The Latest Lake Interview... Speaks on Nas and 2Pac's faceoff in NYC!!!
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QB's Lake speaks on Nas, doing time and basically everything. haha
thaFormula.com - For the people that don't know, who is Lake?
Lake - Well I was incarcerated from 1992 to 1999 and I came out with The 41st Side album, which was a compilation and it had all the Queensbridge artists on there. Cormega, Mobb Deep, CNN, Nas, Nature, and Tragedy. That's pretty much how I made my intro to the game. The album came out in 2001.
thaFormula.com - How does someone who has never done an album make his intro into the game with so many well known artists?
Lake - That was just from who I am on the street. Growing up, I knew all of these artists. I went to jail real young as an adolescent. While I was in jail, everybody got their chance to blossom. When I came home, everybody was in position making albums, videos and all that. So they was happy to see me come home because I knew them when I went in. My reputation is what it is being on the street. It's not a fluke or nothing. I did what I did and alot of people know me for that and they respected me for what I was. Before Queensbridge got known on the rap tip, we didn't have nothing but the dude that was standing up in the hood. That was what I was. It was what I did in the streets to be known like that and they respected that. If you look at everybody's first album, all of them was shouting me out on there. So when I came home, everyone said whatever I wanted to do they was gonna do. I'm a business man first, so I said I'm gonna put an album together and put everybody on it and feature myself to get my weight up. This way I can see what opportunities I got after that. But before the album came out, I got locked back up. This was a month before the 41st album was dropping. It was dropping on Sept. 11th, 2001 and I had got locked up in August for 2 charges of attempted Murder on police. So I went down and nobody thought I was coming home. I had just did 7 years and I'm home for like 2 years, and now I'm locked up for this. That's life for them cases! For 1 attempted murder on police is 25 to life. I had 2 counts and I had just came home for doing attempted murder, so I was bleedin'. But I went to trial for the case and I beat it. So when I came back home, Nas wanted me to get down with him and do the Ill Will project. He was telling me he's gonna do the Ill Will label and wanted me to be on it. So I'm rollin' with it and thinking I'm gonna put everything into that. That stagnated me cause I said let's do it and get it poppin'. I'm behind him and I'm working with him and he's putting his albums out and doing what he's doing. But he's not pushing me or helping me put my album out. At the same time, I got a whole army of dudes behind me that's waiting for me to do what I got to do.
thaFormula.com - The 41st Side album sold pretty good right?
Lake - Yeah, it went hood platinum. It sold 100,000 and I wasn't even home for it. Also, it came out on September 11th, 2001. I had everything against me, but it still did good. When I came home, I still could have capitalized on that, but with Nas giving me the opportunity that he said he was giving me, I was like, let's do it. It was a no brainer.
thaFormula.com - Before you went in in 1992, were you rhymin' at all?
Lake - Nah, I wasn't rhymin' in 1992. I was just a regular street dude. I was just mashin' and being a street dude. Reputation is everything on the street, it's your credit card. People know I'm loyal and a man of my word. If I say something, that's what it is. If I say this is not gonna happen, then that's not gonna happen. If I say we gonna do this, then that's what we gonna do. I don't promise nobody nothing that I can't fulfill my obligations to. So when people tell me we gonna do this and that and give you all these false promises, I'm not with that. Before I let it get to a point where it gets physical or shit starts getting uncivilized, I rather just pull back. I don't wanna do that because I got enough blood on my hands already. I don't want to come into the game disrespectful and try to take something away from somebody that they earned already. I look at the game for what it is. I'm to mature in that standpoint that I don't have to go that way. If I go that way, it's gonna be serious. So I rather not do that because I got to much that I'm bringin' to the table now, and it's like a whole different side of me that people don't know and didn't get a chance to see yet. But it ain't just about me gettin' my little paper. I'm gettin' the money that I get to get dudes that I rock with out of jail. Dudes that I mess with is in jail facing life. Some of them already got life, plus time on top of that. Some of them right now just got locked up and is facing life and there is other dudes that are in there that I'm trying to get back home. This is where my loyalty lies at. So I'm trying to do what I got to do for other people and my family. If you standing there and your blocking what I'm trying to do, it's gonna be a problem. But if you not gonna do it and you not with none of that, just say that your not with that. Don't say that these are our people and you care about everybody. Nas knows these people. He'll be like, "yo these are our people and we got to do this." But when it comes down to it, I'm the one that's sitting there in the courtroom waiting for them. He's no there. I'm the one that's going to visit them in jail and doing all that. He's not there. So it's like where does your loyalty lie at. If your not gonna do it yourself, it's no problem. I'll do it. Just get me in the position so I can do it. Not where I'm telling you to come out your pocket and give me money or nothing like that, but yo there is people that wanna give me a deal. They tellin' me, just let Nas come down here and let us talk to him, and we will give you whatever budget you want. This is at Sony. So if they wanna give me the money, why wouldn't you take the meeting and get me the deal.
thaFormula.com - So that 41st Side compilation opened alot of doors for you?
