DISSNATION
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Letter to Saigon

By Joe Budden · Targeting Saigon

Letter to Saigon is a diss track by Joe Budden targeting Saigon. Joe Budden and Saigon's dispute grew from an older line Saigon considered disrespectful and later interview comments. Their exchange became personal after Saigon's ‘Under Achiever,’ with Budden attacking Saigon's delayed album, management history, television exposure and family claims.

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  1. 01

    Who knew

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    When he was introduced to the world by Webb

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    He'd be the greatest rapper in the World Wide Web

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    I mean, assholes' opinions are like assholes

  2. 05

    I'm past those, so you could tell the world I said

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    Learned from Kanye about Common Sense

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    Make GOOD Music, gotta face the Consequence

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    They want me to reach for mine while the seat's reclined

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    How dumb would that be when I ain't even reach my prime

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    Speak my mind and niggas start feeling a way

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    Say what I feel, it ain't my fault they feel what I say

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    Seem like in every interview, niggas wanna mention dude

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    You took my good punchline, got it misconstrued

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    Ain't diss you then but nigga now I will

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    I'm just saying how I feel

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    Got your camera showing off your tiny townhouse and a girl car

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    Cause you ain't a world star, not even on Worldstar

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    The Greatest Story Never Told won't be ever told

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    Mixtapes never sold, leak the shit, let it go

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    How you gonna be a big name in the future

  6. 21

    Not even big named as a loser

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    You backed by a big named producer who gave the smash to T.I

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    Can't even be mad at Just, cause I can see why

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    Which leads me to wonder what the fans would see

  7. 25

    If we turned to Saigon TV

    Multi-line diss block
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    We'd see a artist struggling to get buzzing with the best production

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    And looked weaker, when that Jay-Z feature didn't help

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    Fronting with conscious spitting about conscious living

    Block noteContests who deserves the top position

    TargetSaigon

    MeaningWhat it means: In “We'd see a artist struggling to get buzzing with the best production,” Joe Budden turns rank, legacy, or leadership into the issue and argues that Saigon's claim to the position is undeserved. Why it was said: Joe Budden and Saigon's dispute grew from an older line Saigon considered disrespectful and later interview comments. Their exchange became personal after Saigon's ‘Under Achiever,’ with Budden attacking Saigon's delayed album, management history, television exposure and family claims. The line identifies the prize behind the feud—control of reputation—and asks whose record supports the title rather than whose claim went unchallenged.

    ContextJoe Budden and Saigon's dispute grew from an older line Saigon considered disrespectful and later interview comments. Their exchange became personal after Saigon's ‘Under Achiever,’ with Budden attacking Saigon's delayed album, management history, television exposure and family claims.

  8. 29

    I see, conscious fiction from a contradiction

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    Listen, I see a insecure nigga trying to prove something

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    Getting desperate cause his music don't move nothing

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    So what he do, start flashing bread

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    You could tell he probably ain't used to having bread, listen

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    I see a nigga stay talking bout the kids

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    But wanted nothing to do with one when it was his

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    You would take her phone calls til she said "it's yours"

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    That's when they got crisscrossed, you started hittin ignor

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    I see a nigga just fiending for scrunity

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    So he show us pics of how musclebound he used to be

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    I have shooters loaded up at niggas

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    Put plastic everywhere Lola Luv ass nigga

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    To that other nigga that had me on my bullshit

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    Rule 1: don't get sheep into some wolf shit

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    Trust, I'ma see the MF soon

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    That ain't him behind the mask, he like MF DOOM

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    But let's get back to Sai, as far as SOB's

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    I'da done the same thing and been proud, I wouldn'ta cried

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    You jetted on tape nigga, how you gon lie?

  13. 49

    So if you're feeling like a sucka then ask yourself "why?"