Smitty: Yeah just trying to get it out and first I ran into Wil Smith my man, actually I’m writing a record for him right now for the Hancock soundtrack…He put me under his wing, wrote a couple of records that never materialized…Ran into Dr. Dre and wrote a couple of records with him that did materialize and eventually went on to write for Puffy where I became a Grammy Award winning songwriter and record selling songwriter which put me in the position to get picked at J Records and we started from there…That’s when we got into the whole Diamonds on my Neck era…You know Diamonds on my Neck came out and it was a club banger that came out on Memorial 2003 or something like that and it really set the tone for my story…

S1: A lot of people definitely know about Diamonds on my Neck that shit was banging in every car down here in Miami…So what do you have planned next?

Smitty: With me you know it was so much that I had to deal with being on a major with the high expectations at J Records you gotta understand that the first record I did was in writ of Alicia Keys this was and R&B icon, so I had high expectations put on a level to produce from a standpoint of selling platinum records…When you put in that position a lot of people don’t understand that a lot of politics come along with that you know what I mean? And at that particular point your not just an artist that’s making good music anymore, that’s not your job…It’s easy when you behind the scenes writing for the Puffy’s and Dre’s young dude trying to get on but when you have a label like J Records that gives you a million dollar budget, they want their money back…So a lot for a lot f the records that we feel should be successful or we feel why they didn’t take off is because the politics that were involved kind of headed that back and I wasn’t treated like a regular artist and I appreciate but it also hindered me as well a lot of records that should have been big like Diamonds on my Neck never got the opportunity to materialize cause of the politics that comes along with being on a major label…So none of that, I don’t regret anything that happened with J Records and I do wish things could have went different but now I thank them for allowing me to leave and explore my options and become my own man.