Maino, Soulja Boy, Bun B and Irv Gotti  recently discussed their stance on the record industry politics and warned fans of the shady dealings which,they claim, go on behind the scenes.

MAINO:

“If I had it my way, I’d do away with the f*gs,” Maino said in an interview. “And I don’t mean in a gay sense, I mean the f*g sh*t, the f*cking lying, when I’m in your face ‘I’ma sell you the world and soon as I get you away it’s everything opposite of what I told you.’ That’s not real man business. That’s not how men move, so, I don’t love it…I’m hustling my situation. I work hard and I do what needs to be done so I can get what I need but at the same time I don’t love the business of it. I love to create, I love to be in the studio, I love to perform for the people because the people are really fans of the music and they don’t understand how dirty, nasty and foul these people are. That’s why I keep a tight circle and move the way I move. I don’t play with these people.”

IRV GOTTI:

“See, the music business is d*ck riders for the better part,” Gotti said in an interview. “I understand that it’s logic, I accept it but they’re d*ck riders. So they want a Dream beat right now or they want a Polow Da Don or whatever like that. They d*ck riders. And I know and I can say that with the utmost confidence because they d*ck rode me for a large time and I wacked ‘em in the head. Murder Inc. got all the hits, everyone’s calling me. The illest sh*t I ever did was I made someone pay me $50,000 just to get on the phone. I was an a**hole at the highest level. I said, ‘Yo listen man, send me $50k and I’ll get on the phone, if not f*ck outta here yo,’ I was an a**hole at the highest, yo, a quarter, you heard me, $250,000, I ain’t stutter,’ click. He sent that paper.”

BUN B FROM UGK:

“I wonder if people who ask Southern artists [about their past streaks also] ask West coast artists or Midwest artists or New York artists that, because all those regions are falling off,” Bun said in an interview earlier this year. “Hip-Hop, in general, doesn’t have the demand power it used to in any region. We had a good run in Houston, but every region’s in trouble. There are really only six people making money off rap music. Everybody knows that.”

SOULJA BOY:

“At 18 years, having grown up in the Mississippi Delta, I never thought my life would take me to where I am now,” he wrote in a blog entry earlier this month. “All I thought I loved was music. I would die for that motherf*ckin music. But, once I got a record deal and all these people around me trying to tell me who to be, what to do and how to do it, I realized that I wasn’t making music any more for the love. I got into this weird place where I began making music for the money…I thought money was gonna bring me happiness. And that is the farthest thing from the truth. Money f*cks you up…I know I might sound crazy, because a lot of you who are reading are probably like, I wish I had this ni**a’s money. But, the truth is that money got me twisted. All I want to do is go back to making music for the love of it…I know my fans. And I know they will understand this. This ain’t got nothing to do with y’all.”