wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! - Wu-Tang Corp. - Official Site of the Wu-Tang Clan

inditing dane · 06-21-2005, 07:42 AM

Damn he is most def one of my absolute favorites, he IS a real dude. He loves hiphop, and he AINT in it for the money...i wish a lot of other rapper was like him. Cant wait for his album... this is pretty long read but WOW this shit dope!

Cormega on Why We Need the Boom-Bap Back

Labels don’t care about Hip-Hop culture no more, they care about success and dollars, so everyone’s following a formula rather than being original. First everybody started wearing suits and making those R&B friendly songs. Now people are going too far to the left with it. It’s played out. The producers started using the sped up vocals on their production and MCs even started singing. If that’s the case, we may as well be R&B singers with it. What happened to the knocking bass and the 808’s? And really, what happened to the DJ with scratches and stuff like that? Mike Tyson used to come out to Public Enemy. The s**t that’s out right now don’t get you hyped like how that Boom Bap s**t did back in the day. People play Rap for their kids now. There was a time when songs used to come on in the club, and you would just want to fight. It was adrenaline filled. People are scared to make those kinds of records.

That Boom Bap was an era of greatness. It was like watching an NBA All-Star Game. Gilbert Arenus made the team this year. Let’s just say you take it back to when Jordan and Bird and Barkley, certain people couldn’t be an All-Star during those eras. Jay-Z is able to shine during this age because he has flow. Rap is all about who has the dopest flow right now. Rakim and Kane are from the era when it was about what you were saying. You f**kin’ with a Hip-Hop historian. That’s where the term “wack MC” comes from. You can’t say “wack MC” today, because it’s all about flow. If you look at flow, Vanilla Ice had a dope f**kin’ flow. The record that Pharell produced with Fabolous rappin’ on it, he used Vanilla Ice’s flow. I know this for a fact because Pharell told me himself. Mase had a dope ass flow. But “The Message” by Melle-Mel isn’t the record it is because of the flow, it is the record it is because of what he was saying. Nas is one of the last rappers from the say-something era. If I was A&R a Kane or a G Rap, I’d say, “don’t follow the formulas of these rappers today, because you’re downsizing yourself. These guys are more accomplished financially. But as far as great artists, they’ve yet to catch up to you guys.”

When KRS-One did Return of the Boom Bap, I think he was just trying to bring it back and step it up. At that time, a lot of rappers on the East Coast was going into the Jazz sound. There was a lot of experimentation going on. That smooth G-Funk was dominating too. Also around that time was Black Moon. That is Boom-Bap too! If you look at it nowadays, all the artists that were trying to represent Hip-Hop as an art form aren’t getting the love they deserve.

Of course it’s the MC’s responsibility to keep it Boom-Bap too. A lot of MC’s don’t have balls. Everybody wants to accommodate the radio. Everybody’s running out to get a Kanye West beat or a Lil’ Jon beat because they’re the hot producer right now rather than using a new producers whose beats are crazy or working producers like DJ Premier and Large Professor whose sound is why we fell in love with Hip-Hop in the first place and now we treat them like they’re less of a priority. On every album, I show love to a new producer. So far I introduced Sha Money XL, J Love, and Emile to the industry and now they’re big producers in the Hip-Hop. I didn’t chose them because they had a name, but because their s**t was hot.

Right now, we’re extracting all the juice out of Rap. It’s getting to the point where it’s so wack, so boring, so predictable that people tend to forget what made Rap what it was. The sped R&B vocals tracks producers are using is played out. When I did that on The Testament, it was the early 90’s. Now I’m trying to get away from all that because it’s overused. I’m trying to make music that’s timeless, classic Hip-Hop. That’s one of the reasons why people are still able to listen to my album The Testament which we just put out in February. It was recorded nearly a decade but it doesn’t sound like the typical record you hear today. They all have the same formula. I don’t ride with what everyone else is doing.

