He’s simultaneously a ‘net fanatic’s best and worst friend. Mixtape champ Chamillionaire shows his full support for Hip Hop’s transition from physical to digital every time he releases a new edition of his Mixtape Messiah series (including the sixth installment earlier this month either for free download via Chamillionaire.com or for a full disc listening session on online outlets like the one you’re reading).
But while he’s blessing his Internet savvy fans with digital treats, "Koopa" has also been using his cyberspace stage to take some sly jabs at those Cham listeners who seem to only check his rhymes so that they can offer up hate-filled critiques of the southern spitter wherever there’s a conversation about Chamillionaire taking place online.
Beginning last summer, with the release of Mixtape Messiah 4, and its clever and humorous mocking of his keyboard-armed critics on “Internet Nerds Revenge," the agile lyricist began striking back at his web-based detractors. Turning the “Internet Nerds” concept into a trilogy of songs, Cham followed up his first swipe at online "Koopa" haters with “Internet Nerds Brother” on last fall’s Mixtape Messiah 5, and the New Year’s Day ’09 release of the loose track, “Internet Nerds Argue."
Inspired by these conceptual gems, HipHopDX decided to take a few of our own readers to task for their slanderous statements written in the comments section of various Cham-related postings on the site and give "Koopa" a chance to respond directly to your “hate mail.”
HipHopDX: This first comment comes from DX’s most recent feature interview with Paul Wall [click to read], where sockman534 wrote, “I really hope Wall don’t take the Koopa move and completely clean his lyrics. That shit is gay.”
Chamillionaire: I ain’t mad at that, because I used to be a fan that [thought] just like that. I used to be the person that [listened] to N.W.A. [click to read] and all that stuff. And you don’t like it when somebody starts to clean up their image. You don’t like bubblegum [songs]…
People have a right to their opinion. [But] I’m not on this mission to be like hatin’ on everybody that doesn’t like me. You can say you don’t like me. I don’t even care. Even when I do the “Internet Nerds” [click to listen] freestyles, you got some people that’ll be freakin’ complaining all day when all it was [is] a freestyle. It’s a freestyle that we did just to do something different. I didn’t put [“Internet Nerds Argue”] [click to listen] on my [new] Mixtape Messiah [click to listen] for a reason, because it was made just for people like them on the Internet. And I knew they was gonna talk about it. That was the reason why I did it…
I think I seen – actually on your site – some people was like, “Man, this is cool, but I can’t ride in the whip to this. Nobody in the hood is gonna be ridin’ to this.” Like, somebody on the Internet is talking about nobody in the hood is gonna be ridin’ to this. I didn’t take it to the hood. I put it right there on HipHopDX…
[My new album Venom is] gonna have curse words. There’s rappers cursing on there. But I don’t curse. That’s just a thing about me. I’m not going back on that [pledge not to curse]. We ain’t gonna make a big deal out of it… Them freestyles that anybody’s hearing, or anybody says is dope, I’m not cursing in none of ‘em. So I don’t know what the difference is?
I’ma be me. People always say “keep it real,” but when you keep it real to yourself they don’t want that. Rap is not about keeping it real. All them people that post on the ‘Net and be like, “keep it real,” they don’t need to post that no more, because it’s not even real. You even typing with a name that’s not yours. Nobody even knows who you are.
Regardless of what the person on the Internet is saying about me, I’ma be good. Whether I sell or not, whether I succeed in what the industry’s definition of success is, I’ma be good regardless. I’ma get paid regardless. And to me, everything ain’t always about money, a lot of times it’s about the creative part too, but you can’t make everybody happy. I done gave fans so many different styles. I’m in the streets. I’m doing it up with Slim Thug [click to read]. I’m doing the “Internet Nerds” track. I’m rappin’ like somebody else. I’m imitating rappers. I’m just trying to give ‘em a whole spectrum of a whole bunch of different stuff. Because for me, I hate hearing a rapper do the same thing over and over. Even if it’s my favorite rapper, if he keeps on doing the same thing, he sells you the same song ten thousand times, are you gonna wanna keep buying that? So me personally, I’m just doing what I like. I like when somebody come with something fresh and innovative… Everything ain’t gonna be for you, different strokes for different folks. But, I don’t even be caring, man. [What] people are saying on the Internet, that doesn’t like make me wanna go jump off a bridge or nothing. We just be laughing at that stuff a lot of time.