Lake - Yeah. I had alot of buzz. People just wanted to mess with me on the strength of the 41st side. That album showed alot of power and ability to be able to do that. It served it's purpose for what I needed the album to do. It was like alright, I got other options so I'm trying to figure my options out. But if Nas is saying that he's gonna get a deal and were gonna work over there and get it poppin' by dropping my album out first, then I'm like let's do it. But that wasn't the case. You would say one thing, then disappear. You would change your number and not call me back. I got a meeting at Sony and they waiting for you to come to the meeting and you not calling them or even showin' up! It's plain disrespectful man. You don't want me to prosper. It ain't even about you doing it. Your not getting a Ill Will deal, their not giving you no money and then you don't want me to get my own deal.
thaFormula.com - So you had an opportunity to get a deal with Sony?
Lake - Yeah. I had an opportunity with Sony and I had an opportunity with Universal, and he didn't take neither one of the meetings. Universal wanted to do the deal, but they wanted Nas to come in, so all of us can sit down in the meeting together. But Nas don't go. Later he goes and takes a meeting without me there and brings Dirty Mouth in there and tries to shop him. But he couldn't go in for my meeting, when I'm the one that told him about it. Universal didn't want Dirty Mouth. They wanted to sign me, but he didn't even go in there and do that. They said, nah we don't want Dirty Mouth and then he never even went back for my meeting. So it's like, enough is enough!
thaFormula.com - But on the other side, people will say what has Lake done for Nas for him to have to go into that meeting?
Lake - The thing that I bring to Nas is credibility. Everybody don't look at Nas as being a street dude. He rhymes well, but without his credibility, he ain't no different from nobody else. Nobody is not worried about not doing nothing to Nas because of him. They look at me. Just like Nas has his power in the industry, I got the same type of influence in the street. The same dudes that took Biggie and Pac's life, there is street dudes like that over here in New York City the same way. Why they don't get at Nas or disrespect him or do nothing is because of me. So you can't put no value on that. For me to be doing that for him, he knows that. He knows what I did. I didn't do that for you to give me something. I never asked Nas to give me nothing. I didn't ask him for no paper or to take care of me or anything. See Nas started rhymin' straight out of high school. He went from High School from being in Queensbridge to living out there and watching what's going on, to getting his career and moving out of the projects. So he doesn't have the information to make the records like that. I'm the closest thing to him to the streets. He needs that information. Regardless of whatever, he's got to stay grounded because he's a street artist. He's got to know what the slang is and what's going on and what's really happening in the streets to make that. You can't get that from Hollywood. if Nas didn't grow up in Queensbridge, ho couldn't make the rhymes that he makes. So where did he get it from? He got it from the streets. Who is in the streets? I'm in the streets. So where you think that he gets the information to make this. If you listen to God Son and all of the records and look at what he's talkin' about. Where do people think he get that from?
thaFormula.com - It seems like it comes down to loyalty and that is something that is very rare in this industry...
Lake - That's all it is. When he had his differences with 2Pac when they was at Madison Square Garden and that happened, I was in jail. But when he was up there, they sent for dudes to go from my projects to come up there. They came up to the hood and was like Pac, Suge and the whole Death Row is up there. Nas wasn't deep. He didn't go there with a whole bunch of people. So who did he call? The hood. The hood came up there and was ready to do whatever and back him up. That's when he had a chance to talk to 2Pac face to face. So that was loyalty. Without them doing that, he wouldn't have even had that type of presence. So everybody could say he don't owe nobody nothing or whatever, but they wasn't saying that then when the whole Queensbridge was standing behind him and held him down and let him stand up and be the man that he needed to be in that situation. He couldn't have did that by himself.
thaFormula.com - Throughout the years you have been one of Nas biggest supporters. What made you finally say now is the time for me to speak on this and decide to record the "Why" track about Nas?
Lake - Because enough is enough. It was just a situation like between the last couple of months, I had one of my people that was like my little brother get murdered. I'm talkin' to his mom and his mom was askin' me how did I let that happen. Not that I was really responsible for it, but just out of her hurt and how she looked at me in the position I played in his life. I just felt like I do owe my people more then that. Then 2 months later the feds came to my projects and locked up everybody in the projects. Everybody that was out there. All types of dudes that was real close to me and I cared about. If Nas would have did what he had to do for me, I could have did what I had to do for them. Now it's like no matter what I do, it's still gonna be a hallow victory, because when I look around, the people that I wanted to be there with me is not there. You was in the position to help me do that. The meetings with Universal and Sony are meetings where they are willing to deal with me and give me the money. Why wouldn't you take the meeting and do it.
thaFormula.com - All they wanted is what 50 Cent did for G-Unit basically right?
Lake - Yeah. They gave G-Unit their budget. They just asked 50 cent if he was gonna be in support of it. I mean Nas know my abilities. I go record everyday. If I got 6 hours in the studio, I'm doing 5 records. Nas knows my ability and my work ethics. That's why when I go with him, he wants me to bring my music. He wants to vibe off of my music and I don't have no problem with that. When he's working his album, I'm there. He calls me in the booth everytime he makes a record if I'm there. I'm there giving him ideas and telling him certain things to do. He then puts it together the way he works because he's a crazy talented artist. But he still needs that incentive and he still needs that information and I give it to him. I'm always there for whatever he needs. But you can't sit here and take a meeting for me where these dudes wanna give me money for my own thing.
thaFormula.com - When exactly did you start rhymin'?
Lake - I started rhymin' in 1994 when I was in jail. I had about 2 years in and I started rhymin' when I was in Attica. I knew I could rhyme. I just was never really trying to rhyme. It's nothing that I was really thinking about. I used to freestyle when I was little. I used to be in the park jams. When I got locked up is when I got time to think about what I was gonna do when I went home and what opportunities I had. Seeing Nas and Mobb Deep rhymin' and getting that money, I knew I had to have an opportunity to do that. So I started really taking it serious and really started rhymin' then. Even if I wasn't gonna do it when I came home, I rather know how to do it and not wanna use it, then get home, have the opportunity, but not be able to do it because I don't have the ability to do it.
thaFormula.com - So when exactly did you decide on the 41st Side compilation?
Lake - When I was locked up, I knew that when I got home that was gonna be something that I wanted to do. It wasn't no unity in my hood no more, everybody was going there own way. So my first thing when I came home was to unify everybody. That's what I tried to do when I put the album together. I had people do records together that never did records together.
thaFormula.com - Was it tough to put that album together?
Lake - Yeah, it wasn't easy. You got to understand when I came home, I had never been in the studio before. I didn't even know how to make a beat. Everything was foreign to me. Nobody was standing there coaching me. I didn't know how to make no records. But I went in there and learned. Know I got connections with all the producers. Prodigy, I talked to him and he got Alchemist for me. L.E.S. came and did beats and I started learning what I needed to do. As I went along, I learned it. It wasn't a long process once I got it going, but it was hard because some dudes would say they would come to the studio at a certain time and wouldn't come. I still had to pay for the studio time to.
thaFormula.com - Were you surprised at how things had changed with people once they got in a certain position?
Lake - Definitely. You see different things in people when they get in different positions. Alot of these dudes if you would have met 10 or 15 years ago, you wouldn't think they are the people they are today. Some of them was the coolest dudes, the most humblest, the most down to earth people. But now they get in the position and you see shit in them that you never thought they would be like. So it really did change my view of people, but it's understandable because maybe when I wasn't here, alot of these dudes weren't messing with each other for a reason.
thaFormula.com - So now that you did this "Why" track, what has the response been?
Lake - Everybody is talkin' basically. Alot of people agree with it and understand and there is alot of people that don't because they like Nas and they don't want to believe that.
thaFormula.com - So what's up next for you man. What you got lined up or coming?
Lake - My album is done man. I'm already 3 or 4 albums deep already man. Now it's just my music is gonna come and keep coming. Everybody is gonna know who I am, everybody is gonna recognize my voice, everybody is gonna hear my songs. My music is gonna flood the market on the street, the underground and the internet. My main thing right now is to get my music out there to the world and ain't nothing gonna stop that as long as I'm alive and breathing.
