Cormega – I’m not gonna change up my Formula. It’s like if you go with something this good, don’t mess with it. So it’s like, I’m using the same producers and it will probably be the same features cause I don’t fukk with alot of artists.
ThaFormula.com – (Here we go) What did you think about “Stillmatic” by Nas?
Cormega -I mean, I heard it and I was like Ha Ha Ha! I think it was a desperate attempt and I appreciated my name being mentioned in the song with a artist of the caliber of Jay – Z cause now you introducing me to a whole new degree of people who start to wonder who’s Cormega, etc., etc. So now I responded to that and that’s that. I’m not focused on that cause that dude doesn’t even worry me right now. I’m not even thinkin about him. The old me, I would have kept responding, I would have kept makin jointz bombin him. But I’m not even worrying about him cause he’s so beneath me. I’ll battle that nikka at any arena, anywhere and I’m leaving the winner.
ThaFormula.com – Now you responded back to him with Realmatic. How fast did you record that track?
Cormega – Man, I did that shyt the next day! That move helped the industry respect me more cause I had just put out The Realness at that time and people were just gettin used to that and sayin this shyt is incredible, etc., etc. So now for this dude to try to diss me and I follow up his shyt within days. Like within days my shyt was on the radio and on mix tapes. Some people heard my response, before they heard his shyt. So it’s like this dude Mega is serious. Like Nas is lettin people see how serious I am as an artist. No artist will ever diss me and I’m just gonna eat that and I don’t respond. But it’s nothing personal. I’m not even mad at the dude. Like I said that was a desperate attempt. That was like his last grasp for breathe cause he cannot fukk with me right now.
ThaFormula.com – Now alot of fans are sayin that his new album will mark the return of Illmatic. What are your thoughts on that ?
Cormega – I mean, everybody wants to return to their glory days. Like Patrick Ewing wishes he could be the beast from the East, but come on. You and me both know that that’s not gonna be done. The closest thing to Illmatic that came out recently wasn’t even by him, it was by me, ha ha ha!
ThaFormula.com – Now Prodigy alot of people out there have been wondering what are your thoughts on what happened at the Summer Jam with Jay – Z?
Prodigy – Alright, Ima tell you what happened. See, Jay – Z and them is runnin around trying to get at me right now because I shytted on them in a interview in The Source magazine, you know what I’m sayin. So after that, he’s runnin around makin songs about me. He did that thing at the Summer Jam, cause he knew that we banned from Summer Jam. He know that. We been banned from Summer Jam for years, you know what I mean. He knows we can’t go their.
ThaFormula.com – So you guys were banned from Summer Jam?
Prodigy – Yeah, were not allowed to perform at Summer Jam for some reason, I don’t know. We banned from Summer jam for a few years now and Jay knew that was the perfect place for him to do that cause we wasn’t going to be no where around and he knew that. So then, just to prove that fact, Why didn’t he pull the same shyt at The Source awards. The Source awards is bigger. It’s worldwide and it’s gonna be televised to millions and millions of people, and that’s rap music’s only awards event, you know what I’m sayin. My question is, why didn’t he come their and do that? And that statement right their, crushes everything he could do or ever say. Cause they didn’t show up to The Source awards yo!
ThaFormula.com – So what were your thoughts about what he did at Summer jam as far as the picture goes?
Prodigy – Oh, my thoughts is nothin! That was his retaliation cause I shytted on him, so that was his little retaliation. But it was nothin. He didn’t do anything. All he did was pull out a picture of me when I was a little kid. I don’t understand what he did, he didn’t do anything.
ThaFormula.com – Cormega, We want to let you know that we thought The Realness was one of the best albums of the year
Cormega – Thank you very much and I appreciate that. I’m really humbled right now by the support and the love that I’ve been gettin from the fans and I was just hopin that they would appreciate the album, but for people to say consistently that it’s one of the best albums of the year and stuff like that, I mean I’m real humbled by that. And I’m going to continue to make my work on that caliber.
ThaFormula.com – So how did the album end up doin sales wise?
