{"id":499031,"date":"2022-10-07T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:45:39","slug":"cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cormega On Linking With Nas For \u2018The Realness 2\u2019 &amp; His Big L Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f76cc2e5d1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4f76cc2e5d1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#%E2%80%9CCormega_On_Linking_With_Nas_For_%E2%80%98The_Realness_2_His_Big_L_Regret%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Cormega On Linking With Nas For \u2018The Realness 2\u2019 &amp; His Big L Regret&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_What_made_you_name_this_album_The_Realness_II_after_your_debut_album_from_2001\" >HipHopDX: What made you name this album The Realness II after your debut album from 2001?\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_All_right_Now_the_first_single_is_%E2%80%9CEssential%E2%80%9D_with_Havoc_I_really_enjoyed_the_sound_How_did_that_come_together\" >HipHopDX: All right. Now the first single is \u201cEssential\u201d with Havoc. I really enjoyed the sound. How did that come together?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_Right_right\" >HipHopDX: Right, right.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_Now_what_do_you_say_to_the_young_people_who_say_%E2%80%9CWell_yall_rapped_about_guns_Why_cant_we_rap_about_guns_Yall_rapped_about_drugs_Why_cant_we_rap_about_drugs%E2%80%9D_A_lot_of_the_time_theyre_calling_us_hypocrites_when_were_trying_to_impart_upon_them_that_we_made_some_mistakes_What_do_you_say_to_them\" >HipHopDX: Now, what do you say to the young people who say, \u201cWell, y\u2019all rapped about guns. Why can\u2019t we rap about guns? Y\u2019all rapped about drugs. Why can\u2019t we rap about drugs?\u201d A lot of the time they\u2019re calling us hypocrites when we\u2019re trying to impart upon them that we made some mistakes. What do you say to them?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_Absolutely\" >HipHopDX: Absolutely.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_And_theyre_coming\" >HipHopDX: And they\u2019re coming.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_Or_dilute_it_right\" >HipHopDX: Or dilute it, right.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cormega-on-linking-with-nas-for-the-realness-2-his-big-l-regret\/#HipHopDX_Love_wins_Thats_an_answer\" >HipHopDX:\u00a0 Love wins. That\u2019s an answer.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCormega_On_Linking_With_Nas_For_%E2%80%98The_Realness_2_His_Big_L_Regret%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Cormega On Linking With Nas For \u2018The Realness 2\u2019 &amp; His Big L Regret&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"image large\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hiphopdx.com\/2022\/10\/Cormega-1-photo-by-Dove-Clark-1197x675.jpg\" alt=\"Cormega On Linking With Nas For \u2018The Realness 2\u2019 &amp; His Big L Regret\" class=\"large\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-caption\">\n<span>Photo Credit: Dove Clark<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy  js-entry-text\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in 1994, when the words \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s up with Cormega?\/Have you seen him?\/Are y\u2019all together?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d came over the speaker from Nas\u2019 seminal classic <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hxce_qvhi5I\">\u201cOne Love,\u201d<\/a> many of us felt the lyric on a deeper level. Young, incarcerated and Black was a familiar visual for many back then. Indeed, an unfortunate number of us had a close loved one caught up in similar circumstances. We may have heard \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What up with Cormega<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d but it could\u2019ve easily been Raheem, Pookie, Ray-Ray and the like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The streets connected with his story, and Hip Hop awaited Cormega\u2019s solo album with bated breath. However, after unfortunate circumstances caused <em>The\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testamen<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>t<\/em> to be indefinitely shelved, Mega Montana distanced himself from Nas and manager Steve Stoute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit200\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit200\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His official debut,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dOtBcjPRH8A\">The Realness<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was released in 2001 and was worthy on its own accord. However, the tension of constant beef that permeated much of Hip Hop ensured that Cormega and Nas would continue trading bars for another five years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega went on to release <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The True Meaning<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2002 and released his previously shelved <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Testament<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on his own Legal Hustle label three years later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2006, he would officially end the beef with Nas by performing alongside QB legend and Foxy Brown as The Firm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2009\u2019s<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Born and Raised<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0featured contributions from KRS-One, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane and DJ Red Alert. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mega Philosophy,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> released in 2014, continued a Cormega tradition of including Hip Hop luminaries on his works with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earances by Redman, Raekwon, Styles P and The Firm members AZ and Nature. It also continued a tradition of working with the legendary producer Large Professor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, HipHopDX had the chance to chat with one of Queensbridge\u2019s finest about the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Realness II<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, his new single \u201cEssential\u201d and what was the catalyst for connecting with Nas and Alchemist on the aptly named single \u201cGlorious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_What_made_you_name_this_album_The_Realness_II_after_your_debut_album_from_2001\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: What made you name this album <i>The Realness II<\/i> after your debut album from 2001?\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: Because I wanted to do a sequel. I\u2019ve never done a sequel and I listened to the fans. Out of all the albums that they be like, \u201cYou should make a such and such part two,\u201d it\u2019s always <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Realness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cYo, make a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Realness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Part 2. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Realness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Realness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Realness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d So, I was hesitant at first, because it\u2019s a lot of pressure with that album. And then I just accepted the challenge. I said, F it, I\u2019m going to do it. You know what I\u2019m saying? So, when I tested the waters and told people I was going to make <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Realness II<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the reaction was so crazy. I said, \u201cAll right, this is it.\u201d So I started making the album.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_All_right_Now_the_first_single_is_%E2%80%9CEssential%E2%80%9D_with_Havoc_I_really_enjoyed_the_sound_How_did_that_come_together\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: All right. Now the first single is \u201cEssential\u201d with Havoc. I really enjoyed the sound. How did that come together?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega:\u00a0 I think most of the credit for that belongs to Havoc, because that beat just does something. That beat is amazing. And that has a nostalgic feel. The thing I love about that beat, it has a nostalgic feel yet it has a modern feel too. So it doesn\u2019t feel like, \u201cOh man, he\u2019s trying to redo such and such.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I just wanted to tap into that part of me that made people gravitate towards me when I made <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Realness<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So I started really taking evaluation of the songs that people really liked and I knew how it had to come, so when I got that beat, that beat just \u2026 I knew I had to come up with some heaviness on there, and I said I want to drop jewels on it but I also wanted to give people the street n-gga because that\u2019s another thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit300\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit300\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I always tell people, art is a reflection of their environment, and so I\u2019m not the same person that was in the street like that. I\u2019m a different person. I\u2019m a father, I\u2019m a businessman. I\u2019m many other things but the mindset and all the stuff that I\u2019ve been through, I\u2019ve seen so much and experienced so much that I could write about that any time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the music and their words was a perfect marriage, but I also, especially in this day and time, I wanted to have something that people could gravitate to and get jewels from and I wanted to make \u2026 the whole album was for people from my generation and the generation a little before me. The people that really, when they first heard Hip Hop, they fell in love with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CjaWra8urIu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CjaWra8urIu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">A post shared by Cormega (@cormega)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was my first love before a girl. It was Hip Hop. They way it made you feel, you wanted to be a part of it. You wanted to be around it. You didn\u2019t want to quit it. And it\u2019s like we get to a certain point \u2026 Women get to this point before us, as you\u2019ve probably experienced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There might be a point in your life where you might want to play some Hip Hop and the girl\u2019s like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear that.\u201d You know what I\u2019m saying? In your mind you\u2019re like, \u201cHuh?\u201d But it\u2019s like they mature different from us in some ways. So we get to a certain point where even we didn\u2019t want to hear or don\u2019t want to hear some of the stuff that we\u2019re hearing now.