Rap has been very abusive to its pioneers. I told Large Professor, he’s dope – I’m definitely going to put him on the album. He’ll look at me like, “word word?” So many people tell him that, but don’t do it. Take MC Shan. When we did the QB’s Finest album, I told him, “Don’t try to do what we do. Do what you did. Because what you did, made us want to do what we doing. The way you rapped is timeless. It’s not played out.” That’s one of the reasons why I like Soul music because it’s classic. Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, is a classic that you can listen to even a hundred years from now and it still has relevance and meaning.

In a way, when they first introduced the term “old school,” it was cute. It was a fun term. It was a piece of slang that some of the older people used to use. It was actually a term of endearment. But now, it’s almost a term of ridicule. You’ll hear a younger dude say, “Oh, he old school.” If a throwback jersey comes out, they don’t call it an old jersey. It’s vintage, or it’s retro. When the old Jordan’s come out, they don’t look down on those.

When I made The Testament and The True Meaning, it was a debatable topic as to which is better. To have that argument in itself is a compliment to both albums especially because The Testament wasn’t released when it should have come out. If it had been, it would have been crazy. I’m just happy it’s finally out. Now the challenge is to try and outdo them both on my next solo album, and fill what might have been missing from them and from Rap music at the same time. What’s missing from Hip-Hop is that Boom-Bap sound.

In 1992, I made a record called “Sex, Drugs, Bitches, and Money.” It’s just like Biggie’s “Dreams of F**kin’ an R&B B*tch.” I didn’t have an album up, but back in the day that music would circulate. It was a hit record in Queensbridge projects. Grandmaster Vic would make mixtapes in Jamaica, Queens. I was making songs like that. I had a song called “Set It Off” with a group called PHD on Tuff City Records. This album is called Without Warning, and it’s out there from 1991.

I know somebody’s gonna try and bite me, but on my next album, Urban Legend, I have a track with PMD, Grand Puba, KRS-One, and Big Daddy Kane. It’s my greatest accomplishment. It’s not even a Boom-Bap record, it’s a feel-good record and my way of paying tribute to the MCs who came before me. I didn’t ask them to give me 16 bars on any kind of topic, I just told them to be themselves. I also told them how much I appreciate them as artists. Urban Legend is my solo third album coming soon and it's gonna be a challenge to myself. I don’t even include The Testament; that’s more of a collector’s album, or Legal Hustle which was a collaborative album. A third album is a defining moment. The one that can make you or break you. A lot of artists only get two or three albums. This one will prove if I’m going to stay or leave. So I’m going hard with it and I gotta bring back that loud Boom Bap s**t. Enjoyable, but loud. I want to f**k up people’s speakers. I want people to complain. I also want n***as to respect what I’m saying.

faderlaceratah · 06-21-2005, 08:52 AM

word up. cormega is the fuckin realness. straight up, if you aint got the Testament yet, that shit is fuckin ill.. really good cd.. same with all of his shit too, he just keeps pumpin it out. Cormega's one of the few emcees out there that's still hungry, still fuckin hustlin..

Protection · 06-21-2005, 09:16 AM

Cormega's the man. I need to buy The Testament tho, still haven't heard it but I've basically only heard nothing but positive things about it.

I-Legit · 06-21-2005, 09:35 AM

The Realness - Track 2...give it a listen if u can get it

Welshkillabee · 06-21-2005, 09:55 AM

Mega is the truth the realest out there

kingidivine · 06-21-2005, 10:03 AM

now it's clear why i like his music so much even though his lyrics aren't the greatest. i already had most of the songs from the testament, but i'm going to buy it now anyway

Welshkillabee · 06-21-2005, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingidivine

now it's clear why i like his music so much even though his lyrics aren't the greatest. i already had most of the songs from the testament, but i'm going to buy it now anyway

Mark my words You will not be dissapointed the Testament is ill.

inditing dane · 06-21-2005, 01:16 PM

all he has ever released has been amazing to me... i love his shit. Urban Legend is gonna be classic. Premo, Pete Rock, Lil Fame, Ayatolla, DR Period, J Waxx Garfield, Ju Ju, J Love and maybe Havoc is on the boards.... plus he got Krs-One, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane, PMD and Tragedy Khadafi plus maybe more featured. And he says himself this album is much better than what he has done previously. Cant fucking wait for that shit...To me mega is most def top 5 in the game today...

