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JumpinJack AJ

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  1. Bad Boy would be awful. Puffy dose reserves the right 2 alter your image and trains u how 2 be something u are not. The second and artist dosen't want 2 be that Puffy wants 2 be, they leave. Think about it...Craig Mack helped put the label out. Once Bad Boy got all popular and flashy, he no longer wanted 2 be on the label. He left the label and dropped another album with another company. Craig Mack is the best emcee Bad Boy EVER had. Of course in 2002 he started working with them again but that's becuz the glam and glitz of Bad Boy had died down. I think he has since stopped working with them. Mase got so sick of the glam, glitz, and nastyness of the music industry that he dropped everything 2 follow his faith. 112 got sick of Bad Boy and later signed with Def Jam while still being signed 2 Bad Boy (don't ask me how that worked out). I just seems that every artist who really wants 2 be an artist on their own terms ends up leaving or having problems with the label.

    Carl Thomas and Faith are the only artists that i think have total control over their music and image. Tho' in the early days, even Faith definitly waz being groomed and styled by Puffy's crew.

    Will would NEVER work on Bad Boy, they stand 4 2 many things that he dosen't stand 4. Notice that establish artists never sign 2 Bad Boy. That's becuz they already have images that Puffy can't mess with. New Edition is the only established act 2 go 2 the label after already having a history. That album waz supposed 2 come out 2 years ago and still hasn't. New Edition had crazy problems with their past company (hence the lack of studio albums as adults and all the complitaions that've put out).

    Will needs a company where he can be himself and do what his dose best rather than having labels who wanna control his image and how he is promoted.
  2. Okay, over the weekend, i skooled myself a lil' on this whole MP3 thing. Of course, the 1st CD i've attempted 2 make waz a JJ+FP one. I ripped audio from all the JJ+FP studio albums and set up a 6th full of b-sides and the best remixes. After completeing the CD, it bugged me that it put the albums in ABC order so i retitled the albums with numbers in the beginning (example: 1. ROCK THE HOUSE) which solved that problem when i re-made the CD. HOWEVER, i have one problem that's bugging me. When i make the CDs, it put the trax in random order...not in ABC order, not in the order they are in on the albums....just all mixed up. I havn't played the CDs in my car stereo yet cuz i havn't had time 2 hook it up, but i have played them back on my computer. I even went 2 the extent of re-titling ever song in each album's folder by putting numbers in front of them which didn't help.

    Can ANYBODY help me out on how 2 get the trax in the correct order? I'm using Audiograbber if that helps anyone help me out. If anyone can, i'll greatly appriciate it.
  3. BIG WILLIE STYLE - Commercial beats. They are good, but they are a little lackin' compared 2 the thick beats on Willennium. The beats are good, but not many of them have soul. Will's rhymes are good, but not 2 man that really stand out. It waz definitly the kind of album 2 rule the end of the 90's...but i don't think the entire album is timeless and long-standing. When u listen 2 it now, some of the trax make u say "that is late 90's Hip-Hop right there."

    WILLENNIUM - This album has all kindsa flavas...kinda like Code Red. It's got a track 4 nearly every kind of Hip-Hop fan. After the success of Big Willie Style, Will is alot more relaxed on this album. He just dose what he wants and dose Will. And he's aggresive on this album, he's not aggressive on Big Willie Style at all.

    WILLENNIUM is easily the better album.
  4. I can't totally visualize this. I have no problems, infact, i like the kinda artists she's molding in2. Jada's very intellegent, she's not gonna do something that'll result in "career-death"...ha ha.
  5. Nobody get offended (if this offends u), just enjoy it 4 it's comedy.

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    Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to
    stand up and repeat this message.

    Robin William's plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

    I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.

    1.) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in
    their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega,
    Milosevic and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere"
    again.

    2.) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting
    with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there.
    We would station troops at our borders. No one sneaking through holes in the
    fence.

    3.) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave.
    We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will
    be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they
    are. France would welcome them.

    4.) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to
    90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would
    be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't
    hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any
    more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

    5.) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the
    bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

    6.) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient
    energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will
    require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou
    will have to cope for a while.

    7.) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a
    barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go
    somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells
    filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

    8.) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world,
    we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds,
    rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen
    or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if
    anything.

    9.) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We
    don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building
    would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

    10.) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no
    one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is
    ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a
    plan.

    "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your
    tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling,
    'You want a piece of me?'"
  6. I guess that's not 2 bad...but this is MTV we are talking about...do u honestly tlhink they are gonna chose the best artists?!? No way, they'll just go with the most currently succesfull ones.

