JACKED FROM SOHH.
An excerpt from the interview on hiphopgame.com:
Eiht: The Camron issue, I just – I mean I just have a personal thing with people trying to be something they're not. And I understand that we trying to set trends and I don’t know if Camron was trying to set a trend or whatever but the pink thing didn’t hit me too good.
It’s like a phase of **** that people go thru, that they try ****. And I just don’t like it and I don’t like his lyrics. I mean he ain’t talking about nothing to me. And for him to be…You know for you to have a following to where you can turn a whole nation of people to start wearing different colors and stuff, it’s crazy how his voice and what he does. Ya know it’s not like he’s doing something like a follower of like people like Tupac had or Biggie had or something like that.
People are following this cat cause he’s wearing pink shoes, and pink rags and pink tee shirts and then when ; me from the west coast, when I can walk out my door, and ride around my neighborhood and I can see *****z wearing pink tee shirts and pink bandannas, it’s not cool and I don’t think that that’s a trend we should have brought to hip hop.
And then it’s like one rapper to another rapper. I mean you should get your skills up. I mean you making money and you representing whatever your set whatever. I just don’t feel he representing hip-hop to the fullest because it ain’t never been about pink. It’s always been about struggle. But Camron has been on some party thing anyway so I wouldn’t expect him to know the hard struggles of hip hop and brothers struggling and going thru whatever. So I wouldn’t expect him to do that but when you got other people following out their trends to try to follow something, I got ta step up and say something bout that.
Robert: Yea, they call him the ‘Pink Panther’.
Eiht: Yea, ya know the pink Range Rover and pink drawers, pink this and pink that. That’s not cool for me.
Now I’m not one to get beef’s with *****z and be personal about **** but the pink thing is just not happening for me.
I’m the first to say if your lyrics is tight, your lyrics is tight.
I have no beef with the east coast. I’m cool with GangStarr, Premier, Busta, Red, Meth. I have significant homies in New York. But it is just that some things have to be addressed. And I think that is an issue that I needed to address. The pinkism and all the flamboyant **** with all the hot pink, then when you listen to his lyrics he’s not talking about nothing significant in the rap game. So people like that need to be exposed.
Robert: Then there is G-Unit. I know Banks threw your name out on his album, so what’s up? What’s their problem with you?
Eiht: A lot of people have been addressing me about the Banks situation. I don’t know, I didn’t take it as a diss. But you know how people always pump things up. Because he said you don’t have to go all the way to LA to get your MC Eiht. So I didn’t take that as a diss. I took if as him trying to walk in my shoes or compare himself to a west, he’s saying he’s an east coast version of me. He’s laid back, he’s gangsta, he’s smooth, that’s the way I took it.
Now if it’s a different way other than that, then I’m pretty sure that if he’s supposed to be real gangsta and G Unit is supposed to be, ya know cause I did a song with Game cause he’s from Compton. So if they are supposed to be real G Unit *****z and hard gorillas, ya know they Gorilla Unit, we the Gang Unit out here. That’s the controversy we got going right now. Cause they Gorilla Unit and I got a group called Gang Unit. So if they supposed to be the true hard-core street rebels that they are, I’m pretty sure that he could find a better way of trying to address me if he wanted that to be addressed like that. But I didn’t take it as a diss, so really I’m not even focusing on it.
I made a comment on one of the songs on my record saying that you don’t have to go all the way to the East to get your Gang Unit.
So it’s a little throw back but I didn’t take it as a diss. So I’m not really concentrating on it.
Really I say free advertisement for me so go right ahead.
Robert: So this ain’t no full out beef you got with these guys, you’re just putting them in check right?
Eiht: Yea, I don’t start beefs, I just voice my opinion. Everybody got an opinion, that’s my personal opinion."
An excerpt from the interview on hiphopgame.com:
Eiht: The Camron issue, I just – I mean I just have a personal thing with people trying to be something they're not. And I understand that we trying to set trends and I don’t know if Camron was trying to set a trend or whatever but the pink thing didn’t hit me too good.
It’s like a phase of **** that people go thru, that they try ****. And I just don’t like it and I don’t like his lyrics. I mean he ain’t talking about nothing to me. And for him to be…You know for you to have a following to where you can turn a whole nation of people to start wearing different colors and stuff, it’s crazy how his voice and what he does. Ya know it’s not like he’s doing something like a follower of like people like Tupac had or Biggie had or something like that.
People are following this cat cause he’s wearing pink shoes, and pink rags and pink tee shirts and then when ; me from the west coast, when I can walk out my door, and ride around my neighborhood and I can see *****z wearing pink tee shirts and pink bandannas, it’s not cool and I don’t think that that’s a trend we should have brought to hip hop.
And then it’s like one rapper to another rapper. I mean you should get your skills up. I mean you making money and you representing whatever your set whatever. I just don’t feel he representing hip-hop to the fullest because it ain’t never been about pink. It’s always been about struggle. But Camron has been on some party thing anyway so I wouldn’t expect him to know the hard struggles of hip hop and brothers struggling and going thru whatever. So I wouldn’t expect him to do that but when you got other people following out their trends to try to follow something, I got ta step up and say something bout that.
Robert: Yea, they call him the ‘Pink Panther’.
Eiht: Yea, ya know the pink Range Rover and pink drawers, pink this and pink that. That’s not cool for me.
Now I’m not one to get beef’s with *****z and be personal about **** but the pink thing is just not happening for me.
I’m the first to say if your lyrics is tight, your lyrics is tight.
I have no beef with the east coast. I’m cool with GangStarr, Premier, Busta, Red, Meth. I have significant homies in New York. But it is just that some things have to be addressed. And I think that is an issue that I needed to address. The pinkism and all the flamboyant **** with all the hot pink, then when you listen to his lyrics he’s not talking about nothing significant in the rap game. So people like that need to be exposed.
Robert: Then there is G-Unit. I know Banks threw your name out on his album, so what’s up? What’s their problem with you?
Eiht: A lot of people have been addressing me about the Banks situation. I don’t know, I didn’t take it as a diss. But you know how people always pump things up. Because he said you don’t have to go all the way to LA to get your MC Eiht. So I didn’t take that as a diss. I took if as him trying to walk in my shoes or compare himself to a west, he’s saying he’s an east coast version of me. He’s laid back, he’s gangsta, he’s smooth, that’s the way I took it.
Now if it’s a different way other than that, then I’m pretty sure that if he’s supposed to be real gangsta and G Unit is supposed to be, ya know cause I did a song with Game cause he’s from Compton. So if they are supposed to be real G Unit *****z and hard gorillas, ya know they Gorilla Unit, we the Gang Unit out here. That’s the controversy we got going right now. Cause they Gorilla Unit and I got a group called Gang Unit. So if they supposed to be the true hard-core street rebels that they are, I’m pretty sure that he could find a better way of trying to address me if he wanted that to be addressed like that. But I didn’t take it as a diss, so really I’m not even focusing on it.
I made a comment on one of the songs on my record saying that you don’t have to go all the way to the East to get your Gang Unit.
So it’s a little throw back but I didn’t take it as a diss. So I’m not really concentrating on it.
Really I say free advertisement for me so go right ahead.
Robert: So this ain’t no full out beef you got with these guys, you’re just putting them in check right?
Eiht: Yea, I don’t start beefs, I just voice my opinion. Everybody got an opinion, that’s my personal opinion."
