AllHipHop.com: Whats 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 aint no gangster like he thinks he is. Im not a part of the Hip-hop world when it comes to a rapper. Im a part of Hip-Hop when it comes to the streets. You can pull up my record. But I dont 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 werent surrounded by gold watches, diamonds, and all that. It means nothing to me, and I dont 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, thats on him. We have to think and be different. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, you havent seen those guys houses. You havent seen Bill Gates with a million dollars sitting in stacks like some drug dealer. I dont have a self-esteem problem, Floyd does. Im 45; hes like a young boy to me. I was schooled by old heads. So when I became an old head to the 20s and early 30s guys, when I speak they listen. Same why the rappers do with Jay-Z, I have that in the boxing world. It aint 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. Lets see whos ballin 15-20 years from now, when you need the money and cant jump in the ring and make that money back. Because if the rumors are true, Floyd needs money now [laughs]. Its not how much you got, but how much you keep. I would never flash my money. Youll never catch me on MTV Cribs. Oh Im sitting on 17,000 square feet, I got 6 acres. But I aint 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 dont drink Kool Aid, heh. Thats 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 Im 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 Im a b***h! I aint 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. Im 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. Im 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 its nice, HBO is like people got to see it Bernard, see your business savvy, etc. I say nah, [because] then they wont want to give me any more checks! I know human nature. Noooo, the less they see the better Im off. Thats 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 Im doing bad. You take the streets and take into corporate America, and thats why you have rappers that dont have to sell coke no more. Corporate America is the new drug game. If you still out there trying to hustle on the block youre a fool.
^ i hope you were kidding fish boy.. whats with all the back n forth ****? Hopkins needs to concentrate on Jones and mayweather needs to concentrate on himself.
im a fanatic of Floyd as a boxer. But i think that Bernard is right. To me Floyd is one of the most completes fighters of any era, if not the best. Part of his antics are show to sell tickets, but for the very same reason he has not been loved as he was different, talk different, and project different. That is the only reason why all people said that he was the no.2 in the world. All my respect to Paquiao, but Floyd is in a very different league. He is the only responsable of not being loved as he wish and as he deserve. As a boxer the best of the best. But this time Bernard is right.
i dont know if anyone is aware of this, but hopkins is from the streets!! grow up hopkins you embarrassing ****. no one cares
I, much like B-Hop can't stand Floyd the person (as opposed to Floyd the fighter whom I've come to appreciate). But Bernard is not understanding thr use of the bad boy image on Floyd's part. This all comes from the guy who said "I'll never lose to a white boy." Bottom line, everyone's got their shtick.
Haven't you heard ? hopkins is the only person in the world to have done time and had a hard up bringing.He's right about the idiots that flaunt their money though, it's like some child showing off their new toy.
When I first got into boxing I hated Hopkins, thought the man was overrated. Thought his style was horrid and wanted him to lose every time out. But when he beat Tarver all that changed. Now I listen to the things he says and although he is arrogant, and I'll never forgive him for the "white boy" comments, I think the guy is really a smart dude. Knows how to be in life and in boxing.