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yeah, i dont like 50 or Eminem and they made so bad albums ... BUT i am kinda proud of them cuz they still keep the rap of the top of the charts and this is importing ,but hope somebody take their place ... ← They don't deserve to be on the top of the charts if they're supposed to be the top representives of hip-hop, maybe if their sales suffered it'd be a message that you'd have to make more quality and put in a lot of work to be on the charts, back in the days LL Cool J, JJFP, Public Enemy. and MC Hammer worked with a lot of effort to top the charts, I'd rather Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson sell more than these wack rappers even though I don't like them either for their music but at least they're good to look at. :lolsign:

Thanks for this interview, I've been voting for the video to get on "106 & Park" ever since it premiered last week, I'm looking forward to the Rev. Run album and his reality show!

Well Eminem's "Encore" and 50 Cent's "Massacre" are arguably the worst albums to sell so much since Vanilla Ice's "To The Extreme", in fact they even make that album look dope, the wacker you are now the more you sell, a lot of hip-hop heads feel that way, not only me, it'd be nice if a quality album could outsell them but I don't see that happening, real hip-hop doesn't sell and Will's "Lost and Found" is a real hip-hop album, not a sell-out album that'll sell 6 million, even Outkast's last album was their worst album even though it sold 10 million and of course "Big Willie Style" isn't Will's best album even though it sold 12 million worldwide, in fact you could say his worst selling album "Code Red" is his best album ever, I'd say "He's The DJ..." and "Homebase" albums are also better than "Big Willie Style" even though JJFP never came close to "Big Willie Style" numbers, I'm not sayin' they're sell-outs but their less sellin' albums are their best, Eminem's underground stuff was good stuff but once he started going platinum his quality went down drastically to where he sold out in this case where now he's made the worst rap album ever just like his buddy 50 Cent, Dr. Dre's "Chronic 2001" doubled the sales of "The Chronic" but it's not even half as good as " The Chronic" in fact I think it's even worse than "The Aftermath" album he made, Nas "Illmatic" only sold 1 million copies but it's better than all of his albums that sold more.

Isn't Slick Rick on the album?

No I don't think so, I never did say so, I remember saying a couple months ago that it's his 4th best overall or at least it's close to it 'cause it's arguable that "Homebase" might be better and I gotta throw "Code Red" in the top 3 so it could be as low as 5th or 6th 'cause it's a victim to Will's career no matter what Will does, he can't top himself, unless he gets Jazzy involved on the whole album like the JJFP albums, I'd have to say "Willenium" and "Big Willie Style" are arguably better solo albums and "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" is arguably the greatest rap album ever, "Lost and Found" is close to that level, it could be a classic, we'll have to see a few years from now if it is, you could say all albums except "Born To Reign" and "And In This Corner..." are close to classic level, so if you compare careers you could say Will could be the greatest mc ever, it's getting harder for Will to top himself since he's had such a great career, to say that "Lost and Found" is his greatest album is disrespectful to his career, he's had many classics.

I'm gonna download this by the weekend, I think Casual got a great hip-hop flow, if you wanna talk about annoying voices look no further than mostly every commercial rapper out now that you'll hear when you turn your radio on. :ShockRifle:

Maybe Interscope has given up in promoting the album, btw I notice "Switch" has fallen to #45 this week, maybe by next week "Party Starter" will pass it and be in the top 40, but looks like even if that happens it doesn't matter at this point, Will can't go out and perform the song right now anyway since he's shootin' "Pursuit Of Happiness", it's been up to Interscope to release this video and they haven't done it, the album's fallen to a point where nothin' could save it, I just hope that "Tell Me Why" comes out so Will could get credability for that great song and I think that's more important than just going double platinum with party singles.

Queen Latifah "U.N.I.T.Y."

Thanks for the interview Tim, there's gonna be some Hiero songs in the NBA2K6 game that comes out in October too! :rockon:

It's too slow of a climb for a second single, it should rise faster after the success of "Switch" there should be less resistance to the radio stations playing it like Tim once said earlier either on this thread or another thread, I'm too lazy to look back to quote but I remember him saying that but anyways it's not making any impact, I keep listening to Hot 97 that plays hip-hop for the tri-state area here on the East Coast once in a while to see if they're playing it but they ain't yet, it ain't even on their playlist, they didn't play "Swtich" either! :eusa_snooty: So far it seems like it's not making much of an impact.

:iagree: That'd probably lead to higher sales, I wouldn't mind if he did tracks with some dope underground producers like Kev. Brown too, as long as the music's good is all that matters, Freshmen actually did a nice job producing "Tell Me Why", it has an epic soul sound to it, you could lie to the kids and say that Kanye West produced the song and they wouldn't know the difference. :lolsign:

Yeah come on now, Jazzy Jeff's the greatest DJ/producer, do you really need anybody else to produce for you when you have him? We had to wait so damn long for this album I really thought that Jazzy was gonna be more involved than what he was, I don't think Will could ever get an album close to the level of "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" or "Code Red" if he never gets Jazzy that involved with it, working the Trackmaster and Freshmen was the worst move of his career, he should call Timbaland,Teddy Riley, Pete Rock, Pharrell, or even Kanye West like other great mcs do instead of calling average producers if he wants to work with anyone besides Jazzy, Will's too great of an mc to work with average producers, 50 Cent could use them if he wants to.