DX: Yeah, and these comments that I pulled are basically 95% chuckle-worthy hate, but they have a little constructive criticism in [them], so that’s why I wanted to have you respond to these. [And] the next one is from DX’s review of Ultimate Victory [click to read]. Nico wrote, “At first, not having any cuss words seemed like an interesting idea, but there are moments where he sounds like he wants to cuss, but instead rambles on & on. So many songs sound the same. Plus, the sing songy hooks are horrible. Go be Brian McKnight then. Sound of Revenge was a lot better. This is the ultimate defeat.”
Chamillionaire: When I first came out, I had a big mixtape audience, a lot of people that know me [from that]. Now, the song “Ridin’” blows up and it’s a lot of people that think they know me and they don’t. But the people that grew up on Chamillionaire, they know I’ve always sang hooks like that. There’s a freestyle that I did in like 2000 [to] the “Parking Lot Pimpin” Jay-Z [click to read] song. I redid that. And I sang the friggin’ hook on that. And then after that 50 Cent [click to read] blew up, and some people was like, “Yo, Chamillionaire’s trying to sing hooks like 50.” Those are the new people that jumped on the [bandwagon] that don’t really know me like that. Before I ever knew who 50 Cent was, I was doing that.
All I can do is just attack the audience that I’m trying to attack, and that’s what I do. But I can understand why somebody would be like, “Yo, he can’t sing on every [song].” I can understand that constructive criticism. I’m a person that can take it… I’m one of the artists that actually do listen to a lot of constructive criticism to see how I can improve on stuff. That’s why I do so much in the mixtape world, because when I put out a mixtape it kinda lets me know what people like and what they don’t like… Hip Hop, and music [in general], changes so much you gotta be a researcher like that. So I’m not mad at people saying stuff like that. But, you [gotta] know the difference between hate and constructive criticism.
[And] one thing I know is that I ain’t never been a lame. I ain’t never been a square in my life to get on a Internet site and just post about somebody. Like go to freakin’ Perez Hilton and just talk about people’s life. Those people that do that, and spend all day doing that, like, c’mon man. Get some money, man. Do something with your life. Go to college. I don’t know what you could do, [but] just strive to do something good instead of following [Lil Wayne] [click to read] [posts] all around the Internet, or Kanye [West] and dissin’ that 808’s [& Heartbreak] [click to read]. I look at that and it’s just crazy to me.
There’s some people that have like 10 billion [posts], and they got some kinda cred on the Internet. I’ve never posted on a forum, ever. I look at ‘em, but I’ve never posted, not one time. I’m not knocking people that do that, because you can have a lot of constructive conversations there. But, the people who just spend their time going to each artists [sites and posting hate], that’s retarded to me.
[And] to that person I will say, give this Venom album [when it drops following the release of Mixtape Messiah 7] a listen and see if they still feel the same way, that’s it. I just want you to listen to it. I’m talking trash because I feel like the album’s gonna be super dope, ain’t nobody touching it. And if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. They can post up some more hate mail next time you do your next review.
DX: You mentioned earlier that there are even detractors posting in the comments of these “Internet Nerds” [freestyles], and one of ‘em comes from the “Internet Nerds Argue” song. MagnumOpus wrote, “How fucking retarded. Who likes this shit, the white kids he’s making fun of? I can’t imagine anyone else being entertained by this unless they’re saying ‘Oh dude, this is like totally us man! Awesome, Cham’s talking about us!”
Chamillionaire: What person on the Internet really feels that they’re an Internet nerd? [If you wrote], “I want all you Internet nerds to post here,” you’ll probably get no responses ‘cause nobody thinks they’re an Internet nerd, even if the person has ten million posts.
They didn’t even get the point of [that freestyle] if that’s [the response]…. I didn’t make it for him to go buy it. I made it just for the ‘net, where people like him [could] make comments like that.
