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Saigon explains his departure from Atlantic in his own words below:

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By Michael Partis

On January 16, 2008 a fifteen year Black male from Queensbridge Projects drops out of high school and decides to become a rapper. He makes his first appearance on a song, and spits these bars:

“Street's disciple, my raps are trifle

I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle

Stampede the stage, I leave the microphone split

Play Mr. Tuffy while I'm on some Pretty Tone shit

Verbal assassin, my architect pleases

When I was twelve, I went to hell for snuffin Jesus

Nasty Nas is a rebel to America

Police murderer, I'm causin hysteria”

Do you think any major record label in the music industry would sign him? Would Def Jam executives be at project apartment’s door? Would Dr. Dre sit on a park bench convincing him to sign with Aftermath? And if they did, what would parent companies Island and Interscope have to say about that? Or better yet, what would Bill O’ Reilly say…?

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December 4, 2007
Saigon – The Greatest Story Never Told
Styles P – Super Gangsta (Extraordinary Gentleman)
Three-Six-Mafia – Da Last 2 Walk
Ghostface Killah – The Big Dough Rehab
GZA – The Product
B.G. – Too Hood To Be Hollywood
Wyclef – The Carnival 2: Memoirs Of An Immigrant

December 11
Bow Wow & Omarion – Face Off
Wu-Tang Clan – The 8 Diagrams
Beanie Sigel – The Solution

December 18, 2007
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool
Rick Ross – Trilla
G-Unit – Shoot To Kill

Recently rapper Saigon and producer Just Blaze have been entangled in a back and forth over comments Sai made about his label situation. On his Myspace blog, Saigon apologized and confirmed reports that he is now signed with Chris Lighty’s Violator Management. read more »

These Saigon’s word in a recent interview with HipHopDX. I’ll wait to see if the DipSet got anything to say about it, they already got their plate full as it is. Here a excerpt from the interview:

These cats who get down with a crew, your name gets out there faster, but it’s like microwave food. A lot of these dudes don’t even know who they are. They feel like they’ve got to be tough guys, they’re not really tough, they’ve never been through nothing. You haven’t been through shit, because New York is not that big. If you were that much of a tough guy, somebody knew you before you got your record deal. So when you come out here like, “I let the ratchet go bang bang! Bldatt!” Nigga, you’re lying. And people know when somebody’s lying. Imagine if nobody believed that Young Jeezy ever sold drugs. Do you think he’d be as big as he is? People buy into that, they believe he was really pushing them birds. A lot of these so-called thugs, especially in New York, these gangsta rap thug rappers, nobody believes them. Nobody believes Jim Jones, nobody believes that. That’s why they hit grass selling real fast.

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