JumpinJack AJ

This morning Will waz on Regis + Kelly. He came out in a tan dress shirt, fitted jeans, and black shoes. It looks like he didn't get his hair cut in a day or 2, cuz tho' it waz short, it looked a lil' stubblely. He talked about how some of the scenes in the move 90% CGI and that i waz just him and the car in a shot where a whole late waz going on. He talked about the plot of the movie and how Jaden dosen't want him 2 save the world anymore. They asked what waz coming up and he said he waz getting back in 2 music. Kelly then commented some times her favorite part of Will Smith projects are the albums that come out with the movie. Will said that he's found his way in and that the music industry is like playing double dutch. U gotta jump in at the right time and do your thing or u'll get smacked in the head with the jump rope.. :roll:

Ha ha....HECK 2 the YES!!!! "Let's Get Retarded" from Black Eyed Peas is my favorite song on their current. And as funny as it sounds, there's some personal stuff i have tied 2 that song from last summer. I heard that re-recorded version "Let's Get It Started" on the radio and saw the single on the internet, but didn't expect a video. I just saw (on VH-1 i think). It's crazy...everything u would expect from the Black Eyed Peas. Some of the special efx from "Jointz-N-Jams" (their 1st single from 1998) are re-used in it. It's just crazy hype and really funny. Watch 4 the video whether u like BEP or not!!

Both were great years. When Homebase came out, it waz my JJ+FP album that came out when i waz a HUGE fan of their's.

4 JJ: What is in store for A Touch of Jazz? Jill Scott? Soundtrack To The City? 4 FP: What's the thing he misses most about only working on music and not TV and movies along with music.

[quote=DevilsJim89,Jul 16 2004, 04:40 AM]NWA and Public Enemy? Wasnt that Gangsta rap? I thought you didnt like that kinda rap...or maybe that was FP. lolol. I gotta get some Heavy D CDs...I love what I have from him on my computer.[/quote] FP has admitted 2 liking music much harder than his own...but we all know his opinion about "Gangsta Rap." Public Enemy is one of his favorite groups. At least back in the '80's, he credits them 4 alot (check the SPIN article on them). I can't remember if he ever has talked about N.W.A. but i'm pretty sure that i've heard him give Dr. Dre and Ice Cube props in the past. Will is actually cool with Ice-T also. Somewhere in my video collection, i have a tape which has an episode of The Arsenio Hall Show where DJ Jazzy Jeff is sitting in with the band and Ice-T waz on the show talking about him and Will being cool and the differences in their music. Oh yeah, and i'll give u list of Heavy D trax 2 check 4 in a day or 2.

Please tell me u are kidding. Public Enemy..."gangsta"??? PE is the most anti-gangsta group ever. U gotta hear their 1994 single "Give It Up"...it's one of my favorite trax by them. Also, let me say this. There is hardcore Hip-Hop and there is "gangsta rap." Hardcore Hip-Hop is Hip-Hop music branching from the grittier, darkside of Hip-Hop...heavily street oriented. The emcees who created Hardcore Hip-Hop either experienced this stuff or came up in an enviorment where they came up around that lifestyle. "Gangsta Rap" is all the phoney artists that came out after Dr. Dre's "The Chronic" album blew up. These guys just talk guns, drugs, sex, and money cuz other people already did it and they know it's a sure fire way 2 make money. They aren't creative and in most cases, they never set foot in the darker sides of the streets. When Ja-Rule and 50 Cent try 2 be serious about this kinda stuff....intellegent Hip-Hop heads laff at them cuz they are so phoney and uncreative. When u listen 2 an Ice Cube track or Ice-T track...u know it's coming from a legit artist who knows what he's talking about. N.W.A. set the standard for what "gangsta rap" could have been but just isn't. If u listen 2 alot of N.W.A's stuff, it's more than what people give it credit 4. Of all the people i listed, N.W.A. is probably at the bottom of that list, but they made some real relavant stuff. Check it if u get the chance.

On VH-1's I Love The 90's: 1996, they have a feature on Independence Day. They talk about how huge the movie was. DMC comments on how the humans were losing 4 a long tyme which made him think that if this happened in real life...we'd be in trouble. :roll: Alfonso Riebero commentson it as well, but nearly everyone praises Will. Jaleel White, Hulk Hogan and a few others gave him mad props. Hulk Hogan said that if they Will Smith is leading anything, he'll follow him. Sir-Mix-Alot however waz stuck on Vivica Fox's strip scene....at one point it said he'd pay 2 smell her fart. :roll: It is featured about 20 minutes in2 the show.