DX: So the next [posting] is a comment from the same song posting, [where] okaystop wrote, “First two were funny…now its just played out. Please stop, thank you.”
Chamillionaire: I ain’t mad at that comment… I’ll do a freestyle, like I did the “Roll Call.” And I’ll do it for awhile, and some people still want it. If you go on my YouTube page, [you can] read a whole bunch of comments [like], “You need to do this more.” But I’m a person that gets bored with the same ol', same ol'. A lot of people was like, “You not gonna have any ‘Roll Call’ or ‘Answering Machine’ songs on this Mixtape Messiah?” And I didn’t put none on there because I’ve done ‘em on all the mixtapes and now I’ve moved on. So it’s the same thing with the “Internet Nerds” [series].
DX: And the next piece of hate mail comes from the audio post of “Best Rapper” [click to listen]. Lol I just had to wrote, “Cham is average. Sorry to bust it to ya. He would get murk’d by anyone in the Slaughterhouse! And that’s just for starters…hah…best rapper…lol.”
Chamillionaire: Shout out to all them rappers in the SlaughterHouse, ‘cause they all feel like they the best rapper too. But I stand by that. Tell that dude I said I’m the best rapper. And if he wants to disagree, he can go put all the hate mail [he wants] on Chamillionaire.com or my YouTube page. I’m the best.
DX: And that same poster went on to write in a second post, “Everyone sayin that his rhymes are too basic and that he can’t compare to rappers like Joell and Royce ur forgettin that he still a Houston rapper!! You wudnt expect Slim Thug or Bun B to come out wit complicated rhymes.”
Chamillionaire: I don’t know if I get that [comment]. I just know who my audience is. Like, me and my homeboy, we ridin’ right now and we listening to Pimp C’s album [Pimpalation] [click to read]. And honestly the type of music I listen to is like Pimp C, [where] they’ll be making some real music where you don’t even gotta do punchlines or none of that. And I wish one day that I could be that artist that could just make the music that I truly like. But I know who my audience is. I know who grew up on me. I know what they want. A lot of times they want punchlines. [And] if you go back when I was young and I was like 16, 15, I used to say some punchlines that was kinda slick [even back then]. But you know, a lot of punchline rappers, they can get to do so many punchlines that a lot of times it just sounds forced. So I seen people be like, “Aww, he just doing all these forced punchlines.” But I’m doing it on purpose because I know that’s what my audience wants…
The “Internet Nerds” track does not even reflect who the heck I [really] am. But I know the audience I’m trying to attack when I do [make that kind of song]… A lot of ‘em kids who like to hear punchlines, and I give ‘em that…
If they wanted me to [do] a song with Joell Ortiz [click to read], Crooked I [click to read], I could blend perfectly on a song if I wanted to. I won’t have to use all the punchlines. But it’s a lot of new cats that’s coming up, that I actually like their sound, but I [don’t] necessarily know [if] my audience is [with that]. I can’t make a song like Lupe [Fiasco] [click to read], because my audience would be looking at me crazy. I can’t make a song like Charles Hamilton [click to read] or Asher Roth [click to read], or B.o.B. [click to read]. [My audience] would be like, “What, he trying to kick some knowledge to us or something?”
DX: The next piece of hate mail [is] from the audio post of [the first official single off Venom] “Creepin’” [click to listen]. Bigo75 wrote, “When r rappers going to learn? Stop letting Luda murder you on your own track!!!! Step ya game up Cham, you are reppin the H.”
Chamillionaire: Oh, that’s a real good one. I like that [comment]. I actually like that one because originally when [Ludacris][click to read] did this song I went and did another verse. And I was just spazzin’ out, just talking about nothing. ‘Cause if you notice the theme of the song is creepin’ solo. Luda just was talking about all kinda stuff that was dope. And at first it was real long. So [at first] I was competing with him on the record. I made my verse long. And then I looked and I said, “Man, honestly the song’s too long. And it sounds like I’m trying to beat Luda.” I don’t even care about beating Luda, because if I have to do a video I have to think about the purpose of the song. [And] when I made the song [I was thinking] this is my life right now. People see me, when I walk in the airport, [when] I walk everywhere, [and] I’m by myself. And there’s a real story behind that. It’s not just some punchline [song]. The fans that have kept up with me for so many years know this story and how a lot of people have left me. And how a lot of people just stabbed me in the back… This is why I made this record. So it’s a real record… That’s why I had to add purpose to the record. It wasn’t about trying to beat Luda.
