant, drug and alcohol addicted, immature, materialistic, sex addicts. If they aren't, then maybe their lyrics and actions should reflect something otherwise. I can't support people like that. That doesn't represent me and I'm even against that kinda lifestyle. And as a listener, I'm not gonna let an artist like that represent me.

Yeah, I check this board 2 find out about stuff I'm not into. MC Hammer has always been one of my favorites so I appreciate this post. For someone who isn't into him, this is an opportunity for those who aren't into him but who have an open mind 2 check his music. Sometimes posts like this lead to people finding out about stuff they don't like. Sometimes they aren't into what's being shared. Sometimes it turns into a debate. The difference is, is the topic worth a debate. I think there are many things that make Hammer dope. He's honesty. The fact that the man he is in his music is the man he is in person. The fact that his doesn't fill his music with tasteless topics and bad language. The fact that he can do a serious song and a party song. The fact that he loves Hip-Hop which is why he's still active as an entertainer and why he's still rhyming. You can't say that about a lot of people in Hip-Hop. Having an artist who has heart and qualities like that is certainly more interesting than someone who is tighter on the mic. But that's just me. While we are on the topic, Talib is one of my favorite emcees. He is one of the greatest to ever do it. But I would say overall, I enjoy Hammer's music more and probably listen to it more often overall. Big Pun on the other hand, I was never into him. I didn't find anything to special about his lyrics (not that I'm saying he was bad). Overall, I think some of his lyrics were uninteresting. And clearly some of his lyrics were just that...lyrics (not his life). I didn't like his voice and found it disgusting to hear him inhale between lines.

MC Shan's "The Bridge" is a classic. And "Dear Hip-Hop" off Exit 13 is one of my favorites off the album. TLC - Secret Enemy Red Light Special (CD Single) (1995) I like that this person made the video out of "Red Light Special" clips since that's the only place u could get the track. This track is just as fresh as it was in the winter of '95.

"2000 Watts" is one of my favs. Invincible was half love songs, half traditional modern MJ songs. "2000 Watts" had MJ loosening up and showing his masculine side that he neglected in his music. I can see why some speculate that "Breaking News" could be phony...some of the lyrics sound weird considering his passing but it sounds like MJ to me. "Keep Your Head Up" is easily the best song I've heard since that stuff with Akon from a couple years ago.

Exit 13 is LL's worst album hands down (in my opinion). I think I only liked 8 songs off it and rarely listen 2 those. I've never not liked an LL song until that album and I don't think that song u posted has anything going for it. :/ But that Snoop Dogg song is DOPE!! That's exactly why he's still doing his thing and can switch his style up yet be himself over whatever sound he's rhyming over. LEFT EYE - Cherry (Unreleased) (?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLqROHaZxUU I love the song. It has early 90's sensibility but I can tell she did it in the late 90's...maybe early 2000's. It's hard 2 pinpoint. LEFT EYE + BLAQUE - Head To The Sky Supernova (2001) This song applies more to music NOW more than it did back in 2001.

Ted, let's just say that was one of half of the songs off Exit 13 that didn't make it to the mixtape I made. I was so unsatisfied with some of those songs on Exit 13 that this may be the 5th time I've heard it. I just really didn't like half of the songs on that album. I think this song is awful...lol. TLC - My Life FanMail (1999) I think it's funny that a lot of Left Eye's work with TLC was just a verse on their songs but that she crammed more relevant and focused lyrics with more creative writing than most popular rappers do on their entire album.

That song is definitely the kind of song that needs to be released. I must say I'm a bit worried as to them releasing music he probably never intended on releasing. But this song needs 2 be out.

For months I was bugging for new ideas and some help. Nobody replied or they said "just let the group grow on it's own." I don't really have ideas, but I have the passion 2 keep this moving.

I made a DMX mix the other day. It took me 2 a good place. METHOD MAN + LEFT EYE "Cradle Rock" Tical 2000: Judgment Day (1998( I was always mad that she never actually spit a verse on this.

I admire people who can stay in the business. It's takes effort. But I view it two ways. There's artists like Madonna who push the envelope and reinvent themselves (this isn't saying I've liked EVERYTHING Madonna has done) and then there's the sell out artists who will do whatever it takes to stay on top. That's what Puffy is. His relationships exist so that he can look relevant and popular, then he hops to the next. Rich Ross is trash. If he wasn't popular, Puffy wouldn't mess with him. People like Puff will jump in the musical bed with anybody to stay making money. He's had to do this from the beginning because as a producer he jacked beats rather than create them and as an "artist"...he isn't. I like some of the stuff Puffy has done but it's never been because it was creative...simply because it was mindless, catchy, feelgoodness (yeah, that's a word...lol).

I think I just threw up a little.