I don't wanna sum it up in song titles...cuz i like pretty much every song by my favorite old skool artists. Here's a list... JJ+FP L.L. Cool J Run-DMC M.C. Hammer Queen Latifah Heavy D + The Boyz Salt-N-Pepa Eric B. + Rakim Sugarhill Gang Digital Underground Whodini Kool Moe Dee Kurtis Blow EPMD MC Lyte N.W.A. Yo Yo Grandmaster Flash + The Furious Five Doug E. Fresh + The Get Fresh Crew Biz Markie Young MC Slick Rick Oaktown 3.5.7. Public Enemy And the list goes on like that

[quote=the real big willie,Jul 16 2004, 01:53 AM][quote=JumpinJack AJ,Jul 15 2004, 08:09 PM] Will's character seems 2 be so bitter and angry about the whole robot situation that he may come off as a slightly un-likable character.[/quote] That is what I am looking forward too. I'd like to see Will playing a bad guy for a change. To be honest, I'm getting a little bored with his hero stuff. Lets see him do something different for a change. [/quote] Well, he's obviously a hero...but his character seems 2 have a real sarcastic bitter kinda personality. I don't care if he has attitude, i just don't want him 2 be unlikable. Jack Nicholas as the Joker in Batman waz a bad guy...but he waz waz really likable...probably the best thing in the movie. I just don't Will 2 be unlikable. Seems impossible, huh. :dunno:

[quote=the real big willie,Jul 16 2004, 01:53 AM]This reviewer is a penis head.[/quote] :bowrofl: That was deep. :bowrofl:

Yeah, with this stuff, u gotta take the good with the bad. The recognition is always nice tho'.

Lhunagar, thanx so much...u have no idea how thankful i am. Da Brakes, if u can make a version with better sound quality, i'll have no problem waiting. Thanx in advance!! U guys have helped me make my personal mix-CDs 100 times better.

If Will never recovered from And In This Corner... he might have looked like that 2day.

Ahhh...looks like i 4got 2 reply 2 this. :

Yeah, i waz suprised 2 see him comeback. I never did get his 2nd album tho.' I saw or heard the leading video/single 2 it but that's it.

Dose anybody really care what this guy has 2 say?!? Certinly not me. :roll: There's no way 2 please eveybody and this review kinda reminds me of the ones they had for ID4. Since i didn't read those novels, i selfishly don't care what they did 2 them in the movie...i just want a good movie. The only thing that the article says that kinda concerns me is something i waz already thinkin' myself. Will's character seems 2 be so bitter and angry about the whole robot situation that he may come off as a slightly un-likable character. Oh well, i can't wait 2 see this movie.

I don't think the label thing should worry us. Will has enuff money 2 do it himself if he wants. Either way tho'...he is The Fresh Prince. He was looking at lables awhile ago so he probably knows what he's doing.

For anyone who likes R-N-B...check 4 the song "Right On" by TQ (yes, from the guy who brought u "Westside" back in 1998). The song is a smooth west coast summer track. I just caught the video (which is nice) and fell in love with it from the 1st listen.

This request goes out 2 all of audio mixers/editers or whatever. "Potnas" is my favorite solo 'Will Smith' song since his comeback, but what kills me is that it's blended with that interlude. I was wondering if any of you could take "Potnas" and just make is steadily fade at the end so that it ends right be u hear Will and his dad start talking. That way the track can stand alone and my mix CDs can flow better. I know somebody already seperated the Willennium Interlude so that it's just Will's rap without Will and his dad talking in the beginning. I waz wondering if u could post that again so i can download it. "Potnas" and the Willennium "Interlude" are at the top of my fav solo joints list and it kills me that they are attatched 2 each other. If anyone could seperate them and put them up as MP3s (and make the sound quality as good as possible), i will 4ever be greatful. I'm pretty sure other people would be really happy with it as well.

I'm not a sports fan...so i don't care much. I wouldn't mind hearing a new album from him tho...ha ha. He's not all that on the mic, but he definitly offers and alternative 2 the trash. He has the same rhyme skills as some of the chart toppers...but his music dosen't make u feel like crap (or 100 times stupider) after hearing it.

