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I'm surprised about that since he was a 3rd wide receiver in Seattle last year but it's best for him to leave since the Broncos won't win anyway, he should've retired when he played in the Super Bowl a couple years ago, that'd be the fitting way to leave.

Strop jumping around and use you`r energy for makin this Thread sticky :azzangel: :lolsign: ← Well that's what I'm gonna do here, it's only fitting! btw, I'm feeling this line: "I don't know how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes Gotta a lot of beef, so logically, I prey on my foes"-Jay-Z "Hard Knock Life"

I hope alot of people saw it on AOL so the "Lost and Found" sales go up this week a lil' bit, if the album sales keep droppin' Interscope might decide not to release it officially, this AOL should've drawn some fans.

Yeah it'll probably debut sometime this week on MTV and BET I hope! :davidblaine:

Let me start off and say Maxfly I appoligise for what I said about you and Harvard, I didn't know that'd get you so mad, I'll admit that comparing Mike Tyson to Bill O'Reilly is wrong on my part too, now that I cleared that up let me make one point that'll justify my point further than what I said before, if the media hates negative rappers so much why is it that the most popular thug rapper of them all Eminem is white? I call him a thug 'cause everything he does is disrespectful, sure 2Pac had "Thug Life" tatooed on his chest but that was a philosophy of how blacks are treated in America and a lot of his music has substance, unlike Eminem's. The problem I have with Emimem is that he can't take anybody's criticism, I don't understand why he had to say "F*** Will Smith" just because Will said that rappers need to be role models for kids and not curse so much in their songs, he needs to respect his elders, that'd be like Will dissin' James Brown, it's true though hip-hop is supposed to be for everybody, James Brown started it off and yet Elvis took his style and outsold him too but I'd say Elvis has more substance than Eminem too though, this is what's wrong with society, our heroes are not shown in the mainstream, Eminem is not the definition of hip-hop to me, I think that it's messed up that his 4 albums have outsold LL's 11 albums when LL has kept his music tasteful and respresents everything society would accept as a rapper plus he never got arrested and Em went to jail for gun possesion? Wow if I judge white people off of Eminem like conservatives judge black men off of 50 Cent I'd say all white people are thugs but I know that's not true. Why hasn't any of LL's albums sold more than 2 million? It seems like too every since Will said rappers shouldn't curse in their songs, his sales have decreased dramatically from "Big Willie Style" to the point where Eminem has outsold Will in his career too and is set to outsell 2Pac soon who didn't start sellin' until he got shot, sure "Born To Reign" wasn't his best effort but it had more heart than any of Eminem's albums, I guess all the white kids musta been pissed that Will was saying something negative towards their new hero Eminem. This is ridiculous how all these white kids know the words to all Eminem's songs and yet they never heard of positive mcs like KRS, Public Enemy, or Nas? I know this for a fact 'cause when I told some of my white friends that I like Will Smith they were like, "F*** Will Smith he's a fag momma boy that's too scared to curse, why don't listen to rappers with real balls like Eminem?", lol, I found that funny, I remember those debates like it was yesterday but after I let them listen to some JJFP and KRS stuff they realised that they could rip a mic better than Em, a lot of white kids in the suburbs are ignorant of what real hip-hop is, if they'd open up their eyes then the real mcs like KRS would sell more, I think mostly white kids buy 50 Cent too 'cause he rolls with Em, I can't expect too many intelligent black men feelin' 50. I wouldn't mind if a positive white rapper came along and sold well, at least he'd be keepin' the essence of hip-hop alive, everybody wants to talk about how much skills he has but I'm sorry making songs about killing your mama, killing your wife, calling people fags, and dissing every popular recording artist doesn't take skills! Like I was tellin' fuq last night in the chatroom, Eminem is nothing but a corporate gimmick, he even says it for himself on that special about "Marshall Mathers LP" on VH1: "You wanna know the positive message of my music? F*** you", exactly so that means anybody who buys his music after hearing that is ignorant 'cause being positive is not sayin' f*** you Em, just retire now, I want Rakim back! If all these white kids worship Eminem, I don't even wanna think about what the future of America is gonna be like! Now imagine if a black rapper dissed Michael Jackson? Their video would be banned from BET, the only place that plays their videos the most and the song would be banned from the radio, and they'd lose their record deal, and yet Eminem sells 5 million since it hits #1 on TRL getting more airplay than LL's video "Hush" respecting women? You wonder why I'm mad, it's such a shame! :shrug: btw AJ, Chuck D likes Kanye West, he gave him props for doing a song to address the issue of conflict diamonds in one of his terrordomes, as much as you like the ol' school and wanna bring Public Enemy back you gotta deal with the reality that Kanye West is the future of hip-hop and Chuck D is cool with that(although he also admits that The Roots and Lauryn Hill would be able to tackle that topic better than him like you'd too probably but that's the best we have right now until they come back too so we gotta support it, if he does well maybe it'll open conscious rap more on mainstream, I hope the controversey doesn't slow down his sales like what happened with PE in Arizona 13 years ago though), Chuck D ain't allowed on TV so Kanye has to represent for us, Will Smith calls Kanye the truth too. To further my point check this terrordome about where Chuck D talks about racism with how they still diss Michael Jackson even though he's innocent: "Mess-Age To Mike Jax. Tell Em All Get Back. Tell It Like It Is T-Dome Vent 2005 Part 1 July 03, 2005 Well, Sir Michael Jax is acquitted, and yeah I'm happy for him. Recently Billboard's June 25th issue on page 27 had a bunch of cats offering suggestions to Michael under the heading 'Messages to Michael.' Cats ranging from managers and record execs, to artists (Ying Yang Twins???) had advice that went from anal to asinine. Like I said, I was just happy he got off in spite of. Personally, if he is this pedophile, then karma and guilt will get him. But those idiotic parents deserve it too for droppin those kids off to a forty- something single man's house. But the deal is was that he was acquitted - innocent and that's that. Musically he should do whatever he wants. After all what the hell can I say ... he's Michael Jackson and has been in this game a lot longer than yours truly. So Vibe's Serena Kim interviewed me on this and will print this in a similar context talking about MJ from various heads. Here's my response to handling questions on Mike Jaxs' case, career, and future ... The Dumbassification of America. For Chuck D, the real boogeyman in the Michael Jackson trial is the media. When they throw a black person up on the screen, there’s all kind of subliminal judgment like, “Yeah! That nigga’s guilty.” It’s the Willie Horton sht all over again. Michael Jackson was acquitted because they just didn't have enough evidence in the case. But he was still trashed all over the damn media. And the persecution might have not been like going to prison. But he’s locked up in the jail of perception. How about that? He’s locked up in the cell of perception just like OJ Simpson. I’m just saying you can't go on white America's judgment call on how to treat Jackson now that he’s acquitted. It’s over and done with, story over! If Michael Jackson puts out an album, people will say, ‘Well the accused rapist of little boys'. The pedophile accusations will follow Michael Jackson, but is his record any good? More news at 11!’ I’m a fan of Marv Albert, but when he does a broadcast of a basketball game, they don't say, ‘Well, accused rapist Marv Albert will cover the NBA.’ But they always say this about OJ Simpson: “Accused murderer.” Well, he was acquitted. Leave it the fck alone. I saw glaring similarities between the Michael Jackson trial and the OJ Simpson trial. Well after his acquittal, the media will continue to bring this sht up. Now everybody and their third cousin got a magazine, blog, website, or television program. MTV and the Viacom networks have splintered into like 400 mindless stations. If all this media is out there, why don’t at least some of them cover celebrity' accomplishments? Because they think that if they tell a story about Michael Jackson’s music, it’s not as sexy as the scandal. That reminds me of the kid in the classroom who gets picked on, and that’s why I think that the American public and the media just likes to pick on situations. And the consumers of the media have nothing better to do with their time but to follow the misbehavior of someone else. You’re trying to pay your bills and raise your kids, you've got little time to be worrying about whether Michael Jackson is going to get off of a case. That’s the dumbassification of America! Most Americans spend most of their time doing dumb sht. You got thousands of people killed in Iraq, and most people really don’t know that number because it’s not sexy enough. Why is it that if Michael Jackson releases an album, the public doesn’t want to talk about it as much as when he’s suspected of committing a crime? I don’t understand. When it comes to black folks, the media covers our worst. I could do a thousand great things in society which people need to actually understand and know about, but let me my ass walk out of a gas station with a fcking Reese’s white chocolate cup without paying. That **** will be on every fcking news story tomorrow. Then, I’ll be on everybody’s lips. That’s backwards to me. As many chances as I've given myself not to hate on B.E.T at the end of things I wind up holding the bag of stupidity. Again, let me be a prude, nerd, elitist or whatever, but I rather be stuck up than stuck down. As a grown man in grown circles I guess a lap dance has its place, but even if it's simulated how are you gonna show this on what is supposed to be a family award show? Sorry, I just can't accept adult themes around kids, or when the kids are watching. Now, Magic Johnson getting a lap dance? What does this mean? Must've been a cruel ass joke or something, eh? Again I've said the second B.E.T got white corporate ownership, out the window went any accountability and responsibility to the black community. B.E.T was cross body blocked at the head and knees by VIACOM in 2000 by taking off Tavis Smiley and Teen Summit almost simultaneously. Uncle Bob Johnson who sold it in lieu of an NBA Basketball franchise in Charlotte gets a Beyonce styled booty lap dance on national TV with her father in the front row, excuse me while I cough up blood here. Damn, does ratings and money mean we lower standards below the tacky line. Makes me sound cantankerous, but I'm telling you this is making that capitol scene in Birth Of A Nation fit in perfect to what I saw. A bunch of hypocritical triple talkers I'd say. A teen idol named Omarion is on the show, why? To make you understood that there's a younger demographic. Then where does the strip club act fit in and to who? And is it appropriate for the CEO to show he's down too...? ...sheeeee. White folks who now have this mutated existence window itself through the tube probably consider this a march of money making monkeys. We can no longer say we don't care about what people think. These whippings of ass distraction have a place, but again in very dark adult circles. Man, as I say it doesn't do me good baseball bat bashing B.E.T. But you have little choice but to hate on something that just don't love you. Www.krs-one.com whereas the teacha is trekking across the earth. Now the reports coming from Europe and the UK are that he's completely devastating sold-out crowds. Now that the king of emcees is bitten with the world tour bug fever expect him in a continent nearest you...yes peep www.krs-one.com or www.templeofhiphop.org. Yes I thought 'Batman Begins' was rather wack for me, as they changed up the original Art Kane story a bit much. And it's not just a DC Comic's miss and diss as I thought Bennifer was again awful for my time in Daredevil and the Hulk lost and bored me until he started wrecking sht. Now the Fantastic 4 is catching my interest because of being the perfect movie. Heard Cinderella man was flowing on a lotta myth in points. Still enjoyed it. Didn't dig the fact that James Braddock had his hands in Joe Louise's pocket for about ten years after his unlikely title. Summer in NY whereas I'm spending a second straight summer in NYC I've never seen so many people and traffic like this year. I guess the 911 fears of post 2001 have dissipated a bit. What'd cracked me up is that cats would warn me to be careful in my world traveling beware of 'terrorists. I would remind them that the missing towers showed no one is clear and safe from what's considered terroristic activities ...hello. just ask somebody from IRAQ. Speaking of summer in NY. I play on Air America's softball team. Position catcher and first base. We play in Central Park, and Cinderella Man showed the depression era of 1932-35 where Hooverville shantytowns were set up right in the middle of the park. Right now I'm saying we're in a virtual depression covered up by image facades on television, film, videos, media, to make things appear that peeps are much smaller than they appear. Washington nationals - Dig those sixties vintage Washington baseball caps. The 1961 -1971 Senators wore those in RFK Stadium, and the colors come in dark blue and red. I tell peeps my W never stands for Son Of A Bush's middle name. Instead we're a winner as in Curtis Mayfield. Not to make this a sports column but the sloppiness of spoiled NBAers chased me to re-appreciate baseball the super sport of greed. But I tell you this, SHAQ brought me back I wanted them to win so bad. Zo blocking shots and DWade doing his thing had my attention. I'd made a special jingle for TNT, which they dug but said they couldn't use. Shaquille was my number one TV show as he and Damon Jones proved to be a pair constantly leaving me in stitches...I'm getting some SHAQ gear now...there needs to be more cats like that dude....a throwback to how heroes treated their fans... Jadakiss-styles P have landed on a niche that now befits them as older men. somehow this 'urban' tag on music, entertainment, and radio has successfully detached the word 'black' from it. This way you can have 'other' ownership while using the voices and faces from and resembling the community with little or no responsibility or accountability to it. Black is now again a bad word and by the way I hear the word nigger on the radio, you would wonder if one has replaced the other. Hitler is on television a bit much isn't he...the joke is the history channel is nicknamed the 'Hitler channel' I wonder how many cats in Austria or Germany changed their surname after he went down... Sports challenge was a TV sports game show I craved back in the day I wonder if ESPN Classic is gonna rock those old tapes again? Speaking of tapes why is a mix CD called a mixtape now? So Terry McMillan now finds now out her husband is gay? I wonder what book is gonna replace this groove? I'm asking why are so many smart black women suffering from 'gadar' malfunction. ( Gay-Dar as in an inner radar for women detecting if their partner is gay, which is basically 'cheating' both sides say) failure today? If dude is wearing two earrings, fighting you for your diamonds (which I always thought was a girl's best friend), fighting you at all, loud color pink shirts, minks, and killing your time in the mirror with his big ass up in it while you find you got more bass in your voice than he does in a shouting match ... then it could be those are some signs. If you find yourself doing more man type work sht around the house than he is he lays on his azz playing kid's video games, and shoutin 'ho' at B.E.T. video chicks ... then what can I tell you? If he treats you like and calls you a bitch ... then those are definitely signs. Again this is not homophobia, it's being straight up. The gay community needs to recognize that the black community is affected differently, a lie looms much larger than the truth because the truth has always been hidden on just who we are as a people. Maybe there needs to be a Gadar course for black women defining manhood, but then again that's where fathers come in, and what white society needs to know is the absence of black fathers for the past three generations has completely devastated black women. Its been studied and documented on males, but the studies on women are under the radar. The definition of the black man's roles and duties are twisted under the realm of confusion and neglect..or should I spell it nig-lect. Terry's next book should be 'How I Can Get My Gadar Working Right Again'. Live 8, well it's about time that some of these cats in rap give a damn about things other than themselves. Hats off to Russell Simmons for taking this under his belt. I just don't dig phony sht, but even if its not sincere this is important. Kanye West was almost forced to recognize the diamond trade for what it really is. Perhaps as these cats get older they have little choices but to get smarter as adults. The Roots, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, Paris, and even L-boogie Lauryn Hill are more sincere choices. Late last week I stopped by my girl LADY Bs radio show on SIRIUS and we chopped it up. I love B to def. And always hope the best for her always. Also working with her is EC LaRock who also broke my records down there in Philadelphia. Man, need I say anymore? They also broke the news to me that the great, great, great, GEORGIE WOODS passed away. The radio giant who meant soooo much to the people in Philly and in music period. This is why urban media is sht........they spend time talking about Mike Jax shaving some monkeys azz, and can't give the people who spent their lifetime for us the simple time of day. Long live the spirit of Georgie Woods. I was involved in ESSENCE mag's take back the music seminar, round table moderated by Carlito Rodriguez at the Schomberg Library in Harlem. Also in attendance MC LYTE, ROXANNE SHANTE who has a franchise of hip hop ice cream parlors helping kids in the hood, KEVIN POWELL, SALT from Salt N Pepa, LITTLE BROTHER and many others...Yes, they realize that the urban industry is spitting acid on black women, obviously in the urban world black folks aren't considered the human family I guess." Damn I wish this was the official FP site, I bet he'd wanna post here if he knew that his fans could drop this much knowledge that's why Chuck D posts on the official PE site, those fans got knowledge there, believe it or not it's even longer than this, so here's the link if you wanna read more, peace!: http://www.publicenemy.com/index.php?page=page3&item=95

