Outside the Lines With Rap Genius - OTL 54: Brian Brater Excerpt #2 lyrics

Brian Brater: I was a big fan of Puffy pre Bad Boy. So I would go to his Red Zone parties. Right, so I was a part of that whole thing. Puffy always, to a degree, as far as I can remember, was extremely relevant, important person in New York in rap life, in club life, in everything Jessica Rosenblum was doing at the time, Violator management... So we always looked at Puffy and Violator, and companies like this - and Loud Records really started to pop around then - and I kinda revered what this people were doing. I wasn't the guy complaining about Puffy rapping because I respected him for what he did with Biggie. But the community definitely opposed our points of view, and in all fairness, if you really know your rap history, don't diss Mase. Right, cuz Mase is an important person. Children of the Corn. So it's like, you know, to diss Mase and Puffy for dancing around in shiny suits... You're almost just not paying attention to history. You're being overly critical for the sake of being critical. We never thought about it that way