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BABYFACE + MARIAH CAREY - Everytime I Close My Eyes The Day (1996) I have almost all of his albums. I think The Day is is best. U need to pick up that one. He released it 3 years after For The Cool In You.

BABYFACE - Never Keeping Secrets For The Cool In You (1993)

BRITT NICOLE - Walk On The Water (Acoustic) Acoustic (2010)

That was dope. I knew they were on good terms again but I didn't know they were doing shows and another album. This is great news. If anyone can pick up where they left off over 15 years ago, Pete Rock + C.L. Smooth can. That track is great. I hope the remix is on John Legend's album and not just a download.

I think this is an awful idea. Tupac Resurrection was amazing. There is no need for another 2Pac movie...period. I just hate seeing people play real life people and how writers can create someone's life story and make appear as fact when they may not have it right (anyone see VH1's awful Michael Jackson biopic Man In The Mirror or their MC Hammer movie?). Why they say alot of things in that article to show that they have a fairly accurate view of 2Pac, there's just no reason do to this. I feel as they can only mess this up.

Let's be honest. Those cartoon versions never lasted long and ultimately are forgotten...and for a reason. Many of those shows also had characters that were very fictional in their make-up (aka nothing like real people). On top of that, the cartoon industry is so different these days. Today's cartoon industry wouldn't be able to even attempt to do FPoBA justice. I say leave the legacy alone unless they want to do a reunion special where the cast gets together and shows highlights, bloopers, and memories. No movies, no cartoons, no new episodes.

MARQUES HOUSTON - Noize Mattress Music (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVbVMkj1qPM The new album is good but not on the level of his 1st 3. The entire album is about...well, the title says it all. It gets a bit repetitive and a few of the songs are too influenced by top 40 "R-N-B" but this is still a good album. Brakes, check it out!

I'm sure this will generate success and money but to be honest, I could care less about news like this. New Bad Boys and Men In Black movies have been green lighted so the only news I really care to hear is about new music.

DOUG RAY - Carry On (2010)

It looks like Mark will be stepping back to the mic...just now the way people like myself want him to. He made the comment a few weeks ago that he would return to the mic is Justin Bieber asked him to because his 6 year old daughter loves him. Justin was on Ellen the other day and when she told him about that he said something like "Yeah, I'll do it...it's Marky Mark." I know that if he keeps his word it'll just be for a song but I'm really hoping it gets alot of success and turns into more. I mean, music has always been a part of him but he's suppressed it and he wants 2 do it or he wouldn't have put it out there. I'm hoping he's not just kidding....lol. We'll see what happens.

Khia has always disgusted me. She has no talent. And when she was on MC Serch's show on VH1, it also showed how obnoxious of a person she is. --------------------------------------------------------- Khia Notches Her 20th Arrest * Posted Sep 13th 2010 12:00PM by Sharks 'My Neck, My Back' rapper Khia was arrested once again this past Wednesday, Sept. 8. The self-proclaimed "Thug Misses" has a history of run-ins with the law, and a collection of mugshots to rival Ma Barker, yet this most recent charge has to be one of the most confusing. Khia, 32, was arrested in Gwinnett County, Georgia on Wednesday evening, charged with "endangering security interest," and released after posting $1,300 bond, just a few hours later. Apparently, the obscure charge refers to an incident whereupon an automobile owner has defaulted on their vehicle's financing and then refuses the repo company to take back the vehicle. For a collection of Khia's mugshots -- this new one makes 20 -- click here. http://www.bet.com/OnTV/BETShows/americangangster3/amg3_photos_mugshots.htm?i=13

Very cool. Was it just me or did FP look like he taped that in 1998? Seriously. It looks like he just stepped out of the "Just The Two of Us" video. U know, a few years ago they did a song for this event.....hmmmmmmm.....

