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I don’t appreciate the disrespect and bullshit Randy Roper said about Super & Fame in his mixtape review. True, we jacked for beats, but to say my flow ain’t there – he obviously isn’t doing his job. For him to say that the product was something to ride to only if there was nothing else to play within arm’s reach is ludicrous! I definitely don’t appreciate muthafuckers tryin’ to make out like we don’t like David Banner or that we need him to give us a handout or that we’re dissing him, because we’re not! I said, “It’s like everywhere I go they ask me do I know David Banner and why the fuck he ain’t puttin’ niggas on in Jackson.” I felt like y’all took that shit out of context. What would Super & Fame look like dissing David Banner when [his artist] Marcus. is my muthafuckin’ homie! So tell playboy [Randy Roper] if I ever see him or if I am ever in the A I will stop by. If he’s got a problem you know how to find me. I ain’t no punk ass nigga and you can stop coming to my town interviewing with that bullshit. Like Pimp C say, it ain’t all about this rap shit. You muthafuckers over there need to know that I am an official product of the hood. – Rob Fame (Jackson, MS) I remember when I went to 7-11 to get a chili & cheese dog and went to the magazine rack and saw this cover that caught my eye. I was taken aback to see a rapper on the cover that represented me and the music I love so much. I flipped through each page and was amazed to see all the rappers I love from the South. The quality and colorful pages had me hooked. I had never seen a magazine that even gave the time of day to Southern rappers and there it was: OZONE Magazine! I went back to that 7-11 every few weeks to buy the next issue, and needless to say, I fell in love with OZONE. Thanks for your hard work and dedication to OZONE. Thanks for representing me and the dirty South and giving us a magazine that is all ours. I look forward to each issue. I take the magazine everywhere: the bathroom, the subway, in bed as I relax. It motivates me to want to be in it one day. Thanks for making an amazing magazine! – UP Official, myspace.com/upofficialmyspacepage (Maryland) I love OZONE but if you really want to cover the news on the streets, why don’t you ask why everyone is calling themselves “The Boss” (Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, etc.)? Slim Thug has got a CD coming out called Boss of All Bosses. From what I know, he claimed that name first and title in Houston, TX in the early 90s and even dropped a CD called The Boss. How would you feel if he called himself The Doggfather or had a white Benz with “Ricky Ross” on the license plate? Would that be right? Not at all. I’m not trying to start no hate or no beef but since you’re the #1 magazine in the country, you’ve gotta do something about that. – Tristan, pavilion600@yahoo.com (Houston, TX) OZONE is a big publication, and I mean that from the perspective of how The Source was looked at with such importance in its heyday. Your magazine is one that a lot of people in the South look towards with respect. When an artist is featured in your magazine, it really speaks a lot to the listening public about that artist. It symbolizes that the artist’s music is worth listening to. – LMS, soundclick.com/lmsmiami (Miami, FL) 12 // OZONE MAG
I’ve been a huge supporter of OZONE since its premiere issue. I recently picked up the sex issue and it was probably some of the most entertaining interviews I’ve ever read. I appreciate what your team does at OZONE. As a consumer, I get tired of seeing the same artists on magazine covers with basically regurgitated information from their previous interviews. OZONE embraces the new artist and independents out there on the grind. - Abe Wilson, abe.a.wilson@gmail.com (Miami, FL) I bought OZONE Magazine and was very impressed! I love JB’s 2 Cents column. Just wanted to take an opportunity to compliment a sistah when she deserves it. As you mentioned in your 2 cents, this industry is dirty enough and women can really take that shit to a new level. I don’t see any need to act like that. Keep doing your thing! - Wendy Collins Squirewell, wendy@sablesoul.com (Nashville, TN) The article Too Short wrote about doing shows in smaller markets is the best article ever run in OZONE. I framed it and it’s hanging on the wall of my office for every rapper to see. Fucking brilliant! Thanks for running it. I might reprint it and have naked hookers hand it out at every convention. – Wendy Day, Rapcoalition@aol.com (Atlanta, GA) I love this culture that we have called Hip Hop. No matter how many Hip Hop magazines I’ve read, I’ve never written into a magazine about anything until now. As young blacks or young people of any race in America, we’re already under a microscope. We’re expected to mess up, to be about nothing, and to fail. I admit I’ve heard some pretty ignorant things in my lifetime, but the comments by Lil Wayne in your December 2007 issue were ignorant as hell. Don’t get me wrong, Wayne is very talented in many aspects. I listen to his music. He’s an icon to the youth, and to make the comments he made [about killing newborn babies] was just irresponsible on his behalf. I am not here to tear Lil’ Wayne down, but to help uplift him. It is our fault as a whole, that he makes comments like that. Most of the youth are the same way today because we (the older generation before them) do not reach back & try to give them that helping hand when we see them doing wrong. What happened to, “It takes a village to raise a child”? The problem is that we have babies raising babies. When I was coming up, I had no choice in whether I was going to church or not. I had to go. Today, these kids are not being raised up in the church, and it shows. No one is taking the proper time to care for them the way that they should be cared for. Someone should sit down with Wayne and discuss with him why he shouldn’t have made those comments. Let’s not lash out against him, but let’s teach the young brother. As far as Charlamagne Tha God goes, I commend you for your “Chin Check” article in the issue with Trina on the cover. Not many would go against Lil’ Wayne like that in fear that he wouldn’t support their magazine anymore. You now have nothing but love from me. Keep doing your thing & represent. Where ever you are from, they must raise them right around there. Tell them to send more of your kind out to the rest of the world. Thank you for bringing that story to the forefront. - DJ O.J. (Atlanta, GA via Hilton Head, SC)