| XXL mag 6 |
| XXL: Are you satisfied that your lawyers are hittin' them with all this? Shyne: On the summation, I'm contemplating' just gettin' up there myself, man. XXL: Do you find looking at the jury? What do you see in their faces? Shyne: I'ma be optimistic. I see that they know a nigga wasn't up in there tryin' to kill nobody, man, with no two shots fired in the sky. Even their own DA witnesses, some of them said I was pointin' in the sky. Even the bitch-ass man Puff that got his witness to snitch, she was like, I shot up in the air. They got the bullet marks in the sky, man. [pause] I pray, man. I pray, son. Sometimes I wake up, and be like I'm 'bout to go crazy, son. Nothin' don't seem... it seem like the world is spinnin'. I don't know whether to turn left or right, son. And I kneel down, and I clasp my hands, dog, and I close my eyes, and I thank God. And I become a warrior, son. Warrior. After I make it through this, man. I'ma be alright. Even if it's in the next life; even if it's in eternity, I come back to this hell. God wit a nigga, man. If I make it through this, and I talk to them real niggas out there, whatever they doin', man, I'm not here to judge niggas, but I'm here to let niggas know: God is real, man. God be havin' me sit there tellin' my lawyers what to say even though they knucleheads. XXL: What are your impressions of judge Soloman, and how he's handled this trial? Shyne: He just under pressure. Whatever the DA say, the judge do, dog. Like, cat be wantin' to do this right thing, but the DA get up and start puttin' that nigga under pressure, and like, the DA get up and start puttin' that nigga under pressure, and like, the DA done tried 17 cases with this nigga. So they know each other, man. XXL: Well, Bogdandos asked Puffy to be put in jail for 30 days for violating the gag order... Shyne: Well, he don't go overboard, but I'm talkin' 'bout the critical shit, man. If we make an objection and the judge is about to rule in our favor, like, he knew he's supposed to take that attempted murder [charge] out. He know them niggas ain't proved that I attempted to kill nobody. XXL: Did anybody tell you to take a plea, maybe for assault? Shyne: Nobody coulda told me to take that, playboy. They coulda made me plead to reckless endangerment. If that faggot-nigga Puff wasn't in this, man, niggas woulda been alright. But it's all that high publicity, all eyes on niggas. They gotta play for this camera, man. XXL: What's your impression of the media coverage? Shyne: It's all about Puff. Niggas is actin' like I'm not sittin' here facin' 25 years. They actin' like, I'm not the nigga charged with the attempted murder, wrongly. And they don't even if it was my gun that hit them people. And ain't nobody talkin' 'bout that in press. Them niggas is more talkin' about, "Well, Puff was playin' with his son in the snow." That's what they puttin' on the front page. That shit is crazy, son. I might get life snatched from me, man. XXL: What do you do when you home at night? Do you watch TV? Are you writing rhymes? Shyne: I did ten songs. Needless to say I'm leavin' Bad Boy. So I stopped recordin'. I did like ten new joints, ten new heaters. But I just pray, man. I pray in the mornin' when I wake up. And I go home to pray to God that I was able to stand there lookin' my enemies in they eyes and not fold. Look at the jurors in they eyes and not fold. Look at the judge, and just be a man about this. Even talkin' to you right now, dog. I thank God that I wasn't no coward and I ain't get up on that stand and testify against niggas to save myself. I'd rather die with honour, man. I just pray that God have mercy on a nigga. 'Cause nobody don't control this, man. Whatever God wanna happen is gonna happen, man. If that nigga want me to suffer, I'ma suffer man. I just ask the nigga that he let me endure like Jesus did when he was on that cross. XXL: What would be dishonourable about getting on the stand and telling the truth? Shyne: You just not supposed to get up there and burn niggas, man. XXL: They were ready to burn you. And you were ready to shoot back. Shyne: You know, it's one thing to defend yourself, as far as you could die. But it's another thing to start rattin' people out. XXL: Every single one of those people hasn't been afraid of going up on that stand or- Shyne: I don't live my life by what other people do, dog. And I don't think that's a fair comparison. I got a choice not to start rattin' on niggas. Somebody's tryin to kill you, you really don't. I got a choice, dog, and that's just how I wanna live my life. |