I keep telling people to watch Harlem. It seems like Harlem cares about their city’s reputation, more than any other part in NY right now, because its looking like Harlem is carrying the city on their shoulders. One of those Harlemites is none other than little homeboy Juelz Santana. Yeah, he might not be no Common lyricist, but he’s real, or lets say he’s the streets. You know? Like people say that Jeezy is not a real lyricist, but he’s real. In fact he’s the realest street ni**a there is. So is Juelz, or let’s say the whole Dipset for NY. And I do acknowledge that they don’t have the sales numbers or the trophies but they certainly are loved by the streets and that's what counts!

After moving to the states approx. 3 years ago, Dipset we’re one of the first crews from NY I had the chance to follow and see develop as the movement they are today. I actually am very happy to see their progression ever since they started. And even thou Juelz’s last album didn’t have too much success, his new album promises to be one of the hottest albums coming out this year. After a delay of 20 minutes from my original schedules IV Time, I finally got to sit down, with him and talk about his album.

Tell us about your new album

My new album is incredible, it’s called What the Game’s Been Missing, and it comes out on Nov. 22nd. I built my own studio, which was a big plus, because I was able to do so much more music. I did like 160 songs this time around because last time around I did just like 25 records, so I got to pick out of just 25. So now, I had the chance to pick out of 160 records, the variety is different… I just had the chance to go and roll with music. This is me times 10 you know? As far as my work ethic and what I put into the album, and into making an album. It’s been a long time. It’s not like I rushed this album, it took me like a year and a half, and in the process I learned a lot about myself, and about the way I work. I also put some mixtapes out.
I just think that a lot of things make this Album different and better in its own way.

What artists and producers can we find on the album?

I worked with a lot original producers, new and up and coming producers, for the simple fact that that’s what I like. It’s not that I don’t wanna work with a big name producer, its just that I don’t want people to buy my album just because Pharrell did a song on it or like Swizz or ten other big-name producers worked on my album. I wanna have that type of attention for my music, and I wanna make producers hot myself. Continued on page 2 »