Something came down my social media that made me laugh for 3 and a half glorious moments. I nominate Mick Jagger and David Bowie's 'Dancing in the Streets'. Move over Nancy Reagan....this had the potential to be the greatest cocaine deterrent of all time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ

I owe Timberlake the hugest favor for showing me half of the pair of titties that made me a breast man in the first place. But, I'd pay money to never hear "wardrobe malfunction" in public again.

Lol. Prince had a bad night that night. He really did get nervous around his heroes back then.

If only ya'll knew what happened after...

what happened after the show?

after that justin timberlake 20/20 pt 2 shit i vowed to never give yall tidbits again to this site.

but eh eff it, im on vacation bored.


this is short version cause a mofo bout to go swimming:


so alan says him, chick, wendy & bobby also tagged along.

alan knew from the gate that P was out of element (well on some "being put on the spot" ish) so he INSTANTLY knew a quick exit was in order. mind you this was WAY before cell phones, so walkee talkies were the order of the day.

by the time the left handed guitarist gave P (right hand) the axe, alan ran to lobby and told driver high tail it NOW---like presidential emergency NOW---to side of theater.

P of course was carried out of there cradle style to the side exit and alan gave wendy and bob the "let's go NOW" glance.

it was a LONG traffic filled ride from Pasadena to Beverly Hills.

ride was DEAD SILENT.

back of limo: noone said a word. noone heard each other breathe.

he noted that it was THAT night, something sparked in him (alan telling me) (and reflected in rehearsals afterwards) that he will NEVER be denied ever ever ever ever again being seen as anything but NOT GREAT.

so that night gave birth to the confident swagger, stop on a dime "coudCAWD *smack*" P of 83-88. rehearsals were longer and harder.

partly cause he let them see him in a vulnerable position. and mostly cause he was determined.


back in that dangleo/me/prince jam at SOBS (which is on video according to owner that i saw at party) prince gave me his version (this was way before me seeing the video) and he kicked it like "james hates me, mike set me up" when i asked him "why are you so nice to me and D, when i expected you to be stand offish and on some ish (which he did post "untitled" at the park) and he told me how important it was to embrace the new generation since "that set up"---he actually described the events verbatim.

james also gave his version in autobiography and said "mike studied me harder so he was more natural"

rashida gave me Q's story which was more mike being mischievous on some "who is gonna inherit the keys to kingdom" story.

--im cutting corners....

yall get jist

also, your book is fantastic.

thanks for fleshing out the what had happened.

>thanks for fleshing out the what had happened.


That story never gets old...And Bobby Z's reaction (below) is CLASSIC...As Questo said, this was indeed a clever set-up on MJ's part...Mike was on some, "Oh, you think you big time, now?!!!"...And that shit needed to happen...Because Prince needed to understand that the masters never take a night off....

Take it away Mr. Leeds....

ALAN LEEDS: Prince went to a James Brown gig in 1983 with Bobby Z, his drummer at the time, Big Chick, who was his security guard, and I think Jill Jones, who was one of his protégés. By now, everybody knows what happened at that gig. I don’t think Prince realized that Michael was going to be there. James looked a little puzzled in that video when Michael whispered in his ear, “Hey, bring Prince up.” And of course Prince didn’t really know what to do either. He went to the guitar first but he fumbles with that because it was left-handed. He played a few licks, did some dancing and knocked over a prop by accident. Now I always wondered if Michael intentionally brought Prince up to put him in that position just to say, “Hey, you think you’re on my ass? Well follow this, motherfucker *laughs*.” Bobby Z called me and said, “Oh boy…he made an ass of himself tonight.” He said Prince didn’t say a word the whole way to the hotel.

because MJ was in shades and casual and still with a mini 30 second to a minute performance had that place hopping. i mean MJ just did a vocal riff and a cold spin and had folks going crazy.

James Brown wasn't tripping because it was his stage and he was cool regardless.

I think Prince wanted to be seen as mysterious and not in that light at that point of his career. had that been 93 or 03 then maybe Prince might have said ok, however he was too insecure in his development at that point to be on that stage.

bottom line MJ is the King period. because MJ was never afraid of saying come on my stage and lets do this. I mean MJ got the cape from JB nuff said.

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-40702-1208017177.jpeg

and what else?

HA! ..

I can't.. maybe Quincy will tell the full shit one day

I'll say this.. Prince thought it was a set up.. wasn't happy..

Another tid bit... If you watch it again.. James Brown did want to bring him onstage.. mike had to ask him a couple times..

now I am done..

the fuck is this Secret Squirrel shit you people are on?

One more:

Was it just wine?......or COKE?

I want to believe prince never did drugs ( outside of the bad X trip)

But...yano.

I personally think the performance was cool. Sans the lamp post falling. And James actually missing princes coolest moment (. The mic stand trick)

That clip cruelly was one oft he first things I saw on the Internet that turned me into a P fan

.....about that part. Hmmmmmm.........


>One more:
>
>Was it just wine?......or COKE?
>
>I want to believe prince never did drugs ( outside of the bad
>X trip)
>
>But...yano.
>
>I personally think the performance was cool. Sans the lamp
>post falling. And James actually missing princes coolest
>moment (. The mic stand trick)
>
>That clip cruelly was one oft he first things I saw on the
>Internet that turned me into a P fan


silk.later Reunion radio with Old P. & Silk http://reunionradio.blogspot.com/

"i'm talking about *Balls Deep*....In Love (c)Cleveland Jr.

He was cultivating a fine nigga farm (c)Goldmind.

R.I.P Jamie Hubley

lol....

hardly...

I've also always heard conflicting stories about whether he was on coke or not.. some say coke some say he never did that shit..

someone is lying.. ionno

jay z - super ugly
r kelly - pees on underage girl
nas - you owe me

why am i the only one that believes this?
it hit a real emotional core.

it was about knowing you can never truly go back,
but there is always that piece of your heart that belongs to
somebody that you can never be with again.


mariah carey, to me at least,
never really had the ability to emote until later on in her career.

i always liked her,
but i didn't FEEL her until that tune, and "the emancipation of mimi."


it's a cliche, but later on in mariah's career, she sang better to me
because it sounded like she had been through some shit. (and she had).



apparently, nobody else agrees with me on this.
everybody seems to hate "glitter." lol

good gracious

not to mention breakdown (hell, most of butterfly)

"never really had the ability to emote" vs. "ability to reach *me* emotionally" != the same at all

*especially* for "never too far" which sounds like the bastard child of a liza manelli song and whomver gets cut first from any given season of American Idol. you can easily visualize someone under a spotlight in a sparkly dress with their arms raised over their head at that last word/note on some whenever whitney sang a diane warren song vibe. the word "treakly" resonates

'Players say the strangest things

"vanishing" is a top notch vocal performance.

"circles" and "we belong together" make me think about picking up the phone calling motherfuckers that i haven't spoken to in years
because maybe (just maybe) it could be different this time.

the songs feel more real.
the only song from early mariah carey i feel in that way
is "all i want for christmas."



that shit fucks me up every year. lol

the woman could touch a nerve from the beginning.

it's just so perfect

I understand it was a departure from what folks wanted from Nas, but, IMHO, he was spitting, the beat was hot, and Ginuwine killed the chorus. Still don't get it... I guess folks just prefer stuff like Hero or Make The World Go Round...

That shit is the shit.

I'd say that it's a better "commercial/club" track than most records in its kind that come out now.

that was one of jay's most legit shots at nas, it displayed his hypocrisy

Jay never did a "Black girl lost" because Black girls was always hoes to him. I'm not speaking literal, but he just never went that deep on that side of things.

having different sides to yourself doesn't mean they have to be in conflict

song on that album. I mean, the album sucked, so it doesn't say much, but that song stood out immediately when the beat dropped.

You Owe Me was a great song. Fuck em.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffDDbEJAEIg

>

I won't even bother linking that trash.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

my best friend is/was a Canibus stan until this happened

one of the most epic FAILs in Hip Hop History...

Don't believe me??? youtube Dizaster vs. Canibus...can't send a link right now.

>

*shudder*

(I never saw that playgirl ish...nah B)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfD7agP1yxw

that was clean as fuck

What a wonderful video.

their reasoning for it was probably as embarrassing as the actual pic

Do shameless moments/people count?

and he might have just painted his embarrassing masterpiece within the last six months on 'Accidental Racist'.

But shit, his 'my hat is like a shark's fin' hook for the them of that awful Deep Blue Sea movie is way more embarrassing than anything in In Too Deep which was a watchable cable crime movie.

In Too Deep was him as a Nino Brown knockoff with Omar Epps playing the Ice-T undercover role & Nia Long's fine ass in it as a nude model love interest.

That flick wasn't embarrassing, the feisty-cruise-chef-who-flames-the-shark one was.

i know what I meant

>In Too Deep was him as a Nino Brown knockoff with Omar Epps
>playing the Ice-T undercover role & Nia Long's fine ass in it
>as a nude model love interest.
>
>That flick wasn't embarrassing, the
>feisty-cruise-chef-who-flames-the-shark one was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz1J9PUcMQ0

THIS RIGHT HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKb9OvXXvk

My head/hat is like a shark's fin

>THIS RIGHT HERE
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkKb9OvXXvk
>
>My head/hat is like a shark's fin

Prince in assless pants
Prince Graffiti Bridge Movie
MJ - His face.....year after year
janet - Letting jermaine produce her records
Toni Braxton = becoming slutty
Maxwell - poor followup
Dangelo - obvious

>janet - Letting jermaine produce her records


haha

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oaErPW7W3vk/UZoxoWjzNrI/AAAAAAAADeE/uVkwmiNTwgU/s320/hulk.jpeg

nuff said

And I like Load/Reload to some extent, but this was pure garbage with a capital T.

