Statik Selektah and Saigon do their first interview together and discuss All In A Day’s Work. The album has already reached #4 on iTunes for Hip Hop/Rap albums, which is crazy considering they haven’t spent a dime on promotion. I keep saying it, hip hop music is coming full circle and its a beautiful thing. Also, the duo play a clip and hint at ANOTHER album in the works. This time, completed in 48 hours.
SAIGON JOINS AMALGAM DIGITAL – PLANS TO RELEASE ALBUMS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC INDUSTRY OPERATES
Saigon has partnered with Amalgam Digital, thus expanding on the company’s already-talented roster of artists, in a new and innovative non-traditional deal to market, promote, and release music.
Saigon’s first release with Amalgam Digital will be All In A Day’s Work, a digital only album that will transcend the standard time frame for marketing, and in turn, bypass release date scheduling imposed by traditional retail outlets. This will enable both the artist and company to release the album immediately on Tuesday, March 17th, in the digital format. In addition to the announcement of an expedited release date, the ground breaking project will compliment the forward thinking artist and pioneering new media outfit’s list of milestones as it is essentially the first time in Hip Hop history a commercially viable product, bridges the gap between mixtape and studio album, with all original production, and is completed in a 24-hour span. Production was handled exclusively by DJ/Producer extraordinaire, Statik Selektah, who made the following statement:
“Working with Saigon in those twenty four hours and getting songs done so fast showed why he should be held as one of the greatest to ever do it”
When asked about the unique nature of the release, Saigon made the following statement:
“This album, “All In A Day’s Work” is a bonafide Hip Hop classic created from beginning to end in twenty four hours. It is a definitely a spark in the right direction for the resurgence of East Coast Hip Hop. I teamed up with producer Statik Selektah and Amalgam Digital and we came together to present the world with the best album of the year 2009, aside from my debut of course, The Greatest Story Never Told which will soon follow…”
The first single taken from All In A Day’s Work entitled, Spit will be featured on the newest edition of Grand Theft Auto, the award-winning action video game from Rockstar Games. The recently release second single The Rules is already gaining momentum.
Strategically creating a platform with the future in mind, Saigon will follow up this precursor digital only album by expanding on his Warning Shots brand. The first volume of “Warning Shots” was released to critical acclaim. Following All In A Day’s Work, Saigon will release Warning Shots 2 on Amalgam Digital as a prelude to The Greatest Story Never Told. The album, originally scheduled to be released in 2004, was constantly delayed but will finally see the light of day. Production has been primarily handled by super-producer Just Blaze.
Saigon РAll In A Day’s Work (Amalgam Digital)
01 // To Be Told…
02 // So Cruel
03 // The Rules
04 // My Crew
05 // Prepare For War
06 // Spit
07 // Lady Sings The Blues
08 // Lose Her
09 // Goodbye
10 // The Reason
11 // BONUS: I Warned You
Joe Budden speaks on Saigon signing to Amalgam Digital. He claims he texted Saigon congratulating him, but never got a response. He says Amalgam needed Saigon if he’s leaving the label. He then speaks on the Boston show. He said he’s been there many times before but never worked with Ed O.G. Apparently, there was infinite opening acts doing 6-7 songs each (I can relate to this ish lol). Apparently all the fans were screaming Budden’s name. Budden asked them to clear the stage for fear consideration that they could be crazy insane Saigon or Ransom fans. I guess, he went on to do a 2 hour set (I guess hip hop artists still actually perform longer than 30 minutes?). Lastly, Budden claims he never dissed Boston, and at the end of the interview, he receives a text back from Saigon. Peep the video to see what Saigon responded with!
It’s funny how news about both Joe Budden and Saigon keeps surfacing in conjunction with one another. For those that don’t want to listen to the audio, DJ On&On speaks on a show on Friday night that he DJed and Ed O.G. hosted. Apparently, Budden stepped on stage and tried kicking everybody off stage because he didn’t want a sausage fest with random dudes on the stage. Sounds like Budden started talking reckless and the hometown Boston goons didn’t take well to his threats of fighting. Nobody got off stage and some of the goons contemplated knocking Joe Budden out on stage and filming it for worldstar. Ed O.G. speaks about Budden’s disrespect and that if he wasn’t promoting the show, he would have thrown down with the Slaughterhouse member. So basically, Budden didn’t show love to the crowd but rather disrespected everyone in there, and thus, he’s no longer welcome in Boston until he offers up an apology.
Oh yeah, and Amalgam Digital announces later on in the interview that they’re about to sign Saigon. DJ On&On has some fun discusses this signing. Apparently Statik and Saigon‘s All In A Day’s Work will be released on Amalgam. The CEO of Amalgam goes on to call himself the Vince McMahon of this rap ish. Hmmm..
Joe Budden Banned From Boston x Saigon Signs to Amalgam Digital
So Saigon sat down with ihiphop.com to do an exclusive interview, and as you probably already guessed it, he addressed the topic of beef. I know that’s what at least 65% of you wanted to hear, but for the rest of us Saigon fans, he discusses his upcoming release, “Warning Shots 2″, as well as what up and coming hip hop artists he’s checking for.