So, MTV's Video Music Awards for 2010 has come an gone. A network that not longer supports music or music videos (other than online) put the party on again. Share your opinions...here are mine. PRE-SHOW: Nicki Minaj is pop-rap trash. Why is she popular. Her performance with Will.I.Am was just awful and she's not very good at lipsyncing. Will.I.Am's all black (including his face) outfit was crazy. He brought energy to the performance but I wasn't impressed since he's just performing today's pop music rather than Hip-Hop. I was surprised that Lady Gaga actually dressed like a lady and also actually looked kinda pretty and feminine. Katy Perry didn't disappoint with her funky get up. She can ditch the greasy, unfunny douche-bag fing...I mean Russell Brand finger nails tho.' The set was amazing. Chelsea Handler is a funny person but as a host I only found her as okay. Saying shocking this for laughter is played out in my opinion. Her opening skit was kinda funny as was Lindsey Lohan's part in it. Eminem opening the show with Rihanna was pretty amazing. He was aggressive and one point with tons of energy. Many of us have welcomed him back to greatness and this performance was a manifestation and celbration of that. Rihanna's quirky but pretty appearance was refreshing. It reminded me that she is an amazing talent and that there's hope that her future music will reflect that since her current music doesn't. From the nominations in the Rock category I made me realize that I think today's rock music is also in an awful state. I've never been into rock by with groups like Lifehouse and Nickleback having new albums, I don't know why anyone would like the groups that were nominated. Kim Kardashian looked amazing (as always) and I thought her little opening to Justin Beiber's performance was very funny. I don't know anything about Justin Bieber but I thought his performance was good. You could see an influence from past groups that I liked in his performance. I think he was singing/lipsyncing over the track tho.' I was amazing to see him get thrown up in the air and his voice was unaffected...lol. While Usher's current music is a disgrace compared to his music up thru' 2006, his performance was dope. It was too Hollywood but the set and the dancing was amazing (and very MJ influenced). I made a note at this point asking why Lady Gaga kept winning awards. She must have been beating artist that I thought better deserved the awards. I thought cast members from GLEE were very awkward as they presented Lady Gaga an award. Rosario Dawson looked flawless during her bit introducing. Taylor Swift performed an awesome song. The set was amazing and other than some pitchy spots during the 2nd half of the song, her performance was amazing. There wasn't one dash of country in her song and that's the way I like it. The subject matter was putting Kanye West in his place without attacking him. The video clip of his idiotic behavior set the song up perfectly. Kanye was so nervous about her performance that he only agreed to perform if it was after Taylor's performance. Next up was Drake's performance. I've heard alot of his music and I think he's corny and awful. I didn't mind his performance tho.' Mostly because Mary J. Blige's feature in his song was stunning and flawless. She brought the house down. The subject matter of his song was good, tho' some of his "common commercial rapper" traits took away from how great the song could be lyrically. When the Hip Hop award came around I was so happy that Eminem won it. I don't know if my top choice won any awards that night until then. I just remember finally being happy with the choice. B.O.B.'s performance was short and choppy but good. He should have had more stage time because cutting his songs short like that limited him. I'm not into Paramore but as it flowed into their song, I thought they were good. Cher coming out in her see thru' outfit from '89 was awesome. She certainly knows how to take care of herself because there's alot of people who are younger than her who gross me out wearing that. Last up was Kanye West's performance. The good part was the beat. It was good. The rest wasn't. His outfit was ridiculous...a bright red suit and a black tank top. Did he think he had a guest spot on an 80's cop TV show? His lyrics didn't make sense to me. Was he condemning himself for being an idiot or was he celebrating his idiocy? I don't know. Vocally he is always awful. And didn't he say his new album wasn't gonna have any singing or vocal distortion? Cuz this song had plenty of it. And he jacked LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" fire from the ceiling bit. Kanye is awful period. What a crappy way to end the show. Overall the show was okay. I was surprised that I enjoyed it as much as I did since today's current music is so bad. MTV needs to air music videos again so that the popular state of music can change faster to something better.

I hate when people recycle names. But I guess that other P-Nut guy wasn't exactly famous enough to establish the name.

That was cool. I have a few of those interview segments on tape somewhere from their original airing.

LOOSE CANNONS (Rich Nice + Toothpick) - (She Put The) Jihad On Me Unreleased (2007) This song is so ridiculous and over the top....lol

