SameOldShawn: How'd you get Big to be so filthy on the record?
R.A. the Rugged Man: Well, because what happened was Big showed up at the studio. I had already had my lyrics laid down. He took a car out to Long Island
SOS: For our listeners who don't know, his great duet with Big is called "c*nt Renaissance."
RA: It's really foul and disgusting, and I purposely made it so foul and disgusting to piss off the record label, because they wanted me to make a commercial song with Big. They wanted me to make something that they could get played all over the radio nationwide. So I said, okay, I'll do that for you. And I said, what's the most disgusting, disgusting lyric I could think of?
It was right around the time when Lorena Bobbit chopped off her husband's dick and got away with it
SOS: Yeah
RA: I said, yo, imagine if you ripped some b**h's c*nt out with a spoon? You'd go to jail for life! How the f** she's allowed to cut off a dick and do three months? That's crazy!
So I said, "Rip a c*nt out with a spoon"? Oh sh**, you can't get any more disgusting than that! [Raps] "I'll rip your c*nt out with spoons."
SOS: So when Big walked in, he didn't know the concept behind the record?
RA: Well, Big already had the beat. He already wrote something, and he knew it was a s** record. He said, "I know from f**ing with you, it's gonna be some wild sh**." But then when he showed up, he's like, "Yo, your label's letting you say that?" I said, "Yeah." He's like, "Alright. Give me a couple and let me rewrite my sh**, get a little crazier." So he smoked a little blunt and he sat there for a couple hours and rewrote his sh**, and went in the booth