JumpinJack AJ

Fresh Prince is easily number one. Come one, all most movies, all those different roles. He is truely the man. He has become the most popular actor AND his movies have substance. Some people look at him strictly as an actor and don't even really know about his music. His music will always be most important 2 me, but 2 have millions of people support your movies like he does, shows that he has gotten an audience way beyond his music fans. Marky Mark is my man. I view him as the 2nd best acting emcee. People will clown him for his mainstream appeal, but i always related 2 his music and still listen 2 it 2 this day. It kills me the way he has neglected his music, but he has totally shaken the bad boy from Boston emcee image to become a huge Hollywood force. He's taken on so many crazy roles and he's gotten better with each one. Queen Latifah walks a fine line. She'll do a critically accaimed movie like Chicago, then she'll do some low budget move like The Cookout. I love both movies, showing that she does what she wants...not what ever will make her more famous. LL Cool J is underrated as an actor. He portrays the bad boy in control just as well has he does the sentemental man. He's made some poor choices in movies, but he's made just as many good ones. I'm actually happy that he isn't seperating himself from music, tho' i feel the music is holding him back. Ice Cube is another one who started slow and started stretching himself more recently. I don't care if people knock him for doing a family movie like Are We There Yet?...i still think it's a great movie. I feel the image from his music holds him back from truely shining. Ice-T i feel is unrated because of his ties 2 music. His image is so rough that i think he'll always be looked at as Ice-T the emcee who is in2 acting. Snoop Dogg is good as acting like himself in the situtation in a movie. At least from the movies i've seen. It's a nice little side job 2 his music, but i think most people could care less about his acting. DMX is limited in the vareity department when it comes 2 the roles he takes. I think with more experience and the right movies, he could truely shine. Mos Def shows alot of promise, but i'd need 2 see more of his acting before critiquing him. Ludacris hasn't really done anything. I can't believe he's even on the list. 2Pac would have truely shined if he got 2 keep doing films. As a fedgling actor, he chose quite a few good roles. I haven't seen Bullet yet, but i've seen all his other movies. For coming out of the box on Juice, he really did his thing. ...i have no idea who Chill is.

Happy Thanksgiving! I love having a day where i don't have 2 go 2 work, see family, eat real food, and relax. This will be my last day like that until Christmas....retail sucks!! Ha ha.

2PAC - Temptations (Battlecat Hip-Hop Mix) Temptations (CD Single) (1995) I wanted this back when i saw it on shelves for $6. Now i'm paying crazy money 2 get my hands on this stuff...ha ha.

I caught some of it. I think the reason that Hip-Hop catch so much flack is because people don't know the difference between Hip-Hop and Rap music. Listen 2 the radio, if u can bare keeping a Lil' Wayne, Young Joc, Lil' Jon, Baby Boy, Young Dro, Hurricane Chris song playing, u realize that beyond the empty awful production and their terrible voices and flows, the lyrics are stupid, pointless, and discusting. Who can support that? I can't. Then u see the panelists...Chuck D, T.I. Nelly, and Mike Jones. T.I., Nelly, and Mike Jones are cumbs next 2 Chuck D. Chuck D is the only one on that panel who i think represets Hip-Hop at all. The other guys said 1 or 2 things i agreed with...but i waz rolling my eyes at alot of the things they said. I give props 2 BET for airing this, but in the past 5 years, they have become a part of the problem. 85% of the stuff they support is ignorant music for ignorant people.

Yeah, i love this article. Very insightful. Definitely one of the best ones in awhile. I love that they laced it with music references. I just wish he mentioned new music.

I'm not saying anything bad about those movies cuz i do like them...but maybe FP doesn't wanna direct people 2 those films. I'm not really defending the site. Many emcees and actors have websites that are regularly updated and moderated. Sadly, FP's site isn't run at all, making it so that the place that most of his fans should be meeting online have no reason 2 want 2 be a part of it.

TOBYMAC + KIRK FRANKLIN - J Train Momentum (2001)

2 quick requests. For continued success at work for my business, the staff, the customer service, the customers, everything. The main request is about one of co-workers...or former co-workers. On of the people who worked for me is an amazing liar, manipulater, and instegator. After introducing drama 2 my work place thru' the form of instigating and lies, she has desided to not show up to more than two shifts, saying she was at a funeral one day and at the hospital the other, both thing straight lies. She didn't even bother 2 call. Well, on the last day she waz there, she came in 2 get pictures done, got a few and stole a few she had stashed away. After having a manager call her 2 see if she waz coming in (even after she is on grounds of firing) she said she would be in but not be working on a day she was scheduled becuz she made plans. She was told not 2 bother becuz if she can't be here when we need her, we don't need her at all and that when she comes to pick up her last paycheck, she can bring the stolen portraits. Otherwise, we'll mail it 2 home office and inform them on the situation. Well, of course 2 this person, she wants 2 myspace mail me saying that we all steal portraits and that she is going 2 call home office about the situation and that we all trashed her reputation and that she is suing us. She lied about taking her last job 2 court and winning...ha ha. So becuz she is a liar and has proved herself 2 be a total idiot, i don't feel i have 2 be worried about any of this, but u know how things like this can go...so i guess i'm asking for prayer support that this over-dramatic fool either does nothing or falls flat on her face while trying 2 cause trouble.

