He also said the album came at a pivotal time in the group's careers. “What people don’t know is when The Diplomats got big, we were coming back from nothing,” he said. “Cam had a deal, got out of it, and we was forced to go back to the streets. Being in the streets led to Cam being managed by Dame to getting signed then The Diplomats got signed. That was our retribution. This is our get back. We had a chip on our shoulders, so we had to execute.”
He went on to explain how in a lot of ways, the project symbolized the power of hope and tenacity.
“That album showed people you can never let anything stop your dreams,” he said. “It don’t matter where you at in the world, ’cause we started from the bottom of the bottom in the projects with nothing to offer. We had to get everything and earn everything. So for us to be here and overcome all the things that we did and all the great things we accomplished is everything. That album was the beginning of an era that changed the face of Hip Hop. A double CD that was both red and blue represented the things that our city would pick up, which was gang culture. The style that we gave y’all was that album. I can’t even think about how influential we were, but I get remnants of it all over — from people telling me what we meant to them to seeing it in front of me.”
