Halftime: I did an interview with Prodigy a couple months ago and he was talking about when he first came to Queens. He said they took him through the neighborhood and he had to battle people to show his skills and that he battled you. Do you remember anything from that battle?

Cormega: That fucking sickle cell must be eating his brain because that nigga never battled me. Prodigy is losing his fucking mind. I’m getting tired of rappers from Queensbridge cuz its like yo B everybody don’t have to lie about everything just be human. I’m not ashamed about my flaws or about what’s true and what’s not but I never battled Prodigy. I swear to god. Havoc battled me before, Poet the legendary battle cat from Queensbridge battled me before, me and Tragedy rhymed together but he never battled me, me and Nas was from the same block so we was cool, and MC Shan I had tremendous respect for. Let me keep it 100% real with you, when there was park jams nobody rapped at a park jam when I was rapping and that’s a fact. You can ask anybody don’t just take my word for it do your research cuz it seems everyone wants to make themselves bigger than what they are. Me and Craig G spit some bars at each other before, MC Snow who was down with MC Shan I ate his ass on the hill, but Prodigy I don’t know I wish I had his number. In that case, shit I dunked on Ron Artest and I’m 5′7 and I can’t even dunk.

So was that not the norm that a cat came in and hand to go through the neighborhoods and battle?

Cormega: You had to battle in Queensbridge that’s how everybody got ill. Queensbridge is so competitive they would walk you over to the other block and be like battle this nigga. But Prodigy never battled me and I swear to my mother and my mother’s dead. It’s that serious to me. I swear I never battled this guy. I don’t even know where he comes off with that. He knows he never battled me.

He said he battled Nas too.

Cormega: Yea I could believe that, maybe he did but I can’t speak for that.

I was reading a lot of your other interviews and one thing I noticed was you are up to date on what people are saying about you on different message boards. How often do you check and see what people are saying about you on boards and on reviews?

Cormega: I have an excellent publicist so that’s how I’m on top of my reviews and I must say I’m fucking disgusted with XXL and the review they gave me. The thing that pissed me off is that this is not a Cormega album but motherfuckers trying to judge me like it is. I seen a review where they are like it’s not as good as his last two critically acclaimed albums. How is it gonna be as good as my albums!? I just got finished speaking with this dude at XXL yesterday asking why ya’ll judging my album like it’s a Cormega album. If you go to Soundscan it says ‘Cormega presents.’ If you go to the record store and speak to the retail guy it says ‘Cormega Presents.’ It’s not a Cormega album, on the album it don’t even says Cormega in big letters! So I’m like did you compare the DMX album to Ruff Ryders or Oochie Wallie to Illmatic? That’s the thing I’m not liking as far as the reviews. As far as the internet I try not to really let it bother me or give it too much measurement because half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life. There is one nigga named Galvatron who be on Sohh.com, it’s like it’s his job to hate on me. He’s a professional. This guy Galvatron is obsessed with me. At the end of the day Galvatron you’re a dick. You wake up in the morning, you get on your fucking computer and you obsess about me.

Haha

Cormega: I wake up in the morning, I take a piss, I might brush my teeth, I might not, I watch Sportscenter, go eat some Fruity Pebbles or Apple Jacks, I play Playstation on my plasma screen TV, I decide which car I’m gonna get in or what clothes I’m gonna wear and that’s that. I don’t wake up in the morning thinking about fucking Galvatron!