I read somewhere....maybe here....that they toured with Oasis for a bit. Noel Gallagher, being the funniest man in rock that he is, was apparently MERCILESS to Lars. He kept quoting the movie over and over again and re-enacting the scenes. I would pay top dollar to see any footage of that.

wrong reasons if you're those clowns.

I sampled this shit for a song I did 10 years ago. Funny funny ish. His bandmates most have hated him.

http://www.break.com/video/ugc/yngwie-malmsteen-threatens-to-kill-airline-passeng-331977

Yeezus.

Van Halen without Sammy Hagger and that dreadful Van Halen album in 98 1)

sting singing the hook with Puffy and faith evans for "I'll be missing you on the VMA's 2)

david bowie and Mick Jagger duet on "dancing in the street" back in 85 3)

the Michael Jackson album "Michael" released by SOny after his death and most of the singing ain't even his 4)

Tyrese rapping on a whole disc 5)

R.Kelly and Jay Z unfinished Business aside from 2 joints that wasn't needed IMO 6)

James Brown Living in America and most his mid to late 80's hits7)

Prince the Black Album really desperate matters to stay cool and also to act like he had something and the bark was louder in the end than the bite and that followed him for years in the studio.8)

Dr,Dre presents the Aftermath in 96 that was yikes 9)

Snoop Dogg the No limit era was a downer especially "the game is to be told,not sold 9)

Rock acts doing disco songs to appear cool and happening in the late 70's 10)

Wyclef post the Carnival does anybody remember or even care? 11)

Luayren Hill Unplugged 12)

John Legend and the Roots wake up everybody, i tell you you better hope that Harold Melvoin's ghost don't haunt them turkeys for wrecking a classic like that? 13)

Sly Stone albums after Fresh, they just weren't the same IMO 14)

Miles Davis albums in the mid to late 80's were MIA and in need something to snap the groove back 15)

Madonna rapping and playing Guitar 16)

phllip michael thomas album back in 1985 i laughed so hard a couple of teeth were getting loose 17)

Ice T and Body Count, it made me laugh for the wrong reasons 18)

ANDRE 3 stacks singing and playing guitar the novelty gotta end 19)

Jewel doing a Britney Spears type of record even if it was a joke, her career was never the same 20)

Yah...Miles definitely had some stuff in the 80's that makes me shake my head.

The Lauryn Hill unplugged is a weird one for me. I can't help but kinda feel admiration for her...it was such a gutsy move. I know it turned into a mess a couple times throughout the performance.....but there was something about it that I think was cool still.

JB's 'living in America' will never be confused for a hilite of his career....haha...but it's nowhere near the atrocity of that Jagger/Bowie collab. I can halfway dig 'living in america'.

Madonna's biggest embarassment should be her recent endorsement of extacy use in her concerts. I mean...there might have been implicit references to drugs in her music before. But she always seemed clever enough to walk that line without making explicit references. I was really surprised she'd do that. She knows that her audience is wide...the most desperate and transparent move she's made in an otherwise very smart career path.

>Jewel doing a Britney Spears type of record even if it was a
>joke, her career was never the same 20)

if it really is Jewel, that is pretty hilarious too

...from what she was known for. I remember that.




Since 1976

especially Nas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETMzHfZjYw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glny4jSciVI

didn't Jermaine Dupri do an awful benefit song? i seem to remember Nas and Beyonce being involved...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATYY0pb_qOs

U mufuckas are going to hell....lol

...and went overboard with it. Nigga really did sound like a billy goat on that joint.





Since 1976

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mjIbmv9eosA/UIG-TgG8QWI/AAAAAAAAB4U/nbCS8rDyRwo/s1600/wyclef-jean-motorcycle.jpg

Continue to be year in and year out. But of course, you would be a "hater"

I couldn't even finish that fucking video

that vid makes me cringe so much my body wants to fold itself in half.

V.

someone should make a We Are the World track for this song so no one will have to suffer through this anymore.

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And it was a Hulk Hogan leg drop....

James Brown watering down his sound for disco...

Aretha Franklin's late 70's wilderness years (horrible, horrible shit)...

The Stones after 1978 (although I did kinda liked "Emotional Rescue" and "Start Me Up"...)

Run DMC's Tougher Than Leather movie....

Rick James' Glow period (AKA, that Purple Jack...)

Prince's Graffiti Bridge movie (epically bad)...Prince records "Jughead" (ditto)...Did I mention how horrible that shit was?????

Nas...Nastradamus...Yeah I know it's cliche, but this was thoroughly suspect...

U2's Rattle & Hum movie (Duh...)

Jay Z...."Super Ugly"...Kingdom Come...SMH...

MJ...Blood On The Dance Floor; Mike statue building overseas; MJ recording songs with Akon...

Weezy...Basically everything he has recorded since getting on that LEAN...

Mary J Blige...Singing about fried Chicken....