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QB's Lake speaks on Nas, doing time and basically everything. haha
thaFormula.com - For the people that don't know, who is Lake?
Lake - Well I was incarcerated from 1992 to 1999 and I came out with The 41st Side album, which was a compilation and it had all the Queensbridge artists on there. Cormega, Mobb Deep, CNN, Nas, Nature, and Tragedy. That's pretty much how I made my intro to the game. The album came out in 2001.
thaFormula.com - How does someone who has never done an album make his intro into the game with so many well known artists?
Lake - That was just from who I am on the street. Growing up, I knew all of these artists. I went to jail real young as an adolescent. While I was in jail, everybody got their chance to blossom. When I came home, everybody was in position making albums, videos and all that. So they was happy to see me come home because I knew them when I went in. My reputation is what it is being on the street. It's not a fluke or nothing. I did what I did and alot of people know me for that and they respected me for what I was. Before Queensbridge got known on the rap tip, we didn't have nothing but the dude that was standing up in the hood. That was what I was. It was what I did in the streets to be known like that and they respected that. If you look at everybody's first album, all of them was shouting me out on there. So when I came home, everyone said whatever I wanted to do they was gonna do. I'm a business man first, so I said I'm gonna put an album together and put everybody on it and feature myself to get my weight up. This way I can see what opportunities I got after that. But before the album came out, I got locked back up. This was a month before the 41st album was dropping. It was dropping on Sept. 11th, 2001 and I had got locked up in August for 2 charges of attempted Murder on police. So I went down and nobody thought I was coming home. I had just did 7 years and I'm home for like 2 years, and now I'm locked up for this. That's life for them cases! For 1 attempted murder on police is 25 to life. I had 2 counts and I had just came home for doing attempted murder, so I was bleedin'. But I went to trial for the case and I beat it. So when I came back home, Nas wanted me to get down with him and do the Ill Will project. He was telling me he's gonna do the Ill Will label and wanted me to be on it. So I'm rollin' with it and thinking I'm gonna put everything into that. That stagnated me cause I said let's do it and get it poppin'. I'm behind him and I'm working with him and he's putting his albums out and doing what he's doing. But he's not pushing me or helping me put my album out. At the same time, I got a whole army of dudes behind me that's waiting for me to do what I got to do.
thaFormula.com - The 41st Side album sold pretty good right?
Lake - Yeah, it went hood platinum. It sold 100,000 and I wasn't even home for it. Also, it came out on September 11th, 2001. I had everything against me, but it still did good. When I came home, I still could have capitalized on that, but with Nas giving me the opportunity that he said he was giving me, I was like, let's do it. It was a no brainer.
thaFormula.com - Before you went in in 1992, were you rhymin' at all?
Lake - Nah, I wasn't rhymin' in 1992. I was just a regular street dude. I was just mashin' and being a street dude. Reputation is everything on the street, it's your credit card. People know I'm loyal and a man of my word. If I say something, that's what it is. If I say this is not gonna happen, then that's not gonna happen. If I say we gonna do this, then that's what we gonna do. I don't promise nobody nothing that I can't fulfill my obligations to. So when people tell me we gonna do this and that and give you all these false promises, I'm not with that. Before I let it get to a point where it gets physical or shit starts getting uncivilized, I rather just pull back. I don't wanna do that because I got enough blood on my hands already. I don't want to come into the game disrespectful and try to take something away from somebody that they earned already. I look at the game for what it is. I'm to mature in that standpoint that I don't have to go that way. If I go that way, it's gonna be serious. So I rather not do that because I got to much that I'm bringin' to the table now, and it's like a whole different side of me that people don't know and didn't get a chance to see yet. But it ain't just about me gettin' my little paper. I'm gettin' the money that I get to get dudes that I rock with out of jail. Dudes that I mess with is in jail facing life. Some of them already got life, plus time on top of that. Some of them right now just got locked up and is facing life and there is other dudes that are in there that I'm trying to get back home. This is where my loyalty lies at. So I'm trying to do what I got to do for other people and my family. If you standing there and your blocking what I'm trying to do, it's gonna be a problem. But if you not gonna do it and you not with none of that, just say that your not with that. Don't say that these are our people and you care about everybody. Nas knows these people. He'll be like, "yo these are our people and we got to do this." But when it comes down to it, I'm the one that's sitting there in the courtroom waiting for them. He's no there. I'm the one that's going to visit them in jail and doing all that. He's not there. So it's like where does your loyalty lie at. If your not gonna do it yourself, it's no problem. I'll do it. Just get me in the position so I can do it. Not where I'm telling you to come out your pocket and give me money or nothing like that, but yo there is people that wanna give me a deal. They tellin' me, just let Nas come down here and let us talk to him, and we will give you whatever budget you want. This is at Sony. So if they wanna give me the money, why wouldn't you take the meeting and get me the deal.
thaFormula.com - So that 41st Side compilation opened alot of doors for you?
