Sai Gone ?
Happier times for Saigon
Here at Fat Lace our hearts were filled with sorrow at the news that Saigon quit rap. No, really. It means he gets even more column inches than he was already underdue. Even worse, since T.I. started the trend of addressing the internet with presidential style web-casts, everyone is doing it. Some simple advice to media unsavvy artists. If you haven’t got the humility to take a ribbing from a handful of internet commentators, why get into the industry in the first place? Yeezy would have quit two years ago but he’s still knocking ‘em out the park, and the only rap sheet ‘Ye has is the one Rhymefest gave him, but he’s still a global superstar with three classic albums under his belt.
Saigon balancing air on his hand earlier today
Anyway, we can bring you the latest on why he quit. It turns out that Saigon is trading in the ‘good life’ for ‘25 to life’, again. In an exclusive interview with Fat Lace he revealed “I was happier in jail. The mattress was hard and the linen’s a bit scratchy but it beats sleeping on Justin’s futon”. So what about the girls, the flashy restaurants, hanging out with Piven and posting inane self-loathing bullshit on his blog? “All that’s in the past, Piven never really gave me the time of day, nobody takes rappers who blog seriously and I can’t even afford a Happy Meal. Justin took the advance and blew it on sneakers and Transformer toys. I’m better off back in my cell, back there I was the man”. No, you weren’t, “Ok, but everyone believed me for a minute”. So you’re not going back to jail? “Well, yes, kind of, I’ll be out in a week, I just need to get the rep back up”.
Good luck in whatever you do Saigon, we don’t blame you, it’s tough being an entertainer, draining major labels of vast sums of cash and releasing a record in a timely fashion. Step up Papoose, we’re ready for another disappointing non-starter.
10 Responses to "Sai Gone ?"
He’ll be back.
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More annoying: Premiership footballers collecting double what I earn a year every week for not playing a single game all season, or the major label rapper getting the fat advance for not releasing any music? The choice is yours.
Wasn’t Saigon rolling with Greenpeace’s label once, I always wondered why I was hearing about this amzing rapper, but hearing some pretty crumby 12″‘s, maybe he’d be OK on the right beat, I think he’s alright on ‘pain in my life’ apart from they de-essed it too much if you listen carefully.
Papooses 2 best traks have been about the alphabet, letter p and that other one he did years ago, didn’t they used to call him the alphabet rapper or something, none of it’s as good as k-solo ‘spellbound’ or ‘letterman’ anyway so who cares.
Papoose has got a really silly name. It’s only just occurred to me.
i’ve only ever heard Saigon about twice – ‘Color Purple’ and something else. Im sure he’s good but to be honest I just cant be arsed.
Id rather listen to the Primo remix of ‘Kaught In Da AK’ by Das EFX. I like that.
i’ll really Miss Saigon
meh
everyone will be doing retrospective blogs on unrleased saigon albums in five years time…
Saigon is the ultimate rapper who should’ve dropped a few 12″s on Hydra and freestyled on a bunch of Kay Slay mixtapes and then vanished but, unfortunately, came out in the post-Cormega and post-50 mixtape era when rappers are releasing countless shitty street mixtapes instead.
He’s an average rapper who is occassionally dope when he’s like a less intelligent Tragedy (“Say Yes”, “Color Purple”, “Pain In My Life”) or a slightly more lyrical F.T (“Contraband”, “Diduntdanunt”, “Fuck With Me”, “The Letter P”) but he’s more confused than Krs circa “Sex And Violence” and he just becomes really annoying. He’s the rapper who complains about black-on-black violence who snuffs Prodigy and threatens Joe Buddens. He’s also the rapper who claims he’s going to teach da babies that materialism is wrong who then gets stabbed and won’t go to the hospital in his new Benz because he doesn’t want to get blood on the interior.
His martyr complex spiralled out of control after signing with Just Blaze/being on Entourage and, thanks to youtube and his myspace blogs, he’s become an utter embarrassment. I wish he would just go away completely and all the Just Blaze and Alchemist tracks from his album we’ve yet to hear are scrapped the the beats are given to someone more worthy like Peedi Crakk.
Erm…once again I co-sign what Brian says. From now on I’m just going to wait till he comments and just say…what he said.
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