Hey Jim are you platinumteeth, that's why u keep bumpin' the thread? :lolsign:

Thanks for this Tim, damn Hieroglyphics are really hustling in the rap game, album after album nonstop, when I get a job I'm gonna order some of those CDs, did they just sign OC? I thought he was on Grit Records with KRS-ONE.

It seems like a lot of Nas fans give Will respect, they gotta get it straight though that Nas did not write the whole "Big Willie Style" album though! :ShockRifle: btw, Mcgrady does suck, he hasn't won a championship yet, I thought it was kinda funny a couple weeks ago when somebody said Chuck D's career's washed up and he has a Penny Hardaway avatar, who I think is the most irrelevant NBA player out there right now. :daveuidiot:

:iagree: He shelved Heavy D's album that was supposed to come out last year and gave New Edition crap promotion while he heavily promotes that crap from Boyz In Da Hood, I don't have much respect for him since he hasn't done anything good since "No Way Out".

:iagree: You got a good heart, I know Will would be happy about this if he knew about it, not just in promoting the album but lending a helping hand to those in need! :dope:

You're right about that, hearing them on all the tracks brought down the quality, who knows maybe that's why their album got shelved! :lolsign: Will could've gotten more quality singers like Usher, R.Kelly, and Boyz II Men on the album if he wanted to instead of Tra-Knox on all the tracks if he wanted to make a soul album and that would've made it a classic. The best thing Kel Spencer might ever do is that song "Uhhh" with Will if he doesn't ever get his career going himself. Personally I'd rather be on Will's worst album than not on any album, I don't think I'll be lucky enough to say that though. Honestly I never thought anybody liked "Code Red" as much as I do until I posted here either, I know a few ol' school hip-hop fans that say they like "He's The DJ, I'm The Rapper" as his best album and they talk about "Homebase" being classic but they don't mention "Code Red". I played "Born To Reign" for some of my friends in high school during my senior year and they liked it too.

Well there's only about 100 of us posting here anyway, I'm sure the other 200,000+ might like it more, we're just being too critical, and btw I think "Born To Reign" got better reviews than "Lost and Found" has gotten so far by the critics, Will's the Michael Jordan of the rap game so that means he can't make a bad album, he just scored a solid 20 points instead of his usual 50 that's all, what do the millions of teens who listen to 50 Cent and Eminem know about good music anyway?

And they can tell their grandchildren that as a result of their numerous appearances on the album, the album was mediocre in quality and a disappointment in sales... Lets hope that they have more exciting things to tell their grandchildren... ← I don't think all of us would be that lucky to say that we recorded with Will, it's not that bad of an album that you say it is, the way you talk you make it sound like it was the worst album ever! :lolsign: I enjoyed that album the time it came out, in fact I didn't start not liking it until I started posting on this board, I never would call it my favorite one but I'd never call it wack, it's a good album, not a great album, I could name at least 10 commercial rap albums from 2002 that were worse than "Born To Reign", we hate on it more than fans that don't like Will, I haven't really heard anybody say bad things about it, I only skip 2 songs on that album when I play it.

Well if Tra-Knox never do anything else big in their careers they could still always tell their grandkids when they're old that they did an album with the greatest rapper ever! :interesting:

Yeah that's a hot song, I saw the video yesterday, it's hot! Anyway I'm listening to JJFP "Pump Me Up"

You might actually be right about that Kev, whenever the video comes out people'll show interest in "Lost and Found", no matter how low it falls on the charts, I noticed this week that Kanye West's "College Dropout" actually sold around 6,000 copies and that album came out a year and a half ago, but probably the hype of his new single "Golddigger" and the talk about his new album lead to that, on that note when the "Party Starter" video becomes a huge hit and Will's out performing it and the tour comes sales could go up, people'll be talkin' about Will's album more often again, I guess we all gotta stay patient.

LL allready started a Label back in the 90`s`as far as i know..That stood in his book "Phenomenom"! ← He has had "Rock The Bells" for quite a few years too named after his classic song just like Will's "Overbrook" which is named after Will's high school, but I think it just a publishing distributor of his albums through Def Jam so that he'll have the hands on in promoting his albums.

I'm starting to doubt if the "Party Starter" is gonna come out so I'm gonna say that it'll sell 700,000 US and 2 million worldwide when it falls of the charts this fall and'll be certified platinum in the US in 2008 when his next album comes out , lol. :lolsign: