JumpinJack AJ

I wazn't ripped off...i wanted it and willing 2 pay that much. I spent like $80 on the Japan version of JJ+FP "Greatest Hits" for "Don't Fight The Feeling."

I wanna see this movie a lil' bit. My friends have said that it's good but that it has some of the cheezy love stuff that's in Spider-Man. I never followed Fantastic Four stuff which is partly why my interest in it isn't that strong.

THANX!! Sounds like a hit. I love how the video is on it's way and how "Tell Me Why" is definitly the next big hit.

I'm not talking nonsense. At Nick's age, FP only had done the overlooked sleeper Where The Day Takes You and Made In America (which waz good...but nothing but an altered version of Will from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air). Ain't nothing wrong with Nick's movie and TV career. He's on his way 2 big things. FP, Jamie Foxx, LL, Latifah, etc all started out the same way. Fight with me all u want, but at least come correct on your facts.

$25 is nothing. I've spent $60 and $70 on JJ+FP music...FOR ONE SONG.

SILK - Girl U For Me Silk is easily one of the best R-N-B groups of all time.

Either legal things kept the song from coming out or it just wazn't that impressive. His work on Common Sense's album waz dope...so i'd expect his work with FP 2 be 2. As a rapper, Kanye is okay but VERY overrated...at least 2 me. "Diamonds" is the most boring song ever.

JESSICA SIMPSON + WILLIE NELSON - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' This is a cute lil' cover. I don't think i could listen 2 the song 10 times...but i could watch the video in my mind all day long. ..."AJ, why are u smiling so much?"

Think about Nick's age...compared 2 FP at that age, Nick Cannon has already ran circles around FP's movie career at his early 20's. Without FP paving the way...i doubt Nick Cannon could have accomplished so much on the movie front without FP's clearing the way.

USHER - ONE DAY YOU'LL BE MINE

Batman Begins is great. I haven't heard a bad review yet...from critics or friends. A group of us who already saw the movie got 2gether 2 nites ago 2 watch a bootleg that one of my friends got. Great movie.

Yeah, i'm in love with that song. I heard it 4 the 1st time last week.

I think that song is okay. Nearly the whole album is easily better than that song tho.' For the same reason u seem 2 like the song is the same reason i don't like it as much. Maybe they'll have a Radio Edit without Rap version.

CHILLI + VEGA - Spread My Wings

Hey, just a heads up. Bad Boys on DVD is on sale at Circuit City for only $7.49!! If u don't have it...u have no reason 2 not go get it. That price is crazy. The sale price is good thru' Saturday.

I think it's really stupid that so many people have said "He'll never be like Will." I'm not saying he'll be bigger or anything. But in 1986, how many Hip-Hop fans do u think JJ+FP would never amount 2 anything. Now Will Smith is one of the most popular people in the whole world.

KELLY CLARKSON - Behind These Eyes The video is on MTV...not the stuff i check 4, but i really like this song and her last single.

When it comes 2 newz articles, they always compare a lesser-established artist 2 a well-known artist. It helps people associate a person they aren't familiar with somebody they probably do know about. However, when u are what's "hot"...u always get people compared 2 u. Nick Cannon doesn't cuss in his music, some of his lyrics are funny, and he's a positive person. So naturally they are gonna compare him 2 Da 'Prince. Who else could they compare him 2? 50 Cent, Ja-Rule, Nelly...heck no! There are no other emcees like FP anymore. At least not on a mainstream front (other LL).

Nah...the album version is more agressive. The radio version is just 2 common.

PUSSYCAT DOLLS + BUSTA RHYMES - Don't Cha Just got done listening 2 Kanye West "Diamonds"...i think that he thinks he waz really doing something big when he did this song....but he just wasn't.

Ain't nothing wrong with comparing them. It's a good thing that there are people out there that can be compared 2 FP...cuz i don't think i could stand another 50 Cent or Nelly. And i like both Nick Cannon and Nitty. It's depressing that some people won't give them a chance simply becuz they don't cuss and talk about drugs, guns, and sex.

