Going back to Queensbridge, when I was interviewing Poet, he was saying that being from the Bridge, you really have to puff up your chest a little more, because the Bridge got shitted on for so long. So he just feels an extra sense of pride, an extra sense…

Of motivation. Yeah, no doubt. And I mean for the most part, it’s like everybody in the Bridge got love for each other except for a couple of dudes who choose to isolate themselves. You can’t be the King of Queensbridge and then nobody in Queensbridge see you.

Not to name any names or anything…

I mean, come on… You’re nowhere near the Bridge. And that’s cool, don’t get me wrong. Go get your bread, get your house. You’re supposed to do that, but come to the hood. You can’t be the King of a Kingdom that you don’t even touch. How you doin’ that? And then don’t just holla at brothas when you about to start a war and you trying to alley-up. You fuckin’ with a G, dog. Don’t come around, like, “yo, yo, I realize I did…” Come on dog, don’t hit ni--as ‘cause you calling wars out now. And I notice every time you call a war, everybody gets the call. I ain’t saying I got the call, he didn’t call me, I ain’t gonna front. But you been asking about me… I ain’t mad at the dude - just be a man about your shit. If he ever come across this interview then take it for what it is, I don’t gotta take cheap shots at you. And I’ll tell you this to your face, dog. I’m a man. So it’s like, learn from this, analyze it, make yourself better, be stronger, be real with your shit baby. You from the Bridge, represent the Bridge! What you’re doing is not the Bridge! That’s not how the Bridge moves, dog, you know that! So it is what it is.

You’re sort of like the Ambassador of Queensbridge in a lot of ways. A lot of people don’t realize the role that you’ve played in other people’s careers and just helping people come up. How do you feel about that?

That’s why it’s real important for people to pick up this DVD and CD I got because it’s one thing for me to say it, like you can’t be a self-proclaimed anything… But when you got Havoc telling you the influence that I put in his life and how I gave him the name Havoc; when you got Capone and Noreaga, basically like “yo, this dude taught us everything we know”… When you got dudes telling you from they mouth... Yo, I don’t gotta say nothing. I don’t wanna say nothing. That’s not a warrior to me. Continued on page 3 »