Protection · 06-22-2005, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by inditing dane

all he has ever released has been amazing to me... i love his shit. Urban Legend is gonna be classic. Premo, Pete Rock, Lil Fame, Ayatolla, DR Period, J Waxx Garfield, Ju Ju, J Love and maybe Havoc is on the boards.... plus he got Krs-One, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane, PMD and Tragedy Khadafi plus maybe more featured. And he says himself this album is much better than what he has done previously. Cant fucking wait for that shit...To me mega is most def top 5 in the game today...

When is Urban Legend dropping?

Rooty P · 06-23-2005, 02:15 AM

Vordul Mega eats Cormega for lunch. Peace and CANNIBAL OX.

Bunce · 07-25-2005, 01:08 PM

www.cormegasite.com/forum
He contributes there alot. I got the testament the other day and i been bumpin it almost non-stop

Second Coming · 07-25-2005, 02:45 PM

Anybody know if Cormega got RZA for a track on his new album as he said he was hoping to do?

tragedykhadafi12 · 07-25-2005, 05:10 PM

Yea mega is an inspiration to other rappers. He should be the one on a major label selling millions of albums but hes not.

Create · 07-25-2005, 06:20 PM

Mad Old Ass Interview

ZiG 9th · 07-25-2005, 06:21 PM

Love this interview!!!! I gotta kop The Testament and Legal hustle then i will have his whole collection!!

Mega is still one of my favorite emcees!!

