Bernard Hopkins Goes in on Floyd Mayweather Jr.

*AllHipHop.com: What’s the problem with you and Floyd Mayweather? He
never has anything positive to say about you. Was there something that
happened in the past between you two or is it just a personality clash?*

Hopkins: Well Floyd had personal stuff to say about Rick Ross, too. He
knows me, and he would never say anything to my face. Floyd ain’t no
gangster like he thinks he is. I’m not a part of the Hip-hop world when
it comes to a rapper. I’m a part of Hip-Hop when it comes to the
streets. You can pull up my record. But I don’t back the ignorant days
of my past and having to spend years in a 5 by 5 cell. I know how these
dudes would really be if they weren’t surrounded by gold watches,
diamonds, and all that. It means nothing to me, and I don’t have to play
the buffoon like the system wants.

If he wants to waste money in clubs, blow $40 million dollars and not
pay his taxes, that’s on him. We have to think and be different. Warren
Buffet and Bill Gates, you haven’t seen those guy’s houses. You haven’t
seen Bill Gates with a million dollars sitting in stacks like some drug
dealer. I don’t have a self-esteem problem, Floyd does. I’m 45; he’s
like a young boy to me. I was schooled by old heads. So when I became an
old head to the 20’s and early 30’s guys, when I speak they listen. Same
why the rappers do with Jay-Z, I have that in the boxing world.

It ain’t about how much money you got, but how much you can count 20, 30
years from now. Mike Tyson had $300 million dollars, and he got tricked
out of it. Let’s see who’s ballin’ 15-20 years from now, when you need
the money and can’t jump in the ring and make that money back. Because
if the rumors are true, Floyd needs money now . It’s not how much you
got, but how much you keep. I would never flash my money.

You’ll never catch me on MTV Cribs. Oh I’m sitting on 17,000 square
feet, I got 6 acres. But I ain’t got to call the newspapers and tell
them come to my house, and next thing you know someone runs up in there
damn near trying to take the Kool Aid out my refrigerator…even though I
don’t drink Kool Aid, heh. That’s the difference between me and Floyd
and where the arrogance comes from.

When Floyd saw me at the Fontainebleau in Miami , because I got a condo
down there, the first thing he said to me “yo man you got to see my
house!” Now I’m looking at this dude at like 2 in the morning, this
young boy, saying first of all what do I care? Tell me about you r
family, your daughter, your pops, but he wants to tell me I got to see
his house like I’m a b***h! I ain’t one of your bitches, man. What are
you talking about?! And lo and behold, I watch the 24/7 from the last
fight, you seen it and I seen it, him sitting up there with Puffy
showing it off. I’m not into that.

Nobody has seen Jay-Z house, have they? Think about it. Look at the
ignorance. Take this as a lesson dog, this is straight knowledge. I’m
sitting pretty good. You never see anyone up in my house in Delaware
unless they got helicopters. I take them to the condos in Philly and
Miami, and they desperately been trying to get to the main house for the
last 10 years. They know it’s nice, HBO is like “people got to see it
Bernard, see your business savvy, etc.” I say nah, then they won’t want
to give me any more checks! I know human nature. Noooo, the less they
see the better I’m off.

That’s a street thing, if I was drug dealer why would I go out and buy a
brand new car and draw attention on my block? No, I want them to think
I’m doing bad. You take the streets and take into corporate America, and
that’s why you have rappers that don’t have to sell coke no more.
Corporate America is the new drug game. If you still out there trying to
hustle on the block you’re a fool.

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