FREE SAIGON...From Atlantic!

They always missed me with those "Free So-and-So" campaigns rappers embark on when one of their patnas get locked up. I'm sure they didn't deserve what happened to them, or it was someone else in that video peeing, or those alleged rocks in that whip--that wasn't really theirs--really weren't theirs, or whatever. But why do no rappers ever crusade for their people who get locked up in BAD RECORD DEALS??? The link between rappers and bad deals is almost as prevalent as the one between rappers and incarceration, yet no one crusades for that.

Enter Just Blaze. A true Hip Hop Patriot, Rappers Hero, and Producer Extrodinaire. I like to think of him as the Obama F. Baby of Producers. A real champion of music who is fighting for change in the game.

Props for him blessing Saigon on that Give Us Us Free Steeze and helping him get him outta Atlantic Records with 100% OWNERSHIP OF HIS MASTERS. Check out Sickamore's blog for details.

Damn...if Just can get outta the contract with Atlantic with 100% of his masters, I wonder if Nick Cannon can still get outta wedlock with Mariah with 100% of his dignity.

Mogul to Mogul - Just Blaze

After joining the Famous Firm, a good friend of mine told me something that really put this whole Mogul thing into perspective. She said, "Remember that all these people you will be meeting and working with are just regular ass people. You're just as good as them and deserve what they have if you work hard." The same sentiment was echoed by my homie Curt Connors. Stans need to fall back in 08...just get your network on and fit in. It's all about building relationships. Sick, Just says whats good & he lost his PSP. See what I mean?

I had to opportunity to kick it with a legend in my eyes: Just Blaze. After crafting some of hip hop's biggest bangers and mixtape masterpieces, (Touch the Sky, Girls, Girls, Girls, Saigon), and owning damn near ever Record & Transformer ever, Just is getting his Mogul on linking up with Guitar Center and Red Bull Music Academy.

I'm sure Guitar Center gives him closed-store shopping sprees. Oh wait--they DID give him a closed-store shopping spree. I can't even hate on that.