Video: French Montana f. Jadakiss, “New York Minute”
- story Felipe Delerme
Back in April “New York Minute” had us believing not just in Max B sideman and Konvict signee, French Montana, but in our very own city. And now we have a video with pictures of our very own city and French Montana AND Jadakiss and all we want to do is go to Hawaii. Not that the two are related.
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Freeload: Red Cafe f. The 2009 Hot 97 All-Stars, “Hottest In The Hood (Remix)”
- story THE FADER
Everyone on this song has made individual songs that we’ve jammed, all probably in the last week alone, or maybe we’re just overlooking our undying allegiance to DJ Enuff’s “Rush Hour,” but holy shit, Loso is on fire right now.
Download: Red Cafe feat. Jadakiss, Fabolous, Rick Ross, Diddy & OJ Da Juiceman, “Hottest In The Hood (Remix)”
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posted on Apr 29, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Diddy, Fabolous, freeload, hip hop, Jadakiss, OJ da Juiceman, Red Cafe, Rick Ross
Video: Swizz Beats, “When I Step In The Club”
- story THE FADER
Long time observers of The FADER should recognize Swizzy as one of the few artists who we’ve written about almost obsessively over the years, often for no reason (new hat, etc) and sometimes to the confusion of our readership. All that said, it’s been a minute since we hit the Swizz key on our keyboards, so when we heard Jadakiss’ “Who’s Real?” on Hot 97 last night, with SB flipping “If You’re Happy And You Know It” into a club anthem, and then saw this new video directed by Hype, we kinda felt like it was time to bring Uncle Beats back to the blog. The video appears to be part of a special project for Hennessy Black, where you can also download the mp3.
FADER TV: Jadakiss on “The Last Kiss”
- story THE FADER
Back in the Mesozoic, in mid-March 2009 AD, when we were in Austin, Jadakiss played a phenomenal show at the Levi’s®/FADER Fort. Mere minutes before that happened, we were backstage in a trailer with neon-painted doors glued all over to it talking to him about his new album, The Last Kiss, which dropped this week! Watch Kiss talking about collabos, what he was thinking the last five years since his last album, and previewing his upcoming reality show, in which he tries to find a new DJ whilst he hilariously and goodnaturedly clowns on his current one.
Bonus cut: Jada reimagines “Love Lockdown”
Exclusive Stream: Jadakiss’ The Last Kiss
- story THE FADER
Ahaaaaa! After five longass years, The Champ has released a new record and it’s faster, stronger, leaner than he’s ever been—his trademark punchlines are out in full force and he’s filled in the gaps with solidly styled storytelling. New York to the core, Kiss can still show all these other lightweights how to do it. Now with more OJ Da Juiceman! Take our word for it—the track with Jeezy is a mild volcano burning up three counties—and stream his new album The Last Kiss in its entirety a full week before it drops.
FADER TV: Styles P f. Jadakiss, “Good Times (I Get High)” (Live at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort)
- story THE FADER
We’re not gonna try to explain how or why, but when Styles P joined Jadakiss onstage at The Levi’s®/FADER Fort for this lively rendition of SP’s 2002 weed anthem, the venue developed its own peculiar weather pattern blocking out the sun and making us feel kind of dizzy. We got over it though and ate 19 bags of pistachios. Clouds make us so hungry.
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posted on Mar 31, 2009 in EVENTS LEVI'S/FADER FORT SHOW tags EVENTS-LEVI'S/FADER FORT, hip hop, Jadakiss, Levi's FADER Fort, Styles P
Rap’s Busted Wallet
- story THE FADER
Since the bank is broke, some rappers are getting the blues. We are not talking about Lambos. It’s more like the growing string of immediate-impact recession story-telling in raps. In fact some dudes already coined “Recession Rap” a genre — though, as someone wrote elsewhere in someplace we forget (sorry, we read a lot), Young Jeezy was like five steps ahead of Alan Greenspan, McCain and all rappers in declaring full-bore economic impalement. Next came Cam’s ex-con dirge “I Hate My Job” asking, “Ayo, I’m lookin for a job/Ain’t nobody hirin/then I ask my boss/why you all firin?” On Jadakiss and Barrington Levy’s “Hard Times,” Jada raps, “For the gas prices and foreclosures all over/when it’s gonna stop?/only the lord knows this/seems like nobody want us/when the hard times come up on us/Run with us/or run from us.” The gravity of Levy’s classic croon helps make this possibly the most depressing track we’ve heard in three weeks, but it’s also one of the realest, folk storytellingest. Cause, you know, it’s like a jungle. Sometimes it makes us wonder how we keep from going under. Uh huh huh huh huh.
Download: Jadakiss f. Barrington Levy, “Hard Times
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posted on Feb 12, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Barrington Levy, Cam'ron, freeload, Jadakiss, Young Jeezy
Video: Jadakiss f. Faith Evans, “Letter to B.I.G.”
- story THE FADER
This has been getting played like crazy on New York radio along with remixes by Fabolous and Lil Ceaze, but what we like most about the final cut of the video is, of course Kiss’ Coogi and the motherly glow about Faith. It’s like one of those family videos you can get made at the mall. (via Nah Right)
Freeload: Jadakiss f. Lil Wayne, “Death Wish”
- story THE FADER
It’s not often that we post a song with DJ drops on it, but Jadakiss and Wayne’s “Death Wish” is worth posting right now because it’s a marked return to form for Jada and a sign that, even after Dedication 3, Wayne still remembers how to rap without auto-tune. We’re going to give a gold medal to The Alchemist, who supposedly produced the track, has probably been watching a lot of John Carpenter movies, and enjoys helping New York rappers stay relevant in his spare time.
Download: Jadakiss f. Lil Wayne, “Death Wish”
Freeload: Ryan Leslie f. Jadakiss, “How It’s Supposed To Be (Remix)”
- story THE FADER
Now that Al Qa3d@ Jada sounds exactly like Redd Foxx, we’d like to pitch a concept to whoever is handling Ryan Leslie’s video production. Seriously, do it. “Leslie, you big dummy! heh-HEH!” Solid gold. Anyway, Clue played this last night and we had to put the computer speakers in the window and let the old lady downstairs know how we do. Leslie’s album still seems doomed, but we have yet to hear something from it that was not at least marginally banging and worthy of some serious strutting in front of the mirror with the faux mink on. It’s winter, New York, let’s get it.
Download: Ryan Leslie f. Jadakiss, “How It’s Supposed To Be (Remix)”
