Whats up everybody??? First of all, I must say I was and still am amazed by the responses I get from the whole thing about me quitting the rap game. I have recieved literally thousands of messages, many phone calls from very influential people, and much support from just everyday people I may bump into on the street…The love is overwhelming I must say. I got over 500 comments on MySpace alone which was very encouraging considering its many more than I got for indulging in some ignorance with certain ignoramus’ ..I got a very appreciated phone call from my brother Lupe Fiasco that really made me look at things from other angles…..Shout out to that brother and congratulations on that CRAZY album… Support that. I also got a very deep call from Datwon Thomas (Editor in Chief) from King Magazine…Thanks man, I got you Homie…Much love to EVERYBODY who expressed their concern whether good or bad…And thank you to everyone who left a comment on here, I was reading them joints like, ‘Damn….Wow…..Whoa’

I still feel the same way I did a month ago when I expressed how I felt about the state of Hip Hop..I still feel it needs a major makeover ..I expressed this to my team and what they said was ‘If not you Saigon, then who’? Then I started to think about all the schools I went to to talk to the kids about Gang Prevention and Prison Reform. I thought about one of my closest friends mother, who is a teacher at one of the worst schools in Camden N.J. and how she rewards them by bringing me up there to talk to the kids. I thought about the 12 year old girl who told me how my song ‘Pain in my Life’ stopped her from being promiscuous. I thought about my song ‘The Color Purple’ and talking to Fab 5 Freddy about how we could start a whole movement with this song to save some of the lives of black and brown children..I thought about the kids at In Arms Reach and the example I would be ultimately setting by just quitting at something they know I love doing and have worked so hard at..I thought about alot of things…After all the messages from yall, the phone calls from the ‘real’ industry people, and just the thinking I did…I decided 2 things, I decided that right now quitting is not an option for me, and number 2, that if Im going to continue to make music and do this rap thing…Im playing by MY OWN RULES….If youre not with me, youre against me….We have a plight to help save lives and enlighten people that we have some serious adjustments to make..So if youre a D.J. or a journalist who does something that is going to try and hurt what were trying to do, eg. not supporting my records or trying to slay me in the media, you are against me and what I stand for…If youll play a song that celebrates black and brown people killing each other, selling drugs to each other, or making it rain 1$ bills on some poorly eduacated young misled girl, but wont play the meaningful positive music….Youre against what we stand for and probably dont deserve that powerful position.With that being said, If I have to ever go back to prison, It shouldnt be over me hurting someone over what set they claim, or over a drug war, or cause somebody dissed me or some stupid shit like that, NO..It should be over the handling of the ones who continuously push this poison onto our children…This way I will feel personally justified everyday..And please dont take it as me making threats, I dont make threats…Im sorta like a suicide bomber for black children, If I have to give my life to save the lives of our children then geuss what? I will….Yall can go out gangbanging, or over a chic, but Im not going out like THAT..

With all this being said,.My album WILL be released VERY soon.. Me and Just Blaze put alot of work into this thing, its finally done and we’re more than happy with it…I feel there hasnt been an album this relevant since……..Ever. This album is sure to shock alot of people…Hahaha I have literally 12 features on the album…All LEGENDARY artist…All of them, but I am the ONLY one rapping on my album..Oh, and Jay Z of course. Go figure.I wont give up much more about the album, YET…Oh I will say that I have a song produced by Kanye West and Just Blaze TOGETHER, that is a first, I think..hahaha..Regardless its crazy…Oh, I love Come on Baby even though the label didnt really support it, but I have decided that being Im coming back to do this and its a New Year, I needed a NEW first single (only I can do that)…So I will have a NEW first single out probably by Christmas Day…Whoever doesnt support this will again be going against what we (Abandoned Nation) stand for and it wouldnt be a good thing…..I Promise. Oh, and being Im back in this shit I could promote my new Street Album, the Moral of The Story..The shit is fantastic, you NEEEED that in ya life…Stand out cuts are, The God aka What A Life, In A Mess,Saigon Meets Just Blaze and tooo many more…These are on my page so you can sample the greatness…I mean, Who (besides maybe Nas) can paint a perfect picture like me…NOBODY….Get that Moral of the Story now and the Greatest Story coming Reeeeal soon…….Oh, I wanna thank Just (Futuristic Man ) Blaze for showing me what a blog was..I remember 3 moths ago everyone saying ‘ Damn Saigon is the Blog Bandit’ Now everyone and their mother has a damn blog…..hahahahaha thats too funny.. Im back better than ever, back looking like me….