Haha

Cormega: That’s the thing that bugs me out about the internet, people are obsessive on that motherfucker. One thing I do like about it is there are no yes men. There’s people that like you and there’s people that don’t like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove. You know the old saying kill him with kindness that’s the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove. If you say Mega can’t flow now I’m gonna show you I can flow. Before I put out albums people were like he’s a freestyle/mixtape nigga but he can’t make albums, now two albums later I have two critically acclaimed albums not my opinion but the world’s. I never said my albums were classic or tell the Source to give me that Award or Amazon.com to give me album of the year for 2001. Now motherfuckers is like all he talks about is street shit, so on my second album I flipped it and I had songs for women, songs on social issues, an a capella that’s not even rhyming and I got an award for that album. Then all the people on the internet said he talks about Nas all the time so you noticed I don’t talk about Nas no more. Everything they say about me I’m gonna work on. They said I couldn’t flow before saying I was punching in when I wasn’t. I was coming in on another track trying to be like Slick Rick. Think about it, only a dickhead aspiring artist or industry person even knows what a punch is. You can’t go to the average kid in the street and say he punched in on that song because they’ll be like what the fuck are you talking about. I love the dickhead shit on the internet but at the same time I don’t respect the internet because I’ve watched these people hail and praise people and put artists on a high pedestal, their album comes out, and it doesn’t even sell. Ya’ll internet people are criticizing artists for something you downloaded and you aren’t even supporting the cause. Then you get mad when your favorite artist crosses over, but when an artist tries to keep it real with you internet motherfuckers you just download his shit! I even told niggas on the internet one day I don’t respect you download niggas. Don’t compliment me on my album if you downloaded it. That’s like you robbing my house, stealing my TV and calling me up like the clarity on this TV is ill! I can’t really respect that shit. I respect it to a degree but I love the challenge of critics. I’m aware of what’s going on with the internet though. I know it’s very symbolic because that’s universal not local. A motherfucker could be in Africa reading about you. That’s why I keep my eyes and ears in tune with the net.

What would you do if you ever met Galvatron?

Cormega: I wouldn’t even do nothing because the average motherfucker on the internet is a fucking coward anyway. It’s not like he’s gonna be like yea I’m Galvatron nigga what. If that’s the case I wouldn’t do nothing to him, the niggas that’s with me would pound his ass out. I don’t have to do nothing to nobody right now. Fuck him he’s a nobody. Let me tell you something else, me having differences with Nas made me realize I’m like Lex Luther to a Superman comic book buyer. Motherfuckers hate me that love Nas. I noticed motherfuckers hate me more than they hate Jay-Z. It’s passionate hate. Nature made a song dissing Nas more recently than me and it was on the radio and everything why ya’ll don’t hate him like ya’ll hate me. I used to be a Knick fan and I used to hate Alonzo Mourning and I was like its not that I hate him it’s that I love the Knicks so much. Why didn’t I hate Jordan but Alonzo was such a threat. You fear what you don’t understand. Nas fans know I’m a fucking threat that’s why they don’t like me. Jay-Z and Nas have two different styles and Nature is a whole different subject but they fear me. Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they’ll know about it. When the whole fallout with me and Nature happened they said I dissed Nature because he replaced me in the firm. That’s bullshit everyone and their mother knows Nature shitted on me on the Clue tape. That’s how the whole beef started. If you listen to my song when I responded somebody’s talking on the beginning of the song and they say ‘you heard the new Clue tape that nigga Nature shitted on you’ and I’m like word on the song “Fuck Nas.” All these internet motherfuckers hide what they want to hide and put out what they want to put out. They don’t say Nature dissed Mega so Mega responded. I never even got kicked out of The Firm. If I would have paid I would have been down. I didn’t pay and I’m not saying I was right for not doing it I just didn’t understand the industry at the time. Just like when I was making songs dissing Nas they was like all he does is think about Nas. What about the 50 million times he dissed me on albums? You knew he was talking about me you fucking geeks! He had subliminal songs dissing me like that song I ain’t fucking with you I’m doing big things, you want to ball for self why your album ain’t out, all that shit he was talking about me. On “Hate Me Now” he was talking about me too on certain parts. Mad songs this nigga made talking about me. I knew he was talking about me, he knew and his fans knew but ya’ll were just mad because ya’ll wasn’t expecting that response. I wasn’t playing no games, I’m saying his name and crazy shit. Motherfuckers don’t like that just like how they hated Pac cuz he was too raw. So keep it real and say son shouldn’t of started with Mega cuz Mega went too far with it and maybe Nature shouldn’t have said what he said but don’t just act like I’m just a trouble maker.

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Posted by Halftime on Monday, March 1st, 2004 and is filed under SICKWIDIT, SPOTLIGHT.