Saigon is pissed!  10 days ago The Yardfather used the power of his myspace blog to let the world know just how disgusted he is with his recording home, Atlantic Records, due to the label’s seeming disinterest in releasing his major-label debut.  Having just returned from touring overseas – a trip Saigon notes was coordinated without the assistance of Atlantic Records – one of the most provocative MC’s of our generation vented to HHDX regarding the delay of his self-proclaimed classic hip-hop album, Greatest Story Never Told, and for the first time publicly reveals whether or not he plans to continue working for Atlantic Records and with his musical guide, Just Blaze.  

HHDX: Why did you take the June 1st blog post down [off of your myspace]?
Saigon: I took it down because I guess it offended Just Blaze for some reason.  I don’t understand why it would offend him, but he hit me on myspace like it bothered him for some reason.  So instead of me just adding fuel to the fire, I took it down and was like we’ll deal with it on a personal level.  

HHDX: Was there a particular event, a straw that broke the camels back moment that motivated you to write what you did?
Saigon: It’s been going on.  A lot of times I find myself, not lying to the press but sometimes trying to pull the wool over ya guys eyes about what’s really going on over there.  I been sitting on that label almost 3 years.  And the album that they eventually approved [to release] was the same album that I had [done] 6 months into the deal.  So it’s pretty much I been sitting over there for 2 years doing nothing.  

HHDX: So was it your intention to get Atlantic’s attention with the blog post?
Saigon: Not really, because I been bitchin’.  I been told ‘em, “Look, y’all can drop me.”  Most artists, they try to run from that.  I’m like, “Let me go.  Let me out the contract.”  I don’t wanna sit around on your shelf and become irrelevant to the world, and that’s what I see happening.  

I’m like, Okay, if you guys don’t wanna push me and give me the proper attention that I feel my project not only needs but deserves, then let me try my hand somewhere else.  That’s only fair.

HHDX: So as of today, do you want off the label or do you wanna still try to make this project work?
Saigon: If it’s gonna continue to be how they working, of course I want out.  Yeah, I want out.  For me to even have a career, it’s either I stay over there and do nothing or I go somewhere else and try to put out music.   Continued on page 2 »