Exactly one month ago (November 19), Saigon shocked the Hip Hop community by announcing his “retirement”
from rap via a MySpace blog.
Now after 30 days, a release of his new street-album The Moral of the Story [click to listen], and “literally thousands of messages, many phone
calls from very influential people and much support from just everyday people I
may bump into on the street” he’s back.
Saigon takes the
blog route again as he announces his “return”. Still feeling the same about the
industry and state of Hip Hop, Sai
recalls the reasons why he is into Hip Hop as a form of motivation and
reasoning not to quit.
“I still feel the same
way I did a month ago when I expressed how I felt about the state of Hip
Hop..I still feel it needs a major makeover ..I expressed this to my team and
what they said was ‘If not you Saigon, then who’? Then I started to think about
all the schools I went to to talk to the kids about Gang
Prevention and Prison Reform. I thought about one of my closest friends mother,
who is a teacher at one of the worst schools in Camden N.J. and how she rewards
them by bringing me up there to talk to the kids. I thought about the 12 year
old girl who told me how my song ‘Pain in my Life’ stopped her from being
promiscuous. I thought about my song ‘The Color Purple’ and talking to Fab
5 Freddy about how we could start a whole movement with this song to save some
of the lives of black and brown children..I thought about the kids at In
Arms Reach and the example I would be ultimately setting by just quitting at
something they know I love doing and have worked so hard at..I thought about
alot of things…After all the messages from yall, the phone calls from the
‘real’ industry people, and just the thinking I did…I decided 2 things, I
decided that right now quitting is not an option for me, and number 2, that if
Im going to continue to make music and do this rap thing…Im playing by MY OWN
RULES….” says Saigon [via
blog].
Saigon continues
on as he states that his album is complete and that it’s “most relevant album since …. [for]ever.” A few interesting things
said were that there will be 12 features on the album from legendary artists;
with the only other person rapping aside Saigon
is Jay-Z (“C’mon Baby Remix”) and he
allegedly has a track produced by both Kanye
West & Just Blaze (together).
“I have literally 12
features on the album…All LEGENDARY artists…All of them, but
I am the ONLY one rapping on my album..Oh, and Jay Z of course. Go
figure. I won’t give up much more about the album, YET…Oh I will say that I
have a song produced by Kanye West and Just Blaze TOGETHER, that is a first, I
think..hahaha.”
HipHopDX will be sure to keep its viewers updated on any Sai news, stay tuned.
