>I would debate on that but
>it would probally be useless.
>MANHOODLUM & I discuss the
>dope slinga turned rapper-"I was
>neva into rap I was
>hustlin but one day I
>was messin around wit my
>boys & spit this freestyle
>,well it ended up in
>the hands of Pete Rock
>& he played it &
>the next thing you know
>Puffy called me" attitude.

That's not Jay's attitude though. He paid dues before becoming big time, simple as that... basically refuting your original claim that he dropped out of the sky with a Mary J. collabo. NY heads knew who the eff he was before that. I've always heard him say that he has a God-given talent to rap and that he wanted to use that. Never heard him say "I was never into rap."


>The Cormega/MOP signings are just about
>recruiting new talent. What would
>you have him do, sign
>nobody?
>
>How soon you forget hes a
>backpacker right? Where the take
>a chance on a dude
>thats "underground"(I use that term
>against my better judgement).

Cormega is definitely a chance. He got dropped from Def Jam and has sold a decent number independently (mostly in NY) but he has no proven sellability. MOP has failed on Relativity and failed on Loud. That's a chance too.

Besides, are these signings even confirmed?

And what would you consider taking a chance? Bleek was nobody. Sigel was nobody. Those weren't chances?