NATALIE - Can't Wait

I never really got in2 that stuff. I did kinda like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" tho.' I remember seeing it premire on MTV and something about it just stood out. As i look back on their singles i remember from back in the day, it made me wanna give them a better listen. I almost got their greatest hits album when it came out thinkin' that would be a good way 2 figure out what they were about. Half of my friends back then were in2 the rock/grunge thing so i defintly got a heavy dose of them back in middle skool...and even high skool which waz after Cobain killed himself.

Rich Cronin's comeback Six years after 'Summer Girls,' the leader of LFO battles leukemia By Sheela Raman, Globe Correspondent | July 7, 2005 The past two years have not been easy for Rich Cronin, former lead singer of the boy band LFO. As soon as LFO disbanded in 2002, three years after striking gold with the song ''Summer Girls," Cronin hoped to release a solo album, but lawsuits with managers over royalties and publishing interests kept getting in the way. When Cronin, who is 30, finally disentangled himself from the lawsuits and began recording new songs early this year, he got a phone call that would change his life. It was his doctor, telling him he had leukemia. ''I just know that four hours before I got that phone call I was just some dude with mono, then all of a sudden I was a cancer patient," he says. Cronin spent April at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he received 20 blood transfusions. A bone marrow sample revealed that he had acute myelogenous leukemia, which most often afflicts adults over the age of 60, says Cronin's oncologist Dr. Robin Joyce. ''The drama of leukemia is that it's like a bullet," Joyce says. ''It can easily kill you in a couple months." If it hadn't been for the observant eyes of his parents, Cronin says he would never have seen a doctor at all. His only symptoms were fatigue and weight loss, which he ascribed to a diet plan gone too far. At the beginning of March, he was preparing to shoot the cover of his album and had stopped eating unhealthy foods. ''I was like, 'Wow this diet really works,' " he says. But in late March, Cronin thought he would visit his parents in Kingston after traveling from his home in the Orlando, Fla., area to New York to meet with record producers from his new label, Hydrogen Records. When he arrived, his health-conscious father immediately knew something was wrong. ''He kept telling me I had to see a doctor and I didn't look right, and I was actually getting pretty annoyed with him," Cronin says. ''We really ganged up on him," says Cronin's mother, Doris. ''We had relatives over for Easter, and we all kept saying, 'Look at him, look at him, doesn't he look bad?' " she says. After constant insistence from his family, he agreed to see the family doctor, Dr. Gary Trey. Cronin didn't have the slightest idea his visit would land him in a hospital bed. A few days Cronin arrived at Beth Israel, nurses wheeled him into the hospital corridor after checking whether his heart was healthy enough for chemotherapy. One of them told him an orderly would be around soon to push him into his room, which was a few floors up. ''That was the psychological slap," Cronin says. ''It is the antithesis of being a star. People used to say, 'Oh, that's the 'Summer Girls' guy or 'That's the guy who went out with [Jennifer] Love Hewitt.' Now there's people looking down at me with a mask on my face because I'm too sick to breathe the air." Cronin is no stranger to psychological struggle. On his rocky path to fame, he became well acquainted with intense disappointment and unexpected twists of fate. At first, Cronin pursued stardom with a vengeance. Growing up in Kingston, he had a poster of Vanilla Ice hanging in his room long after the rapper went out of style. He looked up to Ice as a role model for an aspiring white hip-hop artist. He worked at the Blockbuster Video in his hometown while studying at Bridgewater State College, watching movies starring his future girlfriend Hewitt and dreaming of dating her. When BMG Records signed LFO (which stands for Lyte Funky Ones) in 1996, the band toured Europe for three years performing pop music that wasn't Cronin's style but was supposed to help the band build an audience. But the tour proved crucial in teaching Cronin that the price of success in the music business can be too high. He could not stand his label telling him not only how to comb his hair and to dress in a certain way but also to play music he didn't like. After the tour, Cronin returned to his parents' home, far from LFO's base in Orlando. ''I was ready to call it quits," he says. But as Cronin sat in his parents' unfinished basement on his father's Soloflex machine, watching spiders crawl around his feet and feeling depressed, he unwittingly wrote LFO's ticket to fame. ''I just thought back to when I was young, happy, no worries," he says. '' 'Summer Girls' was all about a summer on the Cape. Inside jokes. I never thought that anyone besides my close friends would ever hear it." But the song was leaked to a radio station and climbed