BallerStatus.com: Now, basically, you're referring to The Federation, who in a recent interview with us spoke down on your Yellow Bus movement (see "The Federation: It Feels So Much Better"). Why do you think they intentionally spoke down on something that was obviously started by you?
Mistah FAB: That's what I don't understand. That's what caught me off guard. The way that they put it...if I'm a reader and I'm reading their interview and I see what they say and how they put it, I would think they were trying to talk about me. Or talk about the whole movement and downplay it. So, to respond to that, the only thing I can say is that they are from Fairfield. I'm from Oakland, so you do the math. You ask anybody in the streets, or listen to E-40's album, years ago, they say, "The truth is, you just a Fairfield n----." You know what I'm saying? So, nobody's ever been proud to say they were from Fairfield.
There's only one dude from Fairfield that's really holding it down; he's a young dude named Taj-He-Spitz. He's hot right now. He's repping the real side of it because he's not afraid to rep what he do. He's not trying to take what another city has done and run with it to go nationwide to get on a major label because your mic is bigger. When your mic is bigger that means that more people are gonna be able to hear what you're going to say and you're gonna take credit for something. There's all types of things you go through that shows you don't really define the hyphy movement in general. Using drugs is something, you can use drugs, but does using drugs make you hyphy? No. Livin' this life and really being involved in that, that's what really makes you hyphy.