MTV Mixtape Monday: Nas, Saigon & Crooked I (Possible Bishop Lamont Explanation?)
After coming within an eye-blink of death, Crooked I says he has renewed sense of urgency to put out music, and the material has to have deep messages. So much so, it seems plans for the group LP featuring Crooked, Glasses Malone and Bishop Lamont have been put on hold.
“We were going to do that,” Crooked recently told MTV News of the project. “There are some things going on with that right now.”
The project, named No Country for Old Men, was supposed to take aim at some West Coast legends whom the trio felt were trying to thwart the rise of up-and-coming talent such as themselves.
“You’ve got people like Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre. You’ve got all these people on the West Coast,” he began to explain. “The ‘Men’ stands for ‘mentality’: No country for this old mentality. We don’t want to deal with this mentality that says we can’t like each other, we can’t unify. That’s why I like the South, because the South unites.
“There’s a lot of blocking that was going on,” Crooked said of some elder West Coast MCs. “The new West movement was fed up. We’re trying to wake them up.” “My focus now is if Ice Cube, Snoop, Dre, none of them dudes wanna reach down and help the new dudes, that’s fine. Maybe I’ll call them and have a healthy conversation about it and move on. I’m not in that zone no more.”
