Juelz Santana has claimed that when police raided his studio in 2011, they intentionally deleted over 100 unreleased songs made by the New York rapper.
In a lengthy interview with Off The Porch, JuJu spoke about the infamous police raid on his New Jersey studio back in 2011 that landed him in jail for various felony drug offenses and said what many people don’t know about that fateful day was that the cops deleted dozens of songs off his hard drive out of spite.
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“The police took my hard drives. I had over 100 songs and they erased them,” Juelz says at the 38 minute mark. “It was crazy. They raided my studio, they took my hard drive. When I got the hard drives back them shits was empty. Over 100 songs gone.”
Juelz then says that while he attempted to re-record some of the tracks, he had never written lyrics down, making the task difficult.
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“I mean some of ’em I did. There was some of ’em I knew. Cause at that time I had my own studio, so I was just creating and moving on to the next record. So unless it was a record that I put out or we were just constantly listening to for whatever reason, I didn’t write nothing. Once I laid it down I had it down.”
He continued, “That discouraged me, that was around the time I shut down a lot. It was really discouraging because you know to lose that amount of records that I worked so hard on and was getting ready to put out. It was crazy.”
Last November, Juelz shared similar details about his past prison experiences but said his time behind bars ultimately made him smarter.
“I hated being there, but it was a learning experience,” Juelz told VladTV. “For me I got to turn jail into Yale. I got to be smarter, I got to read a lot more and I got back to writing. Like I wrote so much in there. Like my execution plans since I been home been phenomenal right now, like I’m just all the way in getting to it.”
The Dipset rapper is currently hard at work on his Gangsta Grillz mixtape We In Motion, and most recently was spotted linking up with Rick Ross to film a new music video for an upcoming track they have in the works.
The Harlem native posted a video to Instagram in February that showed him and Rozay in the middle of the shoot somewhere poolside in Miami, Florida. The two rappers were performing their rhymes with people hanging out behind them.
“Loading…. Work We In Motion OTW @djdrama… #ICFMF #BackOutSide,” Juelz captioned his post.
Juelz has been continuously teasing songs that may potentially show up on the tape. So far, he’s hinted at appearances from Lil Wayne, Lil Durk, Chief Keef, Joyner Lucas and others, but more details have yet to become available.
