This is a campaign against people coming in and reshaping my city. This is a campaign against muthafuckas coming in talking about, “I’m from Atlanta,” but they talking about they a fuckin’ Atlanta Blood or an Atlanta Crip. Or, “I’m from Atlanta” and niggas on that gotdamn fagged-out Midtown shit. That’s not Atlanta, homie. My town is not black Hollywood. My town is a rich, black, cultural diverse center of many black people with different kind of money, different kind of social experiences, different kind of everything. But what we are not is New York part 2. We are not L.A. part 2. We are not San Francisco part 2. We are not any of those other cities part 2. So I’m not gonna accept those labels.

So when I go to a club in Atlanta and a muthafucka tells me that I gotta be dressed like your favorite rapper to get in that club, I’ma tell that muthafucka the club’ll be burnt down if he don’t get his mind correct. Because this is my city for real. And that’s all I’m saying [in “2 Sides”], brother. So it ain’t against no other rapper. I am bigger than every rapper you name. And I’m not talking about, “Oh, I’ve made the most money.” You know how many retarded muthafuckas done hit the lottery? That means nothing to me. What I mean is I have seen the same shit that your Jay-Z’s have seen, that your 50’s have seen, not because I had the money [but] because I paid attention. When I went to Paris with Outkast, I went to the Louvre muthafucka. You know what I mean? I used rap to get me to Africa. [But] I’m not where these [local] niggas at [mentally]. I’m not worried about block supremacy. Get the fuck outta here. I’m worried about people from the hood realizing that the world is bigger than that, and we can accomplish anything. I wanna see more Master P’s, man. I wanna see more Jay-Z’s, more 50 Cent’s. I wanna inspire that outta people. I don’t wanna constantly be in the muthafuckin’ position of trying to down a muthafucka to make me look better.

Like, let me say this to you, why is every rapper who’s telling you he’s the best, the boss, or the president of something work for somebody? Every muthafucka talking that shit to you work for somebody else. I own my own masters. This is only the second interview I said that in. But if we wanted to start a brand game, we could do the slave/master game. See, I don’t give a fuck how much jewlrey you got, nigga. Like Tony Draper said to me, “Which one of these niggas gon’ own they shit 10 years from now?” And like Pimp C said to me, “Which one of these niggas shit gon’ even be getting played 10 years from now?” That’s what I’m talking about! What’s your catalog worth, nigga? And do you own it?