‘It feels good to be home’.. Touch the Sky -Kanye West

THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD…………………….WATCH

In other news, Saigon was recently named the most bipolar person in the music industry, finally surpassing The Game, who has held down the spot for a minute, and is a forerunner for the top 10 publicity stunters list — fresh on the heels of 50 Cent, Cam’ron and Foxy Brown

In an interview with HipHopGame Prodigy takes a moment to throw Saigon (the retired rapper) under the bus:

I read somewhere that Saigon was like, ‘P’s not going to be able to come out of his cell when he’s in jail’ and that he’s the Yardfather and all this bullshit. What I’m trying to say is, “Dun, your album is never going to come out. You know what I’m saying? Don’t worry if I come out of my cell or not. Your album is never coming out.” The reason I said that is because like I said before is that I’m not really worried about problems in jail. The only thing I’m worried about is that I’m locked up and I can’t come out until they tell me I could come out. That’s how it is in jail. You can’t move in jail until they tell you to move. A lot of my niggas and a lot of my cousins are in jail right now doing way more time. I’ve been preparing for this all my life. My pops has been in jail. Half of my life my pops was locked up. I’ve basically been preparing for jail since I was a little kid. For a nigga to say, “P’s never going to come out of his cell,” nigga, your album is never coming out. Shut the fuck up. The Greatest Story Never Told, how about that?

Well, how bout it Sai?

Saigon has had an eventful year — from a run-in with Prodigy, to telling Melissa Ford he’d punch her in the face. It looks like it finally took its toll on him.

The MySpace warrior posted up a lengthy (and poorly formatted) blog entry earlier today announcing his resignation from the rap game. Here it is in it’s entirety (formatted to be easier to read):

I QUIT……..

You see I got into rap a very very long time ago, I didnt do it to become rich, I didnt do it to become famous, I did it because it was a way for me to vent about the bad things that were happening around me, It was therapy for me so to speak…..Ive realized now that sooo many people have gotten into Hip Hop, whether the business aspect or otherwise, its not really for me anymore…

First of all, people need to know that I am a contraversial person period, before I ever was in a magazine, on T.V. in a studio, I was very very deep in the street shit..Contraversy has always followed me, Its unfortunate but it is what it is…Its my life…I dont try to start shit to cause contraversy, its the media, the press and yall who eat off contraversy who start the shit, try to make me look wild or out of control when Im just being who I am. Everybody is like, ‘OMG how is gonna show up to a radio station drunk’, hahaha, Im a rebel, I done showed up to court drunk facing 15 years and yall talking about a radio show..

This is the bullshit, hahaha its funny how people listen to all these rappers talk about all these guns they bust and being in the trap and hustling, and everybody loves the music and celebrates it, the second he gets caught up in some of the shit he was rapping about, everybody is talking about how stupid he is and all this shit..

…I cant take turning on a computer and seeing my name being thrown around in all kinds of ways, Its not good for me, and not good for these writers, I am accident prone for life, I will take a page out of the Wu Tang book and beat the shit outta one of yall niggaz man, youre playing with fire.. Should I post my rap sheet on the internet to remind yall , Im not a fucking studio thug man, … I never signed up for this so Im stepping away from this fake shit…..

I did a interview on Shade45, the interview was 2 hours long mind you, we talked about EVERYTHING from what we need to do as a people to get on track to economizing and everything but you know whats on all the so called media outlets in boldface as the headline, ‘Saigon Disses Whoever’…You know what part of a 2 hr interview people replay? Me saying something about someone…If I woulda said, Ill slap John Hardy Hawkins for his role in the Slave trade, they would never put it in boldface or re run it 1000 times, but If I say Ill slap a rapper or something, Its the headline news of the day….Thats ass backwards to me so Im done. I dont like not being able to speak my mind without some fucking clown being able to make a story out of it because Im a “rapper” and “rappers” shouldnt say those things….hahahah I didnt sign up for this..

No more interviews, no more mixtapes, no nothing….Im not a rapper anymore, Im done.. Im back to being regular me…This shit is too fake for me, I found myself getting caught up in the bullshit but now Ill gladly walk away…These people are so predictable that to prove to my niggas who would say my buzz was dying or whatever, I would say ‘oh yeah’, watch this, then for fun, I would just do an interview and make a comment about someone because I knew they would run back like little bitches who instigate something to get the people talking. Then walah, my buzz is back, (nevermind the 10 great new songs i wouldve just put out)..But its not fun anymore…

I look at the Prodigy incident, that started not because of anything but these media outlets…He told me to suck his dick in an INTERVIEW..Then it becomes physical, we both coulda got shot, stabbed or even killed…Had I been with my crew somebody wouldve died in there all over something that started in an INTERVIEW. You got this other guy throwing my name around on T.V. now thats going to get physical, Then watch, the same people who instigated it will be talking about how senseless we are..I dont give a fuck if nobody ever does a story on me again..I dont rap anymore, I dont need it anymore… I no longer have to keep pretending to be a certain way to care about a radio spin, or an interview, so I can address these people when I see them like I BEEEEN wanting to, and thats unbiased. NO MORE ASS KISSING FOR ME. All of that trying to be politically correct bullshit is just that, bullshit..There is no honor amongst theives…Now I can say what the fuck I want, when I want, however the fuck I want without people feeling like they have the right to ridicule me, judge me and talk slick about me because I have this title “Rapper” attached to my name, or because Im a “Rapper” who supposed to know how to talk to these media people who really dont give 2 fucks about hip hop or black culture period. How many of these outlets are owned by black people anyway?

