Proof Chicago rappers are being extorted

Last week, before he got the shit kicked out of him and had his Transformers chain stolen by Trick Trick's little brother, Yung Berg gave an interview to the Rhapsody blog, in which he pretty much confirms everything it says in that email I posted earlier this year about the soft white underbelly of Chicago rap.

Here's a bit from the email, to jog your memory.

i moving to chicago in the 90's I saw all of this first hand. if your famous and from chicago, its either BD's, GD's or the DL's (tey gheys) that have your back. R.kelly got beat up by BDs for not giving them their cut after his first album. Kanye got beat (infamous busted face, credited to the accident) for jacking beats and not paying from his first deal, Lupe works with them on the heroin tip. Every single aritst, athelete and business that made it is sponsored by the gangs(mainly BD's) and they all have to give a cut of their money. think about all the chicago athletes getting jacked. The Black pharmaceutical rep, Naliah franklin found dead in chicago was a corporate drug dealer rep for the BD's and was killed by Antoine walkers business associate.

And after the jump is a bit from the interview with Rhapsody that proves this is true.

There was a VIBE article a few years back where some Chicago musicians complained about Common not doing enough to help out other Chi-Town artists. How do you feel when you hear stuff like that?
That’s b*llsh*t. It's not opportunities in Chicago so you gotta be able to holla at other avenues for yourself. What’s really the problem as long as you still rep Chicago? I don’t hear Common talking about he don’t love Chicago. He put on for the city. Back at that time, I was in the 'hood so Common had a different type of music. Chicago is just a city full of haters. It’s the ‘hood, n*gg*. It’s f*ck*d up. Nobody got nothing so they don’t like to see nobody else with it. Name one person from Chicago that’s in the business that Chicago really has love for. Who would you think?

Kanye West?
Wrong. Kanye can’t walk through the ‘hood. Name the last time Kanye been in the ‘hood. If you think about it, never. Never in seven years probably. Ain’t nobody [in the ‘hood] got no love for Kanye.

Didn’t he shoot the “Homecoming” video in the ‘hood?
That sh*t was downtown, dawg. And then they went by one of the projects. That wasn’t the ‘hood. He still wasn’t no ‘hood dude. Everyone known him from being musical. Same thing with me. They don’t like people that get on. That’s why Kanye still reps Chicago to the fullest, but he not in the ‘hood in Chicago.

Didn’t Common shoot “The Corner” video in the ‘hood?
Common's a different situation ‘cause to n*gg*s in the ‘hood, Common is a conscious rapper. He not in their lane. They feel like Common is in a league of his own.

Does Lupe get love in Chicago?
Lupe’s situation is also different because Lupe is a conscious rapper. N*gg*s in the ‘hood don’t like nobody unless you affiliated with gangs. It’s the worst city in the U.S.

When you go back, you don’t really go through the ‘hood?
Yeah, I was just in the ‘hood. I did Rap City: My Hood. It’s f*ck*d up in Chicago. If you not affiliated with nobody, nine times out of 10, people gonna try and extort you.

Checkit: Exclusive: Yung Berg Q&A [Rhapsody]