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Well... here I am. The first one is the most recent pic I got. And then I just had to show you how my hair looked a couple years ago :kekeke:
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My old (extremely good) DVD broke and the cheap one i got now can only play R2 DVDs. So I have to save money to buy a new region-free DVD player so I can see the new live dvd... so looks like I'll only be able to buy one cd... or maybe 2... and one for my girl... and a friends birthday is coming up... hmmm... I really need to get myself a job.
check out this if you don't mind hacking to make your DVD player region free...it worked for me!
wow it worked! thanks! now I can watch my Blues Brothers concerts again! wiiieee :kiss:
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My old (extremely good) DVD broke and the cheap one i got now can only play R2 DVDs. So I have to save money to buy a new region-free DVD player so I can see the new live dvd... so looks like I'll only be able to buy one cd... or maybe 2... and one for my girl... and a friends birthday is coming up... hmmm... I really need to get myself a job.
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lets see if we know his lyrics as good as his movies..
"So here's my own private nickname, I'm a call you"
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mc-bad boy: bb2
freshprincess: i can hear will say it, but i cant put my finger on what movie it is
wow, this is post number 200 for me... 200 in a year.. maybe I need to be more active with this thing..
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:thumb: sounds great!
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Happy Easter!
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WWW
"I saw that going differently in my head"
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I only got 1 person to pre-order it so far... but I got another one to buy willennium a week ago, and another friend is saving money to buy the gretest hits cd, so at least I accomplished something...
I'm going on a roadtrip with some friends in a couple of days, I'll bring Tell Me Why, Switch and Lost & found on my mp3 and try to get them to buy the album.
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Saw that the internet shops have changed Lost and founds release date from 29/3 to "coming in near future". That's in sweden though.. But i heard that about germany 2.. how's it going in the uk and italy and so on?
This will be an disaster for sales..espescially as it's been leaked. This puts alot of pressure on us to NOT SHARE IT on DC, kazaa and so on.
Thats just CDON screwing stuff up I think...
alot of swedish record shops don't even know that Will got a new single if you ask them for releasedates...
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LorettaVille hehe great nickname for that board. :kekeke:
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I know this topic has allready been started, but I think it would be easier to se the result in a poll. Since your only allowed 10 answers I've been deleting some of the tracks I don't think fit as singles, but if you feel I've choosen the wrong one let us know.
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I think "Ya'll some messy Motherf**kers " is from BB2..
last one from BB1
new one: Will answering to the question of where he works "in a bank"
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I'm searching the web... I'll see if I can find something more...
Mr. Smith, Good Intentions Will Get You Nowhere...
Mar 22 '05
Author's Product Rating
Pros
Will stays true to the style he's been rocking since Day One.
Cons
Wooden, corny rhymes and bland, uninspired production.
The Bottom Line
Mr. Box Office Draw admirably returns to the hip-hop game. Unfortunately, he forgot to being much interesting music with him. Skip this album.
Full Review
You gotta hand it to Will Smith for staying true to himself.
During a record-making career that began almost twenty years ago, the Philly native has never succumbed to thugging it out, maintaining a Huxtable-esque attitude in his music that has made it palatable to a greater range of people than most hip-hop. In an age when even Eminem tries to pass himself as a gangsta rapper, it probably wouldn't cause too much of a fuss if the former Fresh Prince busted a few gats in his rhymes. Actually, it's to his credit (and a testament to his love of hip-hop) that Will even still makes rap records, considering his significantly more lucrative career as a movie star.
But here he is, over a decade since he's become a full-fledged film star, and he's still plugging away at hip-hop records. "Lost & Found" is his ninth studio album (counting the Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince joints), and it represents a slight step toward maturity in lyrical content. He's still "gettin' jiggy wit it" on the party jams, but he's backed away from the overt comedy of his older records to cover topics such as obsessive fanhood and religion. It makes for an album that's sort of an interesting listen at first. However, Smith's flow, which was cool in 1986, is occasionally wooden and unwieldy, and his penchant for corniness pops up way too much for "Lost & Found" to be consistently enjoyable.
In addition, I gotta say that the production here is decidedly average. Will Smith is a mega-multi-dookie millionaire, you'd think that he'd be able to afford top-notch production (then again, you'd also think he'd be able to hire Nas again as a ghostwriter). Most of the album is handled by unknowns. Longtime cohort Jazzy Jeff pops up on the album's opening track, "Here He Comes", and Jeff does suitable damage to his rep as one of the best hip-hop DJs of all time by co-opting the "Spider-Man" theme for this song. Kwame, who produced Lloyd Banks' hit "On Fire", takes a crack at the first single, "Switch", and does a good job with a beat that's pretty much all bass and handclaps. It'll get butts on the dance floor, but on this track, smith's rhyming is secondary.