DX: This next comment is in a totally different vein. From the news piece on your being named Co-Grand Marshall of the ’09 MLK [Day] Parade in Houston [click to read], bedouin wrote, “MLK is rolling in his grave when morons like this end up representing his struggle.”
Chamillionaire: That was a very ignorant post, man. Like, c’mon man, this is Martin Luther King’s day. I’m an African-American entrepreneur… [And] at a time when Barack Obama is the leader of the free world, for them to try to bring in young people into the MLK parade… I’ma be in the parade with my candy cars on 26’s and city officials inside the cars. And a lot of young people are gonna come out to the parade because I’m there. This is not about me, it’s about making people understand how historic this day is. Like, c’mon man, only a moron would post something like that.
DX: The [final comment] here is from the news piece regarding your reunion with Paul Wall [click to read]. DeandreFUENTES wrote, “Anything to sell record right Cham!”
Chamillionaire: Yeah, anything to sell records, that’s why I did an album with no curse words. That’s why I ain’t told everybody I’m gangsta. That’s why I do a “Internet Nerds” track. If I wanted to do stuff just to sell records, what would I do? I would go against everything that I been doing…
Anything to sell records, because I put the beef [to the] side with a friend? We had some real serious issues that happened, and for us to grow up and mature and to stop [beefin’], nobody should be saying anything negative about somebody that does something like that.
It’s funny that this type of stuff [is said] on the ‘net. Nobody will ever come up to me and say that to my face. I never hear none of this junk [said] to my face. All this stuff that they say about artists all over the Internet, they never go up to Wayne and say it to his face. They never go up to 50 and say it to his face. That’s where you can feel safe at, saying it on the ‘net. It’s not like you’re gonna get beat up, it’s not like you’re gonna get shot, but you’re not even man enough to even [say anything when you see me]. C’mon man, get out of here with that.
But while he’s blessing his Internet savvy fans with digital treats, "Koopa" has also been using his cyberspace stage to take some sly jabs at those Cham listeners who seem to only check his rhymes so that they can offer up hate-filled critiques of the southern spitter wherever there’s a conversation about Chamillionaire taking place online.
Beginning last summer, with the release of Mixtape Messiah 4, and its clever and humorous mocking of his keyboard-armed critics on “Internet Nerds Revenge," the agile lyricist began striking back at his web-based detractors. Turning the “Internet Nerds” concept into a trilogy of songs, Cham followed up his first swipe at online "Koopa" haters with “Internet Nerds Brother” on last fall’s Mixtape Messiah 5, and the New Year’s Day ’09 release of the loose track, “Internet Nerds Argue."
Inspired by these conceptual gems, HipHopDX decided to take a few of our own readers to task for their slanderous statements written in the comments section of various Cham-related postings on the site and give "Koopa" a chance to respond directly to your “hate mail.”
HipHopDX: This first comment comes from DX’s most recent feature interview with Paul Wall [click to read], where sockman534 wrote, “I really hope Wall don’t take the Koopa move and completely clean his lyrics. That shit is gay.”
