"I try to stay away from certain people. I'm really about truth," he told Superstar Radio. "So if you're lying and if you're not who you say you are, I really can't have anything to do with you. So most of the people I interact with are honest people." Shyne went on to cite Kanye West, Drake, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, and himself as just a few artists not afraid to be themselves. He then hinted at his disillusionment with a certain Florida-based Teflon Don, who he feels is, for lack of a better word, fake.

"I was talking to Fat Joe the other day and he was like, 'Yo, [Rap music] is entertainment.' And I was like 'That's the difference between me and a former Corrections Officer or any of these other dudes. It's not entertainment to me.' Whatever I give you, is me."

After being prodded about his statement regarding a "former Corrections Officer," Shyne became quite forthcoming about his ill feelings toward Rick Ross, many of them related to the fact that Shyne spent a decade dealing with C.O.s while in prison.

"[Rick Ross] is the only officer I know that's a rapper. I don't know anybody else that used to be a cop that raps…Hip Hop comes from the gutter. Hip Hop comes from the struggles, from the dudes that was in prison. So for a dude that used to lock dudes in, the dude that used to [call out to inmates], 'Yo wake up! You got a visit!' For that dude to turn into the biggest gangster rapper is like shocking to me. I don't even understand that."

Shyne finished the interview by saying he'd personally sit down with his peers who'd recorded records with Ross. "Weezy did records with him? I gotta talk to Weezy about that. I gotta talk to Wayne about that. I gotta make my feelings felt and have a sit down with him."