JumpinJack AJ

This is on the US CD single...possibly on a few other versions. There's another version with the chorus sung in a different language. I never really listen to them tho' since I don't know what they're saying and since Sauce perfectly complimented the original. The Darkchild Remix is dope...I wish they reworked the footage of the original 2 do a video for it.

It hurt my heart when I heard the news earlier today. I didn't watch Soul Train religiously until the 90's so I only caught his regular hosting duties the first few years I watched it, not that I didn't occasionally stumble upon it in the 80's. He truly is a legend in music (without being all that musical). If Soul Train wasn't airing at 1 and morning and if the popular side of urban music hadn't gone to crap, it'd probably still be airing. It's hard to believe he would take his own life, though I know he had rather extreme health issues and a bitter divorce over the last few years. God have mercy on his soul and may his legacy keep on. If it wasn't for him and his vision, R-N-B, Soul, and Hip-Hop would have never become as big as their are and were in the past. Love...Peace and ...Soul

I love this JJ+FP "Summertime" influenced shirt. Check it! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cajmear-Fresh-Prince-DJ-Jazzy-Jeff-shirt-Grape-v-aqua-jordan-8-Tv-show-spizike-X-/320834876180?pt=US_Mens_Tshirts&hash=item4ab33fb314

I was quickly scrolling through Facebook posts when my eye barely caught a glance of the pic....but my brain sparked and I scrolled back up. Part of me had this excited energy while the other part of me was like "of course....JJ+FP ain't going anywhere."

SWV In Studio With Jazze Pha; Planning New Album by Roman Wolfe January 23rd, 2012 @ 11:02am (AllHipHop News) Popular 90s R&B group SWV has announced they are working on a new album titled I Missed Us, which is due for release in April eOne Music/Mass Appeal Entertainment. The women are in the studio with producer Jazze Pha and Brian M. Cox, who are both contributing production to the album. The first single from the album is titled “Co-Sign,” which was produced by Lamb. “It’s a great feeling to be back recording together again! Something special always happens when we come together,” the ladies said in a joint statement issued today (January 23). SWV, which consists of group members Coko, Lelee and Taj, released their debut album It’s About Time in 1992. That album alone consisted of hit singles like “I’m So Into You, “Right Here,” “Downtown,” “Weak” and “You’re Always On My Mind.” I Missed Us will be released April 10, 2012 on eOne Music/Mass Appeal Entertainment.

http://allhiphop.com/2012/01/23/dj-jazzy-jeff-ft-senor-kaos-peter-piper/ This is dope! Straight Hip-Hop!!! I'm not familiar with Senor Kaos but I like his flow. Jazzy's cuts are flawless and I like the way barely touched the original production.

I must say that I waited on peeping this because I didn't think it would be anything special. I was wrong, this is awesome!

AHMAD - I'm A Star (2011) http://player.vimeo.com/video/19791006?autoplay=1

I have mixed feelings. I think it's funny....REALLY funny. At the same time, since it's stealing from that video about bullying, I just don't know if I like how it makes light of that video which I found really powerful.

I think I like the new album better than Be. Either way, I don't consider one to be too much better than the other.

Skee-Lo has always been one of my favorite emcees. I Wish is easily one of top 20 favorite Hip-Hop albums of all time. Every line, every song is just dope. I was heart broken that it took him 5 years to get another album out. I Can't Stop was a good album too but some of the production was a little basic. Still good, you could just tell he was doing it all on his own financially on a couple songs. If u get I Can't Stop, make sure you get the 2nd version with the "At The Mall" remix and "When I Was Comin' Up" as the last 2 tracks. "When I Was Comin' Up" is one of his best songs and is only the 2001 version of the album. Back in late 2009/early 2010 he released and EP called Overdose. I bought it off his website back then and I have a mixed feeling to it. It's a mix of traditional Skee-Lo with an influence of today's Hip-Hop and Rap. I hardly listened to it. I also wasn't thrilled that after over 10 years of only making non-explicit music and non-sexed up music, he went there. His subject matter just got more common and predictable. There's still "Skee-Lo" in those tracks but a lot of his charm is gone. The same year he also released a few "single"...the "I Wish (2010 Rock Remix)...which is dope, and "I Love L.A." He's also been on some mixtapes. "Fly Away" on a Rappin' 4 Tay mixtape is a song that finally has proper Skee-Lo/West Coast sound to it. A couple months ago a song was released that he did with some guy named King Kong and his literally sounds like every other unsigned/uncreated rapper. It's really disappointing. Hopefully he's rejuvenated himself for this new album. Originally he was going to release an Overdose LP which would have bee an extension of the EP. Since a few years have passed, I'm hoping he's back to his own musical identity and not "that guy" I heard on that King Kong track.

