Capone: You know what? One incident was when we were recording “Bang Bang” and Foxy Brown came to the studio and she was hype. She was super hype. So, I’m like “oh, she about to rip this.” So she said “I’ll be right back. I’m going to the bathroom.” I was like “Aight, bet.” So she didn’t come out the bathroom for like 40 minutes. I’m like “I hope everything Aight.” [Laughs] I’m like “what the fukk is she doing in there?” So she comes out the bathroom, “I’m ready.” I’m like “ooh shyt” I thought she was using the bathroom, she was writing her rhymes to get busy. She came out and bodied it. That record sparked so much unnecessary beef. She put a flame to that record. I was amazed. I didn’t know what was going on. She just came out and bodied it. I’m sitting there looking at her like “damn, she just crushed that shyt.” But you know, in retrospect, that record sparked a lot of controversy, a lot of beef that was unwarranted. The good thing about it is everybody still here. Everybody still in the game. Foxy still in the game. Kim still in the game. Junior MAFIA still in the game. I respect all of them, man, I’m just glad we all made it out that situation. But, Fox, she lit a flame to that shyt. When she came out the bathroom. [Laughs]
DX: Did you know it was going to be controversial while she was recording the verse?
Capone: You know what? I didn’t think about it like that. I felt, honestly, not saying that Junior Mafia or Kim wouldn’t care, I just thought at that point in Kim’s career she would’ve been used to that. You know what i’m saying? I thought her skin was tough enough to know that was just Foxy and it didn’t have nothing to do with me and N.O.R.E’s outlook on things. There whole thing is [Foxy] mentioned B.I.G.’s name or whatever. But, in retrospect, I’m looking at it like “Yo, we didn’t say nothing about Junior Mafia. We didn’t say nothing about Kim.” Somehow, someway it went from Foxy and Lil Kim catfight on record to CNN and Junior Mafia. I don’t know how that happened. It was like, damn, we just inherited beef. It was cool, because [Foxy] was our girl. We were going to ride for her whatever way it turned out but at the end of the day, the first rapper I felt like I was amazed by was B.I.G. I ran up on B.I.G. I waited for him on HOT 97. We came downstairs. I rapped for him. I really had love for that movement.
