Key Insights
- Jadakiss responds to criticism regarding his upbringing.
- He emphasizes the value of having both parents present during his childhood.
- The rapper calls for more originality in the Hip Hop genre.
- Jada believes that the current trend is diluting the essence of rap music.
Jadakiss has hit back at fans who have mocked him for allegedly having a comfortable middle class upbringing.
Jada recently discussed his childhood in which he was raised by both of his parents leading to comments from fans that he lived with a family like the Huxtables from The Cosby Show.
On his Joe & Jada Podcast, he hit back at comments, saying: “Some assholes in the comments think I grew up like the Huxtables. I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with these people, but coming from where we come from, it’s a beautiful thing to have both of your parents. I know in rap, they see all these people– Yeah, we had both of our parents.
Do that mean we wasn’t in the street? No. That mean our household had gold spoons? No. My moms bust her ass. My pops was on drugs. He was able to shake back. I was outside doing shit. I was smart in school, I was athletic, but I was outside.”
The Lox rapper added: “Just ask the people, just ask the cops, just ask anybody you wanna ask. But for some reason these people… you can’t be standing up to your word if you have both of your parents. Are you some type of asshole? It’s a blessing to have both of your parents.”
On the music front, Jada recently called for more originality to be shown by artists in Hip Hop.
He said on 7PM in Brooklyn: “It’s all about balance. Some dudes can rap and sing. Some dudes should just rap. Some dudes should do some other shit. But rap is for rapping. Start doing a bunch of everything else, it’s getting away from the elements and it’s diminishing the culture. We don’t need to hear 53 more ‘Not Like Us’es.
Jada added: “Just because that got him five Grammys and Super Bowl, this and that – when you go to create, don’t try to make that. We do have a lot of people that once one thing hits, everybody’s calling the producer [to get a similar beat]. And [it] never works.”