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_Right_right\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: Right, right.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: So it\u2019s like, why is it \u2026 are we dead? Are we excluded from enjoying our culture now? Because it\u2019s not our preference? It\u2019s like you go to a restaurant and they\u2019re serving only shit that you don\u2019t like. You\u2019re like what am I supposed to eat? So it\u2019s like I decided to make a menu for people like us. I\u2019m making a menu for the people that was there from day one that want to enjoy Hip Hop, that want to listen to it but they can\u2019t get into what they\u2019re hearing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that was the purpose of this album. That was a key purpose when I was doing this album, and it seemed to have worked. I played this album for this guy the other day, he\u2019s an artist. He\u2019s an amazing painter, him and his wife, probably in his \u201970s, and they was listening to the album. They closed their eyes and they were like, \u201cThis is beautiful. This is a breath of fresh air.\u201d So it\u2019s like the feedback I\u2019m getting from people, from young all the way up to 70, is beautiful. So I think I accomplished my goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit400\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit400\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_Now_what_do_you_say_to_the_young_people_who_say_%E2%80%9CWell_yall_rapped_about_guns_Why_cant_we_rap_about_guns_Yall_rapped_about_drugs_Why_cant_we_rap_about_drugs%E2%80%9D_A_lot_of_the_time_theyre_calling_us_hypocrites_when_were_trying_to_impart_upon_them_that_we_made_some_mistakes_What_do_you_say_to_them\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: Now, what do you say to the young people who say, \u201cWell, y\u2019all rapped about guns. Why can\u2019t we rap about guns? Y\u2019all rapped about drugs. Why can\u2019t we rap about drugs?\u201d A lot of the time they\u2019re calling us hypocrites when we\u2019re trying to impart upon them that we made some mistakes. What do you say to them?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: I say Malcolm and Martin, they walked certain lengths and they went through certain injustices, physical, mental, economic injustices so we didn\u2019t have to go through them. So, I would say, for one, I was in that environment when I was rapping that, so I didn\u2019t peak as an artist at that time or as a man of understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I would also tell them if you listen to my music now, you\u2019ll barely even hear profanity in it. You\u2019ll never hear the word \u201cbitch\u201d in my song unless it\u2019s a quote from a \u2026 Like if I say quoted a Biggie song, \u201cMe &amp; My Bitch,\u201d and I say \u201cme and my bitch\u201d because it\u2019s from the Biggie song, you know what I\u2019m saying?<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_Absolutely\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: Absolutely.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: But on my album, you won\u2019t hear me calling women bitches. You won\u2019t hear me saying n-gga unless it\u2019s quoting someone else but I\u2019m not using it like it\u2019s a cool word. So it\u2019s like one thing I\u2019ll say to young people is it\u2019s always an older person\u2019s job or a duty or obligation to steer you in the right direction so you don\u2019t do the same mistakes as that person, because that person is doing you and himself a disservice if they continue to let you do that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, for young people, I would say for the new artist, because I can\u2019t even listen to some of these new artists that\u2019s coming in, some of these new artists are middle-aged men, so I would say to them, so if they were to say, \u201cWell, y\u2019all rapped about it,\u201d I would say, \u201cBrother, when I first started rapping, I was a teenager. By the time I became a mature man, my subject matter grew.\u201d So that would be my challenge to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit500\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit500\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I talk to the young people, I say, \u201cI can\u2019t condemn you for your subject matter or for the way you view life, because when I was young, I viewed it that way too.\u201d And I tell the older people, \u201cYou can\u2019t condemn them for the same stuff you did. You\u2019re contradicting yourself. You\u2019re supposed to steer them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I could tell a young boy, \u201cListen, be careful what you say in your music now because it\u2019s a different day.\u201d I can talk about stuff in the street in my music and I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about my music being used to implicate people. You guys don\u2019t have that luxury. You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could post up a picture back in the days and you guys, y\u2019all can\u2019t even post up nowadays because there\u2019s so much <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, y\u2019all post up at a certain neighborhood, people know where you are-<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_And_theyre_coming\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: And they\u2019re coming.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: \u2026and they\u2019re coming. It\u2019s a different day. Also, I would tell the young rappers, when I was young, when a rapper died, it\u2019s almost like the whole rap <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> paused because it\u2019s like, \u201cWow.