Saigon has been working with Just Blaze and DJ Premier, two producers who he says were heavily involved in his album.
“It’s executive produced by Just Blaze,” Saigon says in an interview with Birthplace. “But DJ Premier did the majority of the production on the record. Just [Blaze] got a record on there, but DJ Premier is really at the helm.”
While Just Blaze executive produced the album and DJ Premier handled the bulk of the project, Saigon says he is holding steady to what he feels is a traditional New York sound with his raps.
“New York abandoned the sound for a long time,” Saigon says. “Now they trying, ‘Yo, let’s bring it back, let’s come back.’ Now it’ s becoming trendy. That’s wack. You abandoned the sound when something else is hot, it’s like you have no sense of direction. Do what comes from in your heart, whether you a DJ, a rapper, breaker B-boy, a popper…This is a culture. You can’t just switch cultures whenever some shit becomes the hot shit. You don’t see nobody else doing that with their culture, like whenever something get trendy, just switch up. I never abandoned the New York sound.”
In 2011, Saigon released The Greatest Story Never Told. The album earned a 4 out of 5 in its HipHopDX review at the time of its release.
“Whether you’ve been patiently waiting for five years or just recently got into Saigon’s music, The Greatest Story Never Told delivers a stimulating message that is as cautionary as it is entertaining,” HipHopDX said at the time. “Likewise, the album’s quality has stood the test of time, no small feat for an industry that changes eras every three to four years. Still rough around the edges, but lyrically adept, Saigon’s mixtape glory days are now over, and the bar will inevitably be set higher for his next release. Let’s just hope the title of that project doesn’t have any ironic overtones in it.”
(January 14)
UPDATE: DJ Premier tweeted HipHopDX and says that he’s produced three songs on Saigon’s album. DJ Premier’s tweets are as follows:
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THIS GONNA BE DOPE HIS LAST ALBUM HAD BAD PRODUCTION
So you hire a producer who is pass his prime. Nigga it aint the 80’s or 90’s! Get it! New styles, new producers? get it?
You still down with Rick Ross?
GTFO u weak lame ass commercial pop rap fan ass soft ass nigga.
Fake nigga doing reality show now. I thought so was a real G. fake ass wannebe doing everything for the money
has been & never was… NyGz!
Saigon has always been a liar and exaggerator. lol He produced most of it? smh
I’m still looking forward to it though those 3 tracks.
this gonna be fire. S has always been a dope mc, and just blaze got beats. DJ Premier is the dopest producer ever. Eat a dwyck if u feel otherwise
That pic of him strangling the microphone is symbolic to how he’s killing his own “career”.
primo u washed up that’s why top tier rappers ain’t booking you for albums. lol. go back to the drawing board and reinvent those old skeleton beats you keep making even if u have to recruit other producers to work on them. peace
Hey man,
Tell me who the top tier rappers of today happen to be? Primo washed up, don’t think so brah. The beats of today all sound exactly the same
Yeah, just like Primo’s beats of the last 10 years all sound the same– like bad versions of Statik Selektah imitating Primo when he was great. Fuck Statik and Saigon, throw on that Group Home album instead or the Jeru– that’s when Primo meant something.
go listen to some eighties sounding kanye bullshit
Saigon will never blow up cuz he’s not a character just a follower. And Primo makes the same damn beats for 20+ years. That’s fine if someone has a significal sound but that doesn’t equal putting together the exactly same shit over and over again.
you sir are a fucking idiot
a bit like the comments on here there all has been trolls with nothing better to eh!!
BIG!
Brian Carenard, aka “Saigon” (what a stupid fucking rap name, even by stupid standards) was, is and always will be a fucking cornball. Blames everyone but his own duh duh duh dumbass self for his mistakes and failures and lack of fans. Backshots on Brian’s daughter though, she’s a looker.
Brian from Moose Knuckle NY but for some reason tries to rep Brooklyn