Even when Smith comes with stronger lyrical content, there's something that stops the songs from being hot. "Mr. Niceguy" throws a creampuff of a dart at Eminem (who dissed Smith on "The Real Slim Shady". On the track Will admits that Slim's diss bothered him, but he made another 20 mil and that made everything better. He saves his darts for radio DJ Wendy Williams, who has insinuated that he and his wife Jada are gay and in a sham marriage. On "Niceguy" he threatens to buy Williams' radio station and send her packing, and on "Swagga", he calls her "fat" and "ugly". Harsh words coming from the man who made "Parents Just Don't Understand", I guess. This track also suffers from quite possibly the worst chorus ever put on a pop record. It's like Jim Carrey's character from "The Truman Show" took over a rap record.
Bad choruses put a damper on several other songs. "Ms. Holy Roller" is an interesting track about a friend who became a born-again Christian and is suddenly criticizing Will's lifestyle. This song kinda hits home because my experience with hard-line or born-again Christians has found them to be overly critical and ultimately hypocritical. "Tell Me Why", quite possibly the album's best track, features Will trying to make sense of the world around him. The fact that he shouts the second verse with rage suggests gimmickry, but it sounds sincere. And any song with a soul-stirring performance from Mary J. Blige (handling chorus duty here) deserves your props.
To be fair, "Lost & Found" does feature Will making slight modifications to his rhyme style, but for a dude who takes a slight jab at hip-hop's Great White Hope, he occsionally comes off as trying to sound like a G-rated Eminem. This comparison is most evident on "Loretta", which is basically Em's "Stan", only Will Smith-ized. It's a story about an obsessed fan who follows Will around for years, ultimately getting arrested and sent away after hiding out at the Oscars trying to meet him. Unlike "Stan", a song that literally made my jaw drop the first time I heard it, "Loretta" paints it's central character as sort of a benign "oh, I'm in love with Will, but I'm not CRAZY or anything" character. It's sort of anticlimactic, and unwilling to admit that there is danger in the world. Will just seems to put a pollyanna-type gloss over everything. And, hey, I love positivity as much (if not more) than the next guy-but part of being real is admitting that the world isn't all peaches and cream, knowhumsayin'?
It ain't like Will doesn't make good points. "I Wish I Made That" makes the excellent point that black radio won't play his records because he's not "hard" enough, then goes on to quote hits by Ludacris, Terror Squad and Snoop Dogg in the chorus. Snoop himself drops it like it's hot on the bass-heavy "Pump Ya Brakes", which is hands down the best beat on the album. Unfortunately, Will drops an elementary flow on the song, and Snoop appears as pretty much window dressing here. However, Will's ultimate no-no appears on "If U Can't Dance", which not only features one of the Pussycat Dolls on vocals, but finds Will adopting a 1984-era "Roxanne Roxanne" flow. It's embarrassing, even for someone without major rhyme skills like Big Willie.
Above all, Will doesn't do much to distance himself from his rep as the hip-hop good guy, and I respect that. He's no Rakim in the rhyming department, and I respect that too. If the dude's still making records after twenty years in the game and an extremely lucrative 2nd career, you gotta respect dude's dedication to hip-hop. You also gotta respect his dedication to positivity in a sea of negativity, and his willingness to stay the course he's stayed his entire career deserves your props.
But while Will sets a good example, he doesn't back it up with great music, and quite frankly, he never has. It's not like you can't have a big vocabulary and a hot flow (see: Rakim, Biggie), and it's not like you can't be a comfortably middle or upper-class citizen and not a good rapper (see: Rakim again, Chuck D., De La Soul), but Will just is not-and has never been-a particularly skilled or interesting rapper. His recent albums have gotten over not only because of Will's charisma (and a serious amount of goodwill carried over from his film career), but also because of recognizable samples and glossy production. When Will decides to take a more organic approach (like on this fairly sample free album), the result is somewhere between kinda boring and REALLY embarrassing. Big Will gets props for being true to himself, but props can only get you so far, and "Lost & Found" is yet the latest example of a Will Smith musical project that proves he should probably stick to acting.