Well here's further proof that Will ain't no uncle tom that'd sit back and not say anything, here's what he said about 9/11, that's basically on point to what I've been saying here, black americans got a weight on our backs that white americans like Bill O'Reilly doesn't seem to understand, so if you're dissin' Kanye for speakin' up it's like dissin' Will and mostly every black man's opinion, we all gotta relate to each other, we only speak the truth in hip-hop from what we go through in our lives, Will's a millionaire and he still gotta deal with racism himself, prejudice people kick us down whether we have $10 or $10 million in the bank, whether we're squeaky clean or we're felons, it's all the same difference: http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2004/...smith_in_f.html "When asked if 9/11 had changed anything for him personally, Smith answered: “No. Absolutely not. When you grow up black in America you have a completely different view of the world than white Americans. We blacks live with a constant feeling of unease. And whether you are wounded in an attack by a racist cop or in a terrorist attack, I’m sorry, it makes no difference.” btw, KRS-ONE and Hieroglyphics are too talented and intelligent to go unnoticed, BET doesn't play who got the most talent, they play who they think will brainwash the youth the most let's be real, they don't wanna play songs that show black men with intelligence, that's why they play dumbed down videos that make the average American think that all black people are just about pimps and hoes. Like I said earlier Bush doesn't deserve all the blame but since like every other president except for Kennedy and Lincoln(who were murdered when trying to stick up for black people) he ignores the black community, we have the right to diss him too, I mean it's only fair, when you ain't part of the solution you are a part of the problem, if somebody constantly ignores you when you constantly tryin' to get through with them wouldn't you be mad? It's like letting somebody constantly kick your ass and just stand there takin' the beatings, you're gonna wanna defend yourself right? That's all we're doing here defending ourselves, damn I thought this was America, I guess the black voice never counts! :damnyou:

Well like Chris Rock said in CB4: "White rock stars could bite the heads of a chicken and everything's fine but you're arresting me for rapping about the sweat on my balls?" :lolsign: It's true, white rock stars could make meaningless songs and then get lil' criticism but when a black rapper does we get nailed on the cross or something, damn! There's artists that make a difference with their songs and artists who don't make a difference with their songs in all genres of music, not just hip-hop but the media criticises hip-hop much more and shines on the negative things we do and ignore the positive things we do, now you tell me that's fair! :damnlorettas: Don't ask me about the list, I didn't make it but seriously when was the last time you saw KRS-ONE on BET?(yes I brought him up again, well f*** it he's my hero) Wouldn't you like to see Hieroglyphics get airplay too? They put out as much products as G Unit does, they deserve some shine too. They'd rather show 50 Cent videos all day and ignore the positive rappers, it's reality whether you like to hear it or not, that's why "Switch" didn't get as much airplay as "Candy Shop" even though it was as big of a hit if not bigger, that's what's wrong with the rap game right now, action must be made, there's a lot of slaves to the buisiness out there that purposely make hip-hop's image look bad so the conservatives could constantly keep us down, but some of those commercial rappers are too doped up to realise that they're being pimped, many people are blind right now, that's why they'll never take blacks serious in society.

LL Cool J "Big Mama"(Unconditional Love)

Aight Max I could understand I guess nobody ever made fun of you for the way you look or anything? I understand, it's not your fault, you don't know what it feels like to have a weight on your back when people constantly put you down for what you look like no matter how much good things you do, btw I'm watching O'Reilly's show right now and he just dissed Kanye West and said rappers have no credibility because of what Kanye West said, he needs to spend some time in a black man's shoes and he'd understand why we feel this way, he acts like we talk about the streetlife for fun but it's our reality, he wants us to relate to him but why can't he relate to us? We all have different backgrounds but we're all human, the public gotta understand that hip-hop's voice must be heard, no matter how conservative you are, you gotta hear us black people, we're minorities but our thoughts count, if your ancestors faced 200 years of racism, you'd understand homie and btw it don't matter what college you go to or how much high grades you get and you could still be ignorant, knowledge goes beyond the classroom, you have to take what you learned out to the world! "Changes" by 2Pac reflects how I feel about things right now, my father just told me the same thing that I'm feeling, if we come back here 200 years from now there still will be racism, we just can't seem to find common ground: Come on come on I see no changes wake up in the morning and I ask myself is life worth living should I blast myself? I'm tired of bein' poor & even worse I'm black my stomach hurts so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch Cops give a damn about a negro pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares one less hungry mouth on the welfare First ship 'em dope & let 'em deal the brothers give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other It's time to fight back that's what Huey said 2 shots in the dark now Huey's dead I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other We gotta start makin' changes learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers and that's how it's supposed to be How can the Devil take a brother if he's close to me? I'd love to go back to when we played as kids but things changed, and that's the way it is Bridge w/ changing ad libs Come on come on That's just the way it is Things'll never be the same That's just the way it is aww yeah Repeat -2- I see no changes all I see is racist faces misplaced hate makes disgrace to races We under I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let's erase the wasted Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right 'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight and only time we chill is when we kill each other it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other And although it seems heaven sent We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks But some things will never change try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game Now tell me what's a mother to do bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you You gotta operate the easy way "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid," Well hey, well that's the way it is Bridge Talking: We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive. -3- And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, crack you up and pimp slap you up You gotta learn to hold ya own they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone But tell the cops they can't touch this I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool my mama didn't raise no fool And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped & I never get to lay back 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs some buck that I roughed up way back comin' back after all these years rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh

