That sample was on OCs album before that
you're correct. It was an interlude on Word Life, but at the time, "stay real" was new and on college/underground radio in 2003. Just Blaze claims he hadn't listened to Black Moon since Enta da Stage or something, but He had beats on Buckshot's solo album in '99. If he would have just came out and said he heard and decided to put his spin on it, I would have respected it more than to claim he hadn't heard it. This is the same dude stealing ideas from songs in his own camp. But wait, he didn't hear this song either before he flipped it for Usher a year later hahaha...
Just Blaze is the type of dude you turn your shyt off in the studio once he enters the room. People steal shyt all the time,. I don't want to name any names because the parties involves are cool and it's nothing, but years ago a very close friend of mine(who in the industry with major placements, but he's basically unknown to the public) created this song from a sample by doing the beat AND lyrics. I go by his crib and hear it thinking it's the most amazing shyt I had heard. He lets his boy hear it, who is more known than he is and has worked with big stars, and he creates the exact same song over. Same sample flip, concept and everything. He throws another famous artist on the song as a feature(I'll just say he's a famous podcaster now. You have many to choose from to know who it is) I instantly get pissed about it and go on a forum telling the world that he stole that shyt letting them hear my man's song that predates it by about a year. The reason I knew he for sure was guilty is that the rapper calls my boy and tells him, "people on the internet saying I stole your song. it aint like that". The thing is, it wasn't "people", it was ME. He was trying to get ahead of the bullshyt before it started, but nothing ever came of it.