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Saigon: “SAIGON IS DEAD”
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
By: Michael Ivey
 The media scrum that today followed Atlantic Records artist Saigons’ recent drunken satellite radio interview leads the commnity activist/ex-con to quit the music business through a myspace.com message to those concerned.
“First of all, people need to know that I am a contraversial person period, before I ever was in a magazine, on T.V. in a studio, I was very very deep in the street shit,” says Saigon. “Controversy has always followed me, Its unfortunate but it is what it is...Its my life...I dont try to start shit to cause controversy, its the media, the press and y’all who eat off controversy who start the shit, try to make me look wild or out of control when Im just being who I am.”
Saigon for approximately four years has struggled to grip the public’s attention by releasing mixtapes and songs, such as “Pain in My Life,” that address social ills. However, inebriated swipes at Nelly’s record of mysogynistic material and a threat
to punch a female journalist, who he found antagonistic, during an appearance on Shade 45’s ‘Lip Service’ radio program created Saigon’s biggest buzz yet.
“I did a interview on Shade45, the interview was 2 hours long mind you, we talked about EVERYTHING from what we need to do as a people to get on track to economizing and everything but you know whats on all the so called media outlets in boldface as the headline, 'Saigon Disses Whoever'...You know what part of a 2 hr interview people replay? Me saying something about someone...If I woulda said, I’ll slap John Hardy Hawkins for his role in the Slave trade, they would never put it in boldface or re-run it 1000 times, but If I say I’ll slap a rapper or something, Its the headline news of the day....Thats ass backwards to me so Im done. I dont like not being able to speak my mind without some fucking clown being able to make a story out of it because Im a "rapper" and "rappers" shouldnt say those things....hahahah I didnt sign up for this..No more interviews, no more mixtapes, no nothing....I'm not a rapper anymore, Im done.. Im back to being regular me...This shit is too fake for me, I found myself getting caught up in the bullshit but now Ill gladly walk away...These people are so predictable that to prove to my ni**as who would say my buzz was dying or whatever, I would say 'oh yeah', watch this, then for fun, I would just do an interview and make a comment about someone because I knew they would run back like little bitches who instigate something to get the people talking. Then walah, my buzz is back, (nevermind the 10 great new songs i wouldve just put out)..But its not fun anymore.”
The Just Blaze produced artist proceeded to caution that a recent physical altercation with incarcerated rapper Prodigy, of G-Unit and Mobb Deep, could have lead to either man being “shot, stabbed or even killed.”
Saigon adds that he and recent antagonist Joe Budden have “BEEF homie, not rap beef, beef beef.” The New Jersey representative November 10 on BET’s Rap City referred to the Saigon/Prodigy incident by saying, “She ain’t know I’m out to hit and run like I’m Saigon.”
Saigon plans to spend more time working with his community outreach organizations In Arms Reach/Abandoned Nation; for more information log on to www.inarmsreach.org and www.abandoned nation.com.
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