Then he did an internet interview and went at me again. It really let me know that I was an important person to his life, because the interviewer only asked him one question about me. That question was if he would do a song with Crooked I? He went in for five minutes spewing negativity about me. That just let me know that I am on this dude’s mind. He said things about me that weren’t true and he tried to bait me to diss Bad Azz, RBX and other rappers. He could have just answered the question, “No. I am not doing a song with him.” Instead, he spews all of this craziness about me. I’m that much of a threat to the dude. I don’t even have a record out and he’s worried about me. He also had some slick words for artists like Bishop Lamont and Spider Loc.
Then he dissed his own artists! He once said that Dr. Dre only deals with artists that are 100 percent ready to go and that his own artists are like at 30 percent! He’s saying that his artists are only 30 percent of a star. He sh*t on me, other West Coast artists and his own artists.
AllHipHop.com: And since then there has been not real conversation between you two?
Crooked I: There has been no conversation between me and him since then. I reached out a few times because I knew a few people on his security team. I tried to reach to get a sit down, so we can talk man to man and to find out what is his real problem with me. He doesn’t have any real grounds to have a problem with me. He never got back so I feel that he doesn’t want to talk. I’m at the point now where if he wants to ever settle this, he has to come to me. He has to come to me and make a public statement against the statements that he made. If he doesn’t do that, then it’s see you when I see you.
“A real person from the streets ain’t trying to run into the beefs. They try to settle it and if it’s the last thing they got to resort to, then they do what they got to do.”
AllHipHop.com: Ultimately, you are willing to settle all of this, if you can?
Crooked I: I’m always willing to settle things. That’s what you are supposed to do. A real person from the streets ain’t trying to run into the beefs. They try to settle it and if it’s the last thing they got to resort to, then they do what they got to do. These fake people from the streets act like they are running to every little beef. You’ve got to run in with your eyes opened.
These are the terms; Snoop Dogg has to say, “Crooked I, my bad, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have said that s**t about you. You never said anything about me. I don’t know what I was thinking – my bad.” He has to say those things to me first. Then [he] has to go out in public like he went out in public and spoke negatively about me, and retract those statements. If he doesn’t do those two things then we will never settle it, because I reached out to him already and I took the high road. So now if he doesn’t do that, it won’t be settled. I don’t have any rap beef with him, because nobody wants to see me and Snoop Dogg battle each other. Everybody knows that he can’t rap better than me.
AllHipHop.com: What do you think is causing all of this on his part about you, if you have to guess?
Crooked I: Snoop Doggy Dogg, sat in a cipher with me in Long Beach at my studio. He grabbed my homeboy Big C-Style and said, “If you want to do something in this industry, you have to do something with Crooked I. Because Crooked I is the dopest rapper I have heard in a long time.” This is what Snoop said and that’s what made me and Big C-Style start riding with each other. So for a dude to turn around and say that I don’t belong on the court and that I am not better than this guy or that guy, now you sound funny Snoop Dogg! You are the same Snoop Dogg that was at the Sound Castle studio when we were recording the 19th Street Compilation who said, “Get out of the booth and let Crooked I go in there because you guys keep f**king up and he’s the only one that can go in there and do the song right.”
This is the same Snoop Dogg that now says that he never liked me – so you’ve got a motive behind the lying. What is it? Are you afraid that I am going to take Long Beach? My whole thing is, Long Beach is big enough for all of the citizens that live in it. He doesn’t have to fear that. He’s already a legend with a legacy and nobody can say they put Long Beach on the map before him. So why are you so afraid of me being the new boss of the city? That’s a question that you need to ask him. The only thing that I can see is causing this is fear.