06-21-2005, 07:42 AM	#1
inditing dane Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 226 Rep Power: 0	wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Damn he is most def one of my absolute favorites, he IS a real dude. He loves hiphop, and he AINT in it for the money...i wish a lot of other rapper was like him. Cant wait for his album... this is pretty long read but WOW this shit dope! Cormega on Why We Need the Boom-Bap Back Labels don’t care about Hip-Hop culture no more, they care about success and dollars, so everyone’s following a formula rather than being original. First everybody started wearing suits and making those R&B friendly songs. Now people are going too far to the left with it. It’s played out. The producers started using the sped up vocals on their production and MCs even started singing. If that’s the case, we may as well be R&B singers with it. What happened to the knocking bass and the 808’s? And really, what happened to the DJ with scratches and stuff like that? Mike Tyson used to come out to Public Enemy. The st that’s out right now don’t get you hyped like how that Boom Bap st did back in the day. People play Rap for their kids now. There was a time when songs used to come on in the club, and you would just want to fight. It was adrenaline filled. People are scared to make those kinds of records. That Boom Bap was an era of greatness. It was like watching an NBA All-Star Game. Gilbert Arenus made the team this year. Let’s just say you take it back to when Jordan and Bird and Barkley, certain people couldn’t be an All-Star during those eras. Jay-Z is able to shine during this age because he has flow. Rap is all about who has the dopest flow right now. Rakim and Kane are from the era when it was about what you were saying. You fkin’ with a Hip-Hop historian. That’s where the term “wack MC” comes from. You can’t say “wack MC” today, because it’s all about flow. If you look at flow, Vanilla Ice had a dope fkin’ flow. The record that Pharell produced with Fabolous rappin’ on it, he used Vanilla Ice’s flow. I know this for a fact because Pharell told me himself. Mase had a dope ass flow. But “The Message” by Melle-Mel isn’t the record it is because of the flow, it is the record it is because of what he was saying. Nas is one of the last rappers from the say-something era. If I was A&R a Kane or a G Rap, I’d say, “don’t follow the formulas of these rappers today, because you’re downsizing yourself. These guys are more accomplished financially. But as far as great artists, they’ve yet to catch up to you guys.” When KRS-One did Return of the Boom Bap, I think he was just trying to bring it back and step it up. At that time, a lot of rappers on the East Coast was going into the Jazz sound. There was a lot of experimentation going on. That smooth G-Funk was dominating too. Also around that time was Black Moon. That is Boom-Bap too! If you look at it nowadays, all the artists that were trying to represent Hip-Hop as an art form aren’t getting the love they deserve. Of course it’s the MC’s responsibility to keep it Boom-Bap too. A lot of MC’s don’t have balls. Everybody wants to accommodate the radio. Everybody’s running out to get a Kanye West beat or a Lil’ Jon beat because they’re the hot producer right now rather than using a new producers whose beats are crazy or working producers like DJ Premier and Large Professor whose sound is why we fell in love with Hip-Hop in the first place and now we treat them like they’re less of a priority. On every album, I show love to a new producer. So far I introduced Sha Money XL, J Love, and Emile to the industry and now they’re big producers in the Hip-Hop. I didn’t chose them because they had a name, but because their s*t was hot. Right now, we’re extracting all the juice out of Rap. It’s getting to the point where it’s so wack, so boring, so predictable that people tend to forget what made Rap what it was. The sped R&B vocals tracks producers are using is played out. When I did that on The Testament,* it was the early 90’s. Now I’m trying to get away from all that because it’s overused. I’m trying to make music that’s timeless, classic Hip-Hop. That’s one of the reasons why people are still able to listen to my album The Testament which we just put out in February. It was recorded nearly a decade but it doesn’t sound like the typical record you hear today. They all have the same formula. I don’t ride with what everyone else is doing. Rap has been very abusive to its pioneers. I told Large Professor, he’s dope – I’m definitely going to put him on the album. He’ll look at me like, “word word?” So many people tell him that, but don’t do it. Take MC Shan. When we did the QB’s Finest album, I told him, “Don’t try to do what we do. Do what you did. Because what you did, made us want to do what we doing. The way you rapped is timeless. It’s not played out.” That’s one of the reasons why I like Soul music because it’s classic. Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, is a classic that you can listen to even a hundred years from now and it still has relevance and meaning. In a way, when they first introduced the term “old school,” it was cute. It was a fun term. It was a piece of slang that some of the older people used to use. It was actually a term of endearment. But now, it’s almost a term of ridicule. You’ll hear a younger dude say, “Oh, he old school.” If a throwback jersey comes out, they don’t call it an old jersey. It’s vintage, or it’s retro. When the old Jordan’s come out, they don’t look down on those. When I made The Testament and The True Meaning, it was a debatable topic as to which is better. To have that argument in itself is a compliment to both albums especially because The Testament wasn’t released when it should have come out. If it had been, it would have been crazy. I’m just happy it’s finally out. Now the challenge is to try and outdo them both on my next solo album, and fill what might have been missing from them and from Rap music at the same time. What’s missing from Hip-Hop is that Boom-Bap sound. In 1992, I made a record called “Sex, Drugs, Bitches, and Money.” It’s just like Biggie’s “Dreams of F*kin’ an R&B Btch.” I didn’t have an album up, but back in the day that music would circulate. It was a hit record in Queensbridge projects. Grandmaster Vic would make mixtapes in Jamaica, Queens. I was making songs like that. I had a song called “Set It Off” with a group called PHD on Tuff City Records. This album is called Without Warning, and it’s out there from 1991. I know somebody’s gonna try and bite me, but on my next album, Urban Legend, I have a track with PMD, Grand Puba, KRS-One, and Big Daddy Kane. It’s my greatest accomplishment. It’s not even a Boom-Bap record, it’s a feel-good record and my way of paying tribute to the MCs who came before me. I didn’t ask them to give me 16 bars on any kind of topic, I just told them to be themselves. I also told them how much I appreciate them as artists. Urban Legend is my solo third album coming soon and it's gonna be a challenge to myself. I don’t even include The Testament; that’s more of a collector’s album, or Legal Hustle which was a collaborative album. A third album is a defining moment. The one that can make you or break you. A lot of artists only get two or three albums. This one will prove if I’m going to stay or leave. So I’m going hard with it and I gotta bring back that loud Boom Bap st. Enjoyable, but loud. I want to fk up people’s speakers. I want people to complain. I also want n***as to respect what I’m saying.

