"I have no plans to work with Yung Joc anymore whatsoever," he laments. "He do what he do and I do what I do. When you deal with people who call themselves CEO's and they put the business between the artist and the producer, it messes up the chemistry. When a record makes a lot of money, people who don't even have nothing to do with the record get to playing tug of war. It's one of those situations where it gets sticky. It wasn't my intention to have it go down like that because I broke the dude, but it goes down like that sometimes. That's the game."

"I can't tell you what his favorite song from Life After Death was," D-Dot continued, "but I know he loved 'Going Back to Cali,' I know he loved 'You're Nobody ('Til Somebody Kills You).' I know he loved the joint he was singing on, 'Playa Hater,' because he loved singing. He loved 'Ten Crack Commandments' because he knew that was hip-hop classic. When he finished that, he said, 'This is going to be a classic for n---as.' I think he knew that if he was around to support it, it could be possibly the biggest-selling album, close to Thriller sales. It still sold 10 million [copies,] and he was dead when it came out. Imagine if he was alive to support it and do the tours and movies that was set up for him. He never even got a chance to perform any songs on the album.

"He was a student of hip-hop, and he really just wanted to be the best MC ever. That's really the legacy of Biggie," D-Dot concluded.

The pair also stay true to their favorite themes -- cars, marijuana and sex -- though one imagines there is considerable pressure on them to project a more presentable image for Top 40 radio. (Bad Boy has simultaneously released a "clean version" of Ridin' High that omits some of the raunchier tracks.) But it would be a shame to let priggishness get in the way of enjoying a song like the title track, one of the most infectious 8Ball & MJG have ever produced. Ridin' High may not be as satisfying as Living Legends, and it has some filler. But the handful of tracks that rise above it all are among the best things 8Ball & MJG have done. Long live the new kings of Memphis rap.

"Me and Snoop ain't making a single dollar on these shows," he told the Star. "In fact we're losing money, but we wanted to come to Europe anyway. It ain't about the money for me anyway. It's about a party. It's about making these people have a good time for two-and-a-half hours.

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