Yeah, I saw a headline saying he forgives Jay-Z or something like that yesterday. When I went back to find the article to read it I couldn't find it. MC Hammer has been so mistreated in this industry. One of the things he's allowed is so many people to go at him with responding. I think it was fine that he did go at Jay-Z. Jay goes around all cocky acting like he's a better emcee than he is and nobody really goes at him. I think it's good that Hammer stood up for himself and that he did go at Jay-Z. He knew it would get some attention and it did. The song was catchy and the while he did go at Jay-Z, the lyrics weren't gruesome and tasteless like many diss tracks are. Jay-Z's diss at Hammer was playing out and way too old for half of his audience to understand. It's not like it was lyrical genius or added anything to the song. That's why it came off as disrespectful. If Hammer wasn't relevant, he wouldn't have spit that meaningless line. I hope MC Hammer takes the right steps from here to get a new, quality album formed and out so he can continue his career on a stronger level.

CRAIG MACK - Get Down (Q-Tip Remix) Get Down (CD Single) (1994)

I can only interpret this as Soulja Boy admitting that his "lyrics" are irrelevant and that no intelligence is required to write them or enjoy listening to them. Am I the only one? It's a good song but why is Lupe rapping with a forced southern drawl in the beginning. That's kind annoying.

I don't think that tho.' His days as a dope producer are long gone. He still produces a good song here and there but from 1998-2004ish was his time. Lyrically he's never been good for much other than a witty line or 2 in some of his songs. I don't find him deep. I think his voice and flow is annoying. My opinion of him has changed drastically since 2004/2005. I just can't stand him anymore. As far as I'm concerned he's as relevant as Lil' Wayne.

I know there are a lot of douche bag fans ...excuse me, Kanye fans here (lol). The link takes u 2 this article and a video of his appearance. It amuses me that Kanye can do and say whatever he wants and always comes off innocent in his own mind....YET gets mad when people bring up his immature twitter rants, accusations on other people, outbursts in airports, and the Taylor Swift thing (who he takes credit for her being the biggest selling artist because he wanted to be douche during her VMA win...even tho' she had already sold millions before that...?)...and after all this, he gets mad when other people share their mild and thought out opinions. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/11/kanye-west-today-show-twitter-rant/?icid=maing|main5|2|link2|24732 Matt Lauer on Kanye West's 'Today' Show Interview: 'Nothing Improper About It' By Zach Dionne Posted Nov 11th 2010 12:45PM Kanye West had a Twitter meltdown yesterday surrounding a taped appearance on the 'Today' show. This morning, we got to see what all the fuss was about. In a fairly standard interview, Matt Lauer asks West about his "George Bush doesn't care about black people" line from 2005 and the Taylor Swift-VMA incident that got cries of racism flipped on Kanye himself. While producers ran a clip of Kanye's microphone-grabbing stunt at the 2009 VMAs, the rapper stopped talking mid-sentence. "Yo, how am I supposed to talk if you gonna run this thing in the middle, while I'm talking?" an affronted West asks. "Please don't let that happen again, it's like ridiculous." Lauer stood by the interview in a closing segment, saying: "It's something we do every day -- when a guest is talking about an incident or a location, we run video of that," Lauer says. "There was nothing improper about it, nothing unusual about it whatsoever." Earlier in the interview, Lauer asks Kanye to look at George Bush's face in a clip before responding. "I didn't need you guys to show me the tape in order to like prompt my emotion to what I'm going to say," a visibly flustered Kanye says. He also asks some people off camera to "be quiet for a second." "I came here to say that I made mistakes, that I've grown as a person," West says. "It's not as easy as boxing someone into a villain role or a race role. I did not have enough information in that situation to call [bush] a racist." "It sounds to me, not to oversimplify, what you're saying is, 'We're human, we make mistakes, but we have to learn from our mistakes,'" Lauer says. Kanye agrees. Lauer closed on a conciliatory note: "We look forward to Kanye's return for a special live concert on the plaza on Friday, Nov. 26."