I watched bits and pieces of the show. Why alot of it fell in2 typical award show ground, some of the performances (Alicia Keys, Rihanna + Ne-Yo) were good. And even if i didn't choose all of the winners as my favorite artists, most of the winers are good artists deserving of an award. That country performance with Beyonce waz awful. Beyonce sounded great, but that performance only stregthened me dislike of country music...ha ha. What a way 2 destroy a song.

MARIAH CAREY - Make It Happen Greatest Hits (1991/2001) Man, this takes me back. R.I.P. David Cole.

Wow! I'll do some research on it. When i read that it waz an album that waz previously unrleased, i waz thinkin' it waz much more current.

I saw that the album was said 2 be a shelved album but didn't know if it waz true. It all sounds fresh 2 me. Either way, good music.

It's hard 2 imagin that that place used 2 be visited equally between this board. So sad...

Nasty?....nah...CLASSIC!! TOBYMAC - Irene Momentum (2002)

Yeah, unless he's put out a mixtape, remix album, or compilation album, i don't want the track included. It makes no sense 2 put it on a new album. Besides, one things that's cool about the rare trax is that they're...uh....rare.

Since i'm no expert on dance music...i'm finding out that maybe i've misunderstood the genre...ha ha. I always thought Trance waz a trippier version of dance music....but some of this is just straight Dance music...club music, Hip-Hop with a dance edge or just straight dance Pop.

BOYZ II MEN + BRIAN MCKNIGHT - End Of The Road Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville, USA (2007)

I can't say i have any real knowledge when it comes 2 trance music. I love dance and club must...but my taste in it is broad...not really in the subgenres of dance music.

Thanx...i'm looking for the actual album tho.'

In only caught the 1st episode and i liked it, tho' it pained me 2 see them fighting...and where is Spin? Anyways, i waz gonna catch the marathon when it ends and set my DVD Recorder. ALICIA KEYS - Superwoman As I Am (2007)

"Yo! Home To Bel-Air" is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme. Ale posted the remix that appears on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Soundtrack. 2 my knowledge, it only appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese version of Code Red. "Family Christmas" was on a 12" single but never a bonus track on an album. However, we i 1st came across "Family Christmas" on CD, it waz until 1999. It was on an incredibly random Japanese compilation album caled Avex The Album which features almost all Japan pop stuff that u can't understand and a few random Christmas songs. About the same time, it popped up on a Christmas compilation album called Black Christmas (and on another version of the Black Christmas series). The original release of Homebase didn't have the Mr. Lee Remix of "Ring My Bell" (except for a limited amount...which one of my best friends at the time had...which made jealous...ha ha). At the later end of the release, they all had the bonus remix. Moving on to the solo stuff, there were a few versions of Big Willie Style. Europe's version has the Trackmasters Remix of "Just Cruisin." Another version has 3 JJ+FP trax on it. I can't remember which ones but i think it was "Girls..., Summertime, and Boom!." CDnow had a version up forever tht said it had the bonus tracks "Lean Left, Lean Right" and Round And Round" which was a mistype that lead many of us in2 confusion (i ordered like 6 copies of that version, e-mailing them everytime that they sent me the wrong version. Various import versions of Born To Reign had "Nothing On My Mind" which could only be found in the US at Best Buy. Various import versions of Lost + Found had "Coming To The Stage." Another had "Coming To The Stage" and "We Won't"...and the Japan version has "Coming To The Stage," "We Won't," and "Chosen One." And that limited version of The Return of The Magnificent has that bonus joint with Biz Markie (that i can't find anywhere).

Waz that actually on an album? I only thought that waz on a single...and a compilation album that had nothing 2 do with JJ+FP.

Yeah, i like it. I mean, he's totally jacking T-Pain's style and abusing the vocoder, but it's still dope. His verse is the "meat" of the song on my opinion. I kinda wish he only sung the chorus and rapped the rest of it. I like Snoop alot, even if half of his subject matter is stuff i don't relate 2 or really support (especially more as an adult). In fact, most of his music falls in the "good but average" area when it comes 2 it's grade. After 15 years of consistant success, u gotta give him props. I support new things. The beat is good, the vocals are experemental, and an overall good effort.

When it comes 2 the Japan release of JJ+FP albums, in most cases they didn't get much. I have a re-release of Rock The House from Japan and the only bonus track is the "Girls..." instrumental. The only other album that i can remember is Code Red getting "Yo! Home To Bel-Air" as a bonus track. I THINK Germany is the only country that got The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air soundtrack. And Japan's Greatest Hits has is one of 4 versions of the JJ+FP Greatest Hits album....Japan's is the only one that got "Don't Fight The Feeling" (the biggest JJ+FP find that we've had in the last 5 years). Some of this info may be a bit off...4give me for any memory mistakes...ha ha. If anyone is really worried about what version has what, i can look it up upon request.

This is a request for one of my best friends. Her nephew, who is only 7 years old, and who is a special needs child, was taken 2 the hospital nearly 2 weeks ago. His health was pretty good except for occasional stomach problems that weren't very serious. Well, the team at the hospital wanted to try something to fix the problem from happening again. Whatever they did gave him 2 very serious stomach infections that are life-theatening. The put him in a coma state until they could "make things better." His been in this coma-state for nearly 2 weeks and as u can imagin, the family has been going thru' all kinds of emotional strain and stress. There have also been days where things got "very bad." At this time, i'd like 2 ask for their comfort and wisdom...and most imporantly the recovery of the child.