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This is an obituary style article from Nolan.com (or something like that). ---------------------------------------------------------- NEW YORK (AP) - Rich Cronin, whose band LFO sang the breezy summer hit "Summer Girls" that name-checked Abercrombie & Fitch, has died after struggling with health setbacks including leukemia and a stroke. He was 36. Cronin - who co-wrote "Summer Girls," LFO's biggest hit - died in a Boston hospital Wednesday, former bandmate Brad Fischetti said. "Last summer, when we did our reunion tour, he was certainly having health problems, but he was cancer-free at that time," Fischetti said Thursday. "I don't think it was cancer that took him yesterday, but certainly it all started with cancer." His manager, Melissa Holland, said he died of complications from the leukemia. "Rich was an incredible fighter, and every opportunity when his health was in good condition, he was living his life to the fullest, especially in music," she said. "He just always seemed to bounce back, and this time, it got the best of him." Fischetti said he last exchanged text messages with Cronin about 10 days ago, when his bandmate went into the hospital. He recalls Cronin telling him about how people were asking for his autograph and talking to him about "Summer Girls." "He said, 'Listen man, people still care about us,'" he remembered. Despite its sophomoric lyrics - "New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits, Chinese food makes me sick" - "Summer Girls" was an instant favorite with teens and got heavy rotation on MTV. It's also known as the "Abercrombie & Fitch" song because its chorus celebrates women who wear the retailer's clothes. LFO came to prominence around the same time as the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, when boy bands were exploding on the pop scene. LFO - an acronym for Lyte Funky Ones - consisted of Cronin, Fischetti and Lima. The group mixed singing and rapping with a distinct pop feel; Cronin rapped on "Summer Girls," which was top five hit in 1999. Its self-titled debut album, which also included the hit "Girl on TV," sold more than a million copies. But the group would not have the same impact on the charts as their more popular peers, then faded from the limelight and disbanded. Cronin put out a solo album, and in 2007 starred in the VH1 reality series "Mission: Man Band," in which former members of boy bands came together to form a new group. "He actually filmed that almost immediately after coming out of the hospital for the (stem cell) transplant," Holland said. Sometime after that, LFO decided to attempt a reunion. Last year, it went on tour despite Cronin's weakened condition. "He was having trouble walking. ... We let him have the whole back of the bus so he could rest all day long while Devin and I did press and sound check, and then we would get him up from the show. A couple of times we had to help him get onto the stage because he was having trouble walking," Fischetti said. However, Cronin was happy to be on tour again. "I don't think he ever thought he'd be able to play another show. ... It was emotional, seeing him up on that stage," Fischetti said. The last time he saw Cronin was summer 2009, during the reunion tour. He had sent him a text message a few days ago, suggesting they perform some shows around Christmas, but he didn't respond. "I was pretty surprised, because usually Rich would reply to something really quick," Fischetti said. "I said to Devin, 'Something doesn't feel right.'" Cronin wasn't married and didn't have children, but Fischetti said survivors include his parents, a brother and a sister.

Here's an article from MTV.com. -------------------------------------------------------- Rich Cronin's Former LFO Bandmates Continue Their Music Careers Brad Fischetti and Devin Lima have both stayed in the business since band split up in 2002. By Gil Kaufman After his band's spotlight faded, LFO singer Rich Cronin, who passed away Wednesday, spent his time writing songs for other singers and appearing on VH1's 2007 reality show "Mission: Man Band," in which he tried to revive his career alongside some other boy band veterans. But what became of Cronin's fellow Lyte Funky Ones? A day after Cronin died at the age of 35, former LFO member Brad Fischetti spoke to spoke to Entertainment Weekly. "He was one of the funniest people on the planet," said Fischetti, who was hoping to mount a tour with Cronin and third member Devin Lima later this year as a follow-up to a successful set of reunion shows in 2009. "Nobody could tell a story like Rich. He used to say, 'Never let a few facts get in the way of a good story.' " Fischetti recalled the day in 2005 when he found out Cronin had leukemia, and how the "Summer Girls" singer/songwriter thought he'd never be able to perform again. "None of us thought we'd ever be on the stage again as LFO," said Fischetti. "He fought hard, man. He beat leukemia twice. And beat a stroke. He was a fighter." Fischetti has kept a low profile since LFO split up in 2002, preferring to remain behind the scenes and nurture new talent through his label 111 Records. He did record a solo album, Sari, in 2007; at the time he described its sound as a mix of Coldplay, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Radiohead. 111 has released albums by former LFO bassist Dan Walters, Kiernan McMullan, the Spill Canvas, Canon, Inkwell, the Windupdeads and Rookie of the Year. Fischetti said the reunion tour last summer reminded him of the special bond the trio had during their late-'90s peak. Cronin was weakened by chemotherapy, a stem-cell transplant and a stroke that left him with such severe leg pain that Fischetti and Lima had to help the singer get dressed before shows and carry him on stage. But the tour was still a highlight. "He was so happy," Fischetti said. "We really became soul mates. Devin and I both realized how much we loved him, despite the differences we had in the past. In New York City at the Highline Ballroom, he thanked the crowd at the end of the show. I'll always have that voice in my mind, because it was such a sincere thank you. Really, that's the memory that's sticking out in my brain." Lima released his first solo track in 2006, a cover of the Sly & the Family Stone song "If You Want Me To Stay" for the tribute album Different Strokes by Different Folks. Though it caused some head-scratching at the time, it led to him performing in a tribute to Stone on the 2006 Grammy Awards alongside Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Maroon 5, Joss Stone, John Legend and will.i.am. Lima released Mozart Popart, his first album with his band Cadbury Diesel, in 2008. The disc helped push Lima past the bubblegum tunes of his past, thanks to the rock and roll feel of songs like "Hangin' With You" and the soulful R&B tune "Me Veda." Fischetti and Lima are currently collaborating on a new hip-hop project called The Xiles. They released a Christmas EP last year and revealed in December that they'd already begun recording their debut album, American Genie: Volume 1.