[quote=Da Brakes,Jul 14 2004, 04:50 PM]"Will's my favourite rapper, lets go slap some reporters!"[/quote] :roll: I almost said something about that but chose not 2...so i'm glad u did. I wazn't trying 2 be one sided tho'...that's why i mentioned Queen Latifah and Guru...who made mistakes but also happen 2 be amongst my favorite emcees. What they did waz address the issue of the mistakes themselves. It seems that "those other guys" benifit in sales when they do stupid stuff and give the illusion that it's cool 2 be a shallow, ignorant, violent person who makes stupid choices in life and stays in the limelight.

They industry definitly needs 2 be open 2 everyone...not just the guys who have no talent and sell records 2 fans who don't know about music that is much better than what they are buying. I don't have 2 much pity for KRS-One tho'. I'm a big fan of his, but he dosen't promote his projects at all. When he waz on Jive, he made videos and released singles. He had great success with them without being a mainstream artist. These days he just puts out albums that only his die-hard fans know about. Whenever i notice a new KRS album dropped, it's cuz i waz just looking. Even as a fan of his, i havn't brought an album by him since 1997's "I Got Next" (which is classic). With JJ/FP, LL, and so on...i'll get their albums on their release day no matter what. But with KRS-One...even knowing i'll most likely love the music, i need 2 be motivated 2 spend my money on it. He could at least TRY 2 sell records. There alot of guys i don't like...Ludacris, Jay-Z, Chingy, D12, Bonecrusher, Lil' Jon + Eastside Boyz, Nelly, Ja-Rule, 50 Cent + G-Unit, Eightball + MJG, etc. I just think they should all stop rapping...PERIOD. Their non-existant skillz have no redemable quality 2 me. I wouldn't dislike them so much if there waz a steady flow of talented cats and established artists getting the same love. But there's not. It's kinda like the industry says "hey, u had some hits but since you had your shine, we aren't gonna support you anymore. We are gonna support this new guy who sux." Back in the mid-90's...i waz already crying where mainstream Hip-Hop and Rap waz headed...but i waz okay cuz for every wack artist, there waz a talented guy getting the same love. That's not the case anymore. I like Twista, OutKast, and Kanye West...but they aren't exactly what i want. I glady own their albums...but i still want more. I want Slick Rick, Biz Markie, JJ+FP, Public Enemy, L.L. Cool J, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, Pete Rock + C.L. Smooth, Queen Latifah, etc and so on....but how many of them actually get support. Only 2 or 3.

HAPPY B-DAY!! I think the times on the board are kinda screwed up....or they only apply 2 a certain time zone so it'll be wrong 4 most of us.

[quote=KevTastic,Jul 14 2004, 10:14 PM]BTW whatever happend to the light funky ones.[/quote] LFO came out with Life Is Good in the summer of 2001. It still had the R-N-B and Hip-Hop influence...but this album had alot of rock influence on it. When i got it, i waz really disappointed (more than when i heard some of Born To Reign's trax)...however, the album ended up growing on me and becoming on of my favorite albums ever. J Records didn't promote them very good and even tho' they were touring, their 1st video/single didn't get much support and their money ran out b4 they could shoot the video for "Life Is Good" featuring M.O.P. They didn't get the option 2 make the album a hit and they fellaz went their seperate way since their creative minds wern't working 2gether. Rich started a new group called Bad Mood Mike which waz alot like the rock-style of LFO. Bad Mood Mike broke up last year after their career as a group only managed 2 get a lil' buzz from touring. Brad produced/compiled an album which waz on some weird rock tip (which he released independently) and Devin also is working on a solol album. Months ago they got 2gether and sung Happy B-Day 2 Louis Pearlman (who helped them get their career off the ground) and there waz newz of them touring 2gether and maybe going from there but i don't think it ever happened. 2 me, LFO wazn't a boy band...they were just a u-neek group that waz in2 multiple music genres. Their lyrics were creative, funny, and on a level not many groups could compare 2. They singing and rap styles were something unlike anyone else in music. While i loved them 4 their Hip-Hop and R-N-B sound...their musical risks got me accepting sounds i'm usually not in2 . They turned in2 one of my favorite groups and i really wish they'd work 2gether again reguarless of the sound. :::Goes 2 listen 2 "Summergirls":::