Saigon Speaks On "The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2"

Saigon dropped his second album, "The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread And Circuses" on Tuesday (November 6th). People are saying it is as good as his critically acclaimed debut album...let's it from the horses mouth.

That’s very true. You mention your music and shifting to that, you’ve got Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread and Circuses coming. The first Greatest Story was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of last year. To you, how does this one compare?

Saigon: The message is along the lines, the message is along the same lines. What I would say the difference is is obviously the budget, a huge difference in the budget and when you’re on Atlantic Records and you have $350,000 to make a record it’s going to sound different when you have $25,000 to make a record. It sounds different from quality of studio to everything all down to the producers, features 'cause all the fans don’t realize it but all those costs, everything there’s a cost. A lot of artists don’t talk about when you see artists with these features on it, they pay for these features. A lot of these guys are friends but at the same time it’s a business. We couldn’t go through the typical thing and go, “Oh, for our single let’s go get Drake or let’s go get Chris Brown to get 10,000 radio spins.” When you’re an independent label you don’t have those budgets. When I recorded the firstGreatest Story Never Told I was clearing Luther Vandross samples and we were doing a bunch of stuff that you can’t really do on an independent budget but for the budget we had, I maximized it and I squeezed the most out of it. And another thing, Just Blaze wasn’t as involved with the second one as he was for two reasons. First, 'cause time didn’t permit like it did, you look at the last album, we worked on just the album alone we worked on it just dabbing the scene with transitions, and tracks all blended together, we called in orchestras, we had people come play. We had sometimes 17/18 people choruses so the time and the money didn’t permit for us to do that again 'cause Just Blaze is working on features outside of music. I didn’t wanna wait another four or five years for my album to come out again and that’s why it took so long for the first one to come out with all the red tape and all that. But I think as far as the messages in the music and the songs I felt like it could compete with the first one, I really believe that with all my heart. (hiphopdx.com)