JumpinJack AJ

No, it's "Get Up! (Before The Night Is Over)"...after this post waz made i went up stairs and listened 2 my Technotronic CD. If it were "Pump Up The Jam" it would be easy 2 know what song it is cuz they say "pump up the jam" and "pump it up" 100 times in the hook. Trust me on this one.

:roll: Is this 4 real?? I waz actually wondering how his new album waz doing. He definitly isn't making a splash anymore like he used 2. All those gimmicks he's been making a career off of are getting a bit played out and his music is getting very stale and recycled. I know he's gonna remain sucessful 4 awhile...but FP called it when he said that Eminem wouldn't be on the same level of sucess that he waz at when he called him out on "Real Slim Shady" 5 years later. :hilarious:

Keith Sweat is a legend, but lets be real. He can't "perform circles" around Usher. Keith is a very avearge singer, he's never been a vocal gem in the world of R-N-B. Usher has a voice that wales, dance steps nobody can touch, crowd interaction, and costume changes. That "Great artists don't lipsync at all" is the silliest thing i've ever heard. Nearly every artist in the business has lipsynced at times, no matter how talented they are. JJ+FP has done it, Run-DMC has done it, TLC has done it, Keith Sweat has done it, and so on. I have video and/or audio footage of it. Sometimes that's just the way things are. And Ludacris' show waz very boring. If u wanna see a Hip-Hop artist or group do a REAL live show, go see JJ+FP, LL Cool J, KRS-One, Wyclef, Black Eyed Peas, TLC, Run-DMC, Naughty By Nature. They have DJ's, dancers, break dancers, crowd interaction, energy, costume changes, etc. Sometimes people call that stuff "hollywood"...but there's nothing wrong with a good show. Ludacris just rapped his songs over instrumentals. He's flow waz also really sloppy compared 2 the album/studio versions. Nothing is interesting about a guy just on stage rapping with 2 no-name fools walking around screaming half of his lyrics.

Which "other guy?" There's a few. I've never noticed Teddy Riley in it b4, i'll try 2 watch it and see who u might be talkin' about.

CARL THOMAS - My First Love USHER + ALICIA KEYS = My Boo

Maybe it's an overseas thing. I've been watching Usher do his thing since i waz 13 years old (that's over 10 years ago) and i've only seen him lipsync a few times. When u do shows like Soul Train, all of the artists lipsync...it's the way they run the show. I've only seen MC Hammer perform totally live on Soul Train back in 1995. I've seen the live shows he's released and most of the award shows he's done an it's only been live. A few years ago he danced 2 "I Need A Girl" with Puffy. His backing vocals were on the track but he didn't even pretend 2 lipsync, he just danced. I've seen Ludacris perform live. It waz just boring 2 me. A rapper on stage with 2 or 3 people just adlibbing half of his lines while he walked around on the stage for about half an hour.

Hey, hotzappa, did u know that Zhane is singing the hook on "Ring My Bell." FP gave them their 1st break. They then went on 2 hook up with Kay Gee and the rest is history (Hey Mr. DJ, Request Line, etc). My favorite chorus/hooks are... Summertime Ring My Bell Trapped On The Dance Floor Somethin' Like Dis I'm Looking For The One (To Be With Me) Can't Wait To Be With You Twinkle Twinkle (I'm Not A Star) Shadow Dreams Just Kickin' It Men In Black Just Cruisin' Candy It's All Good Just The Two of Us No More The Rain Holla Back Give Me Tonite For Da Love of Da Game I like alot of 'em!! :lolsign:

I don't like Ludacris cuz alot of his music is just sleazy sex stories with no imagination. I think some of his cameo appearances are cool, but that's cuz he only needs 2 stay on topic 4 like 8 bars. He dose have some clever lyrics but his overall subject matter turns me off. His voice and flow sometimes are overdone and i can only stand so much commerical dirty south type stuff. I kinda liked him when he 1st came out, but all those "Roll Out, Move Out The Way, Stand Up" type songs kill me, i think they are awful. I thing Usher is a true talent. His live shows are great. He's got 2 concert videos out with the 3rd one on the way. He dosen't lipsync at all. He's one of the hardest working men in show business. If any one comes close 2 touching the crown of the King of Pop, Usher is the man. I'm scared 2 see the colabo album between him and Luda bring out a very stale formula and overdone dirty south vibe.