Lake - Yeah. I had alot of buzz. People just wanted to mess with me on the strength of the 41st side. That album showed alot of power and ability to be able to do that. It served it's purpose for what I needed the album to do. It was like alright, I got other options so I'm trying to figure my options out. But if Nas is saying that he's gonna get a deal and were gonna work over there and get it poppin' by dropping my album out first, then I'm like let's do it. But that wasn't the case. You would say one thing, then disappear. You would change your number and not call me back. I got a meeting at Sony and they waiting for you to come to the meeting and you not calling them or even showin' up! It's plain disrespectful man. You don't want me to prosper. It ain't even about you doing it. Your not getting a Ill Will deal, their not giving you no money and then you don't want me to get my own deal.
thaFormula.com - So you had an opportunity to get a deal with Sony?
Lake - Yeah. I had an opportunity with Sony and I had an opportunity with Universal, and he didn't take neither one of the meetings. Universal wanted to do the deal, but they wanted Nas to come in, so all of us can sit down in the meeting together. But Nas don't go. Later he goes and takes a meeting without me there and brings Dirty Mouth in there and tries to shop him. But he couldn't go in for my meeting, when I'm the one that told him about it. Universal didn't want Dirty Mouth. They wanted to sign me, but he didn't even go in there and do that. They said, nah we don't want Dirty Mouth and then he never even went back for my meeting. So it's like, enough is enough!
thaFormula.com - But on the other side, people will say what has Lake done for Nas for him to have to go into that meeting?
Lake - The thing that I bring to Nas is credibility. Everybody don't look at Nas as being a street dude. He rhymes well, but without his credibility, he ain't no different from nobody else. Nobody is not worried about not doing nothing to Nas because of him. They look at me. Just like Nas has his power in the industry, I got the same type of influence in the street. The same dudes that took Biggie and Pac's life, there is street dudes like that over here in New York City the same way. Why they don't get at Nas or disrespect him or do nothing is because of me. So you can't put no value on that. For me to be doing that for him, he knows that. He knows what I did. I didn't do that for you to give me something. I never asked Nas to give me nothing. I didn't ask him for no paper or to take care of me or anything. See Nas started rhymin' straight out of high school. He went from High School from being in Queensbridge to living out there and watching what's going on, to getting his career and moving out of the projects. So he doesn't have the information to make the records like that. I'm the closest thing to him to the streets. He needs that information. Regardless of whatever, he's got to stay grounded because he's a street artist. He's got to know what the slang is and what's going on and what's really happening in the streets to make that. You can't get that from Hollywood. if Nas didn't grow up in Queensbridge, ho couldn't make the rhymes that he makes. So where did he get it from? He got it from the streets. Who is in the streets? I'm in the streets. So where you think that he gets the information to make this. If you listen to God Son and all of the records and look at what he's talkin' about. Where do people think he get that from?
thaFormula.com - It seems like it comes down to loyalty and that is something that is very rare in this industry...
Lake - That's all it is. When he had his differences with 2Pac when they was at Madison Square Garden and that happened, I was in jail. But when he was up there, they sent for dudes to go from my projects to come up there. They came up to the hood and was like Pac, Suge and the whole Death Row is up there. Nas wasn't deep. He didn't go there with a whole bunch of people. So who did he call? The hood. The hood came up there and was ready to do whatever and back him up. That's when he had a chance to talk to 2Pac face to face. So that was loyalty. Without them doing that, he wouldn't have even had that type of presence. So everybody could say he don't owe nobody nothing or whatever, but they wasn't saying that then when the whole Queensbridge was standing behind him and held him down and let him stand up and be the man that he needed to be in that situation. He couldn't have did that by himself.
thaFormula.com - Throughout the years you have been one of Nas biggest supporters. What made you finally say now is the time for me to speak on this and decide to record the "Why" track about Nas?