Will Smith "Lost & Found"
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
REWIND: "Tell Me Why" (feat. Mary J. Blige). "Pump Ya Brakes" (feat. Snoop Dogg), "Ms. Holy Roller"
FAST-FORWARD: "Here He Comes", "If U Can't Dance (Slide)", "Mr. Niceguy"
Great Music To Play While: Trying not to laugh as Will states that he can "rap circles around" most of today's hip-hop cliques.
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guess what.. my name is Viktor
you can call me Susan if that makes you happy :kekeke: (Vinnie Jones in Snatch)
(if anyone don't get the joke, i'm a boy)
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It was so fun wrighting that rhyme I posted in the JJFP anthem post I just had to do a little more... comments and pointers are welcome... this is the 2nd rhyme i ever wright.. so be gentle..
It's time for Big Will to live up to his reputation
as the old school hip-hop sensation
I've heard the buzz about the cuzz in the Nice Guy lyric
but you haven't heard it, go out and buy it
Dj Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince back up in ya face
featuring the best song since nr.2 on Homebase
you see all your friends Gettin' Jiggy Wit this season
now you know Lost & Found is the reason
Chorus:
Don't settle with less
Here comes the ess
for the big test
of his quest
to put the rest to rest
Big will is back!
for the final attack!
Don't settle with less
Here comes the ess
for the big test
of his quest
to put the rest to rest
He's raising from the ashes
taking a break from where the cash is
stepping up to the mic
and just like u never forget how to ride a bike
he will show
that he still know
how he used to do
when he was rapping
before he started acting
and when he sing
u really feel the swing
that he bring
the swing
that will ring
in your ears
for years
wondering if it made his mother proud? no need to bother
when refrigerator installation was the job of his father
he could have become a MIT engineer
but he didn't fear
to rear
he gave celebrity a chance
and started to glance
while entertaining the fans
to all of you who's sick of people always going on
about so called real gangstas from Compton
I'm proud to be a fan
of a family man!
Chorus:
Don't settle with less
Here comes the ess
for the big test
of his quest
to put the rest to rest
Big will is back!
for the final attack!
Don't settle with less
Here comes the ess
for the big test
of his quest
to put the rest to rest
(sorry for spelling misstakes)
I'm unsure about some words here.. fist I don't if the english word "ess" is the same as in swedish, it means the A in a card deck ( the best card there is)
2nd: the word rear, as standing up. don't know if this is commonly used but i found it in a dictionary. I'm not talking about anybodys ass here.
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Anyone else noticed that in the music section of willsmith.com theres alot of wrong info... or maybe i got some really strange albums...
They say homebase got 13 tracks, not 12. No. 13 is a remix of ring my bell.
they also say Just Cruisin' is track 6 on Born 2 Reign... "Maybe" is no longer called maybe.. it's called "maybe listen"
That's what I've found so far..
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I can't even describe the feeling i get when i hear this track. It's so unbelievebly good! If they would release this as a single it would go to number one in one day. It's perfect for radioplay. It would be the first number one in a long time that really has a message. The first number one where the creator has really had something important to say. It's the best song of the album.
(as usuall: sorry for my spelling misstakes)
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Oh, and yes, he calls out Wendy Williams personally. She may not have a job by the end of the month.
hehe i gave in and listened to nice guy... that wendy williams part is really funny
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First of all: I have every Will cd (exept Maximum Will Smith, but that doesn't count). I'm definately buying this one!
This is the hardest day in my life... I eant to hera the album... I have it right here on my desktop... but something feels wrong... i should wait for the album to drop... i don't know how much longer i can take this :bang:
I've only listened to Tell Me Why so far, it's great! theres only one thing i don't like: I'm dancing around singing along and then *biiip*. That edited f-word kinda ruined it for me... I really really hope there will be another version availible!
i gotta go work out or something cuz i got alot of extra energy and i cant sit still here whitout listening to it...
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I love everytime Will makes fun of uncle phils size ...
who doesn't remember: EARTHQUAKE!!! (when Uncle Phil is dancing)
also love just about everything Jazz says.
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didn't he do "Parents Just Don't Understand" with Jada? or was that someone else?
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Paul, Tea Cake, Mike Lowry and Hitch... can't choose one
Fav Track on Lost and Found?
in Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
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I Wish I Made That.. or Tell Me Why. I think Tell me why is the best track, but right now Wish I made that is my fav. it's really funny hehe but I don't understand that he first make fun of snoop and then he's on the next track :confused3: Kinda like on B2R where he first got a track about that a girl with a husband should give him tonight and then a track about how he can't do anything with a girl cuz he's got a wife..