mannie still bitter about "bout it bout it"
i doubt he still cares about baby/cash money vs no limit at this point.
DX: Did you celebrate Cash Money’s success? Let me just bluntly ask, ‘cause you know people been wanting to know for years…
Master P: Yeah. Man, I’m happy for them. They from the same city I’m from. It’s always been a friendly competition with us.
DX: I don’t know, when
I spoke to Mannie Fresh in 2011for HipHopDX he told me the competition maybe wasn’t so friendly at one point. He talked about the origins of the “bout it” slanguage; that U.N.L.V. had a song using “bout it” before you did. I know you don’t wanna revisit all that, but was there some tension back in the mid-‘90s over the “Bout It” [record]?
Master P: Man, let me explain something to you, Mannie Fresh was a producer, a beat-man; we really from the streets, man. If it was any tension, why you gonna wait till now to say something? I never heard a U.N.L.V. “Bout It” song. When you talk about “Bout It,” you gotta pull that up; No Limit is “Bout It.”
[With] all that I think people need to be themselves instead of trying to sell newspapers. I ain’t into all that, man. It’s not a gimmick for me, this for real. So, I wish him the best of luck, but I never talked to Mannie Fresh back then...don’t even know him like that. I always thought he was a great producer, and I think he should stay in his lane at that.
And if you feel like it’s some bad blood over a record or something, c’mon man. [16] years ago you ain’t say nothing and you saying something now? So you must not be no real dude. ‘Cause if somebody took something from me, I’m going to see him.
You shoulda been did an interview with him.
DX: Honestly, hand to God, I didn’t even know there was a U.N.L.V. “Bout It” song until he mentioned it.
Master P: I ain’t never heard it. And if it was, and if it ain’t successful, it don’t matter. You know how many songs I done made that wasn’t successful somebody else made [the concept] successful; you think I’m worried about it? Just like his music, you know how many beats people made [the same way]. The “Trigger Man” beat, that’s how they came up. You know how many people made that? It’s who do whatever [with it].
So, I ain’t into all that hatin’, man. I’m into celebrating people’s success, doing what I do. We live an eye-for-an-eye over here. We ain’t out starting trouble; we ain’t looking for trouble, we doing what we gotta do.
props wacky....i never knew this all stemmed from the bout it shyt
of that time frame