Back in the day i used 2 play alot of street ball and soccer. Sometimes in the spring and summertime, if me and some friends are hanging out with some free time we might start and unorganized game in a parkinglot or something. Sometimes we'll invent games 2. One time my friend who plays tennis took his racket out of his jeep, and i took my baseball bat outta my trunk (i've always hated baseball...but u never know when u'll need a baseball bat) and we started hitting the spikey-ball-like-things that were falling from a near by tree. It kept us entertained 4 about an hour and a half. :roll:

I think 4 alot of people who grew up on real Hip-Hop, they have come 2 a stage in their life where they can't keep up with music and stuff like that the way they used 2. Since real Hip-Hop is impossible 2 find unless u look 4 info on the internet or dig thru' CD stores, real fans just grew in2 other music styles. They probably got turned off by the Puffy, Mase, Ludacris, Eminem, Master P type stuff and simply don't know that people like De La Soul, KRS-One, Brand Nubian, and Shock-G are still making music. So they probably just started listening 2 other stuff. I know that if i didn't get on the internet so often and go 2 music stores weekly, i would hardly know about any good music coming out. All i see on TV and hear on the radio is trash by 50 Cent, Terror Squad, Chingy, and so on. I don't like that stuff so i would think that rap has changed so much that i'd no longer listen 2 it and move one 2 other music styles i like. When i tell some of my friends "oh, i got that new De La" they are like "De La Soul is still around?!" and they get all excited cuz they don't know that real Hip-Hop music still exists.

I never knew that about him. One thing i truely admire is people who overcome adversity 2 live positive lives. That would be a perfect example.

JAGGED EDGE - True Man

Eminem can really get a topic blazing tho'...ha ha. Whether u like him or hate him, topics with him sure do go on 4ever. Everything has been said about him 100 times tho.' Another reason i don't like him is cuz he's so immature and bitter towards people. I don't care how awful your family life is...u don't treat them and say things about them the way he dose in interviews and music. U keep that stuff 2 yourself, and if u are really a man about it, u makes things right. It's sinnful 2 be as hateful as he can be. Some like Fresh Prince are respectable people with morals. They know how 2 conduct themselves and live right. That why Eminem has stupid issues like lawsuits from his own mother, divorce problems and stuff like that. FP can go thru' divorce and still be on good terms with his ex while building a strong family enviornment. FP once said "never let the weather determine the man" which is a wise statement, but some people live lifestyles and look at life in a way that they bring stuff like that upon themselves. Eminem seems 2 be one of those people.

Yeah, Overbrook struck a deal with Interscope. No news since then.

They aren't finding any...it's all been there. They are just putting it out in albums at a time. I remember when 2Pac first died, there waz news that they had very few unlreased trax from him and that his next album (which waz The 7-Day Theory) waz gonna be those unreleased trax and some of the trax off of Me Against The World (which sales flew up the charts after he passed. I waz like, "That dosen't sound right." Then the newz came out that they had tons of material and that his mother wanted 2 eventually make it all available 2 his supporters.

I don't understand how people can say he's a great rapper. His voice is so annoying and his flow is boring. He has different flows, the only one i like is the one that sounds like his regular talking voice, which he almost never uses anymore.

Yeah, his legacy is kinda watered-down thanx 2 all the stuff that has came out after his death. Those older trax didn't come out cuz he didn't wanna put them out. And the stuff from the Deathrow era waz recorded so quickly so that he could get off the label. That stuff is often very sloppy and pointless compared 2 his real music. It's sad seeing a man who had so many ideas and such a big heart have his legacy twisted by what Deathrow made him look like in his last months. 2Pac's camp knows that his supporters wanna hear his music so i like that they are making it available 2 us in installments every few years. I think the real 2Pac fans understand that he didn't want all that stuff comin' out. It's those Deathrow era fans and all those phoney fools who jumped on the bandwagon after his passing that really have no clue who the man is and think that the weed-smoking thugged out crazy man is who he really was. That's why i liked Tupac: Ressurection, cuz it gave them a taste of the truth. I do think that Eminem is a wack rapper, but i do also know that he dose love Hip-Hop and that he wouldn't wanna ruin 2Pac's legacy, but at the same time, he's new 2 this whole producing thing and that he kinda sticks 2 the same sound which really bugs me since he got 2 play with all those 2Pac acappellas. There are 2 many people 2Pac worked with b4 that should have got 2 remix that stuff, like Easy Mo Bee, Johnny J, DJ Quik, SoulPower, Shock-G/Digital Underground, and so on. I hope that one day they'll release the original versions of these newer trax cuz often the mid-90's original production is better than the current remixed beats put under his vocals. I still urge anyone who can hear the song 2 give it a listen. It's not that Deathrow type stuff at all (after all, it waz recorded b4 he got signed 2 them).

