Saigon pushed back to 2008

[Meho]

Artist: Saigon

Representing: Abandoned Nation

Mixtape: Just Blaze Presents: The Moral of the Story


411: Well, no Greatest Story Never Told this year, but the ball is rolling nonetheless. Saigon tells us that his December 4 release date has been pushed back to early 2008.

"Everybody is fighting for that date," he revealed. "It's nothing to wait another month or month and a half. ... I'd rather wait for the new year than get caught up in that fourth-quarter congestion. It's good. It's definitely coming through. It won't be another six months or five months. It's coming real soon."

No tears for the patient, though. Sai Giddy just put out a full-fledged street album, with original beats and rhymes, called The Moral of the Story, to tide everyone over. There are a few joints on there that left the Mixtape Monday fam flabbergasted. They're that good. Saigon breaks down the tracks (and read what Jay-Z himself has to say about one of the records further down in "Streets Are Watching").

Joints To Check For:

    * "Come on Baby" remix (featuring Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz). "American Gangster, Jay is on fire once again," Sai said. "We thought the timing was good to put it out now. The video [with the original version] premiered. They took so long to shoot the video for the original, we just launched the remix to radio. We couldn't get Jay to do the video."


    * "What a Life." "That's my favorite song on the [mixtape]," the Yardfather exclaimed. "The first two verses is complaining, the third verses, I'm saying, 'What a life, everything is good.' When you say, 'What a life,' it could be good or bad. You could be in a f---ed-up situation or you could be in a great situation. It's a universal record. Nas' artist Trey Williams is on there singing. It won't be on the album. So when you think songs like that won't be on the album, imagine what we are holding. I wanted that on the album, but it's nothing I'm willing to take off to put that on. 'Pain in My Life' is hanging on by a string, and that's the record people love me for."


    * "Who Can Get Busy." "That's a classic off the Brand Nubian All for One album," Sai said. "That's one of my favorite songs, and [Grand] Puba is one of my favorite artists of all time. I reached out to him, he came to the studio same day and laid it down for me on some mutual respect. The reason I only put a snippet on the mixtape, that's another song I want to be on the album. I only put the second verse. That's Brooklyn; that's the real grimy Jamaican gutter sound. I want to shoot a street video for that. Just Blaze did that beat. It knocks real hard."

Jay-Z told us the obvious: Just Blaze is to blame for him getting on the remix of Saigon's "Come on Baby."

"I met Saigon before," Jay said last week in L.A. "He's a cool guy as well. But Just Blaze ... that's his artist. So we had records and work like that. It's in-house.

"Big fan? Of Saigon? "Yeah, he's good," Jay added. "But I wouldn't have did it ... to be honest with you. I like Saigon. If I don't have a relationship with the artist, I'm not just doing it for the sake of doing it. If you look at my past record, I've done records because of relationship, not 'cause this guy's good or whatever."

[Twentytwofifty]

Why am I not shocked?  I think this album has been delayed more than any album ever.

[Makaveli's Food & Liquor]

Ughh! This is so depressing, especially after it seemed like it was actually coming, Come On Baby Video dropped, Remix Dropped, 2 other Just Blaze produced tracks dropped, even another snippet of a Sai track dropped this week on Just Blaze's Blog, and 2/3 of the albums been confirmed........But what can you do.....

*EDIT* - Here's Snippet's - http://www.themegatrondon2.com/2007/11/07/previously-unreleased/
                                    - http://www.themegatrondon2.com/2007/10/18/popular-demand/

[Makaveli's Food & Liquor]

'Moral of the Story' drops Tuesday

New interview up on HipHopGame, talks about Album, Mixtapes, Mobb Deep incident, Come on baby Remix, Jay + AG etc... http://www.hiphopgame.com/index2.php3?page=saigon1107

[Meho]

Dope interview, Sai sounds really desperate as he should be. I pray to God "Come On Baby" picks up on the radio, if not, we might never hear Saigon spit again.

[Lunatic]

i can see why he wouldn't wanna get lost in the 4th quarter, cuz no matter how dope he is, he ain't gon do #s like sum of these dudes droppin cd's real soon..and lets face it, he's on a major, selling records is a goal of his
hopefully it actually comes out in january though

[MontrealCity's Most]

i can see why he wouldn't wanna get lost in the 4th quarter, cuz no matter how dope he is, he ain't gon do #s like sum of these dudes droppin cd's real soon..and lets face it, he's on a major, selling records is a goal of his
hopefully it actually comes out in january though

agreed

[Chamillitary Click]

Why am I not shocked?  I think this album has been delayed more than any album ever.

my nigga dr dre will always take that

and damn thats gay, i was anticipating that shyyyt

[K.Dub]

i can see why he wouldn't wanna get lost in the 4th quarter, cuz no matter how dope he is, he ain't gon do #s like sum of these dudes droppin cd's real soon..and lets face it, he's on a major, selling records is a goal of his
hopefully it actually comes out in january though

co sign

And has that mixtape leaked ?

[AlerG]

Can soemone PM that Moral of the Story mixtape please,

chill

[KURUPTION-81]

is moral of the story getting released in stores coz i cant see it on amazon.

[1nce was blind]

I'm still lookin forward 2 the album droppin..........hopefully that mixtape will be dope

[yourdead]

He will never drop.

[Styles1]

Things like this are the reason that I hate asking artists about release dates in interviews... nevertheless I am obligated to. Quite often I am thinking to myself, "Yeah right." Not all of the time, but quite often... 

[T-Dogg]

Damn these pushbacks.

Oh well. Guess I'll save that cash for some Christmas shopping or some shit. Might as well get it a little later, as long as I'm getting it. Good things are worth waiting for.