"Cheba cheba had you wide like A receiver What looks like fire is ice Fall for the flame Catch it twice like Jerry Rice. Nice"-Chuck D "Underdog", only fitting since the greatest wide receiver retired today, nuff respect

Nobody out there in New Orleans is a refugee, a refugee is somebody that tries to escape to another country in war, this isn't a war is it? The newscasters who call our people refugees have no credability whatsoever 'cause they obviously don't know that's the definition of a refugee, they're saying this 'cause there's black people there, they think we're terrorists, you could that word up for yourself and see that I'm right, sure those people are wrong to be doing those things, I don't condone it but they ain't terrorists damn it!

Of course you're right fuq but James Brown is one of the realest brothers ever, he's the one that motivated the idea of hip-hop to bring people together, his music reflects the thoughts of hip-hop even though he sings not raps, it's music from the soul and he gets out his rage in "Say It Loud"(I'm Black And I'm Proud) which was motivated from the civil rights movement so I take his word for it, Afrika Bambataa was motivated by James Brown's songs and started hip-hop in the parks of the Bronx for everybody to enjoy! Hip-hop is about peace, love, and unity, we're not thugs like the media potrays us, even Jada and Will say that Pac was potrayed wrong in the media 'cause he was a good guy at heart that we lost too soon, it was just the world problems that made him mad. btw, here's I rhyme I wrote today I'll post it here in case you don't see it in "Numero Uno", I had to get my frustration out, I think I'm gonna lay back and watch a movie for a while to get my mind off the problems off the world, I wish I had some money so I could give: "I give you a call, I wanna work I've got the balls to call you a jerk If you ignore the message of my respectful word, the least you could do is reply with an answer, And you wonder why I ain't gonna kiss Uncle Sam and start smokin' herb You wanna get me high so I could start to studder and a ****ed up mentality so I won't remember What do you mean I didn't qualify, here's a copy of my diploma sir How could I not be what you'd like to hire? Maybe it's 'cause the ones on your staff don't have the heritage from what I was born Yeah I get it, I lay out my hand for you and that's how you treat me? My plan was for us to be cool but now you wanna beat me? How dare you go out there and disrespect me You have no care for the ingredients I put into this recipe I put a lot of sweat and tears, this is more than just a thought This isn't about how much I got either from what I bought This is about us comin' together before our relationship gets lost I guess you'll only care about the emotion I poured when you come off soft You'd still wanna knock me out even if I decide to give you the keys of my house We could share it, but then you start comparisons, about how I won't ever win Just 'cause of the color of my skin, you wanna take advantage of my predicament You would rather leave me dying, I want us to be a unity surviving Why can't you even start realising that we need to start trying To come together and spend some time and sign this contract dotted line I ain't trying to be doing crimes I wanna make a living through this rhyme And touch some spirits that're feelin' declined So no matter what you tell me I'm keepin' my pride Even if you never wanna be on my side "

It's not ignorant to say it, we've been slaves for over 200 years, it took us that long to vote and even when we vote we still're stuck in the 'hood getting arrested, even James Brown said on BET on a special before the BET Awards the week earlier in June '03 that America still needs to deal with racism after all these years and he was there during the Civil Rights era with MLK and Malcolm X so I'm taking his opinion over yours since he's in 70's and you're in your 20's right...? exactly! btw fuq here's my source for the BET banning: http://www.africanhiphop.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=27977&

Well MaxFly if you don't believe that Reagan and Bush helped bring crack on the streets then you must think all rappers are liars then, even Will would tell you that if you talked to him 'cause he stands behind what Public Enemy and KRS-ONE in their songs, it ain't fiction, the black people didn't make them, they get smuggled here, damn I thought you go to Harvard?! Get your facts straight homie, the media are liars, you can't believe everything they say on the news, "Don't Believe The Hype"! btw, I talked about this a couple months ago, BET bans certain rappers from getting airplay, most of them are conscious rappers so I guess they don't want our message on the air, hmm...? I'd be shocked if "Tell Me Why" gets more airplay than "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" got but truthfully it deserves to be Will's biggest hit ever. obviously there's some Uncle Toms working there, Rob Johnson could kiss my ass, here's the list: "The following artists are banned from airplay(meaning all their NEW videos): Kool G. Rap Craig G MC Lyte Buckshot Kool Keith A Tribe Called Quest A+ Jeru The Liks The Artifacts AZ Bad Seed Bahamadia Da Brat Goodie Mob Bone Thugs N Harmony Black Moon Methodman E-40 Canibus Afu Ra Cappadonna Channel Live Cocoa Brovaz Freddie Foxxx GZA El-P D.O.C. Diamond D dead prez De La Soul MF Doom Camp Lo Geto Boys Brand Nubian Boot Camp Clik KRS One Black Sheep Raekwon 4th Avenue Jones Heather B Jayo Felony Killah Priest Lil Cease McGruff Mic Geronimo Monie Love Mos Def Ice Cube Hieroglyphics Inspectah Deck Jean Grae Nate Dogg O.C. Onyx "

