PH: Going back to the "Legal Hustle" album, I had a question I always wondered about. You had a song on there, one of my favorites from the album, called "More Crime" with a West Coast cat called Jacka, how did that collaboration come about?
Mega: Okay, Jacka is one of my friends, like Jacka is another artist, like you know some artists you just cool with, but Jacka is one of my friends, you know what I'm saying. Jacka is like my little cousin and shit. Like I met Jacka years and years ago and he wanted to do a song with me, so I did a song with him, you know what I'm saying, so I did a couple of songs with him, you know what I'm saying. They flew me out to California and they broke me off with some bread and I did a song for em. But after I was in California, I learned so much. Like Jacka and 'em taught me so much about the culture and about a lot of other things. Because New York is just another society, and we stuck in our own ways. Like I never new about muscle cars and all that. Like people on the west coast with '64s and all that I always thought that they was broke or something, you know. Cuz New York, we tend to be more like Benzes and, you know, you know how New York is. So I learned from them that those cars, you might have a '64 that cost more than a Benz. Or I learned about their culture, how they lived and that they real just like us and that they go through the same thing we go through. Like when I first went out to the Bay Area, California - within one hour of me getting off the plane I was face down looking at the floor, police had me on the floor, me, Huss - Hussla from the Mob Figaz, you know what I'm saying, so that right there just woke me up, the whole world go through the same shit. Like I don't give a fuck where you from: Cali, Chicago, wherever, East Coast, West Coast - we all go through the same shit. Everybody trying to survive and the police fuck with everybody. You know what I'm saying, they taught me that. Then I went to the studio with them to listen to they tracks, we knocked shit out, and then ever since then we've been cool. Like you know we had a bond, like he came to New York, like he showed me how he live in California, like they showed me a '69 Malibu, you know what I'm saying, they put me on to those shits and '64s and all those type of cars. They fucked up my mind so much I came home and bought a '64, you know what I'm saying. And then after that we started just communicating, like throughout the years we always stayed in touch. Then Jacka came to New York, yo, he come to New York he didn't even stay in his hotel, the nigga was with me half the time. Like he spend the night in the hotel, like I had my own hotel room he stayed with me. Like I took him to Queensbridge and let him see how I lived. You know, cuz a lot of rappers will say they this and that, but then they won't go to their own hood. So Jacka and all of them niggas from Cali, they know how I am, they came to Queensbridge and they was in the, you know we ain't have no security, they was in the hood. So, you know what I'm saying, he chilled out there all my niggas came out, and it was dope. So ever since then we always been cool. I put him on "Legal Hustle" cuz he don't really got fans in New York, people don't really know him. So I said "Niggas need to know him" cuz his shit be dope and this is some different shit. Cuz you know, I wanted "Legal Hustle" to be, you know, like when I made "Legal Hustle" I wanted it to be like when Dr. Dre made "The Chronic." Like he introduced the world to a lot of people and it was a dope compilation album. So that's basically what I was trying to do. I was trying to make something different and I was trying to hold people down cuz I didn't have a solo album ready. So I wanted to make something dope that people could relate to and I wanted to introduce the world to like, like you got Maino. Maino got a deal right now, the first album that Maino was on was "Legal Hustle." He has the song "Rumors" out right now, but prior to that the first thing he was on was "Legal Hustle." And I introduced Jacka on there, and I introduced Dona, my artist was on there. Lake was on there, you know he's been on something else. And you know I tried to reach out my hand, I didn't want it to be looked at as a Queensbridge or New York I wanted people from all, like I wanted to put DMP on there from Virginia but the track came too late. All the people that wasn't on "Legal Hustle" that should have been on there are going to be on the soundtrack to my DVD, so that's going to be like "Legal Hustle Vol. 2."
PH: I've been listening to Mob Figaz for a while, probably since their first CD came out, but I didn't realize that was Jacka on their til he dropped his album.
Mega: Jacka would be the easiest artist from the Mob Figaz for New York to adapt to.
"I mean if you don't smoke weed and stay with Jacka I promise you're gonna be high by the time you get to your room just from contact."
PH: Defintely. I've been listening to his new album that he just dropped and it's just good music, it's not really West Coast, it's just good music overall.
Mega: Exactly. And the nigga Hussla, you know, Mob Figaz is nice matter of fact they got a lot of ma'fuckers. You know what's dope about Mob Figaz, Mob Figaz is like how Wu-Tang is. Like they got their own personas, like Jacka reminds me, his demeanor, like Jadakiss. He's like a laid back nigga and Jacka smoke weed all day. Like when I say smoke weed all day, I mean if you don't smoke weed and stay with Jacka I promise you you're gonna be high by the time you get to your room, just from contact. And he smoke like the best shit, like he smoke weed like you never heard of. Like Redman and them would love Jacka. Fucking Hussla, Hussla, he's the fucking personality of the crew, he's the motherfucker, he has personality, he's the Method Man of the crew. He's the one that got the ill personality, mad humorous, but he's a real nigga too. Like he's a straight, real gangsta nigga. So, you know what I'm saying, they all got their own demeanor. The nigga Feddi, all them niggas is real, that's why I fuck with them.
