As he has described in songs, Saigon spent some of his youth in prison. In an interview on VladTV, Saigon explained the situation that got him locked up in detail.
“What got me locked up was that I was young and I was a gunslinger,” said Sai. “I was playing with them guns. I always liked guns and I was always quick to use my gun. One day, some kid bumped into me, somebody I didn’t know… and I thought he should apologize, and he didn’t apologize, and I shot him. And I ended up shooting an innocent bystander.”
The tragic event left Saigon locked away in prison. “I was about 16 years old, and they sent me away for a long amount of time. That’s where I became the Yardfather, that’s where I became Saigon, that’s why I was like, ‘I can’t keep living like this,’ because that wasn’t my first time. I’d gotten locked up as a juvenile for another shooting.”
However, Saigon turned things around, because he realized he was headed down a destructive path. “I just told myself, ‘I don’t want to be a career criminal. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in prison ’til I die.’ So I said, ‘I gotta do somethin’.’ I didn’t have no education. When I went to prison, I had a seventh-grade reading level. …When I was in there, I took the initiative to learn. Started going to the library, because they don’t force you; they want you to be dumb so you can come back. But I said, ‘I’m not comin’ back. Fuck that.'”
Watch the interview below:
Sa’s a real dude who lived the street life went to prison and came out a better person
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True, long live Sai Giddy!
BTW I laughed so hard on this one:
“I didn’t have no education.”
This is so ironic yet expressive.
Scumbag.
Hated his last album but them early Saigon mixtapes are classics im always playin them shits in the whip
True. “Don’t do That” is still one of my favorite songs. His albums are fucking horrible.
“uhhh yahhss so dis kid bumpz into mees and i’s like yo opologize and he duznt so i’s shoots him” fkn chimps smh.
I’ve been here for too long. swag
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Str8 fraud son shot someone in the buttucks inadvertently he claims he was a gun slugger yeah rite rockland county cat. Boy sit down
We need to crown the criminal ni99ers and celebrate them to encourage other ni99ers to be violent to each other. I love this Saigon ni99er guy.
Drake once took off somebody’s toe nail with a sling shot.
dum dum nigga
LOL
maybe this retard needs to take 7th grade over again? “funny” someone as stupid as Brian has run around being damn near as ignorant on the outside, again, as he was going in… backshots for his daughter anyway, SPLAT.
LMAO niggas love to “recall” some dumb (read: gangsta) shit they did as a youth when they realize they’ve become irrelevant
All that “gunslinger” talk to me is just talk. You just a farse son, I know real niggas in Brooklyn that can tell me you ain’t built like that, niggas know you from when you were coming up and they know you never was no hard nigga like you said. Just fall the fuck back and shut the fuck up.
So you shot somebody. Dont act if you are so gangsta? After prison you aint did shit in the hood. Niggas in brooklyn know you
These kinds of idiots who brag about shooting innocent people should stay in jail for life.
I better read news and interviews about progressive hiphop heads instead of irrelevant criminals who think they can spit.
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did you even read the article or listen to rap
He should had his gun when those Mobb Deep niggaz chased his ass the club YouTube that!!!!! Anonymous is really him claiming he from Brooklyn the nigga is from rockland county NYACK NEW YORK. And what’s sad he comes from a good background wanna be fake gangsta nigga
lmao you must be a real one….2 vs 20? saigon said he was gunna snuff prodigy the next time he saw him, did it, n got outta there untouched….good editing on mobb deeps part tho lmao they couldnt even make it look like saigon was hiding under the dj table…and saigon never said he wasnt from rockland county he also lived in brownsville…try harder internet soldier
Go suck ya mutha u must be Brian r u must be suckin Brian cupcake. Eat a bowl of d;(k