Chamillionaire: I ain’t mad at that, because I used to be a fan that [thought] just like that. I used to be the person that [listened] to N.W.A. [click to read] and all that stuff. And you don’t like it when somebody starts to clean up their image. You don’t like bubblegum [songs]…
People have a right to their opinion. [But] I’m not on this mission to be like hatin’ on everybody that doesn’t like me. You can say you don’t like me. I don’t even care. Even when I do the “Internet Nerds” [click to listen] freestyles, you got some people that’ll be freakin’ complaining all day when all it was [is] a freestyle. It’s a freestyle that we did just to do something different. I didn’t put [“Internet Nerds Argue”] [click to listen] on my [new] Mixtape Messiah [click to listen] for a reason, because it was made just for people like them on the Internet. And I knew they was gonna talk about it. That was the reason why I did it…
I think I seen – actually on your site – some people was like, “Man, this is cool, but I can’t ride in the whip to this. Nobody in the hood is gonna be ridin’ to this.” Like, somebody on the Internet is talking about nobody in the hood is gonna be ridin’ to this. I didn’t take it to the hood. I put it right there on HipHopDX…
[My new album Venom is] gonna have curse words. There’s rappers cursing on there. But I don’t curse. That’s just a thing about me. I’m not going back on that [pledge not to curse]. We ain’t gonna make a big deal out of it… Them freestyles that anybody’s hearing, or anybody says is dope, I’m not cursing in none of ‘em. So I don’t know what the difference is?
I’ma be me. People always say “keep it real,” but when you keep it real to yourself they don’t want that. Rap is not about keeping it real. All them people that post on the ‘Net and be like, “keep it real,” they don’t need to post that no more, because it’s not even real. You even typing with a name that’s not yours. Nobody even knows who you are.
Regardless of what the person on the Internet is saying about me, I’ma be good. Whether I sell or not, whether I succeed in what the industry’s definition of success is, I’ma be good regardless. I’ma get paid regardless. And to me, everything ain’t always about money, a lot of times it’s about the creative part too, but you can’t make everybody happy. I done gave fans so many different styles. I’m in the streets. I’m doing it up with Slim Thug [click to read]. I’m doing the “Internet Nerds” track. I’m rappin’ like somebody else. I’m imitating rappers. I’m just trying to give ‘em a whole spectrum of a whole bunch of different stuff. Because for me, I hate hearing a rapper do the same thing over and over. Even if it’s my favorite rapper, if he keeps on doing the same thing, he sells you the same song ten thousand times, are you gonna wanna keep buying that? So me personally, I’m just doing what I like. I like when somebody come with something fresh and innovative… Everything ain’t gonna be for you, different strokes for different folks. But, I don’t even be caring, man. [What] people are saying on the Internet, that doesn’t like make me wanna go jump off a bridge or nothing. We just be laughing at that stuff a lot of time.
DX: Yeah, and these comments that I pulled are basically 95% chuckle-worthy hate, but they have a little constructive criticism in [them], so that’s why I wanted to have you respond to these. [And] the next one is from DX’s review of Ultimate Victory [click to read]. Nico wrote, “At first, not having any cuss words seemed like an interesting idea, but there are moments where he sounds like he wants to cuss, but instead rambles on & on. So many songs sound the same. Plus, the sing songy hooks are horrible. Go be Brian McKnight then. Sound of Revenge was a lot better. This is the ultimate defeat.”
Chamillionaire: When I first came out, I had a big mixtape audience, a lot of people that know me [from that]. Now, the song “Ridin’” blows up and it’s a lot of people that think they know me and they don’t. But the people that grew up on Chamillionaire, they know I’ve always sang hooks like that. There’s a freestyle that I did in like 2000 [to] the “Parking Lot Pimpin” Jay-Z [click to read] song. I redid that. And I sang the friggin’ hook on that. And then after that 50 Cent [click to read] blew up, and some people was like, “Yo, Chamillionaire’s trying to sing hooks like 50.” Those are the new people that jumped on the [bandwagon] that don’t really know me like that. Before I ever knew who 50 Cent was, I was doing that.
All I can do is just attack the audience that I’m trying to attack, and that’s what I do. But I can understand why somebody would be like, “Yo, he can’t sing on every [song].” I can understand that constructive criticism. I’m a person that can take it… I’m one of the artists that actually do listen to a lot of constructive criticism to see how I can improve on stuff. That’s why I do so much in the mixtape world, because when I put out a mixtape it kinda lets me know what people like and what they don’t like… Hip Hop, and music [in general], changes so much you gotta be a researcher like that. So I’m not mad at people saying stuff like that. But, you [gotta] know the difference between hate and constructive criticism.