I understand where you're coming from Max it ain't all Bushs fault, he's just a small part of a corrupted government system, it ain't his fault, if Clinton or Kerry was president it'd be the same s***, it's always been like this, there will never be full unity in this country or the world or a black president unless a miracle that'd be like if I married a white woman and have kids they wouldn't be made fun of when they get older 'cause they're mixed that'll be the day that that happens, some racist people in my area call me a n*****r too so I have to deal with that, one girl I really liked in high school was white and her parents would act like I was a thug but I was just tryin' to be friendly so I could go out with her, you can't blame Kanye either for standing up for what he believes in and especially since most blacks feel the same way since we're the underdog and the smallest voice in society we don't like Bush or this government that ignores us, the black mentality is "Me Against The World", it's just what we have to deal with everyday, since this was mostly blacks in this area we're once again the victims, it wasn't their fault, they didn't have the type of money or transportation, they're barely living in houses you gotta sympathise what they're going through they're making minimum wage at Walmart with 4 kids, I could afford that type of job now since I'm living with my parents at 20 years but if I was 35 with 5 kids right now I'd be homeless or have to live on Welfare and move from the suburbs to the projects, that's a nightmare that I hope I never get to I know I gotta get a career going 'cause my parents won't live forever to take care of me, I cry myself to sleep sometimes thinking about it sometimes and pray that my parents hold on while I'm still trying to make it 'cause anything could happen in life, I wish I could do more for them 'cause they work so hard for me all these years, this is something I usually don't share online but I had to get my feelings out. I have nothin' against white people either, a lot of my friends are white/puerto rican/asian/black, I get along with everybody as long as they're cool with me, btw I just threw on Kanye's "Family Buisiness" when I was just thinkin' about my family, that's just as powerful as JJFP's "Ain't No Place Like Home", hip-hop is powerful, the soundtrack of my life!

What up y'all I figure I'd share this with y'all, I wrote this in less than 10 minutes, I just had to get this emotion out: "I give you a call, I wanna work I've got the balls to call you a jerk If you ignore the message of my respectful word, the least you could do is reply with an answer, And you wonder why I ain't gonna kiss Uncle Sam and start smokin' herb You wanna get me high so I could start to studder and a ****ed up mentality so I won't remember What do you mean I didn't qualify, here's a copy of my diploma sir How could I not be what you'd like to hire? Maybe it's 'cause the ones on your staff don't have the heritage from what I was born Yeah I get it, I lay out my hand for you and that's how you treat me? My plan was for us to be cool but now you wanna beat me? How dare you go out there and disrespect me You have no care for the ingredients I put into this recipe I put a lot of sweat and tears, this is more than just a thought This isn't about how much I got either from what I bought This is about us comin' together before our relationship gets lost I guess you'll only care about the emotion I poured when you come off soft You'd still wanna knock me out even if I decide to give you the keys of my house We could share it, but then you start comparisons, about how I won't ever win Just 'cause of the color of my skin, you wanna take advantage of my predicament You would rather leave me dying, I want us to be a unity surviving Why can't you even start realising that we need to start trying To come together and spend some time and sign this contract dotted line I ain't trying to be doing crimes I wanna make a living through this rhyme And touch some spirits that're feelin' declined So no matter what you tell me I'm keepin' my pride Even if you never wanna be on my side "

I'm glad you felt it fuq, Wyclef is one of my inspirations so thanks for the comparison, more feedback appreciated y'all!

Let me ask you this question, did this many people die when it hit suburban Florida last year? I don't honestly remember the situation being that f****d up 'cause there was help already, maybe it's 'cause there was 90% white people there, hmm..? Well in that case I don't have to worry if a hurricane ever hits my area, lol, but I think it's f****d up how you run to save a lot of people and you let a lot of black people die, tell me why? Will's idol is Malcolm X remember too so he ain't no Uncle Tom, he always stands up for the black community so many times, I hope he decides to release "Tell Me Why" video faster, it'd only be appropriate for this situation, btw right now I turned on BET to see if they're talkin' about hurricane Katrina and I see they're showin' a 50 Cent marathon?!!! :shake: hmmm, I hope 50 gives something since he's making so much money f****n' sell-out, BET should be having continued coverage of this tragedy since it's 90% of the people dying are black I mean what the hell is wrong with them? I guess the government controls that channel too! :word:

Well Jerry Rice was a class act just like Will Smith too, more than just performance, in a day where there's a lot of selfish athletes always complaining about how much money they make including TO, I'm an Eagles' fan but he's a disgrace with the way he handles himself he needs to look to see how Rice handled himself on and off the field even when he slowed down he proved that he was in it for the love of the game by singing with the Seahawks and Broncos for minimum salary most would just would listen to the criticism and retire but he just kept on going 'cause he was part of the team never trying to be better than the team, Jerry Rice always would pour his heart on the field and worked real hard every offseason to keep himself in great shape for 2 decades, nuff respect.