Oh, I never answered your question. He was only 36.

Here's his story since LFO's hayday of packing arenas, selling 4 millions records and topping music charts. J Records neglected their 2nd album. They pumped out the 1st single "Every Other Time" which did well and then they let it sit. No more videos and all the pushed out later on was the single for "Life Is Good." They had problems with the label and decided to take a hiatus. They all did individual things on an independent level (solo albums, TV shows, record labels, writing for other artists). In 2005 Rich's health was acting crazy so he went back to Boston where his family lives and they forced him to go to the hospital. There he found out he had cancer. During that time he started the Rich Cronin Hope Foundation to gain money to search for a cure. Anyways, when he was out of the hospital he continued to work on music for his solo project and his Hip-Hop group Loose Cannons. After a bone marrow treatment he beat the cancer. At that point he did the VH1 Show Mission Man Band with Bryan from Color Me Badd, Jeff from 98 Degrees, and Chris from NSYNC. Like most of the VH1's music-related reality shows, their songs never got released (but u can hear them on the Sureshot Myspace page). Apparently the cancer came back 2 or 3 more times and he beat it every time. However, that meds that he was on during the treatment caused a stroke. This made it hard for him to get around. Infact when LFO reunited last year, he would rest on the tour bus most of the day while Brad and Devin did interviews and promotion for the tour. His leg suffered most from the stroke. His appearance also changed due to all the treatments he had. If u look at a picture of him from 1996-2005 and compare it to pix of him from 2006 and especially 2009, u'd have no idea it was the same person. Anyways, more recently he was in the hospital working on restoring that leg but began having kidney problems. Just 10 days before he passed he texted Brad and told him how the staff and fans were visiting him in the hospital asking about LFO and they even started talking about doing more shows. Brad figured getting him out on the road again would be the best thing for him since that's what he loved most after God and his family. I heard from someone in his camp that he was essentially in the coma at the start of last week while at the hospital and Wednesday he passed away with a stroke involved. Brad and Devin said they knew something was up when he didn't get back to them last week. When an artist you really identify with passes away it's always rough. You know them on some level thru' their music. Rich's passing effects me in a different way. Rich and I have talked online many times over the past 5 years. We'd talk about his music, Hip-Hop, life, etc. When I met him last year while he was on the road, he instantly knew who I was without me introducing myself as someone he'd been talking to for so many years. I know alot people would give him or LFO flack for making huge pop records and silly lyrics in songs like "Summergirls" but he had so much more in his music that people don't know about. He was one of the hardest working people I know and due to his health holding him back so much, he was never able to shine again the way he wanted to. I found out recently that last year he thought he'd never do a real tour again and that the LFO tour last year was a dream come true for him even tho' a few nights the other members actually had to help him get on stage just to get the show started. So many of these health issues of his are just coming out from people in his camp. To sit back and know all of that just really inspired me. He was such a fighter and he never complained or let people know about any of his health setbacks after he 1st announced getting cancer. When we'd talk about music and our passion for things in life he'd say things like (and I'm paraphrasing here) "We just have to keep fighting for our dreams...otherwise we are just crazy." In the midst of all that suffering, he spent time reaching out and encouraging others. While I'm very sad about his passing, I'm more inspired about life than I have been in a long time. I'm sure his passing will spark interest in alot of people. They'll find music and lyrics from his popular LFO stuff, his independent stuff and his Loose Cannons stuff. It'll show them the funny person he was, the down to earth guy he was, and the hopeless romantic he was. And as they read his story (which will take A LOT of digging to find all the details), they'll see the survivor he was. Rest In Peace, brother. p.s. Those of u who are my friends on Facebook (who are probably annoyed about how much stuff I post all the time...lol) can see alot of funny videos of him that I've recently posted.

LOOSE CANNONS - Fat Girl Life Goes On (2006) :::finding comedy in the sadness:::

I really do support Willow's music career. But ultimately I'm waiting for the news that the Fresh Prince is going to return on one of her songs. This seems like a stepping stone to more music from the 'Prince. Would it not be hilarious if they did a family remake of "Parents Just Don't Understand." Everyone in the family could get a funny verse.

I don't think I've heard that song before. I really like it. I don't mind Ludacris but I think this song would have been better without his rap. Jeremih clearly loves 90's R-N-B as his sound usually shows. LFO + MOP - Life Is Good Life Is Good (2001) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oosGceJjuJY This is one of the craziest collabos ever....lol.

He's a cute kid with talent but it also comes off as a bit of a clown. Like he's been trained to act like every other dirty south rapper with scripted answers for interviews. I certainly wouldn't pay attention to this kid for a few years. If he actually writes some of his stuff, that's impressive but you could tell that some of those lyrics were definitely written by an adult.