“I don’t want to go through the Joe Frazier stigma,” Cormega declares. “As great a boxer as he was, he’ll only be remembered as Muhammad Ali’s rival. I don’t base my life on being Nas’ rival.” Yet one listen to his sophomore CD, The True Meaning, which he’s releasing on June 11 on his own label, Legal Hustle, and it’s evident he’s still got beef like Wendy’s. The single “Love In, Love Out” is all about Nas. So is “A Slick Response” which borrows a Biggie beat and Slick Rick’s “Children’s Story” style. [“A Slick Response” is not yet scheduled to be on the CD.]
Between the two songs, here are just some of Mega’s insults: Nas only got put on when Cormega went to jail. Nas stole Mega’s style. Nas had to move from Queens because he was getting extorted. Nas spends all of his time trying to end Cormega’s career. Like Jay-Z, Mega even hints at hanging with Nas’ ex. “To say that Cormega focuses solely on Nas is an overstatement.” Nas did take shots at Mega on “Destroy & Rebuild” from his Stillmatic album.
Mega’s first single “Live Your Life,” about the struggles women go through, “Soul Food,” a relationship record and “I’m Built For This” are all produced by Hitmen J. Wax Garfield. Mega flows over a hot Alchemist-produced track on “The Legacy” and teams with producer Hot Day on “Therapy.”
According to Cormega, “The True Meaning is the umbilical cord linking The Testament [his bootlegged non-commercial first release] and The Realness [his commercial debut on his own Legal Hustle Empire]. It’s where you arrive when you lived the realness, created the testament and are experiencing the true meaning.”
