New Rochelle, New York producer Scram Jones serves as one of a handful of artists who have come forward to share their belief that comments Atlanta artist Trinidad James made about New York rap may have rang true, but the rapper’s delivery was far from ideal.
According to Scram, he saw James’ tweets about the lack of New York rap on New York radio before he saw the video footage from his Converse Rubber Tracks show in New York. He says that he agreed with his tweets about radio, but feels the comments made at his show were disrespectful.
“I saw his tweets before I saw the concert,” Scram says during an interview with ForbezDVDPromo. “His tweets I agreed with. You know what I mean? He was talking about New York, ‘I wanna get there and I wanna put on the radio and hear some Dipset. I wanna hear some Mobb Deep sounding shit and y’all playing Future all day.’ That’s true. And I feel him on that, ya know? But then when I saw the footage of him saying, ‘If y’all wanna do something, do something.’ Like he was kinda pumping his chest a little out. That wasn’t called for. That was disrespectful. So, I feel Maino and all that on that.”
In regards to the “The Truth Will Set You Free” video James’ mentioned during his phone conversation with Maino, an artist who remained vocal in his criticism of James’ remarks, Scram says the video wasn’t the apology that was needed in James’ case.
The beatsmith gave props to James for “speaking the truth” in the video, but revealed that some kind of apology should have been thrown in.
“He gon’ have to redeem himself better than that video because he kept telling Maino he got the video, but he ain’t know Maino was gonna call him,” Jones says. “He had did the video already and Maino expected an apology in the video and there was no apology. Like he should have remixed that video asap after that phone call…Even though he was speaking the truth he should have put in that apology like ‘Listen, New York you guys made Hip Hop. It would be no me without you. And I said it the wrong way. I was drunk and I would just say that if you got a problem with me telling the truth then I’mma hold my truth.’”
After proclaiming in November that the South runs New York rap musically, James’ comments were met with criticism from artists from his hometown of Atlanta as well as artists from New York. Southern wordsmith T.I. said that James’ doesn’t speak for all of Atlanta and doesn’t have enough years in the rap game to make such remarks and have them accepted without ridicule.
Additionally, Queens rapper N.O.R.E. referred to the “All Gold Everything” rapper as “a smart idiot” during an interview with Montreality.
“His comments were actually brilliant, but his actions were idiotic,” N.O.R.E. said. “I get that fact, but you was aggressive. If he wouldn’t have said those same comments, I would have been like ‘Yo, this is y’all fault. You know what I’m saying? Boom boom boom.’ We would have been able to look in the mirror and been like ‘damn.’”
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Wow, all this time, I had no idea that Scram Jones was a white dude. #mindblown
Dope on them beats tho. Styles P’s “Float” album was razor sharp.
Who is Maino. His career is on ice. Instead of trying to bully a friendly rapper into an apology,he should have ask for a verse to get some airplay. New York is being represented by Nas and Hov. The bar is high, so if you ain’t spitting that fire, no one wants to hear you in or out of your city. The 90’s are over. Maino really hurt his career because people in the south don’t support that type stunting. More people down south bought Maino’s music than the 5,000,000 NYC population. Career suicide.LOL
Does your career need to be booming to stand up and rep your city? Trick Trick’s career isn’t exactly skyrocketing but fools learned real quick not to go into Detroit on that bullshit and Trick Trick is one of the main reasons.
The bar being high has nothing to do with the radio not playing NY music. It actually goes waaaaaaay deeper than that. NY’s hip hop scene right now is bubbling with all the new, up and coming acts out. Thing is, the radio has programmed people to believe what they hear on the radio is dope simply because it’s on the radio. Check the Talib Kweli/Ebro Darden interview, Kweli dropped some gems in it.
Also, out of everyone in NYC, a large percent aren’t from NYC, or even NY State for that matter.
NYC population is over 8 million homey. My two cent is I feel the harlem cat on his reply.
nigga you serious? friendly rapper? bully? maaaan fuck you & yuck mouth james you sissy! You dont get bullied when you poke your chest out like you superman, you get CHECKED! thats what happened! southern cats defend sorry ass niggas just cause he southern! yall act like your united and all about positive but yall quick to want to go to war with “Northerners” like were your problem!
maino wasnt stuntin, he was doing what any “real nigga” would do when a cornball opens his mouth, how is that bullying? Southern niggas is fuckin haters man been sayin that for years now! yall gonna have to come on out and recognize what you are! were talkin about some old 90s shit yall cant let go of!
Ny artist go at top 40 radio and the powers that be…southern artist blame NY ARTIST and think “ny niggas” is their problem! wtf is that besides hatin? “the south” been running radio for a DECADE now…A DECADE! you cant blame nobody if your the laughing stock of every music genre now! Thats yall fault! 90% of southern artist are 1 hit wonders thats yall fault stop tryin to blame NYC! Let those bitter feelings go! Why everybody gotta be careful when you speak about the south? Yall can say anything they want, and be as disrespectful and opinionated as they want though and if you get put in your place its called bullying? foh man…like we used to say “pull ya skirt down”…
@ Harlem that’s real shit you posted’ cosign 100…
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Trinidad Lames (aka Down syndrome boy) only said this shit to cause a stirr and get cats talkin. This retard lookin nigg@ don’t give a fuk bout NY, just on some attention seeking shit.
“down syndrome boy” ROFL Co-sign
New Yorkers should just shut up ad get busy!!!
TI made a good point – James is a rookie. He started rapping 3 years ago. He was probably speaking as a rap fan more than a major label rap artist.
And Maino? Another regional rapper out of NY that will never get past the borders they set on themselves.