\u201d Nowadays so many young rappers are dying, yo. In the last two weeks alone I heard about four rappers dying. So many now and I don\u2019t know all their names. This has probably happened to you before. You read something, such and such got killed and you\u2019ll be like, \u201cOh, I just read about that the other day,\u201d and it\u2019s somebody else!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it\u2019s different times. So that\u2019s what I would tell the young person, but I would tell them, \u201cYo, every generation\u2019s supposed to be better. So y\u2019all are making more money than us, y\u2019all are supposed to get further than us, y\u2019all are supposed to be more advanced than us. Y\u2019all are supposed to take everything we put out there and add onto it, not regress from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_Or_dilute_it_right\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX: Or dilute it, right.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: You know what I\u2019m saying? So the way I see it is like if it\u2019s regression, then we\u2019re moving in the wrong direction. So these are the type of things that I tell the young artists, and the young artists be gravitating towards me, whether it was Lil B or \u2026 I can\u2019t even name them all. There\u2019s been so many, you know what I\u2019m saying? I helped them get on or whatever. I just give them jewels that I would give my little brother or my cousin or my son. Rather than saying it in a condescending tone, say it in an understanding tone.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit600\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit600\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n<strong>HipHopDX: Now, \u201cGlorious,\u201d the name of the track \u2026 It\u2019s glorious, you know? And you\u2019ve got Alchemist and you\u2019ve got Nas on there. We\u2019re in the present day so there\u2019s no need to talk about the past. I just want to know, how did that particular combination come together?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: Love wins.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"HipHopDX_Love_wins_Thats_an_answer\"><\/span><strong>HipHopDX:\u00a0 Love wins. That\u2019s an answer.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cormega: Yes, we have a very \u2026 in a lot of ways we\u2019re prideful. We love hard and we have our principles, and after a while you begin to realize as an artist, you are supposed to serve the people. So as an artist, if I have so many fans saying, \u201cI wish such and such do a song.\u201d They\u2019re wishing that we do music, and if I have a say so in that matter and I can make it happen and I don\u2019t do it, then I\u2019m doing the culture a disservice, I\u2019m doing my fans a disservice and I\u2019m doing myself a disservice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it\u2019s like I\u2019ve learned, give the people what they want. Especially in this day and age, give the people what they want. Especially since nobody knows how much time they\u2019ve got left in this thing called life. It\u2019s not predictable. Nobody knows. It\u2019s unpredictable.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mobile outerAdHatch\">\n<div class=\"ad-border\">\n<div class=\"innerAdHatch\" inserted=\"shortcode\">\n<div id=\"contentUnit700\" class=\"adUnits\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n                        if(isMobile){\n                            window.catalyst.cmd.push(\"loadAds\", [[\"incontent\", \"contentUnit700\", \"section_post_inarticle\"]]);\n                        }\n                    <\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it\u2019s like, don\u2019t be that person that\u2019s like, \u201cOh man, I wish I could have did that,\u201d or, \u201cI wish we\u2019d have spoke,\u201d or, \u201cI wish we could have \u2026\u201d You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because if you\u2019re going, it\u2019s going to be a big regret. I regret that I didn\u2019t do something with Big L. That\u2019s a regret, but I didn\u2019t understand the game. See, when I was working on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Testament <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">album, it was done, it was complete. So Big L was like, \u201cYou got room on there?\u201d And I was like, \u201cNo, I just finished it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was like, \u201cWe\u2019ll get up, we\u2019ll do something else.\u201d So if I knew then what I know now, the way I see it now, when I see an artist that I value and that I respect, let\u2019s just work regardless. Let\u2019s get it out the way no matter what the situation. Whatever the \u2026 let\u2019s just get it done. If I\u2019d have had that mentality back then, I would have had that record with Big L, you know what I\u2019m saying?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or if I\u2019d have had that mentality a few years ago, rather than being lackadaisical, I would have made sure I was assertive in getting that Prodigy verse or not even a verse, because I have a verse, you know what I\u2019m saying? We were going to do an album, me and Mobb Deep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stream Cormega\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Realness 2<\/em> below:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5aSAJcc8n8EZeMbcLftPQ4?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Ricardo Hazell\"><br \/>\nby Ricardo Hazell\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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