[And] one thing I know is that I ain’t never been a lame. I ain’t never been a square in my life to get on a Internet site and just post about somebody. Like go to freakin’ Perez Hilton and just talk about people’s life. Those people that do that, and spend all day doing that, like, c’mon man. Get some money, man. Do something with your life. Go to college. I don’t know what you could do, [but] just strive to do something good instead of following [Lil Wayne] [click to read] [posts] all around the Internet, or Kanye [West] and dissin’ that 808’s [& Heartbreak] [click to read]. I look at that and it’s just crazy to me.
There’s some people that have like 10 billion [posts], and they got some kinda cred on the Internet. I’ve never posted on a forum, ever. I look at ‘em, but I’ve never posted, not one time. I’m not knocking people that do that, because you can have a lot of constructive conversations there. But, the people who just spend their time going to each artists [sites and posting hate], that’s retarded to me.
[And] to that person I will say, give this Venom album [when it drops following the release of Mixtape Messiah 7] a listen and see if they still feel the same way, that’s it. I just want you to listen to it. I’m talking trash because I feel like the album’s gonna be super dope, ain’t nobody touching it. And if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. They can post up some more hate mail next time you do your next review.
DX: You mentioned earlier that there are even detractors posting in the comments of these “Internet Nerds” [freestyles], and one of ‘em comes from the “Internet Nerds Argue” song. MagnumOpus wrote, “How fucking retarded. Who likes this shit, the white kids he’s making fun of? I can’t imagine anyone else being entertained by this unless they’re saying ‘Oh dude, this is like totally us man! Awesome, Cham’s talking about us!”
Chamillionaire: What person on the Internet really feels that they’re an Internet nerd? [If you wrote], “I want all you Internet nerds to post here,” you’ll probably get no responses ‘cause nobody thinks they’re an Internet nerd, even if the person has ten million posts.
They didn’t even get the point of [that freestyle] if that’s [the response]…. I didn’t make it for him to go buy it. I made it just for the ‘net, where people like him [could] make comments like that.
DX: So the next [posting] is a comment from the same song posting, [where] okaystop wrote, “First two were funny…now its just played out. Please stop, thank you.”
Chamillionaire: I ain’t mad at that comment… I’ll do a freestyle, like I did the “Roll Call.” And I’ll do it for awhile, and some people still want it. If you go on my YouTube page, [you can] read a whole bunch of comments [like], “You need to do this more.” But I’m a person that gets bored with the same ol', same ol'. A lot of people was like, “You not gonna have any ‘Roll Call’ or ‘Answering Machine’ songs on this Mixtape Messiah?” And I didn’t put none on there because I’ve done ‘em on all the mixtapes and now I’ve moved on. So it’s the same thing with the “Internet Nerds” [series].
DX: And the next piece of hate mail comes from the audio post of “Best Rapper” [click to listen]. Lol I just had to wrote, “Cham is average. Sorry to bust it to ya. He would get murk’d by anyone in the Slaughterhouse! And that’s just for starters…hah…best rapper…lol.”
Chamillionaire: Shout out to all them rappers in the SlaughterHouse, ‘cause they all feel like they the best rapper too. But I stand by that. Tell that dude I said I’m the best rapper. And if he wants to disagree, he can go put all the hate mail [he wants] on Chamillionaire.com or my YouTube page. I’m the best.
DX: And that same poster went on to write in a second post, “Everyone sayin that his rhymes are too basic and that he can’t compare to rappers like Joell and Royce ur forgettin that he still a Houston rapper!! You wudnt expect Slim Thug or Bun B to come out wit complicated rhymes.”