There's rumored that 10,000 people died already!!! :damnyou: DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP Photo Mayor: Katrina Death Toll May Hit 10,000 By DOUG SIMPSON Associated Press Writer METAIRIE, La. - One week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, miles-long lines of vehicles crawled into Jefferson Parish on Monday as residents were allowed to return to salvage what was left of their homes. New Orleans' mayor warned that 10,000 people may have died. President Bush began his second trip to the region since the storm hit, landing in Baton Rouge late in the morning to start another inspection tour and consultations with federal and local officials. Traffic began moving into the parish west of New Orleans at about 6 a.m. A curfew was set for 6 p.m., and residents were told they could stay until Wednesday. Among those returning was Diane Dempsey, a 59-year-old retired Army lieutenant colonel who stopped at the water's edge less than a mile from the house where she grew up and where her aunt lives. "I'm going to pay someone to get me back there, anything I have to do," she said, sobbing while standing amid boats beached on Veterans Highway. "A lot of these people built these houses anticipating some flood water but nobody imagined this." Most of the single-story bungalow homes in her neighborhood had water nearly to the rooflines. Homes in the most exclusive neighborhood of the parish, Old Metaire, had little structural damage but some of the worst flooding. Along rows of palatial, six-bedroom homes, a few windows were broken and the live oaks survived but the water rippled up to front-door knobs. The suburban parish, which has 460,000 residents, has been closed since a mandatory evacuation just before Katrina hit. Wide portions of Metairie and Kenner suffered heavy flooding, and authorities said thousands of homes were damaged. A week after the storm, a definitive death toll remained elusive. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned on NBC's "Today" that "it wouldn't be unreasonable to have 10,000" dead. Despite the grim estimate, he was more upbeat than in previous days, when he railed against the federal government and broke down sobbing during a radio interview. "We're making great progress now, the momentum has picked up. I'm starting to see some critical tasks being completed," he told NBC. "The 17th Street canal is about or was about 84 percent closed in yesterday afternoon. We have more troops arriving, so we're starting to make the kind of progress that I kind of expected earlier." Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore told ABC's "Good Morning America" that fewer than 10,000 people remained in the city, based on aerial reconnaissance. "This is not a city under siege," he added on NBC. "This city needs help from the big people in America and its technology to get back on its feet. We are focused on the future. We have to finish the search-and-rescue and provide food and water from an area from Mobile (Ala.) to the east side of New Orleans, up to I-20 in Mississippi. This is a pig-big piece of terrain. There are people there that need help. We will do the best we can to get it to them." On Sunday, as authorities struggled to keep order across New Orleans, gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors on a bridge, rescues of stranded residents continued and the flood waters began to recede, leaving the grisly task of collecting bodies. The Times-Picayune, Louisiana's largest newspaper, published an open letter to Bush, called for the firing of every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry," the editorial said. "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame." "Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially," the letter said. "No expense should have been spared. No excuses should have been voiced." Violence boiled in New Orleans over when 14 contractors on their way to help plug the breach in the 17th Street Canal came under fire as they traveled across a bridge under police escort, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers. Police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six, Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said. None of the contractors was injured, authorities said. Besides the lawlessness, civilian deaths and uncertainty about their families, New Orleans' police have had to deal with suicides in their ranks. Two officers took their lives, including the department spokesman, Paul Accardo, who died Saturday, according to Riley. Both shot themselves in the head, he said. A steady stream of reinforcements for police poured down the interstates toward New Orleans late Sunday and early Monday - long convoys of police cars, blue lights flashing, emblazoned with emblems from scattered police, sheriff, and other jurisdictions, in and out of state. Nagin said Monday he was arranging to rotate out beleaguered emergency workers, who have been working virtually around the clock since before the storm hit. He said police officers, firefighters and their families would get five or more days in cities with large numbers of hotel rooms - Atlanta and Las Vegas in particular. In addition to rest and relaxation, he said, they will have time to assess their personal situation since many lost homes and relatives. Counselors will be available, he said. At two of the city's damaged levees, engineers continued making repairs that would allow pumps to begin draining the floodwaters. "The water is receding now. We just have a long ways to go," Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the Army Corps of Engineers, said Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of people already have been evacuated, seeking safety in Texas, Tennessee and other states. With more than 230,000 already in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry ordered emergency officials to begin preparations to airlift some of them to other states that have offered help. What will happen to the refugees in the long term was not known. In Jefferson Parish, residents were allowed back as long as they showed a valid ID proving residency, had food, had a full tank of gas and didn't drink the water. Parish President Aaron Broussard warned residents that they would find all traffic signals destroyed, no open stores and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. He recommended that women not come alone. Among those returning was Jack Rabito, 61, a restaurant-bar owner, who bought his home in 1965, and like Dempsey didn't have flood insurance. "I won't be getting inside today unless I get some scuba gear," he said, waiting with Dempsey for a ride in a boat to get to his home. In Old Metairie, residents were angry that the levees were not designed to withstand a hurricane stronger than Category 3. Katrina was a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall. "My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got six feet of water in it," said Bobby Patrick, a resident who returned from Houston. ___ Associated Press Writers Robert Tanner, Jim Litke, Dan Sewell and Mary Foster contributed to this report.

