Hip Hop music producer Just Blaze has responded to his artist, rapper Saigon’s blog entry in which he airs out Atlantic Records for the continuous delays in the release of his debut album. Followed by the post of this blog, Saigon stated that Just Blaze was disappointed in him for posting the blog and that he took offense to it, so it was removed.

Just Blaze has responded to these allegations on his blog

“As far as Saigon’s infamous blog entry, and its subsequent removal, he stated that he took it down because It offended me and I didn’t understand why he would say what he said. That…. isn’t exactly the case.. it’s actually not at all. Don’t take that as me calling him a liar by any means. To me that means he was either too frustrated to really read it thoroughly (understandable) or.. well I can’t think of another reason. I have no vested interest in his feelings towards the label, I wasn’t even mentioned in his blog, so there was nothing for me to be offended about.

To sum up what I said in my email to him, I explained that I didn’t understand why he would post that NOW. Now that the album is pretty much done, and the only issue holding up the release of the first record is a sample clearance issue, which Craig Kallman (President of Atlantic) is personally handling directly with the sample’s publishers, as well as the management of the group that was sampled.

Please believe that does NOT happen very often, especially not with a new artist who has not sold one record. It’s usually “Well replay the sample or make a new record” If this man is going out of his way to personally get this cleared, and we (myself and Saigon) just had a short meeting about this the night before and you know exactly what is happening and who is working on what, why would you go out and slander the company he runs in the middle of him trying to negotiate something on YOUR behalf?

It’s kinda like going out and sleeping with your lawyer’s wife the night before he’s about to represent you for a murder case. You’re asking to get buried. These are the people that once this record DOES get cleared, have to work, push, and market it. We don’t make pop/crunk/rock/dance/snap rap, so we already have an uphill battle.. let’s not make it more difficult for ourselves. I don’t care what you personally think of the man, but now is not the time to go and kick up dirt when they are in the middle of working out something for us to finally release a record. 6 months ago?

I would have understood completely, right now? Let them do what they are trying to do so we can wake up to some good news about the record being clear to release, as opposed to me being woken up at 9am because the president is pissed about your blog, when hes trying to clear your sample personally. You may not be entirely wrong, and I actually agree with a LOT of what you said.. but I feel now isn’t the right time for it.”