Yeah, his work on his 1st 2 albums is my favorite stuff. The Firm album and his 3rd had their moments, but nothing that impressive overall. After that, i just stopped following him. He got 2 egotistical and bling blingy on the stuff i heard around the end of the 90's. I loved "One Mic" tho.' Of the more popular rappers out that i don't listen 2, i definitly like him more than most of them. I heard only a few trax off Stillmatic and God's Son and whatever they were make me judge quickly and not spend anymore time on them. I guess i'll go back and give them an honest listen. I do know that if Jay-Z and Nas really went at it, Nas would easily wrap the mic cord around Jay-Z's pansy/phoney style.

I saw the a blurry video of it. It's just really disturbing. He rips her out of her car and slams her 2 the ground. This wazn't like the Rodney King tape where he kept getting up and fighting, he just took her 2 the ground like that 4 no reason. There waz another picture of her on her knees, handcuffed. My heart just really went out 2 the woman. I hope this cop pays 4 such a rediculous display of power abuse. If the law dosen't take care of him, it's still in God's hands.

:bang: No!! This is a stupid idea!! I'm not saying that simply cuz i've been a fan of Usher's since 1993 and never really a fan of Ludacris' (tho' his new video is pretty cool). It just dosen't make sense 2 take it so far as 2 do a full album like that. Like The Best of Both Worlds, R. Kelly has a big following and so dose Jay-Z, but 1 or 2 hit songs 2gether dosen't mean a joint album is necessary. I have both of R. Kelly + Jay-Z's albums and they just don't make much sense. They've never kept my attention 4 long. I have a feeling that if this album would happen, it would do the same. "Yeah!" waz a big hit and a good song, but notice that the rest of Usher's album is nothing like that. 1 crunk Lil' Jon track like that waz nice, but more than 1 or 2 would be awful. Usher's other track "Red Light" with Lil' Jon waz alright but i would never wanna see this album materialize. The Best of Both Worlds albums never really complimented either R. Kelly's or Jay-Z's careers and i don't see an album like that do anything 4 either Usher's or Ludacris' careers either. The only joint albums i can think of that made sense were Kenny Lattimore + Chante Moore's and Method Man + Redman's.

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"Mr. Guest" can diss LFO all they want, but i love their music. They make feel-good genre blending music that totally comes across as stuff i'd write (especially the Hip-Hop stuff). And their lyrics are far more creative than the pointless trash T.I. writes. If u think i'm offended by those who don't share the same tastes in music as i do, u are seriously mistaken. At the moment, i'm listening 2 Cherokee "Sexy Somethin'"

If Eminem is referring 2 himself, it's quite clear who he stole it from. The 'Prince has made that title very popular himself. I think it's funny since Eminem isn't really an actor. And if it's true that 50 Cent plans 2 do a movie about his own life and career, that's mad played out. He hasn't proven himself yet. He's only sold a few million records 2 some 2-dementional-minded teens. I wonder if 50 will back out and beg FP 2 play his part so that people don't have 2 stare at someone so ugly for 2 hours.

Another reason FP went 4 the glove is cuz he said in a radio interview in 2001/2002 that hitting the human skull hurts your hand really bad (he learned this after training for ALI). Maybe he didn't have his friend in mind, but his own hand...ha ha. I guess it depends on how mad he waz and how much his friend egged him on. I remember my own friends getting in2 pointless fights back in the day...no later than our mid-teens. It just cracks me up that FP would still be doin' that in his 30's.

Right now i'm watching Rap City (from the Basement). T.I.'s new song is on...man, he's wack. AHHH!!! The new Geto Boys track "Yes Yes Y'all" just came on!! This song is good. Not their best, but legends can never make music that bad. This is probably the most mainstream sounding song i've ever heard from 'em. Good stuff!! Ha! I just saw a T.I. cameo in their video.