I know alot of people dont give a fuck about me stepping away, some people might but so what, its a wrap…Some people will say I was wack, I never had punchlines or funny metaphores , but that wasnt my thing anyway….I left enough great music behind for people to understand I was good at rapping, thats all I ever wanted out of it, But now Im back on my bullshit…I have no KIDS, I have nothing to lose..My reason for ever taking it to this level in the first place was to use the music to to try to get black people out of the stages of deaf, dumb and blindness and that was a fight I probably couldve never won anyway…I wouldve given my life trying to save my people and died in vein like alot of people did..

Oh, and to that rapper thats throwing my name around, U must be retarted or like hospital food or something, we have BEEF homie, not rap beef, beef beef I have no more to say about that, its a small world, Ill see him…Fuck this bum ass rap game anyway, its full of fake ass niggaz who pump poison to the kids, make a few dollars and act like theyre larger then life when they know their music is detrimental to their fucking communities, If it aint about sex, its about drugs or violence, where are the songs about getting an eduacation, or being responsible parents and shit, or stopping the Gang Violence…This shit is sickening………..

SAIGON IS DEAD…Should I say Ill slap a rapper so they run and put it in all their news section and gossip columns..Okay Ill slap the shit outta EVERY Rapper hows that….I QUIT, Now I have time to focus on my non profit organazation, In Arms Reach/Abandoned Nation, Please if you get the chance, check out Inarmsreach.org and lend your support to the work we do for the children in NYC whose parent(s) are incarcerated,

Thank You now I gotta figure out how Im gonna break this to Just Blaze……THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD….hahahahahahaha PROPHECY

I’m gonna be one of those niggas that says “So?”. This nigga has contributed a few good songs to the game, but mostly drama (on and off the internet). See ya buddy.

Stemming from an old beef fueled by Prodigy’s comments in an interview, the Mobb Deep vs Saigon beef hit a critical point last night. In the video you see Saigon being homosexually close to Havoc on stage, next thing you know Saigon gets molly-rocked, then immediately perform his own rendition of the Runnin’ Man.

Mobb Deep Nigga!

*UPDATE* - Here’s another version of the video, which shows Prodigy getting ragged up (as usual):

Saigon has also updated his infamous MySpace Blog to share his thoughts on the events:

I Finally Got Prodigy….

I know you all are seeing this YouTube video of like 25 Mobb Deep niggaz chasing me out the club…And helll fucking yeah I dipped up up out of there untouched…..

But that was after I snuffed little punk ass Prodigy…They can edit it and lie all they want but , But when you hear the nigga say ‘Oh’ the first time is when i rock him… right before you see my man rock him, The second time is when my man rocks him… I rocked him first, thats what makes the kid with the red hat try to get at me and got everybody hype..Why didnt they slow down that part? If you notice I punch prodigy right into my mans hands…And fuck yeah I got up outta there…Them niggaz was 30 deep and I went to their party, grab the mic, did my song and punched Prodigy in his face.. (I wasnt even on the bill to perform) This nigga told me to suck his dick so he got rocked, at his show..Im not with the promoting violence shit and we couldve kept it between us, but these assholes go make a youtube video talking about I was hiding under a table and all this shit…Editing and lying about a watch and shit….Fronting ass niggas…Now i gotta show the real…

I see niggas laughing cause I was running up outta that mufucka, damn right..I think the shit looks funny as hell too…And all yall talking about I wouldve stayed there and got my ribs broken and all that, ya frontiing….or ya fucking stupid..I had already rocked Prodigy, it was time to dip up outta there…Shout out to Big Chris for the human sheild technique, He said, you got em, lets gooo and we went……I toooold Prodigy I was gonna get him…Whose story is real….? hahahaha I never take L’s….

Saigon goes on to address the edited version of the video:

Right when they say Im supposed to be hiding under the table, You see right before my man rocks Prodigy I give him the overhand right…Thats when the guy with the red hat tries to get at me.. Thats what sent prodigy flying into my man, who rocked em again…And I never got touched at all, That fat nigga fronting at the end, ya fronting, Nobody hit me, I was grabbed from behind….Edit shit all you want to promote havoc album…P know I got him though…And dipped up outta there..smooth….hahaha… Lets get the facts straight people…….

To which a commenter then replies:

You know what mane………………….straight fuck u Sai……………I’m fucking 19 and shit like that niggah, and I already know not to go on damn Facebook or Myspace to brag on a fucking sucker punch and shit……………I was feeling too mane, because i thought u was a cool ass cat, but you aint shit but another gangster with a record deal….I hope yo shit flop…..david banner shit gonna be better……..Just Blaze need to drop yo week ass

Awww… he don’t love Sai Sai no mo’!