Shyne has made headlines for himself late by first attacking Kendrick Lamar’s album good kid, m.A.A.d. city, stating it as trash opposed to those who see it as potentially album of the year and also currently engaged in a war of words with The Game. Now he sat down in an interview to speak on the 1999 shooting which landed him in prison. Check what he said to say after the jump…

Shyne has been under a lot of criticism as of late. With his music offerings to his fans not necessarily hitting the nail on the head, a lot is to be explained from the once hot rapper. That explanation and more has finally come, as this morning Shyne called into POWER 105′s The Breakfast Club. In an exclusive interview, he talks about his music, his relationship with Diddy, Rick Ross not being an honest rapper, and so much more. Hit the jump to listen to the 23-minute interview.

Shyne pays tribute to mafia don Meyer Lanksy on his new track from Gangland Records,” which features G.O.O.D. Music artist Pusha T. Check out the full audio above.

Exactly one year and five days ago, former incarcerated rapper Shyne told the good folks over at SOHH that he was trying to leave Def Jam Records, having signed to the historic label little over eight months prior to the interview. In the exclusive sit down with the site Shyne stated, ”I’ve been fixing to get up out of there for a while now because [then Island Def Jam CEO] L.A. Reid don’t care about Hip Hop. You give them [Def Jam staff] a Hip Hop record with an R&B singer, you ‘might’ have a chance. L.A. Reid doesn’t want nothing to do with rappers”.

Well it seems as though the Belize born emcee may have been granted his wish, as told by Kanye West‘s go-to beatsmith and renowned producer Ken Lewis in a recent interview with HipHopDX. The producer, who has worked with ‘Ye for over nine years, stated that he had not heard from the former Bad Boy recording artist after working on tracks for his intriguing “comeback” album.

“Well, I mixed 18 songs for the upcoming album and produced two, but he got dropped from Def Jam [Records] and I haven’t heard from him since,” Lewis said. ”That may not be common knowledge. [Laughs] That might get me in trouble. His release date was splattered as May 17 all over the world, but the day came and went, and I never heard from Shyne again. I don’t really know what happened to him, I just know that as far as I’m concerned, I’m not a part of that record anymore”.

Shyne, who was  head hunted by the then chairman of Island Def Jam Records L.A. Reid, signed a reported $5 Million multi-album contract which quite possibly was burning a huge hole in the pockets over at the house that Uncle Rush and Rick Rubin built. In an era of the music industry where cost cutting is essential, such a contract at a label currently laying staff off, for an artist not allowed into the Untied States, Canada nor the United Kingdom to at the very least record and/or promote his albums [due to his gun conviction], may have been too much to bear and I am positive that the widespread indifference to the rapper’s recent music releases, including “The Original“, “King David” and “Trunk Full“, may have been part of the deciding factor.

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Shyne’s still not allowed back in the States, but he’s still managing to get product across the boarder. For his latest clip, the man formerly known as Jamal Barrow freestyles from Israel.

I really couldn’t tell you what he was saying in this clip though.

A great leader has the unique ability to admit when he’s wrong. Without this ability you suffer the fate of Napoleon and end up dead on your way to Russia.

I was wrong about my assessment of Chairman Reid. After I stopped being all Carl Thomas emotional and things like that, I thought about the facts. Fact is L.A Reid was there when I was locked, a few feet away from death row and the Black Panthers. L.A. was on the visit floor on Rikers Island looking at me through them blinding bars, showing me he believed in that gang boy revolutionary music I make. A bond forged at the nadir of suffering [that’s] unbreakable. That’s why I chose L.A. Reid over all the other distributors. We already went through it. I’ll never forget what L.A. did for me behind that b-wall. Caged like an animal, stripped of all my rights; he gave me freedom— freedom to follow my vision. Freedom to make my momma smile after so many tears and sleepless nights weeping for her baby boy like Rachel the matriarch weeps for the Israelites.

We have to have perspective on the legend [that] L.A. Reid is. 100 million records sold!!! Some of the biggest artists and musicians in the history of popular music have been discovered, mentored or produced by L.A.! Sean Combs and Jermaine Dupri made the biggest hits in music under L.A.’s tutelage. Shyne Po sold almost a million copies from Clinton Maximum Facility with the help of Chairman Reid. Son is one of the best in music—period. More than that, he was the dude that got on the PJ and paid homage to the chief when I was in that cell in them state greens dodging informants and banging on anything that opposed.

I’m loyal to a fault! F#ck it!!! I’m rolling with L.A. “100 Million Sold” Reid ‘til Supreme comes home and runs the rodents outta Queens, N.Y. I’m in it ‘til Sherm “Jonathan Jackson” Worm wins appeal and sits on the throne in Queensbridge. ‘Til Hasan Miller walks out the feds and hops in that four-door Bugatti.

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We’re just going to act like that DJ Khaled track never happened and pretend this is Shyne’s triumphant return. That song sucked more than Kat Stacks at a Young Money concert…after three shots of Patron. Yet and still, here’s to Po finding his lane again and returning to rap.

I know in the bing Shyne found a new religious lifestyle (jail does that to you), but with a track entitled “Messiah,” that’s placing a lot of pressure on yourself from the gate. One of the big questions for post-prison-Po was going to be his subject matter. Would he be the Brooklyn bully he was before that night in the club? Or would his new rhyming style be catered to his changed mindset? Maybe this will give us some sort of clue.

Regardless, whoever is in charge for the direction of his new track, I just hope it’s done correctly. The guy, at least, deserves that much.