On the latest episode of their new podcast, Still 400 - The Mannie & Juvie Show, Mannie Fresh and Juvenile shared their thoughts on the Cash Money and No Limit Verzuz that went down at ComplexCon.
At around the 5:30 point of the podcast, as seen above, Mannie said that he’s received a lot of questions about the Verzuz. “One of my things is the internet kind of did something, but the internet always does this; it turned it into a battle,” said Mannie, who joined Juvenile in representing the Cash Money side of the event. “It was never a battle. It was us celebrating our music. It was us celebrating our catalog. Two powerhouses in New Orleans.”
The event went down at ComplexCon in Las Vegas, but Mannie added he would’ve loved for the event to have been held down south. “I won’t do it again, bro, ‘cause I was battling,” said Juvenile. “I don’t know what you talking about. … I’m always trying to win. If we was playing basketball? Very competitive. … And everybody know Slikk was at my neck all week talking about, ‘Juv, it’s all love right now, but we get on that dog, I’m telling you.’ You know what I’m saying? So, I came with that attitude.”
Juvenile said that it was “all love” between everyone who participated, but he was still “trying to win” and treated it as a battle. “I think we need a crowd that actually, you know, celebrate the music the way we love the music,” he said. “I do feel like they had a lot of ComplexCon fans in there, people that really didn’t know… Shout to Complex for putting us on their big stage, but I just felt like in New Orleans, on both of our home turfs, it would have been better served.”
Mannie and Juvenile aren’t the only figures in hip-hop who felt that the crowd wasn’t ideal. On an episode of Talk With Flee, Cam’ron praised the event but said that he felt the audience didn’t appreciate the significance of the face-off.
"I thought it was real good, man," Cam said. "The only problem I had with the Verzuz was the location. Even though it was ComplexCon, it was a great weekend, and it was a lot of people there; a lot of people didn't realize what was actually happening. People didn't even really know the magnitude of what was going on with that Verzuz."
He added that hip-hop fans who didn’t grow up during the rivalry between the labels wouldn’t fully understand, and that it would’ve “popped off” if it were in New Orleans or Texas.