Michael Jackson's Parents, Children Open Up On 'Oprah' When asked what she missed most about her father, Paris responded, 'Everything.' By Gil Kaufman * 42 * 12 * 3 * More » Text Size Decrease Increase In her first major interview since her son Michael Jackson's death last year, Katherine Jackson opened up to Oprah Winfrey on Monday (November 8) during a tearful talk in which she discussed the day her son died, the devastating impact of his 2005 child-molestation trial and the legacy Jackson left for his three young children. "I don't think I will ever be healed," Katherine said when asked if she believes that time will make things easier. "It will get better, but some days it's like it just happened. ... It hurts. It really hurts." During the hour-long special, Katherine said her youngest son was "misunderstood" and she had trouble talking about Michael, often tearing up when remembering him. Michael died June 25, 2009, of a heart attack caused by an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, and Katherine said she learned of her son's death from his personal doctor, Conrad Murray, after arriving at the hospital. "He came out, and he was talking, and it took him so long." Frustrated, Katherine asked, "Did he make it?" and Murray said, " 'No, he's gone.' That's all I remember," she said, tearing up once more at the memory. She called it the worst day of her life. Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with Jackson's death, and prosecutors allege that his actions at the mansion Jackson was renting in Los Angeles were grossly negligent and directly caused Jackson's death. Murray has pleaded not guilty. Though family patriarch Joseph Jackson has discussed his feelings about Murray, Katherine has kept relatively mum on the subject, until now. "Why didn't he take care of my child? Why did he give that [propofol] to him?" she asked. "It's very dangerous; why did he do it? ... I can't accuse him of murder. I don't know if it was accidentally done or it was intentionally done. I don't want to get into that, but I have my thoughts." She said she'd never heard of propofol before and had no idea Michael was taking prescription drugs to help him sleep. She knew he had taken drugs to treat his burns from an accident during the filming of a 1984 Pepsi commercial and that he had become addicted to those drugs and that his siblings had attempted an intervention at one point. "I spoke to him about [drugs] once, when I had heard it, and he denied it," she said. "I was telling him I didn't want to one day hear that he had overdosed because it would break my heart, it would kill me too. He kept saying he wasn't, saying, 'My own mother don't believe me.' " In addition to the burns, Katherine said MJ's addiction was fueled by his devastating 2005 child-molestation trial, in which he was acquitted of all charges but not before his career, and public image, were irreparably damaged. "All his life, he had to go through stuff like this, and they were just lying on him," she said, asserting that she never once questioned his innocence in the matter. "I never thought [he could be guilty of molesting a child], because I know he wouldn't. He loved children, and he was around children all the time ... 'I'd rather slit my own wrists than to hurt a child' — he would always say that." After the trial, she said, Jackson didn't trust anyone. And now, Katherine is raising his three children — Paris, Prince Michael and Blanket — and she admitted that she didn't approve of the way her son kept their faces shrouded during his life. After a cloistered existence, Katherine said the children are adjusting "very well" to their new life, which includes going to regular schools, playing and camping with their cousins and going out in public. Along with some cousins, the kids came to visit near the end of the show, with Blanket proving to have inherited his dad's shy nature. Prince Michael said, in addition to loving video games, he wants to produce movies and direct, while a self-assured Paris said she'd like to be an actress after years of improv practice with her dad. Paris said Michael tried to hide his worldwide fame from them but she realized the veils and disguises were to protect them from prying eyes. While Paris revealed that he was a strict dad (and an excellent cook, whose specialty was French toast), Blanket interjected, "He could get away with anything." When asked what she missed the most about her father, Paris responded, "Everything." After an initial nose job, Michael began getting a series of surgeries, Katherine said, including ones that made his nose look like a "toothpick." Mostly, though, she said he treated his skin to erase the marks of a condition that made it splotchy. "He didn't want to start looking 'like a spotted cow,' he said," Katherine recalled of Jackson's skin surgeries to treat his vitiligo. "I don't know what in the world he did to change that, but he did." Her comments appeared to contradict something Jackson himself told Winfrey several years ago when he claimed to have only had two surgeries. "He had more than two; he was just embarrassed," Katherine said. In a surprise, Katherine was joined by husband Joseph later in the interview, with both refuting rumors that they are estranged or divorced. After years of similar denials, Joe once again asserted that he had never beat Michael. "I don't think he was afraid of me," he said. "I never beat him like the media tried to say. That never happened." Winfrey reminded him that Michael had said in a 1993 interview with her that Joseph had beaten his son, and then he asked her to specify between "beat or whipped." Joe replied that he was proud that Michael was raised in such a way that he was a beloved, successful singer and not a drug or violence casualty like so many peers from Gary, Indiana. "You might as well admit it: That's the way black people raised their children," Katherine answered. "He used a strap." Seemingly admitting it, Joseph again said he was proud none of his nine children ever landed in jail, suggesting that his hard hand kept them on the straight-and-narrow. "I don't [regret the beatings]," he said. "It kept them out of jail, and I raised them right and they were good kids." ----------------------------------------------------------- Michael