Mega: Okay, Jacka is one of my friends, like Jacka is another artist, like you know some artists you just cool with, but Jacka is one of my friends, you know what I'm saying. Jacka is like my little cousin and shit. Like I met Jacka years and years ago and he wanted to do a song with me, so I did a song with him, you know what I'm saying, so I did a couple of songs with him, you know what I'm saying. They flew me out to California and they broke me off with some bread and I did a song for em. But after I was in California, I learned so much. Like Jacka and 'em taught me so much about the culture and about a lot of other things. Because New York is just another society, and we stuck in our own ways. Like I never new about muscle cars and all that. Like people on the west coast with '64s and all that I always thought that they was broke or something, you know. Cuz New York, we tend to be more like Benzes and, you know, you know how New York is. So I learned from them that those cars, you might have a '64 that cost more than a Benz. Or I learned about their culture, how they lived and that they real just like us and that they go through the same thing we go through. Like when I first went out to the Bay Area, California - within one hour of me getting off the plane I was face down looking at the floor, police had me on the floor, me, Huss - Hussla from the Mob Figaz, you know what I'm saying, so that right there just woke me up, the whole world go through the same shit. Like I don't give a fuck where you from: Cali, Chicago, wherever, East Coast, West Coast - we all go through the same shit. Everybody trying to survive and the police fuck with everybody. You know what I'm saying, they taught me that. Then I went to the studio with them to listen to they tracks, we knocked shit out, and then ever since then we've been cool. Like you know we had a bond, like he came to New York, like he showed me how he live in California, like they showed me a '69 Malibu, you know what I'm saying, they put me on to those shits and '64s and all those type of cars. They fucked up my mind so much I came home and bought a '64, you know what I'm saying. And then after that we started just communicating, like throughout the years we always stayed in touch. Then Jacka came to New York, yo, he come to New York he didn't even stay in his hotel, the nigga was with me half the time. Like he spend the night in the hotel, like I had my own hotel room he stayed with me. Like I took him to Queensbridge and let him see how I lived. You know, cuz a lot of rappers will say they this and that, but then they won't go to their own hood. So Jacka and all of them niggas from Cali, they know how I am, they came to Queensbridge and they was in the, you know we ain't have no security, they was in the hood. So, you know what I'm saying, he chilled out there all my niggas came out, and it was dope. So ever since then we always been cool. I put him on "Legal Hustle" cuz he don't really got fans in New York, people don't really know him. So I said "Niggas need to know him" cuz his shit be dope and this is some different shit. Cuz you know, I wanted "Legal Hustle" to be, you know, like when I made "Legal Hustle" I wanted it to be like when Dr. Dre made "The Chronic." Like he introduced the world to a lot of people and it was a dope compilation album. So that's basically what I was trying to do. I was trying to make something different and I was trying to hold people down cuz I didn't have a solo album ready. So I wanted to make something dope that people could relate to and I wanted to introduce the world to like, like you got Maino. Maino got a deal right now, the first album that Maino was on was "Legal Hustle." He has the song "Rumors" out right now, but prior to that the first thing he was on was "Legal Hustle." And I introduced Jacka on there, and I introduced Dona, my artist was on there. Lake was on there, you know he's been on something else. And you know I tried to reach out my hand, I didn't want it to be looked at as a Queensbridge or New York I wanted people from all, like I wanted to put DMP on there from Virginia but the track came too late. All the people that wasn't on "Legal Hustle" that should have been on there are going to be on the soundtrack to my DVD, so that's going to be like "Legal Hustle Vol. 2."
PH: I've been listening to Mob Figaz for a while, probably since their first CD came out, but I didn't realize that was Jacka on their til he dropped his album.
Mega: Jacka would be the easiest artist from the Mob Figaz for New York to adapt to.
"I mean if you don't smoke weed and stay with Jacka I promise you're gonna be high by the time you get to your room just from contact."
PH: Defintely. I've been listening to his new album that he just dropped and it's just good music, it's not really West Coast, it's just good music overall.
Mega: Exactly. And the nigga Hussla, you know, Mob Figaz is nice matter of fact they got a lot of ma'fuckers. You know what's dope about Mob Figaz, Mob Figaz is like how Wu-Tang is. Like they got their own personas, like Jacka reminds me, his demeanor, like Jadakiss. He's like a laid back nigga and Jacka smoke weed all day. Like when I say smoke weed all day, I mean if you don't smoke weed and stay with Jacka I promise you you're gonna be high by the time you get to your room, just from contact. And he smoke like the best shit, like he smoke weed like you never heard of. Like Redman and them would love Jacka. Fucking Hussla, Hussla, he's the fucking personality of the crew, he's the motherfucker, he has personality, he's the Method Man of the crew. He's the one that got the ill personality, mad humorous, but he's a real nigga too. Like he's a straight, real gangsta nigga. So, you know what I'm saying, they all got their own demeanor. The nigga Feddi, all them niggas is real, that's why I fuck with them.