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Contents 1 Words in bold 2 Cleanup 3 Beefs 4 canibus was on the office space soundtrack, shouldn't this be noted? 5 A Mistake 6 This is ridiculous.

[edit] Words in bold

I don't think this article needs this many words in bold. The names of various tracks Canibus has featured on are important, but I think they need to be treated just like any other songs; if no one's against it, I'll change these to standard print. Cromag 12:08, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

• Also, is "DeKalb Community College" actually Georgia Perimeter College? Based on this site, it is, so I'm adding the link to the main article. Cromag 15:45, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

This page seriously needs to be cleaned up, in part because editors (or just an editor) are referring to artists lik "Bis," and "Clef." This is not only confusing, it's absurd; it makes it out as if it's a personal web page, where the author actually knows the artist.

- Not really...these are their nicknames, just as Canibus is substituted for Jermaine Williams. Would you want Clef to be refered to as Wyclef Jean every time his name is mentioned? People know what is meant, we don't have to spell it out for them all the time. It's also done on other articles in Wikipedia.

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[edit] Beefs

This article should have a section dedicated to Canibus' beefs with LL Cool J, Eminem, M.E.D., Truck Turner, Queen Latifah & Mr. Phace.

I think their should be an explaining of why he had beef with them.. there's reference to a beef with eminem but no information on why it happend.

[edit] canibus was on the office space soundtrack, shouldn't this be noted?

It was called "Shove this Jay-Oh-Bee"

[edit] A Mistake

I want to remove this entire section. It's irrelevent in terms of the whole article, and plus it is very nit-picking. Canibus's point was that the surface level of the water would decrease were one able to remove all the sea life. That's it. He used "three quarters water" before just a shorter way of saying 70% or whatever the exact fact is, it's not that important, it's an approximation, and then he used it again to mean it wasn't the same as what he had stated. I know that last sentence is meandering. If no one has any objections to this, I'm going to delete/rewrite the section. JesseRafe 00:48, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Precisely. I fully agree; also, a rather minor mistake in one of the dozens of tracks he recorded is hardly worth mentioning, especially since I'm sure he's made many more minor mistakes in other songs of his. I opt to remove the section primarily due to the mistake's status as just that...a mistake. Cromag 22:05, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is ridiculous.

I've noticed a tendency in this article for the contributions of anonymous users to far outweigh those of registered Wikipedians. Unfortunately, a large part of the former are additions that are either incorrect – that is, vandalism – or written in a manner unfit for an encyclopedia. I tried to clean up the page as best I could some time ago, but the number of anonymous contributions since then has been a bit too great for me to handle.

I'm pretty sure this happens to other rappers' pages as well, but Canibus is an individual who has a bit of a cult following and those people, I'm guessing, are constantly modifying the article, worsening it in my view. I'd opt for this page being semi-protected to prevent things like this from happening in the future. If there's an important piece of new information on the rapper available, I'm sure Wikipedia's registered users are more than qualified to include it in the article. Cromag 09:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)