Cormega – The album ended up doing very well and when it first came out the sells and things uh, I debut as the #1 new artist in the country on Billboard in the Heat seekers chart. As a matter a fact , I was the No. 1 new artist in the country 2 weeks in a row. It was the number 3 independent album and 24 on the R & B charts. So the response is more then I anticipated and it’s consistently sellin. Like some people’s sells drop 50 percent, my sells haven’t even dropped that much. It’s consistently rising. Some people say that the word of mouth on the album is incredible. Like Fat Beats in Manhattan and numerous stores are just sayin that the buzz on the album is fantastic. I was reading some of the bounce back cards, like the back of the album where the fans can write their comments and send it back. Landspeed said that’s the most response they ever got for any project. Their was a shoebox full of responses from my fans and I damn near started cryin. I was so touched by the shyt that they were sayin, I wanted to cry man! It felt good that nikkaz is feelin me or that nikkaz appreciate me as a poet as apposed to a nikka that’s just tryin to rap, to get some money. I’m really appreciative of my fans. That shyt means alot to me. What people need to understand is I did this album just to do it. I mean I really tried to put out the Testament, but the politics that be, didn’t allow that. So I knocked this album out and this is just one of many to come. The next album will be as good if not better then this and I want my fans to be aware of that.
ThaFormula.com – So are you already workin on the next one?
Cormega – I’m writing songs right now for the follow up and I’m trying to select beats right now. I’m just planning it and it’s gonna be crazy.
ThaFormula.com – Since the album dropped, has alot of things changed?
Cormega – As far as me being a business man, things have changed cause I see things differently now. But as far as an artist uh, things changed with the industry cause before the industry wasn’t giving me the respect that I felt that I deserved, but now the industry is starting to come around. Certain publications, they wanna do pieces on me, etc., etc. The respect from my peers is on another level right now.
ThaFormula.com – How did you get involved with the 41st side compilation?
Cormega – Cause you know any project that’s involving Queens Bridge, 9 out of 10 times I’ll get on it.
ThaFormula.com – Who are these new guys on this 41st side compilation?
Cormega – I mean, I don’t know all the new guys, but I really haven’t listened to it yet so I can’t really comment on it, but you know it’s hip hop.
ThaFormula.com – So what’s the plan now for you?
Cormega – This what Ima do. I’m gonna bless my fans. I got labels trying to holla about the Testament album, now everybody wants The Testament album cause they see how The Realness has done within 2 months. So now peoples is tryin to holla about The Testament. I’m thinkin about puttin out The Testament, but I’m trying to do a Volume II to Tha Realness.
ThaFormula.com – Now production wise, are you gonna go with the same team of producers, s the song “Get Back” from the 41st side compilation directed towards Jay – Z?
Prodigy – Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah. It’s like we don’t make response records really, you know what I’m sayin. We make our music man and we do our shyt. It just naturally comes out gangsta like that.
ThaFormula.com – So you guys didn’t see each other at The Source Awards?
Prodigy – Nah, what I’m trying to tell you is they didn’t show up to The Source Awards. What he did was, he took that Summer Jam when he knew we wasn’t gonna be their. He picked that as his opportunity to try and retaliate at us, you know what I’m sayin. Cause he knew we wasn’t gonna be their. Alright, so if you wanna pull off a stunt like that, why not pull it at The Source Awards where it’s gonna be televised, millions of people will see it, shyt the whole world will see it. That’s where you pull that kind of stunt at, not at The Summer Jam. But if your gonna do it at The Summer Jam, then come to The Source Awards and do it to, or at least show face at The Source Awards. See that means, Jay – Z IS p*ssy! Them nikkaz don’t want no kinds of drama with nikkaz. They want to do just straight rap music and act like their’s beef with nikkaz and that ole Krs 1 and MC Shan bullshyt. That shyt is bullshyt to me man, cause I’m not playin with dudes man. And like I said, the statement I just made, crushes anything he could ever say or do! Cause it’s just real like that man. Why he didn’t show up to The Source awards. That’s a subject that needs to be talked about in rap music right now. Why did Jay – Z do all that shyt at The Summer Jam, but he didn’t show up to The Source Awards. That’s a big thing man. I mean that’s serious and people need to look at that. Word!
