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.
