Words matter. These are the best Jadakiss Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Controversy sells, politics sell, all that type of stuff sells.
One of the catches with being a dope artist is saying the same exact thing a trillion different ways, and being able to get across somehow differently every time. The way to express maturity and growth and evolution is to do that throughout the music.
Timing is important with music.
Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it’s just something that comes in your brain.
The top five producers that I have a creative chemistry with are Swizz Beatz, The Alchemist, Vinny Idol, Pharrell and Timbaland.
I need to do something with Cordae. His mannerism is so cool but his bars… he got them bars that puts him in an elite thing.
I love going to weddings.
My dream was to go to Syracuse. I wanted to be a part of the Orangemen. I actually thought I was going there up until around 10th grade when I knew that wasn’t really going to happen, so I started pursuing rap.
My songs never really reach the ears of white America.
I could go in and make albums how Master P was doing it every three months but I don’t want to do that. I could probably do it and make a lot of money and all that but I would disappoint myself.
Sonically, you gotta experiment sometimes.
You don’t get what you ask for, you get what you negotiate in this business.
Videos is the worst. Let me make it clear: Videos suck. It sucks making a video. It’s happy when it’s over and edited and online, but making it, it ain’t really too much fun.
You gotta keep working, baby. You gotta work. I got kids, I got bills, I like nice things – always buying cars and watches. I’m a sneaker-head.
Streetball ain’t dead.
Learn the business as much as you can before you sign anything.
You can’t mix your personal feelings up with your job or it’ll hurt you in the long run.
Rap’s the only music that they categorize like that. That’s one thing that I hate, like, down South rap, or up North rap. Country is just country rather than wherever it’s from. R&B, you don’t call it Atlanta R&B, you know what I mean. So that’s already like a shot at our culture.
When we did the whole ‘Let The Lox Go’ campaign we was teenagers or in our early 20s.
My voice is my own instrument that I use to rap.
I think praying is very important. I’m not going to say that I’m very religious and I don’t go to church as much as I should probably, but I definitely pray more than the average person. I’m a man of the Lord.
I always needed a Ty Dolla $ign feature because I’m a big fan of his and he always asked when I was going to send him a record.
I think every artist, producer, believe’s that it’s going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.
My mom and pop took me to the Apollo Theater on my thirteenth birthday to see Heavy D and Keith Sweat. It was late at night, up on 125th Street, and it was crazy!
You only can do what you can do. Just make sure you’re pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain’t, that’s just part of the game.
If you’ve got the power of the streets and the people, anything can happen and good music will always come to the top.
If there’s five dudes on a song, probably three of them are only really good.
My mom had wild records, like Luther Vandross, Michael Jackson and the Whispers. But the first record I bought was ‘Rapper’s Delight.’ It had a sky-blue cover with a rainbow. My aunt gave me money to get it, and I played it over and over on the record player.
Life is short, tomorrow’s not promised, so to be there with my kids, and do things with them, and go on family vacations – this is more valuable than anything.
When I create lyrics, I just go off of energy. Sometimes I write down my lyrics on my phone and most times I remember the lyrics in my head.
Being able to blend with the new kids and the youth will give you longevity and will put legs on your career.
No matter you a rapper, actor, ball player, figure skater, some people gonna like you some people ain’t, you just hope that the majority is more like than dislike.
I don’t need the big accolades when I die. Hit me with a couple good little ones: Kiss, one of the best voices in rap history.
You can’t be a sore loser or a sore fan.
A lot of dudes have success, overnight success or one-year success but not many have ten, fifteen, twenty in this game so when you can do that is when I look up to you.
The song ‘Why’ was always in my head. Three or four years, I always wanted to do a song called ‘Why’ and just ask wild questions. And I guess, strategically, after the 9/11 thing, it worked.
The music I do is for the streets.
That’s one of the luxuries of being able to do mixtapes, it’s that you can do something different or you can do anything you want to do, how you’re feeling at the time.
It’s a business, when you understand what’s going on in America, you’ll know that the way they portrayed 9/11 to happen, is definitely not what happened. Do I know what happened? Definitely not.
Having Styles and Sheek as my brothers and my partners makes it easier to work with anybody ’cause that’s the bar of bars right there. Being in the sandwich of them two, you can throw me in the cage with lions and I’ll feel comfortable because everyday I’m at bloodsport with them.
I think Damian Lillard is the best lyricist to be in the NBA or play basketball.
You can’t keep doing the same things and expecting the same results. So as you get older, you should get wiser. You learn to invest. You learn what to invest in. Then you start having kids and life changes.
Your fans grow as you grow, it’s best you grow together.
It’s all about the fans at the end of the day, because when they don’t want you here, you ain’t going to be here.
A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.
I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing I don’t check off on is album sales.
It’s a beautiful thing when the young guys grew up off you, or they embrace you and respect your craft. They always call for me like ‘Kiss, this is going to solidify me to get a joint with you.’ That makes you feel proud as an artist.
There’s some discographies out there that are therapeutic to listen to before you write.
I don’t care if I get nominated for fifty-eight Grammys, the day I can’t go back to where I came from, I quit.
I had one of those tape players with a strap on it and the orange button – the old-school recorder – and I’d record songs by Roxanne Shante, Run-D.M.C. and Biz, Markie. I’d try and learn the words. I’ve been rhyming since I was a young fella. I used to win talent shows by break dancing and rapping.
Some dudes get stubborn and get characterized as, you know, you getting a couple of dollars, selling a couple records, your flow is alright and the people got you gassed, and then you start putting yourself in a bubble and you don’t want to blend in with the new and what’s going on.
Nothing is promised for long or forever, so you have to put something away for rainy days. Especially when you got kids.
You have to give the crowd energy to feed off of and they will give it back. If you go on stage acting sluggish and nonchalant, that’s how the crowd will be. But if you let them know you appreciate them and do call and response, you’ll get a good reception.
A limo is corny. It’s extra long. You feel stiff when you get out.
I’m Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It’s my job.
I like Young Thug. A lot of people might think I don’t like Thug. I listen to Thug more than I listen to a lot of them. You got to listen to the music and absorb it. Some people might see him on the centerfold or something and just automatically judge him. You got to listen.
That’s one thing I learned from B.I.G. He was always heavy on versatility. I’m able to take an R&B record and rip it the same way I rip a regular freestyle or a hardcore beat, be able to put that same twang and seasoning on anything you do.
Things die down when you let them die down.
You can be a video vixen and be snobby, or you can be a college girl and be snobby, or you can be vice versa and down-to-earth. It depends really on the personality of the individual. I don’t judge.
Yeah, I’m a basketball fan in general.
