SameOldShawn: I was listening to "Back From the River" the other day.
Mystikal: Holy sh**!
SOS: Can we talk about that on camera?
Mystikal: Damn right we can.
SOS: Okay. So can you go into that -- the whole "Drag Em 'N' Tha River"/"Back From the River" kind of thing?
M: I actually started it.
SOS: You started it?
M: I kinda started it. Unintentionally and...I didn't really give a f**. Cause at that point in my career, I was battling against what we call bounce music in New Orleans. When I was first coming out, I considered myself hip-hop coming from New Orleans, and all the New Orleans audience wanted to hear was bounce. So I was trying to compete with the f**ing bounce market.
And so I had a lyric that said, "One, never gonna change my style/Two, never gonna bounce, never gonna bow." That was a stab at bounce music, bounce artists. I didn't give a f**. And UNLV didn't take too well to that sh**.
SOS: So they did "Drag Em N the River."
M: So I'm just riding down the street the next day, and I heard, "Oh, he wants some/Ain't that cold." Beat knocking -- Mannie Fresh got that sh** bumping! Then I hear, "Mystikal, you a hoe." What? Hold on, motherf**er! That's where that started. And that was a real fun rivalry, man