Skee-Lo Wished He Was a Little Bit Taller. Then He Promptly Retired By Jeff Weiss Wed., Jan. 18 2012 at 3:30 AM ​[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The directions haven't changed. If you want to find Skee-Lo, take the 110 to the 105 and get off on Crenshaw. It's everything else that's been altered since "I Wish" transformed the Snapple-size South L.A. rapper from obscurity into an evanescent national phenomenon in the summer of 1995. The gold-certified smash yielded Grammy nominations, stints as an MTV VJ and a spot on the television adaptation of Dangerous Minds. Then he disappeared. "I retired five months after it was released," Skee-Lo says, drinking coffee at the Denny's on Crenshaw and 37th, a few blocks from the home he shares with his wife and two children. "Not only did my label [sunshine] take credit for producing 'I Wish,' they took all the profits. So I refused to shoot any more videos, promote or record music. I'm not their slave. I wasn't working for free." You expect to hear rappers indict the improprieties of a corrupt industry. But you don't expect to hear Skee-Lo inveigh against its sheer "wickedness." It's like hearing the Easter Bunny go off on Big Chocolate. For those foreign to the charms of "I Wish," the rapper born Antoine Roundtree plays an endlessly endearing ne'er-do-well. "I wish I was a little bit taller," he posits, adding that he's saddled to a Hatchback with an 8-track, where "Everywhere I go, I gets laughed at." The indelible underdog anthem reached No. 13 on the singles chart but branded him a one-hit wonder. "The one-hit-wonder thing used to really irritate me. But no one knew the true story," says Skee-Lo, the spitting image of his '95 self, plus a few pounds. He graduated from high school in Moreno Valley, and while attending El Camino College performed every week at the Good Life in Leimert Park, the Left Bank of early-'90s underground hip-hop. That's where he unveiled "I Wish," one week after writing it during a study session gone wrong. "I wanted to do anything but school. So I started listing wishes and wrote the whole record without music," Skee-Lo says. "Two days later, I'm cleaning my room and in the middle of an ugly old record. I heard a beautiful horn section that made me feel like I was at a casino, on a beach or a boat. I threw my broom down, got on my MPC-60 and made the beat." The hook floated into his mind that Thursday night at the Good Life, following a successful preshow freestyle in the parking lot. When Sunshine Records (the parent company of Scotti) heard it, he received a $150,000 advance. The song's success created a familiar paradox: His music was omnipresent but he never made a penny. Nor did he get with Leoshi (though she did appear in the video). After a half-decade of legal battles, Skee-Lo wrangled back his publishing rights. He proudly notes that he receives every cent when the song is purchased and played today. But even though he kept busy doing shows during his "retirement," his recording hiatus left him adrift and depressed, even after the royalty money kicked in. "It got to the point where I told my wife and children that I didn't want to live anymore," Skee-Lo says of his low ebb five years ago. "Then a voice spoke to me clearly and said, 'At what point in your life were you truly happy?'" The religious vision caused Skee-Lo to rededicate himself to the Nation of Islam, which he had joined at 16. His raised spirits and reaffirmed spirituality inspired him to form his own indie label, Skee-Lo Musik, whose flagship release will be April's Fresh Ideas, Skee-Lo's first real record since "I Wish." But no matter the outcome, he's achieved the crucial goals of his lone smash: People still remember his name, and he'll be played on classic rap radio until the day everyone is 6 foot 9. "I've had people from prison tell me how much that record helped them through the years they were locked down," he says. "People treat me well wherever I go. How can you hate on Skee-Lo?"

Amen.

I gotta admit, I really wanted 2 like K'Naan when he first dropped but I just couldn't. I peeped the album multiple times and just couldn't get into it. I just don't like his voice. I listened to this new song and it's not bad. The beat is interesting. It's not bad but I don't love it either. I think I like K'Naan better on this than on his past stuff. I'm still not crazy about his voice and I don't feel like he keeps up with the beat completely. I think Nas sounds dope on it tho.'

Are there tho'? There's so much mind numbing dance pop out there it's disgusting. Most of the songs are interchangeable and have no identity to them.

What.Was.That?

It really would. I could do without Raekwon but it really would be dope to hear a collab like this.

Anthony Hamilton (who's new album is AMAZING!!) posted a pic on his Facebook. It's him with FP, Common Sense, and Raekwon! Check it... https://www.facebook...6&type=1&ref=nf p.s. Does FP normally not wear his wedding ring?

I'm sorry to hear that, man. I pray things turn around. You never know....last week one of my friends got the news that his cancer was back (after being free from it for 10 years!). He went in for surgery and was told all they can do is treat him with radiation. If that didn't fix it, nothing would. Well, 2 days ago he awoke from surgery and found out that it was just scar tissue from the surgery he had years ago. The last year of his life has been awful so this news feels like the start of things turning around for him.

This guy probably put different names on this picture and visited a ton of different message boards, confusing hundreds of people.

Funny! Outtakes are the best thing that come from any project. We haven't worked on the web series in awhile due to location issues, but every time we get together, we HAVE to watch the outtakes. I told my friend I wouldn't do the project unless I got as many takes as I wanted...lol. I even tell the other actors to try other things on other people without warning. The faces you made in that video are awesome...the "choreography"...lol.

And kinda stupid

I looks great. I love the colors and layout.

He ALWAYS gets love from Nickelodeon. This should be good.

I agree...it's never too early since the trailer is out.