[Si] TV

Tru Life the Boricua spitter who has decided to “bring New York back,” has changed some since you last saw him bragging about sticking up Mobb Deep affiliates. Well, not necessarily. He’s just lyrically and literally bitch slapping fellow New Yorkers like Cam’Ron and Jim Jones or as he calls them Jenny Jones and The Pussycat Dolls. Aside from his constant belittlement of the Dips, there’s a reason why Jay-Z signed him to Def Jam and Snoop Dogg is executive producing his debut album. He’s has a melodic flow and thug words to match. Yet, the beef doesn’t stop; it’s just about to sizzle.

[Sí] Ent.: What’s the basis of the album going to be?

Tru Life: It’s about introducing the world to who I am and what I am. [Just] telling my story.

[Sí] Ent.: What do you think you bring to the table that hip-hop’s been lacking?

TL: Hip-hop’s been missing the truth. Everybody’s been exaggerating and lying. There [are] so many false prophets in the game and it’s all this fake gangsta thug sh*t going on and not that much great music out there. So what I’m bringing to the table is, I bring my life and speak about the realness and the realizations that [are] going on in the world. I think I got a unique story that’s never been heard and never been told. And when you speak from your heart you can touch somebody else’s heart. I’m speaking from my heart which is something that these other rappers are not doing.

[Sí] Ent.: How involved is Jay-Z in your album?

TL: He’s so involved he listens to my adlibs. He’ll tell me if the adlibs [are] off. Something so [f*cking] tiny that the average listener wouldn’t notice. He’ll tell me, “I like that song, it’s just that adlib right there.” That’s how far deep he is into that sh*t.

[Sí] Ent.: So what’s poppin’ off with Dip Set?

TL: I don’t know? They walk around with tight ass jeans. I heard they got them female jeans. They run around in those Apple bottoms.

[Sí] Ent.: What’s really good with them hacking into your Myspace page?

TL: That’s some bitch shit. All they did [was] show me that they lost [their] composure. [Their] little diss record is weak. They not well thought out – the way they addressing me back, they don’t know what to do. All they doing is showing me that I really got under [their] skin. And they showed the world that they lost their composure.

[Sí] Ent.: And what’s your history with them?

TL: I know Jim really well. He felt like the “New, New York” record was dissing him when the media started putting it in his head that they thought I was dissing him. But the shoe fits. He was supposed to wear that. I guess he didn’t feel comfortable wearing it. He was a little bit embarrassed and he started to say my name in the streets. I hear everything that goes on in the streets. So you say my name, you owe me more than that. I’m Kevin Costner, I once body guarded the b*tch ass. I put bulletproof vests on his back. So he wanna play little clown games…I don’t fight fire with fire, I put water on fire. So all I did was throw some water on them little b*tches and the fire is halfway put out. Now I’ma finish stomping the fire out. I’ma put them all the way out.

[Sí] Ent.: What do you mean you were putting vests on him? You were holding him down in the hood?

TL: Exactly what I said, putting vests on his back. When he was scared to go Uptown he was getting protection from me. When he was going out to L.A., I had my people putting bulletproof vests on him, driving him all through the hood and holding him down. Once some dudes wanted to ride on him and kill him, I had to squash that muthaf*ckin’ beef for him and had my boys from L.A. who was down with me holding him down. If he’s a Blood then he should’ve had his Bloods holding him down. If he’s a Blood then he should’ve had his Bloods from Uptown holding him down. He’s a straight mothaf*ckin’ chameleon. He turns any color that he thinks is hot and keeps changing every five seconds. The guy’s a hoe. He’s a certified b*tch.

[Sí] Ent.: Speaking of beef, whatever happened with that sh*t that went down with Mobb Deep?

TL: That’s been squashed. If anybody wanted to think that it was a publicity stunt then I would’ve came at Mobb Deep the same way. If I wanted to speed up my career and come at it with some beef sh*t then I would’ve did that with them. When I had that Mobb Deep beef that’s around the time that 50 became so successful when he did his whole thing going at Ja Rule. So if I wanted to do that I could’ve followed what was hot and went and did that too and sh*tted on Mobb Deep with every song I did. But that’s not what I did. I sat down with him. We ended up kicking it and squashing the sh*t – me and Prodigy. I handled it like a real man. We let bygones be bygones.