Chamillionaire: I don’t know if I get that [comment]. I just know who my audience is. Like, me and my homeboy, we ridin’ right now and we listening to Pimp C’s album [Pimpalation] [click to read]. And honestly the type of music I listen to is like Pimp C, [where] they’ll be making some real music where you don’t even gotta do punchlines or none of that. And I wish one day that I could be that artist that could just make the music that I truly like. But I know who my audience is. I know who grew up on me. I know what they want. A lot of times they want punchlines. [And] if you go back when I was young and I was like 16, 15, I used to say some punchlines that was kinda slick [even back then]. But you know, a lot of punchline rappers, they can get to do so many punchlines that a lot of times it just sounds forced. So I seen people be like, “Aww, he just doing all these forced punchlines.” But I’m doing it on purpose because I know that’s what my audience wants…
The “Internet Nerds” track does not even reflect who the heck I [really] am. But I know the audience I’m trying to attack when I do [make that kind of song]… A lot of ‘em kids who like to hear punchlines, and I give ‘em that…
If they wanted me to [do] a song with Joell Ortiz [click to read], Crooked I [click to read], I could blend perfectly on a song if I wanted to. I won’t have to use all the punchlines. But it’s a lot of new cats that’s coming up, that I actually like their sound, but I [don’t] necessarily know [if] my audience is [with that]. I can’t make a song like Lupe [Fiasco] [click to read], because my audience would be looking at me crazy. I can’t make a song like Charles Hamilton [click to read] or Asher Roth [click to read], or B.o.B. [click to read]. [My audience] would be like, “What, he trying to kick some knowledge to us or something?”
DX: The next piece of hate mail [is] from the audio post of [the first official single off Venom] “Creepin’” [click to listen]. Bigo75 wrote, “When r rappers going to learn? Stop letting Luda murder you on your own track!!!! Step ya game up Cham, you are reppin the H.”
Chamillionaire: Oh, that’s a real good one. I like that [comment]. I actually like that one because originally when [Ludacris][click to read] did this song I went and did another verse. And I was just spazzin’ out, just talking about nothing. ‘Cause if you notice the theme of the song is creepin’ solo. Luda just was talking about all kinda stuff that was dope. And at first it was real long. So [at first] I was competing with him on the record. I made my verse long. And then I looked and I said, “Man, honestly the song’s too long. And it sounds like I’m trying to beat Luda.” I don’t even care about beating Luda, because if I have to do a video I have to think about the purpose of the song. [And] when I made the song [I was thinking] this is my life right now. People see me, when I walk in the airport, [when] I walk everywhere, [and] I’m by myself. And there’s a real story behind that. It’s not just some punchline [song]. The fans that have kept up with me for so many years know this story and how a lot of people have left me. And how a lot of people just stabbed me in the back… This is why I made this record. So it’s a real record… That’s why I had to add purpose to the record. It wasn’t about trying to beat Luda.
DX: This next comment is in a totally different vein. From the news piece on your being named Co-Grand Marshall of the ’09 MLK [Day] Parade in Houston [click to read], bedouin wrote, “MLK is rolling in his grave when morons like this end up representing his struggle.”
Chamillionaire: That was a very ignorant post, man. Like, c’mon man, this is Martin Luther King’s day. I’m an African-American entrepreneur… [And] at a time when Barack Obama is the leader of the free world, for them to try to bring in young people into the MLK parade… I’ma be in the parade with my candy cars on 26’s and city officials inside the cars. And a lot of young people are gonna come out to the parade because I’m there. This is not about me, it’s about making people understand how historic this day is. Like, c’mon man, only a moron would post something like that.
DX: The [final comment] here is from the news piece regarding your reunion with Paul Wall [click to read]. DeandreFUENTES wrote, “Anything to sell record right Cham!”
Chamillionaire: Yeah, anything to sell records, that’s why I did an album with no curse words. That’s why I ain’t told everybody I’m gangsta. That’s why I do a “Internet Nerds” track. If I wanted to do stuff just to sell records, what would I do? I would go against everything that I been doing…
Anything to sell records, because I put the beef [to the] side with a friend? We had some real serious issues that happened, and for us to grow up and mature and to stop [beefin’], nobody should be saying anything negative about somebody that does something like that.
It’s funny that this type of stuff [is said] on the ‘net. Nobody will ever come up to me and say that to my face. I never hear none of this junk [said] to my face. All this stuff that they say about artists all over the Internet, they never go up to Wayne and say it to his face. They never go up to 50 and say it to his face. That’s where you can feel safe at, saying it on the ‘net. It’s not like you’re gonna get beat up, it’s not like you’re gonna get shot, but you’re not even man enough to even [say anything when you see me]. C’mon man, get out of here with that.
