Naledge Talks About Mean & Vicious

The good folks over at Metallungies did an interview with
Kidz In the Hall and they also talked about Naledge's part on Mean & Vicious.

ML: There’s one more song I have to ask you about. There’s an old, old version of “Mean & Vicious.” You have a verse on that with Lupe.

Naledge: Yeah, that was an actual song. When we were going through doing my solo project a long time ago when I first got on Rawkus, they had this big idea that I should do a song with Lupe Fiasco. He was like the dude from the west side, I’m the dude from the south side. We were pretty much the same age.

Lupe wasn’t who he is now at that point in time. He had this thing where he was like, ‘I have a record that we’re not putting out and I haven’t finished it [that] maybe you could work on,’ ’cause he likes to only work with his producers. I grew up with Prolyfic who was with 1st & 15th at the time. They brought the Pro Tools to “Mean & Vicious” to my studio, Soundscape Studios and that was really it, I was on the song.

Obviously a version of it leaked with just Lupe on it and now people are starting to find the version with me on it. At the time, we were thinking about making it a single. Atlantic didn’t want to clear Lupe, so we kind of just let the song go.

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You can download "Mean & Vicious" Ft. Naledge here