Letter from George Simmons:
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SOHH.com: Why do you feel the need to release a DVD about this?
Because he made a song about me, he capitalized and it's about making money. Milk is five dollars and gas is three dollars a gallon so it's about selling records and making money. He done took food off my table by suing me for $220,000. Then he turned around and made a song about me and capitalized off selling records. And he stopped a lot of my shows, a lot of promoters wouldn't book me no more because Scarface called me a name, I couldn't make no money, he hurt my money for a minute. So why not hurt his pockets and capitalize at the same time? It's all about selling records or that's what they tell me its about. So that's what we gonna do, but at the same time I'm gonna expose the real. To all ya'll G's and rappers out there Mr. Scarface is a fucking snitch. No one wants to hear this about Scarface, I didn't either. I didn't ask for this information, [Harris] brought it to me. He used to hang with my little brother Micheal Jermaine. My brother got two life sentences, he a gangster for real. He used to kidnap -----s back in the day. 'Face didn't want to go out and hang with my little brother in 88-89.
SOHH.com: Why would Scarface call you a snitch?
I caught a fed case in 1999, and since I didn't get a bunch of time everybody started saying I was snitching. Well show me the paperwork if I did anything to anybody. I did my time. If I snitched on anybody I would not have done any time. You would have heard a lot of hype about Lil Troy. Instead I was in the feds looking at my video on BET and MTV. I did 10 months in prison and six in the halfway house.
"I watched him grow up, he never did nothing. I'm gonna break the world's heart."
SOHH.com: What did you get charged with?
I got charged with a telephone call. I got caught with three kilos of cocaine but they couldn't pin it on me because it was an illegal search. The District Attorney made me a proposition. He said: "You want to take this telephone count, because if you don't the judge gonna dismiss the case and I'm gonna file a second appeal, bring you back up and charge you on your third felony and I'm gonna give you a life sentence. So you can either plead guilty to this and not use your life, or dismiss it.
The use of a communication device carries a maximum sentence of 4 years so I'm like fuck it lets do it. That's what these cake ass -----s don't know, what kind of case I had. They start you at 18 months but if you do good it goes down to 10 months and you go in the halfway house for six months. Those cake ass -----s don't know how the law goes. You can look up and see how much time it carries.
I got 'Face mad. Matter of fact I got on my DVD where Scarface is at a concert reading from a federal guideline handbook about me. What the hell you doing at a rap concert reading a federal guideline handbook? You supposed to be rapping to the people. He know he done fucked up. At least I did some time. If I did snitch on somebody I did some time. Scarface snitched and didn't do no time.
SOHH.com: Rap-A-Lot has released a letter from George Washington Simmons, who is presently incarcerated, exonerating Scarface from the ordeal.
That bullshit! I got that letter and sent it to my people. How Simmons gonna say 'Face ain't got nothing to do with it, when 'Face introduced you to the laws. He said 'Face ain't testify and didn't have nothing to do with it but the affidavit said that 'Face introduced him to the laws as his cocaine suppler at 'Face house. In the affidavit it say big as day that Simmons sent Harris to meet the laws twice. You gonna let a bullshit letter come from Rap A Lot to deter ya'll about something? I know you don't what to hear this, I hate it too. But we got to expose him.
SOHH.com: Why should people believe you?
I ain't say to believe me. I'm giving you some public information. Don't believe Lil Troy, I can lie. But believe the court system. I ain't did no writing. I gave you actual facts, court documents and case numbers. Days and times of what they put out. I didn't change it. I gave it the way they put it out. Go look up that case number and see if it's real or not.
Scarface ratted on some people. Once this comes out watch how many other people that Scarface done hooked up with the laws [speak out] wondering how the hell they got busted so quick. 'Face did it -- he was working with them folks.
SOHH.com: Did you know of any of this before Harris gave you the affidavit?
I knew this happened because I was in the feds with Simmons. We worked in the kitchen. He used to bring me Frosted Flakes all the time. He always told me 'Face ain't right, but he never showed nobody any paper work. In the penitentiary you can say what you want to say, but if you don't show paper work they ain't gonna worry about it. But 'Face got Simmons a lawyer, he looked out for him. So quite naturally he ain't gonna go against 'Face then, but they forgot to look out for Harris who was the runner.
SOHH.com: Ultimately, what are you looking to do with the release of this information? What do you want to see happen?
I'm looking for money. He owes me $300k for suing me back in the day. He ain't have to do that I need my money back. So I'm doing him like he did me. And I'm suing him for slander and defamation of character. I got proof that he running around talking about me on stage. It's time for me to get paid. They didn't get Harris no lawyer, they didn't look out for him, he needs to be compensated too. If 'Face would have took care of him he probably wouldn't have brought me those papers. Scarface ain't no real G. That why he don't now the code to these streets that says make sure you take care of the people that you fucking with.
Scarface didn't have to sell no dope in '99. Face and RAL was doing they thing. He had money then. He just wanted to act like he was a street mutha fucka -- he was nothing. I watched him grow up, he never did nothing. I'm gonna break the world's heart. We don't want him doing anymore gangsta rap. We want him doing Gospel rap that's going to uplift he community.
Lil Troy's "Paperwork DVD" can be purchased starting on September 20th at Liltroy.com.