ThaFormula.com – (Here we go) What did you think about “Stillmatic” by Nas?
Cormega -I mean, I heard it and I was like Ha Ha Ha! I think it was a desperate attempt and I appreciated my name being mentioned in the song with a artist of the caliber of Jay – Z cause now you introducing me to a whole new degree of people who start to wonder who’s Cormega, etc., etc. So now I responded to that and that’s that. I’m not focused on that cause that dude doesn’t even worry me right now. I’m not even thinkin about him. The old me, I would have kept responding, I would have kept makin jointz bombin him. But I’m not even worrying about him cause he’s so beneath me. I’ll battle that nikka at any arena, anywhere and I’m leaving the winner.
ThaFormula.com – Now you responded back to him with Realmatic. How fast did you record that track?
Cormega – Man, I did that shyt the next day! That move helped the industry respect me more cause I had just put out The Realness at that time and people were just gettin used to that and sayin this shyt is incredible, etc., etc. So now for this dude to try to diss me and I follow up his shyt within days. Like within days my shyt was on the radio and on mix tapes. Some people heard my response, before they heard his shyt. So it’s like this dude Mega is serious. Like Nas is lettin people see how serious I am as an artist. No artist will ever diss me and I’m just gonna eat that and I don’t respond. But it’s nothing personal. I’m not even mad at the dude. Like I said that was a desperate attempt. That was like his last grasp for breathe cause he cannot fukk with me right now.
ThaFormula.com – Now alot of fans are sayin that his new album will mark the return of Illmatic. What are your thoughts on that ?
Cormega – I mean, everybody wants to return to their glory days. Like Patrick Ewing wishes he could be the beast from the East, but come on. You and me both know that that’s not gonna be done. The closest thing to Illmatic that came out recently wasn’t even by him, it was by me, ha ha ha!
ThaFormula.com – Now Prodigy alot of people out there have been wondering what are your thoughts on what happened at the Summer Jam with Jay – Z?
Prodigy – Alright, Ima tell you what happened. See, Jay – Z and them is runnin around trying to get at me right now because I shytted on them in a interview in The Source magazine, you know what I’m sayin. So after that, he’s runnin around makin songs about me. He did that thing at the Summer Jam, cause he knew that we banned from Summer Jam. He know that. We been banned from Summer Jam for years, you know what I mean. He knows we can’t go their.
ThaFormula.com – So you guys were banned from Summer Jam?
Prodigy – Yeah, were not allowed to perform at Summer Jam for some reason, I don’t know. We banned from Summer jam for a few years now and Jay knew that was the perfect place for him to do that cause we wasn’t going to be no where around and he knew that. So then, just to prove that fact, Why didn’t he pull the same shyt at The Source awards. The Source awards is bigger. It’s worldwide and it’s gonna be televised to millions and millions of people, and that’s rap music’s only awards event, you know what I’m sayin. My question is, why didn’t he come their and do that? And that statement right their, crushes everything he could do or ever say. Cause they didn’t show up to The Source awards yo!
ThaFormula.com – So what were your thoughts about what he did at Summer jam as far as the picture goes?
Prodigy – Oh, my thoughts is nothin! That was his retaliation cause I shytted on him, so that was his little retaliation. But it was nothin. He didn’t do anything. All he did was pull out a picture of me when I was a little kid. I don’t understand what he did, he didn’t do anything.
ThaFormula.com – Cormega, We want to let you know that we thought The Realness was one of the best albums of the year
Cormega – Thank you very much and I appreciate that. I’m really humbled right now by the support and the love that I’ve been gettin from the fans and I was just hopin that they would appreciate the album, but for people to say consistently that it’s one of the best albums of the year and stuff like that, I mean I’m real humbled by that. And I’m going to continue to make my work on that caliber.
ThaFormula.com – So how did the album end up doin sales wise?