Jackson's 'Breaking News,' first single from King of Pop's new album, 'Michael,' is released By Soraya Roberts DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 'Breaking News' Breaking News: Michael Jackson's new song has dropped. "Breaking News," the first single from the King of Pop's upcoming posthumous album, "Michael," is streaming on his official website for one week only amid claims by family members that the vocals may be fake. Following a few seconds of staticky radio news centering on MJ -- "The paparazzi would not leave him alone… Here we go again, another lawsuit for Michael Jackson… More allegations against him" -- the music kicks in, reminiscent of the musical beats in "Black or White." "Everybody wanting a piece of Michael Jackson, reporters stalking the moves of Michael Jackson, just when you thought he was done, he comes to give again," Jackson sings amidst violins and his trademark yelps. He later sings more blatantly about people wanting to write his "obituary" and waiting for him to "fall." "Who is that boogie man you're thinking of?" he asks. According to www.michaeljackson.com, the song was recorded in New Jersey in 2007 at Eddie Cascio's home and was completed posthumously, though Sony has not revealed how much production was done following Jackson’s death. But the singer’s mother, Katherine, reportedly told Oprah in an interview to air Monday, that she believes some of the tracks from the new album are "fake." "She says the Cascios have added some things and given the Sony corporation false tracks," reporter Diane Dimond, investigative reporter and author of "Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case," told Canada's CTV News Channel. Jackson's daughter, Paris, and son Prince also reportedly do not believe the voice on parts of the new album belong to their father, according to gossip website TMZ.com. But Sony released a statement last week that it had "complete confidence" that the vocals belonged to MJ after doing voice authentication on the album. Regardless of the authenticity, Jackson’s father appears to believe his unreleased tracks should have died with him. "The songs which are being released on the new Michael Jackson album were unfinished and incomplete tracks that Michael said over and over many times he never wanted released," Brian Oxman, a lawyer for Joe Jackson, said in a statement on Friday. "We should honor Michael Jackson's wishes." Meanwhile, Katherine Jackson's business partner, Howard Mann, has apologized for publishing an "unreleased MJ track," "Opis None," on www.jacksonsecretvault.com. The song turned out to simply be a different version of an old track called "Destiny." "Michael" is set for release on Dec. 14. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2010/11/08/2010-11-08_michael_jacksons_breaking_news_first_single_from_king_of_pops_new_album_michael_.html#ixzz14zQpW5v7 ------------------------------------------------------ Ne-Yo 'Doesn't Know What To Do' With Songs He Wrote For Michael Jackson 'I can't sell them on to someone else, as that would be disrespectful,' the singer said. By James Dinh While producer Rodney Jerkins is expecting to begin work on an album of unreleased Michael Jackson music, Ne-Yo, on the other hand, isn't sure what to do with the material he wrote for the late King of Pop before MJ's death last year. The R&B singer/songwriter told Australia's Daily Telegraph that he was sending Jackson three or four drafts a week prior to his unexpected death. More than a year later, Ne-Yo now still stands at a crossroads as he contemplates what to do with the songs he created specifically for the one and only MJ. "I can't sell them on to someone else, as that would be disrespectful, but I also think it might be disrespectful to bring them out myself. So I don't know, I'll sit on them and wait. It's definitely quality music but they were songs written absolutely for Michael Jackson." According to the newspaper, Jackson hand-picked Ne-Yo as well as Black Eyed Peas producer Will.I.Am to work on his comeback album. It was only a matter of time before Ne-Yo was met face to face with his musical idol. "I felt quite bad, as I'd allowed what the media had done to his name and image to have me thinking, 'OK, what's this about to be? Is this going to be weird?' " he recalled. "But he walked in a black suit and some sunglasses and was a genuine, nice guy. And it wasn't because he wanted something from me, he just had no reason other than to be a decent guy." During their meeting, the duo talked about the current state of the music industry, something Ne-Yo says Jackson wasn't too pleased with. "He believed what was wrong with a lot of music today is that people aren't singing about anything. If it's not about a party or sex then it's about money, and there's not really much to that." Ne-Yo, who has penned hits for Beyoncé and Rihanna as well as himself, explained that the entertainer wanted songs that were "melodic and meaningful." "Michael told me the melodies needed to be the ones you heard once and could sing back, and the lyrics needed to have meaning and depth," he said. Unfortunately, Ne-Yo's submissions weren't recorded by Jackson, because the singer put his album on hold to rehearse for his This Is It concert series at London's 02 Arena before passing away. But Ne-Yo has hope that one day he'll figure out what to do with the Jackson tracks. "Hopefully the songs will see the light of day, it just has to be the right way," he said.

TLC - U And Me FanMail (Bonus Track - Japan Import) (1999) I'm dying for some new TLC!!

Yes, half of that Family Affair album is the Too Tight album but with the lyrics and subject matter changed up. Many of the beats from Too Tight are on Family Affair. I spent ALOT of money to get Family Affair on ebay. When I got it in the mail, it was a CD-R with a weak attempt to hide it. I also got promos of Blaque's 2nd and 3rd unreleased albums. I filed a claim thru' ebay and they never helped me out. The seller disappeared but recently returned under a different account and he's playing the same games. At least I have an A+ copy of the album...lol. I just wish I wouldn't have spent a fortune on them.

Hmmmm...this is a remix. Not the original. The remix is okay but not as good as the original.