Billboard charts. Teenage girls everywhere were singing the rhymes Cronin wrote to combat his disappointment. ''I would have definitely taken out the line about Chinese food [making him sick] if I had known that would happen," Cronin says. Now, battling leukemia, Cronin uses the same tactic of positive thinking that he used to recover his spirits after the European tour. After returning to his parents' house from his first round of chemotherapy in April, Cronin played Bel Biv DeVoe's ''Poison" over and over. ''I was immediately back at a ninth-grade dance," he says. ''I didn't have time for depressing things." Joyce says Cronin has lightened the atmosphere for everyone in the cancer ward of the hospital with his clever imitations of the doctors. He tells admiring nurses where they can look up LFO pictures on the Internet. But when these same nurses have to help him when he throws up, Cronin demands no special treatment, Joyce says. ''With people I've dealt with in the entertainment industry, if money and fame have come too quickly to them, they have no skill in dealing with the tragedy of leukemia," Joyce says. ''Rich is a really hunky guy, you know, nice muscles. I thought he'd be a jerk, like very macho. But he's not." Joyce adds that leukemia patients usually have one of two extreme reactions to their diagnosis. ''They either say, 'This is no big deal and I'm gonna lick this,' or they become paralyzed by fear," she says. ''Neither reaction is facing the truth." She says Cronin has taken a more realistic path in dealing with his leukemia by rationally discussing his fears with her. Mike Caputo, Cronin's best friend, who also helped produce some of Cronin's solo tracks, says Cronin has not complained to him once about having cancer. ''God has a plan for Rich," Caputo says. ''I think this happened to him for a reason, 'cause I know he'll come out of it and do something positive." After one round of chemotherapy, Cronin's leukemia went into remission. He is now back living with his parents in Kingston, although he visits the hospital almost every day for blood tests and to finish four additional rounds of chemotherapy to complete his treatment. Cronin plans to sell his house in Florida and move in with his parents indefinitely. Cronin's mother says Rich is the most connected to the family among her three children. ''He's always been back every chance he gets," she says. ''He's very spiritual, very caring. For him to get hit was especially unbelievable." Cronin now has shadows under his eyes, and at 6 feet 3 inches and 185 pounds, he looks a little thin. Yet he exudes energy. As he talks about his experience, his eyes open wide and his leg shifts restlessly in his chair. He tells of all the phone calls he received, from people he hadn't spoken to in as many as 12 years. Fellow boy band stars Jordan Knight from New Kids on the Block and Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees visited him in the hospital. Johnny Damon called, even though Cronin had never spoken to the Red Sox center fielder before. And even though Cronin only knew the daughter of Hulk Hogan, the wrestler called him repeatedly in the hospital to say, ''Hey, Richamania, enough of lying in bed!" As terrible as lying in a hospital bed is, Cronin says, it has taught him lessons that hundreds of arena performances could not. The outpouring of concern from friends as well as doctors, nurses, and fellow cancer patients helped him put into perspective the aggressive side of people he has encountered in the music world. ''In the music business, everyone's all me, me, me," he says. ''But at the hospital, I've been on the brink of breaking down, and Dr. Joyce would sit down with me for, like, two hours to make me calm. To me, that was unbelievable." His disease has also given Cronin a new purpose in life. As soon as he is fully well, he says, he will work to educate people about bone marrow donation, which is crucial for leukemia patients who do not have a match among their siblings. Often, because of the short supply of donated marrow, patients do not receive a transplant in time. Neither Cronin's brother nor his sister match his marrow type. If his leukemia were to resurface, he might require a transplant from an anonymous donor. ''I don't want to be the poster boy for cancer. I'll leave that to Lance," Cronin says, glancing down at the yellow Lance Armstrong Foundation wristband his mother gave him. ''What he went through was much worse. What I want to do is just talk to people." But Caputo says Cronin will probably take a strong activist role. ''Knowing Rich, he's not going to take it only halfway," he says. Cronin says he will continue to make music, although now he does not mind if he plays only in dive bars and coffeehouses. He will finish his solo album as soon as he can, he says. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Keeping with his usual style, the new album's tracks will be lighthearted. ''I would never write about morbid, scary things like leukemia," he says. ''A song won't take away a problem, but it might distract you for three minutes."

Man, i can believe u just drove by. Next tyme remember 2 charge your phone! :haha: