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8/21/2006 What's up? I'm doing good. Broken Safety has been out for a week now. How's it doing for you? It's doing good. It did all right the first week. There wasn't that much promotion for it so it did all right. After my commercials run it should do way better. It did good for not having no promotion. I'm an overachiever so I'm never satisfied. Did Broken Safety come out the way you wanted it too? Not really. I don't think they shipped enough copies. They treated it like a mixtape and I treated it like an album. Musically, it came out just like I wanted it to. At the end of the day I can't complain because Broken Safety is something I did three years ago. It was supposed to come out like a mixtape. The people heard it a year ago and liked it. I'm happy that something I put together like this is on the radar like this. Did it ever get frustrating waiting to come out? Yeah, it was real hard. Because I'm one of the newest Diplomats, it's almost like there's a waiting list and I'm at the bottom. I've done a lot of features on other Diplomats' albums. It feels like it's enough waiting already. I still don't have that "come-out album" feeling. It's like a Snickers bar - you're never satisfied. Rek Beats handled most of the production on Broken Safety. Who is he? He's our in-house producer. He runs Beat Club. It's like Fight Klub where the producers go at it with their MPC's and they battle on the beats. He runs that so I already know what he's about. Cam and Juelz aren't on the album but JR and Freekey are. How do you decide which Diplomats to get on your project? There's different ways. Sometimes you hear certain songs that sound like Juelz would be perfect on it or it'd be perfect for Hell Rell. Other times you walk in a session and hear something hot and just spit a verse. You have the Sam Scarfo diss on Broken Safety. You guys have a history. What's going on with you and Sam today? That's a little outdated to me. Around the time I did it, like two years ago, he mentioned my name on Smack and I didn't like dude saying my name. It wasn't in good context. A lot of people were calling me. It was outdated. It seems like I still got beef with him but it's whatever. What's going on between you and Loon today? He's the new Sam Scarfo. Every year I have a new archenemy. He's the No. 1 dude on the kufi list. What exactly happened between the two of you in the barber shop? What happened was I was getting a line and prior to the incident I hadn't even seen homeboy for a couple of years. I had no reason to be ready for anything. I was in the barbershop getting a line and homeboy tried to snake me with something. I got up, beat him up, threw him in a chair and shit. He had to go to the hospital for his pinky. He ran. I finished getting my line. He tried to grab a shovel and shit. That's it. He ran. Have you had any contact with Loon since then? Nope. I haven't seen him. He called up Hot97. I called up and shut it down. What motivated Loon to come at you? Does he have problems with Jim Jones? I heard a lot of stories about him like he's doing bad. I guess he wanted to make a statement like a cry for help, like an "I'm not soft" type of thing. Do you see this situation escalating? No comment. You said on the "Sam Scared" track that you would "kill Tru Life and put it on MTV." That line got taken out of context. That track is two years old. I wasn't talking to Tru Life. I was talking about the show on MTV called "True Life." Around that time they were walking around taping me. They were going to do an episode. That's what I was referring to. It's one of those coincidence types of things. It's whatever. I'm not going to cop a plea for nothing. I have to tell it like it is. I was going at Sam Scarfo. Tru Life hasn't said anything about me. It seems crazy though since Tru Life and Jim Jones have problems. A lot of people are coming at us because we're the No. 1 dudes. If you get to a certain point and nobody's coming at you, I guess you're really not at that point. Every hero has a villain. Tru Life happens to be one of those villains. Loon happens to be one of those villains. It's nothing personal. I'm happy to have some villains. A lot of people say Dip Set is fake. How do you respond to those comments? I don't know. They have to break it down how we're fake. What defines fake? What defines real? They say we're not in the hood. That's not true. They can't say we're not in the clubs. That's not true. We're on the road too. That's just something to say. They're talking because they got lips. For those who don't know, how did you originally get down with the Diplomats? My story is a little easier than everybody else's. I lived on Cam's block, 140th and Lennox, in the same building. We were destined to meet up. I was that nigga spitting fire on my block. What's the next move for 40 Cal? Right now I'm about to put out the Broken Safety DVD. That's crazy. That's my own project. I might sell it to somebody or I might put it out myself independently. I have Fight Klub footage. I have the interview from the same barbershop I had the fight in. It's going down. What do you want to say to everybody? Don't believe everything you hear and half of what you see. Go by what you know. On that note, y'all niggas know 40 Cal is in the position to be everybody's favorite rapper. Whether it's Fight Klub or any other shit, know I'm doing my thing. When you hear "40" know some hot shit's coming after that. Dip Set. http://dipsetmixtapes.com http://cleorecs.com

By Brian Kayser

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