West coast veteran, producer/rapper Warren G spoke to HipHopDX late today (August 11th) and clarified his recent post on Twitter.com/WarrenGeezy on August 9th, the day after the confrontation between Joe Budden [click to read] and Raekwon [click to read], when the g-funk creator wrote, “I’m tired of these cats doing video blogs if ya boy got socked he should have swung back quit simpin homey.”
“I was talking to that dude Mickey Factz,” Warren clarified to DX regarding his Twitter post. “I shoulda put his name on [the post]. I ain’t disrespecting Joe Budden, and I ain’t… Raekwon is my dog. And I ain’t just taking sides or nothing like that either, but…it’s like this, if you got six dudes in the room and it’s two of y’all, why you gon’ say that you heard your homebody get socked? And you not fighting. That’s what I’m trippin’ off of.”
Referencing the Bronx emcee’s video account of what happened when Raekwon and members of his crew came into Joe Budden’s trailer – where Mickey Factz was with Budden filming live via the Slaughterhouse spitter’s blog – as he prepared for a performance at the Los Angeles stop of this year’s Rock The Bells tour, Warren highlighted that his Twitter post was aimed squarely at Factz and no one else.
“I ain’t got no problem with Joe Budden, I like Joe Budden,” said Warren. “But how this nigga [Mickey Factz] gon’ say he down with him, and he ain’t helping the nigga fight? Y’all just gotta take a ass-whoopin’!”
With a song featuring Raekwon (and a chorus from Nate Dogg recorded prior to the singer’s first stroke in late 2007), “100 Miles and Runnin,’” having just been added to the final tracklisting for Warren’s soon-to-be-released new solo effort, The G-Files, one could conclude that Warren’s Twitter post was a pledge of allegiance to the Chef in his beef with Budden. But the legendary left coast producer explained to DX that he isn’t taking sides in the two emcees disagreement.
“Raekwon is my nigga, [but] I ain’t in what [Budden and Rae] had going on,” Warren clarified. “I ain’t in that. I’m just listening to this dude on the thing crying, and telling a story, and talking about it’s a sucka move. A sucka move is not helping your homeboy, that’s a sucka move. C’mon man, that’s not part of the game. I don’t care how many dudes it is, if my homeboy getting rat-packed, we gon’ get rat-packed together. You got to keep it one hunnid. He talking about you real, that ain’t real. If I was Joe Budden I’da whooped [Mickey Factz] ass.”
If Factz decides to take the above statement from Warren as a declaration of war, the elder statesman in the game advises the rising rookie to skip recording any kind of diss track aimed at the G-Child.
“I don’t even know this dude, and I ain’t trying to know him either,” said Warren of Mickey. “And I ain’t dissin’ him as far as that Rap shit. I ain’t trying to hear that. I ain’t gon’ sit up here and let you tell me, ‘Okay, well I’ma rap and talk about you.’ It ain’t going down like that. If you wanna holla at [me] we can chop it up, and I’ll tell you how I felt. And that’s how I felt [in that Twitter post]. I don’t dislike you. I don’t dislike that guy. But why you gon’ get on the screen and say that? He look like a punk, getting on a screen simpin’.”
“But you know what,” continued Warren, “it ain’t no disrespect to Mickey Factz, Joe Budden or Raekwon. I got love for Raekwon and Joe Budden. I don’t know the other dude to say that I got love for him. I don’t know him like that. But, if he feel like he gotta speak about it, call me… I’m not gon’ get on no record trying to battle nobody. He can chop it up with me ear-to-ear, face-to-face. We can sit at the table. If you wanna catch a fade, that’s good too.”
The G-Files is due in stores September 29th on TTL/E1 Entertainment.
