Do you stay in contact with up-and-coming MC’s like Papoose and Maino?
Yeah. I’m cool with everybody. Me and Pap just got cool. We kept bumping into each other. Everybody thought we would have animosity for each other. He’s from Brooklyn and I grew up in Brooklyn for a large part of my life. It’s love. Kay Slay is my man and Pap works with him. There’s a lot of respect there. I’m cool with Jae Millz and Maino’s my nigga. I’m cool with everybody. I want to see everybody win. Tru is my brother and I want to see Tru win. His album is crazy. That’s why I’m glad Jay came back. Jay added another five to ten years for this hip-hop shit. Those Budweiser commercials help all of us because now these big corporations will want to fuck with us. Plus they got money to burn. I’m glad Hov came back. I want to see everybody win. ’07 is going to be a good year because it’s put up or shut up time for all of us. Everybody that came up with me like Pap and Maino who have been brewing the past few years on the mixtapes, we have to come out this year. We have to. I can’t be mo
