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Saigon: By Any Means Necessary (Pt 2)

June 12th, 2007 | Author: Paul W Arnold

HHDX: So contractually can you go back to the Warning Shots situation?  Like, go back to Sure Shot and put out a side project?
Saigon: No.  I been trying to do that too.  I’m like, let me put out another album to hold me over, ‘cause y’all waiting years, it ain’t like y’all waiting months.  I been waiting years over here.  I been sitting over here for years.  And the perception to the people is it must be Saigon [causing this delay], ‘cause Just Blaze got a new song with this one, he got a new song with that one.  So when he’s still actively working and keeping himself on the market it don’t seem like we’re just busy in the studio.  

HHDX: So there was a “Saigon vs. Atlantic Records Round 1,” will there be a Round 2 post, you gonna keep us updated?
Saigon
: Who knows what the future holds.  I don’t even know what they got going on.  Right now Atlantic is upset with me.  Like, how does that make my situation any worse?  You wasn’t doing shit for me anyway!  So what, it’s gonna be, “Now we’re not gonna put it out.”  You wasn’t gonna put it out anyway!  

HHDX: But is that gonna leverage them into cutting you loose either?
Saigon: Whether they cut me loose or not I’m still gonna get my money.  I’m still gonna do shows.  That’s where you make money at anyway.  You don’t recoup fucking with these record companies.

HHDX: And the people are still gonna get music?
Saigon
: People are still gonna get music, even if I gotta put it out myself.  My album that I made, I didn’t look at it like an investment.  I made that album from my heart.  A lot of those rhymes, I wrote those rhymes when I was in the penitentiary sitting in a box.  So this was something that I always wanted to express.  I’m not gonna let them put tape over my mouth because they don’t think it’s gonna get radio spins.  These are my expressions.  I own those words regardless of what they say.  They might could take Just Blaze beats, but I’ll just go and put them same rhymes to another beat and put it out myself.

HHDX: It’s still kinda fucked up though that Greatest Story Never Told is about to become a literal statement.
Saigon
: Nah, never that.  It might not be told through Atlantic Records, but it will be told.

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