Saigon on Album, Videos & Jay-Z

Saigon has been garnering praise and buzz for years now. His album, The Greatest Story Never Told, was taking long to hit shelves and folks began getting antsy. Now, it seems like Saigon is actually ready to release the LP, and he's made it somewhat official by putting out the first real single, C'mon Baby.

He's already began mapping the video treatment in his mind.

"Being that it's rock-influenced, I wanna get a rock band. Remember [Run-DMC's] 'Walk This Way'? I wanted to do it just like that," he explained to MTV. "Me and Just [Blaze] in one side of the studio, doing some rap stuff, they doing their rock stuff [on another side], then we banging on the wall. We wanna use 'Walk This Way' as sort of like a blueprint. The record is real rock-influenced, let's incorporate that into the video, instead of us just being in the club."

He went on to talk about the song's content and how that relates to his versatility.

"It's just me braggin' about being good on the mic...I was like OK, I put 'Pain in My Life' out. People know I'm a serious artist. But to get more of a graduation-scale introduction to the world, a bigger scale, I wanted to let them know I like to have fun as well. I'm a human being. I'm not just a preachy type of guy. 'Pain in My Life' was a little preachy, I wanted to show diversity. I don't want to be typecast and put in a category of just a backpack rapper or conscious rapper or gangster rapper. I'm one of the rappers you can't typecast because I can do a song with Dead Prez, I can do a song with Uncle Murda and then do a song with Jay-Z."

The last man mentioned, Jay-Z, appears on the album and on the single's remix as HipHopDX previously reported. Here's what Sai had to say about Jigga.

"He really does the 'Rain Man' thing, he doesn't sit down and write...For mad years, I was like, 'He's too clever, I don't believe he don't write [lyrics] down. He's too on point.' But with this beat, when he came to record to it, he never heard the beat before and his rhyme went so perfect with the beat. I was like he couldn't have wrote this at home, he couldn't have had this in the stash. Maybe this dude do got more brain cells than everybody else. I tell him all the time, 'You an alien, man.'"

Q-Tip, Faith Evans, Fatman Scoop and Devin the Dude are all slated to appear on the album.