06-21-2005, 08:52 AM	#2
faderlaceratah ott killah Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Age: 31 Posts: 248 Rep Power: 10	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! word up. cormega is the fuckin realness. straight up, if you aint got the Testament yet, that shit is fuckin ill.. really good cd.. same with all of his shit too, he just keeps pumpin it out. Cormega's one of the few emcees out there that's still hungry, still fuckin hustlin.. __________________

06-21-2005, 09:16 AM	#3
Protection ?!?!?!?!!!?!?!??? Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Home Age: 27 Posts: 498 Rep Power: 11	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Cormega's the man. I need to buy The Testament tho, still haven't heard it but I've basically only heard nothing but positive things about it. __________________

06-21-2005, 09:35 AM	#4
I-Legit Fuckin' Left Join Date: Jun 2005 Age: 25 Posts: 860 Rep Power: 9	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! The Realness - Track 2...give it a listen if u can get it

06-21-2005, 09:55 AM	#5
Welshkillabee WelshKillaBee Join Date: May 2004 Location: Wales Age: 29 Posts: 935 Rep Power: 10	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Mega is the truth the realest out there

06-21-2005, 10:03 AM	#6
kingidivine Divine Cypher Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Detroit Posts: 253 Rep Power: 0	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! now it's clear why i like his music so much even though his lyrics aren't the greatest. i already had most of the songs from the testament, but i'm going to buy it now anyway

06-21-2005, 01:16 PM	#8
inditing dane Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 226 Rep Power: 0	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! all he has ever released has been amazing to me... i love his shit. Urban Legend is gonna be classic. Premo, Pete Rock, Lil Fame, Ayatolla, DR Period, J Waxx Garfield, Ju Ju, J Love and maybe Havoc is on the boards.... plus he got Krs-One, Grand Puba, Big Daddy Kane, PMD and Tragedy Khadafi plus maybe more featured. And he says himself this album is much better than what he has done previously. Cant fucking wait for that shit...To me mega is most def top 5 in the game today...

06-23-2005, 02:15 AM	#10
Rooty P i.e. Root Pepper Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Allah Posts: 479 Rep Power: 0	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Vordul Mega eats Cormega for lunch. Peace and CANNIBAL OX. __________________

07-25-2005, 01:08 PM	#11
Bunce Wu-Banger Join Date: Jun 2005 Age: 25 Posts: 25 Rep Power: 0	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! www.cormegasite.com/forum He contributes there alot. I got the testament the other day and i been bumpin it almost non-stop

07-25-2005, 02:45 PM	#12
Second Coming Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: VA Age: 30 Posts: 874 Rep Power: 13	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Anybody know if Cormega got RZA for a track on his new album as he said he was hoping to do?

07-25-2005, 05:10 PM	#13
tragedykhadafi12 Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3,096 Rep Power: 15	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Yea mega is an inspiration to other rappers. He should be the one on a major label selling millions of albums but hes not.

07-25-2005, 06:21 PM	#15
ZiG 9th Universal builder Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Holdin down the North Eastern corner of the U.S. Matrix Posts: 743 Rep Power: 0	Re: wow so how the hell can u hate on MEGA? READ THIS! Love this interview!!!! I gotta kop The Testament and Legal hustle then i will have his whole collection!! Mega is still one of my favorite emcees!! __________________ Born intellectual...mind over matter...my mental splatter ya physical...so fast my movements are invisible...cut off the wingz to your trend...your not even that original

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