Lake - Because enough is enough. It was just a situation like between the last couple of months, I had one of my people that was like my little brother get murdered. I'm talkin' to his mom and his mom was askin' me how did I let that happen. Not that I was really responsible for it, but just out of her hurt and how she looked at me in the position I played in his life. I just felt like I do owe my people more then that. Then 2 months later the feds came to my projects and locked up everybody in the projects. Everybody that was out there. All types of dudes that was real close to me and I cared about. If Nas would have did what he had to do for me, I could have did what I had to do for them. Now it's like no matter what I do, it's still gonna be a hallow victory, because when I look around, the people that I wanted to be there with me is not there. You was in the position to help me do that. The meetings with Universal and Sony are meetings where they are willing to deal with me and give me the money. Why wouldn't you take the meeting and do it.
thaFormula.com - All they wanted is what 50 Cent did for G-Unit basically right?
Lake - Yeah. They gave G-Unit their budget. They just asked 50 cent if he was gonna be in support of it. I mean Nas know my abilities. I go record everyday. If I got 6 hours in the studio, I'm doing 5 records. Nas knows my ability and my work ethics. That's why when I go with him, he wants me to bring my music. He wants to vibe off of my music and I don't have no problem with that. When he's working his album, I'm there. He calls me in the booth everytime he makes a record if I'm there. I'm there giving him ideas and telling him certain things to do. He then puts it together the way he works because he's a crazy talented artist. But he still needs that incentive and he still needs that information and I give it to him. I'm always there for whatever he needs. But you can't sit here and take a meeting for me where these dudes wanna give me money for my own thing.
thaFormula.com - When exactly did you start rhymin'?
Lake - I started rhymin' in 1994 when I was in jail. I had about 2 years in and I started rhymin' when I was in Attica. I knew I could rhyme. I just was never really trying to rhyme. It's nothing that I was really thinking about. I used to freestyle when I was little. I used to be in the park jams. When I got locked up is when I got time to think about what I was gonna do when I went home and what opportunities I had. Seeing Nas and Mobb Deep rhymin' and getting that money, I knew I had to have an opportunity to do that. So I started really taking it serious and really started rhymin' then. Even if I wasn't gonna do it when I came home, I rather know how to do it and not wanna use it, then get home, have the opportunity, but not be able to do it because I don't have the ability to do it.
thaFormula.com - So when exactly did you decide on the 41st Side compilation?
Lake - When I was locked up, I knew that when I got home that was gonna be something that I wanted to do. It wasn't no unity in my hood no more, everybody was going there own way. So my first thing when I came home was to unify everybody. That's what I tried to do when I put the album together. I had people do records together that never did records together.
thaFormula.com - Was it tough to put that album together?
Lake - Yeah, it wasn't easy. You got to understand when I came home, I had never been in the studio before. I didn't even know how to make a beat. Everything was foreign to me. Nobody was standing there coaching me. I didn't know how to make no records. But I went in there and learned. Know I got connections with all the producers. Prodigy, I talked to him and he got Alchemist for me. L.E.S. came and did beats and I started learning what I needed to do. As I went along, I learned it. It wasn't a long process once I got it going, but it was hard because some dudes would say they would come to the studio at a certain time and wouldn't come. I still had to pay for the studio time to.
thaFormula.com - Were you surprised at how things had changed with people once they got in a certain position?
Lake - Definitely. You see different things in people when they get in different positions. Alot of these dudes if you would have met 10 or 15 years ago, you wouldn't think they are the people they are today. Some of them was the coolest dudes, the most humblest, the most down to earth people. But now they get in the position and you see shit in them that you never thought they would be like. So it really did change my view of people, but it's understandable because maybe when I wasn't here, alot of these dudes weren't messing with each other for a reason.
thaFormula.com - So now that you did this "Why" track, what has the response been?
Lake - Everybody is talkin' basically. Alot of people agree with it and understand and there is alot of people that don't because they like Nas and they don't want to believe that.
thaFormula.com - So what's up next for you man. What you got lined up or coming?
Lake - My album is done man. I'm already 3 or 4 albums deep already man. Now it's just my music is gonna come and keep coming. Everybody is gonna know who I am, everybody is gonna recognize my voice, everybody is gonna hear my songs. My music is gonna flood the market on the street, the underground and the internet. My main thing right now is to get my music out there to the world and ain't nothing gonna stop that as long as I'm alive and breathing.