This hits home for me since some of my relatives are from Haiti, let's fight the power fellow hip-hoppas!: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hip Hop Declaration of Peace. Second Principle Hiphop Kulture respects the dignity and sanctity of life without discrimination or prejudice. Hiphoppas shall thoroughly consider the protection and the development of life, over and before the individual decision to destroy or seek to alter its natural development. Fellow Hiphoppas I am writing to bring to your attention, the attrocites being commited in Haiti, where innocent Haitian Men, women and children alike are being murdered, even in their own homes, by an illegal government supported by UN peace keeping forces. Haiti is a country that was given independence in 1804 , In February 2004, the President of Haiti, JeanBertrand Aristide, who had already been ousted from government 10 years previously in a coup d'etate, was ousted again ... 4 years after having won a democratic election by a 92% majority vote . Now, this 2004 coup d'etat it seems, was the result of U.S manipulation. During Aristides presidency, there was a full-scale arms embargo imposed on the Haitian government by the United States.... there is evidence to prove that meanwhile, thousands of rifles and over a million rounds of ammunition were sent to the Haitian -- the current Haitian government. Over one hundred members of Aristides government are now imprisoned in Haitan jails, (the whole government has benn removed), meanwhile, the convictions of 38 Haitian former military leaders convicted of atrocities in 1994 have been annulled. Among them could be Louis Jodel Chamblain, the death squad leader who helped lead last year's coup. Aristide himself appealed to the UN and managed to get exile in South Africa, in what he describes as essentially a modern day kidnapping. Initially, America, Canada and France had their troops in there 'keeping the peace' .... this job was handed over to th UN in June 2004.....the way the UN have been since keeping the peace really speaks for itself. The UN peace keeping force have been going around in their hundreds, accompanied by the local armed police (who were never armed until all the guns showed up under the 'embargo'!!) ... under the guise of being in Haitii to DISARM gangs, armed combatants and former soldiers to bring stability to Haiti and stop the Coup D'etat violence.... the levels of attrocity are quite horrendous , and 10,000 people who protesed against the new U.S imposed government have been massacred by in the first year alone.... in an attempt to maintain a control that the people obviously don't want them to have, and was not gained democratically . Q) What can we do? A) At the top of this email is quoted the second principal of the Hiphop Declaration of Peace ..... a document that was presented to the UN in 2002 by some of the founders of Hiphop Kulture, and as a result, Hiphop has the recognition of the UN as 'an international culture of Peace and Prosperity' ..... we are aiming to petition the UN as the Hiphop community, with the support of the Haiti Action Group and the Haitian Lawyers Leadership network, and hope to affect a peaceful outcome to this horrific situation. I ask that all members of the Hiphop community to visit this thread at the Temple of Hiphop, in the streets forum ... from which the petition is being organised, if you are not already a member, register yourself, and state your willingness to participate in the thread itself..... "Haiti ...what WE gonna do" or the same thread .. http://www.templeofhiphop.org/modules.php?...der=asc&start=0 IF for any reason you are unable or unwilling to participate, I urge you to forward this mssage to anybody you know who it may concern .... for people outside of the Hiphop community, information as to how to get involved in other organised petitions for Haiti can be found through this link .. http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HAC/7_12_5.html Please remember ... if the tactics employed in Haiti are succesfull in illegally replacing the government with a more 'desirable' and less independent one, then these tactics could well be employed throughout the Carribean, and through island communities globally. It is time once again for Hiphop to affect positive global changes, as it did at its conception and birth. Peace, Brother Nature - Afrosaxon.

Hey everybody check out the audio of Mistachuck rappin' the poem on his internet radio show!: http://www.airamericaplace.com/archive.php...display&id=2445

KRS-ONE "You Must Learn" "African History needs to be pumped up steadily!"

"Just like I told you, you must learn It's calm yet wild the style that I speak Just filled with facts and you will never get weak in the heart In fact you'll start to illuminate, knowledge to others in a song Let me demonstrate the force of knowledge, knowledge reigned supreme The ignorant is ripped to smithereens What do you mean when you say I'm rebellious 'Cause I don't accept everything that you're telling us What are you selling us the creator dwellin' us I sit in your unknown class while you're failing' us I failed your class 'cause I ain't with your reasoning You're tryin' make me you by seasoning Up my mind with see Jane run, see John walk in a hardcore New York It doesn't exist no way, no how It seems to me that in a school that's ebony African history should be pumped up steadily, but it's not and this has got to stop, See Spot run, run get Spot Insulting to a Black mentality, a Black way of life Or a jet Black family, so I include with one concern, that You must learn Chorus: Just like I told you, you must learn (twice) I believe that if you're teaching history Filled with straight up facts no mystery Teach the student what needs to be taught 'Cause Black and White kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other ones' culture Ignorance swoops down like a vulture 'Cause you don't know that you ain't just a janitor No one told you about Benjamin Banneker A brilliant Black man that invented the almanac Can't you see where KRS is coming at With Eli Whitney, Haile Selassie Granville Woods made the walkie-talkie Lewis Latimer improved on Edison Charles Drew did a lot for medicine Garrett Morgan made the traffic lights Harriet Tubman freed the slaves at night Madame CJ Walker made a straightenin comb But you won't know this is you weren't shown The point I'm gettin' at it it might be harsh 'Cause we're just walkin' around brainwashed So what I'm sayin' is not to diss a man we need the 89 school system One that caters to a Black return because You must learn" This is dedicated to the corrupted government of America, "You Must Learn" by KRS-ONE, I just threw this on 'cause he's one of my heroes that represents the mentality of black people to build unity :yeah: :

Much respect to Jerry Rice and hopes for a great retirement, the Will Smith of the NFL! :thumbsup: