Friday, June 15, 2007

Lets Air It OUT....

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This is why I guess they say the truth will set you free….A couple of days ago I posted a blog on MySpace to explain to the fans, (I dont even like to call them fans,) But the people who enquire everyday about the hold up of my project..Never was it posted to disrespect Atlantic Records or to seem ungrateful or unapreciative..I dont know HOW it became a media fiasco or all of that but my intentions were to solely let the people now about my frustrations and the hold up of my album….Now, as corny as this internet shit is, its also great because now you can get both sides of a story instead of getting caught up in that he say, she say shit…..Now I consider Just Blaze a friend and a mentor and respect him as an artist and a man, but I didnt understand why he would post a blog to the world only telling 1/3 of a story before even attempting to contact me at all and I dont know how it went from Saigon Vs. Atlantic to Saigon vs. Just Blaze when Ive never even mentioned him at all…The power of the dollar man…

Look, the songs we have for the album I wrote and recorded realistically speaking, within the first year of the deal..I signed my deal november 24th 2004…Aside from a few word changes here and there or a feature or something, we basically have the same album we have had for almost 2 years. Thats why I have been complaining to EVERYONE for the past Year and a half or so about a release date…...I didnt understand why when Just Blaze knows this, he would act as if I was tripping…Then this writer from hiphopdx hits me on MySpace and says he is sorry if he ruffled anyone’s feathers because in his interview I stated Just Blaze ate my budget so I couldnt work with anyone else…First of all, everyone in our camp knew Just was getting 85% percent of the recording budget when we signed the deal. We knew Just pretty much got the budget before I stepped foot in the studio. That was part of my deal. I signed that deal KNOWING I wouldnt be able to afford another big name producer. I didnt want one. He got more out of my record deal than me monetary wise but I didnt care because I just wanted to make the best album possible and Just Blaze is the best. I personally know he is the best in the world, He’s almost not human when it comes to this music shit..I only mentioned other producers because I figured maybe the label felt they needed to put me with the “it” guy to put a song out…This is what happens when you get the run around for so long… I admit Just did do more than what he was contractually bound to do and he knows how greatly I appreciate that, but to make it look like my frustration is not warranted is crazy.. And yes, I had unlimited use of his studio, but he also put in my contract that I couldnt use any other studio.

Understand, Just Blaze and I only recorded about 20 songs in 2 and a half years (which is less than 1 song per month) I assumed we would be doing atleast 5 per month… Now of these 20 songs, 7 of them are slated to be on my album, the other 12 or 13 are also all keepers that if we put out right now would crush the game easily eg. Eyeball, Who Can Get Busy, Tournament of Torment etc. we litarally only probably recorded 2 songs that we couldnt use…My thing was, if we have this chemistry that works so well, why arent we in here just banging out songs all the time..We would have so much more to choose from. It never happened.. It wasnt Premier and Guru, It wasnt Rza and Gza, It wasnt Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth, It became too CORPERATE.. Just a business deal.. It seemed like the value of his beats were worth more than my rhymes so we couldnt just keep working. Which is understandable, he’s Just Blaze…Im just Saigon the mixtape rapper (hahaha)...But I love the MUSIC man. I know he loves the MUSIC. I really wish there wasnt any money involved in this paticular album.. It came out great, but it couldve been greeeeat, feel me? This shit has gotten so corperate its killing the validity of the MUSIC.. This is how and why New York Hip Hop fell the fuck off..I dont make a dollar off mixtapes yet Ive spit some of the hottest shit I ever wrote on mixtapes….My payment is the reaction of the people…You notice me and Just Blaze have only leaked ONE song in the 2 and a half years, Dont Do That, which I wasnt a big fan of anyway…Letter P was done before I signed with him…None of this was mentioned in his blog…I love Just Blaze but fair is fair, if he’s gonna give it to the people, he should give it to them real….SAMPLE CLEARANCE? Thats what theyre telling me NOW, in June 07, but June 06’ it was another story…Mind you we have the SAME album with maybe 2 slight changes???? This is new to the world, not us…EVERYONE Ive spoken to on our team agrees that they have NEVER seen anything like this before….Besides, That sample shoulda been submitted when Kingdome Come (the single, not the album) came out.. We wouldve been known there was a problem. We knew we needed that record regardless….

Now that were at the final stretch I hope everything works out…Its in Gods hands now, I dont know if Just Blaze made his blog to make me appear to be ignorant or impulsive but I am neither…Ive worked very hard to get where I am and if asking for a fair chance is wrong than I dont wanna be right..Im aware of the business side of the game but it will never consume me and make me a wack artist trying to come up with a gimmick or an “image” as you guys put it.. My image is who I am mufuckas, You could write a book on Brian’s life. Fuck Saigon .People like me dont need a fucking image, and by the time some of yall people realize it, it probably will be too late….

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