Do you speak to Cam’ron?
I never spoke to Cam. I don’t know him. He’s a nobody to me. Never were friends. Never will be.

How do you feel about his song going at Jay?
I feel that’s a coward move. Def Jam is on 50th . You live on 145th. You can drive 60 blocks and come see that man. You don’t have to make a record. If there’s a problem, do something. We work 9 to 5. Our cars are parked on the same block every single day. If there’s a problem, do something. Don’t talk about me and now I can’t see you. Where you at? That’s wack to me. You ain’t going to hear me making a record about nobody. If it’s a problem, I’m coming to see you. Straight up. Address that problem to me to my face like a real man. And I don’t have security, never did. I will e-mail anyone in the rap game my itinerary, only me and my homies. You never hear Memphis Bleek going off the limb talking about nobody. I don’t have no problem with nobody. I don’t think about other people that much. I’m happy when a person doing his thing, sells millions of records. I’m glad. Another successful African-American like myself coming through the same struggles I did. I feel like a sucker by hating on his situation. But hey, you open the door on us and you give us leeway to do whatever we feel to you.

Do you speak to Dame Dash?
No. I don’t have nothing to say to him neither. He cool. I can never diss Dame. He’s an OG to me. When I was 16, they gave me a record deal. He showed me a lot. I learned a lot from him so to sit here and slander him, I’d be a coward for that.

You seem very professional and business-like right now.
I learned that from watching Jay. I want to continue to do business. I don’t want to only do business for right now. When you live the rowdy life, that only works as long as people are going to tolerate your bull crap. When you do business as a professional, people of higher status will come sit down and talk to you because they know you professional with it. I’m too old to be acting like a kid. I can’t do it no more. I got my young artists coming up to do that for me.

Do you think it’s a blessing or a curse to be Jay’s protégé?
I feel like I get too much pressure put on me. # 1, when I drop an album people want it to be better than Jay. But I’m like 95% of the rap game ain’t better than Jay. So they put all that pressure on me, and in a way it’s good because it makes me work harder, but on another hand it’s a curse because my album takes the brunt fall for it because I’m not on his level or greater than. I just work harder. I feel like it’s good to be in this spot. # 1, I don’t have to worry or work, or do nothing. I do everything because I choose to. I’m a man on my own. But if I was just a lazy man, I could sit back. Jay already gave me the key to the door to say you’re a millionaire. You don’t have to write rhymes. But I’m a man first so I want to go get my own millions before I have to use the break glass in case of emergency. But I think it’s a blessing for me.

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