Cormega: Like
Sean Price. I was on the radio with
Torae and
Skyzoo, and they was telling me, “You blazed the path.” I didn’t expect that, and there’s a lot of newer artists. I feel like I have a responsibility to be sincere. With
The Realness, I was sincere about the streets, and I told you my pitfalls of it or whatever, so that’s what I’m doing with
“The Industry.” It’s basically Cormega, but it’s not me talking about being from the streets; it’s talking about me and the industry. To be honest with you, I respect the streets more than the industry, because it’s less fukkery, and you know what you’re dealing with. In the industry, you’ll have an executive straight rob you, steal from you and smile in your face. Then you get mad and approach him about it, and you’ll go to jail or worse than that. They’ll blacklist you just for speaking up for your money, so that’s my theory of the industry.
Cormega: Well, right out of prison I had an incredible buzz. If you really do the knowledge, almost every person from Queensbridge that was rapping shouted me out in their songs. Mobb Deep is extremely important when I was just coming out of jail. I owe a lot of my career to Mobb Deep. You have to understand, I came home and I had a buzz. Doing songs with them have been some of my greatest joys. I love working with them. I actually spoke to Havoc recently like a couple of days ago like, “We gotta work,” so it was good trying to vibe again.
Long story short, Mobb Deep’s the most important people to my career. Period. I’ll tell you why, because after The Firm situation didn’t go down, there was powers that be that shut me down. It was literally people about to sign me, and next thing you know, they get a phone call and they changed their mind about signing me last minute. I was blacklisted like a motherfukker. Actually, my publicist that was on the phone with you now, she was even told not to fukk with me and be my publicist. It was that bad. It was bad, so the significance of Mobb Deep is even when I was the villain, when I was blacklisted, they never turned they back on me. They could have said, “fukk him” or avoided me, but they embraced me. They put me on Murda Muzik. Havoc did “Killaz Theme” for me.
So like you said, Queensbridge was a big movement and Mobb Deep was one of the biggest people in that movement. They had the biggest anthem out of Queensbridge, and they had their own cult following, so for them to put me on that album…it’s people that never heard of me that were introduced to me on that album. That was their best-selling album ever. That also was like, “Oh, Mega still doing his thing,” and then Prodigy had me on that song “Three” on H.N.I.C., so I could never front on Mobb Deep no matter what. I’m going to have to respect them always. They’re like family, and that’s how Queensbridge is—some dudes may argue over they shyt, but at the end of the day it’s like family. With Mobb Deep, my career is indebted to them. I would never charge Mobb Deep for anything, and I would never say no because they’ve always helped me out a lot.
Cormega Charts His Growth After Industry Blacklisting Following The Firm Split
its lame shyt but every time I see Nas perform One Love, I check to see if he says Mega....
every time I heard him, he did say his name tho
how? he specifically cited