BTN: I hear people say that a lot. That ‘classic New York sound’ is missing from the game. From someone who grew up on that sound. What can I expect different from you that I haven’t heard already?
VN: For Example, I just did a record called “I Still Love Her”, and it’s almost a follow-up to Common Sense record (I Used to Love her) and it’s like talking about hip hop like she is a girl. It’s like taking Common’s idea and pushing it to the next level. It’s like we’re talking to the same girl, it’s with New York, it’s almost like the same concept but it is a whole different record.
So I want to push the genre to the next level; like I said nobody can re-do the Ten Crack Commandments. I want to make those records that are complete, that nobody else can do. But I’m more than one style; I have different flows, styles, and information to give and everybody doesn’t have that.
BTN: What is the name of the new album?
VN: It’s called the “New Commission”; it’s the third installment to “Hidden in plain sight, but the sub-title is called the New Commission. And that just goes with that whole Brooklyn idea they had back in the day Jay-Z and Biggie. Along with ‘Hidden in plain sight, you know with all these albums, I hit them with subliminal, you know that’s another thing with the commission. There is something called the Trilateral Commission, with Europe, Asia, and North America. They kind of get together and determine what goes on in our economy. So that is just a way to subliminally feed people, but don’t give to them all the way. But you know a lot of people going to think Biggie, but it’s bigger than that.