Album Preview: Saigon "The Greatest Story Never Told"
By Insanul Ahmed | Nov 2, 2010 | 3:03 pm | Permalink
Think back to 2005: Bush was still president, MySpace was the shit, and we all believed Saigon’s The Greatest Story Never Told would live up to the hype. Fast forward to 2010 and we've got a black President, Twitter beef, and Saigon’s The Greatest Story Never Told most definitely lived up to...its title. That is, until now. Earlier this week, Saigon let Complex listen to his oft-delayed debut album and claimed it would be released next February. Although the album was played out of sequence and Saigon held back a few tracks, we got to hear the majority of one of the holy grails of hip-hop music, and now we're ready to prove that it actually exists. Click over to the next slide to start our track-by-track preview...
Kell-EL November 5th, 2010 at 03:33 PM
Can't wait for this to drop, this is an instant purchase!
UnseenNYC November 5th, 2010 at 08:40 PM
Not worried about the last track not being produced by Just Blaze...Buckwild is a much better producer....i'd rather he did the whole LP...not a knock on Just, but he don't have near as many classics as Buck
chray1 November 6th, 2010 at 02:34 AM
Had this ish for a few yrs now. Was bangin then...bangin now
Voltron aka Speech is my hammer, bang the world into shape and let it fall! November 6th, 2010 at 08:08 PM
THEY PLAYED IT OUT OF ORDER FOR A REASON!! The way the album was made was like it was one track, flowing into the next without you being able to tell. Just showed us this on Mogulus (old Ustream) in 2008 when he played the album in its (basic) entirety. Imagine a musical version of the MJ 'Black And White' video.
SmokinAcesLTL November 7th, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Too bad no one really cares about this album anymore. Wish he woulda struck while the iron was hot. Squandered opportunity...
ClockworkOrange November 7th, 2010 at 06:20 PM
SmokinAcesLTL November 7th, 2010 at 11:55 AM Too bad no one really cares about this album anymore. Wish he woulda struck while the iron was hot. Squandered opportunity... .................................................. Who said nobody cares about the album now? People act as if the album can't get any momentom now. It very well can. It's not over because he was delayed by the music industry. Everything happens for a reason. Apparently, a major label wasn't the place for Saigon. It's not Saigon's fault that his album wasn't released during that time. It doesn't mean we as fans, all of a sudden don't care anymore. Just because it wasn't released on your time frame. Bottom line is, if your music is good, it's going to stand the test of time. And people will care and appreciate it much later.