    Everybody has different tases, and who actually makes the rules as 2 what makes "the best emcee"?!? I have no problem with with the exact order of how they rank the emcees, but i do have a problem with who they put in certain parts of it. How can u put the Jay-Z, Ja-Rule, Ludacris, Eminem, Chingy type artists any where past the 30ish area, when u have people like Fresh Prince, L.L. Cool J, Guru, Ahmad, Q-Tip + Phife, Mos Def, Common Sense, Heavy D, etc lower or not included on these kinda lists. These days it seems like nearly EVERY SINGLE RAPPER who i the wackest gets all the sales while the truley talented artists with heart get ignored 2 the point that only their fanbase know when they are releasing music. Black Eyed Peas are the only exception.
  7. Yeah, on Willennium, Will went thru' a phase where just did that "Ha ha, ha ha" laff on alot of the trax. I just think it waz Will having fun while recording the track....it's alot better than adlibbing something like "Overbrook...we won't stop...cuz we can't stop"...ha ha. He dose do that laff a lil' bit on Born To Reign and on Big Willie Style 2...it's just in your face on Willennium.
  8. Both are great songs (tho' i defintly would consider other trax better than these...just a few). I think "I Wanna Rock" is just a lil' better tho.' Simply b-cuz JJ+FP did the track just as a classic JJ+FP track...it's what they do. With "Pump Me Up", they kinda did what they do...but b-cuz they already did it. "I Wanna Rock" waz what JJ+FP did during Code Red, "Pump Me Up" waz JJ+FP doing what they used 2 do (and still do) but for Willennium. "Potnas" captures where JJ+FP is during Willennium cuz the track waz put 2gether by just the 2 of them, it's current, it's modern, it's JJ+FP 1999. I don't know if that makes sense 2 anyone, but that's my reasoning 4 saying "I Wanna Rock" is a bit better than "Pump Me Up."
  9. [quote=bigted,Apr 9 2004, 08:30 PM]I think that the thing with rappers in the acting business has gotten too much out of hand, as a result there's more hype put into movies than there is from music. Like Will, Queen Latifah gets put down 'cause her music is more positive than what the other female M.C.'s like Lil' Kim and Trina are potraying wit their sexuality! Now Missy Elliot's starting to act in movies like "Honey" and that's a joke! :cussing: I think that Queen Latifah has to focus more on her rappin' and work wit Naughty By Nature again, to keep holdin' it down for Dirty Jers',Holla[/quote]
    I kinda agree but i also don't. People FP and Latifah are legends...they can't just stay in one place and play themselves out. After all, each of their latest albums had less-than-impressives sales. The movie they make aren't low-budget hood flicks that most emcees get stuck doing. They have creative AND business minds. When albums like Born To Reign and Order In The Court don't make alot of noise, they need 2 take a break and regroup musically. What better way 2 keep their name out there and make money other than doing movies and producing stuff.

    And i'm totally going 2 Missy's defense. I think Honey waz a dope movie and i think her cameos were hilarious. Oh yeah...and Queen Latifah has still got it, u need 2 hear the 2 new trax on her greatest hits album....both of them are dope.
  10. I just got it in the mail 2day...i'm listening 2 it right now. I'm so happy 2 have it on CD and not just on vinyl. Of course i waz happy b4 cuz i didn't know it waz on CD...ha ha.

    I like the way they have these 50's/60's doo-wop vocals...but this production just sounds a bit 2 dated for 1989. I guess that what happens when u mix Paul Shaffer and Russle Simmons. Still a dope song. I like alot of 60's music so it's cool 2 have FP flowing over a track that has this extra old-skool feel.
  11. This waz posted over at the WS board last week. However, that article said that it waz rumored that other celebrities were ushered in thru' the back...which made it look shady that they were charging Will. The other article didn't mention FP bringing a group of people with him...tho' he rarely makes appearances alone.

    I suggested on the other board that Prince waz jealous only cuz he's Prince...but Will is the Fresh Prince.
  12. I have an XXL interview from them individually talking about the good times. It came out in like 2000 i think. Kid said that he still works on music and may try 2 put something out. He waz working with Def Jef.

    Overall, Play hit rock bottom in his life after House Party 3. He waz re-born and devoted his life 2 God. He did some producing 4 Gospel-Hip-Hop music (my brother has one of the albums).

    Kid of course did some small acting bits including his most well-known stuff on Sister Sister. He waz hosting alot of family-styled TVs shows 4 awhile. During the late 90's (i think) he got in a serious car accident (i think with Grand Puba) but he obviously recovered.

    Back 2 that article tho'...i do remember at point, somebody who knew both of them tricked them and invited them over 2 dinner on the same nite and they hung out for hours talking and stuff.

    I think that Kid said at the end of the article that there waz no plans for Kid 'N Play 2 get back 2gether...but never say never. I'd love 2 see them get 2gether again 2. I have all their albums and they very much have a similar musical chemistry and forumula 2 JJ+FP.
  13. I can't help u, but i can agree that the song is dope. It's on the "House Party 3" soundtrack (and waz also a single 4 the album). I almost got the 12" single a few months ago but i'm so tight on money that i passed it up. The Kid 'N Play trax on that HP3 soundtrack were so dope, i can't believe they went their seperate ways...man, i miss them.
  14. Doing something u enjoy doing or something u are interested in (or something releated 2 what u'd like 2 do 4 the rest of your life) is always a good thing. Either way, just getting the experience of having a job, working with other people, and working with customers is the kinda thing u can take on 2 any other job u go 2.

    The grocery store waz your average job 4 me. No real future in it, but it's money and i guess it waz a good place 2 start. At a movie theater, u'd get 2 see movies 4 free...which is always nice...ha ha.
  15. Yeah, in a place like that, u gotta keep in mind that it's stressful for people 2 take their pets 2 a place where the might HAVE to make them uncomfortable...and owners are usually very protective of them.

    At the photography studio i work at, people are of course going 2 be extra protective of their families, pets, children, etc...so if u don't make them happy with your photography...some people get really mad. Being mad or aggresive would only make the situation worse...after all, they DO have a reason 2 be the way they are (sometimes).

    There are also people out there who simply like 2 fight. And it ruins their day 2 not give them the fight they want. However, there has been 2 or 3 times when i've gone up2 the front of the store 2 back-up a co-worker having problems with a customer. They kinda people who are out 2 cause problems...the second they take it 2 far, i'm ready 2 take it 2 the hood and tear them up...ha ha.
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