Cormega – The album ended up doing very well and when it first came out the sells and things uh, I debut as the #1 new artist in the country on Billboard in the Heat seekers chart. As a matter a fact , I was the No. 1 new artist in the country 2 weeks in a row. It was the number 3 independent album and 24 on the R & B charts. So the response is more then I anticipated and it’s consistently sellin. Like some people’s sells drop 50 percent, my sells haven’t even dropped that much. It’s consistently rising. Some people say that the word of mouth on the album is incredible. Like Fat Beats in Manhattan and numerous stores are just sayin that the buzz on the album is fantastic. I was reading some of the bounce back cards, like the back of the album where the fans can write their comments and send it back. Landspeed said that’s the most response they ever got for any project. Their was a shoebox full of responses from my fans and I damn near started cryin. I was so touched by the shyt that they were sayin, I wanted to cry man! It felt good that nikkaz is feelin me or that nikkaz appreciate me as a poet as apposed to a nikka that’s just tryin to rap, to get some money. I’m really appreciative of my fans. That shyt means alot to me. What people need to understand is I did this album just to do it. I mean I really tried to put out the Testament, but the politics that be, didn’t allow that. So I knocked this album out and this is just one of many to come. The next album will be as good if not better then this and I want my fans to be aware of that.
ThaFormula.com – So are you already workin on the next one?
Cormega – I’m writing songs right now for the follow up and I’m trying to select beats right now. I’m just planning it and it’s gonna be crazy.
ThaFormula.com – Since the album dropped, has alot of things changed?
Cormega – As far as me being a business man, things have changed cause I see things differently now. But as far as an artist uh, things changed with the industry cause before the industry wasn’t giving me the respect that I felt that I deserved, but now the industry is starting to come around. Certain publications, they wanna do pieces on me, etc., etc. The respect from my peers is on another level right now.
ThaFormula.com – How did you get involved with the 41st side compilation?
Cormega – Cause you know any project that’s involving Queens Bridge, 9 out of 10 times I’ll get on it.
ThaFormula.com – Who are these new guys on this 41st side compilation?
Cormega – I mean, I don’t know all the new guys, but I really haven’t listened to it yet so I can’t really comment on it, but you know it’s hip hop.
ThaFormula.com – So what’s the plan now for you?
Cormega – This what Ima do. I’m gonna bless my fans. I got labels trying to holla about the Testament album, now everybody wants The Testament album cause they see how The Realness has done within 2 months. So now peoples is tryin to holla about The Testament. I’m thinkin about puttin out The Testament, but I’m trying to do a Volume II to Tha Realness.
ThaFormula.com – Now production wise, are you gonna go with the same team of producers, s the song “Get Back” from the 41st side compilation directed towards Jay – Z?
Prodigy – Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah. It’s like we don’t make response records really, you know what I’m sayin. We make our music man and we do our shyt. It just naturally comes out gangsta like that.
ThaFormula.com – So you guys didn’t see each other at The Source Awards?
Prodigy – Nah, what I’m trying to tell you is they didn’t show up to The Source Awards. What he did was, he took that Summer Jam when he knew we wasn’t gonna be their. He picked that as his opportunity to try and retaliate at us, you know what I’m sayin. Cause he knew we wasn’t gonna be their. Alright, so if you wanna pull off a stunt like that, why not pull it at The Source Awards where it’s gonna be televised, millions of people will see it, shyt the whole world will see it. That’s where you pull that kind of stunt at, not at The Summer Jam. But if your gonna do it at The Summer Jam, then come to The Source Awards and do it to, or at least show face at The Source Awards. See that means, Jay – Z IS p*ssy! Them nikkaz don’t want no kinds of drama with nikkaz. They want to do just straight rap music and act like their’s beef with nikkaz and that ole Krs 1 and MC Shan bullshyt. That shyt is bullshyt to me man, cause I’m not playin with dudes man. And like I said, the statement I just made, crushes anything he could ever say or do! Cause it’s just real like that man. Why he didn’t show up to The Source awards. That’s a subject that needs to be talked about in rap music right now. Why did Jay – Z do all that shyt at The Summer Jam, but he didn’t show up to The Source Awards. That’s a big thing man. I mean that’s serious and people need to look at that. Word!
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