Quotes from Jadakiss

A father figure is providing for you, as well as showing you things. A big brother is giving you the game and showing you things too - but a father figure is providing for you while he's showing you things, and raising you.

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.

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.

When we did the whole 'Let The Lox Go' campaign we was teenagers or in our early 20s.

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 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.

Some people can only freestyle, some people can only make certain types of songs. I can do it all.

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.

Nothing is promised for long or forever, so you have to put something away for rainy days. Especially when you got kids.

If you've got the power of the streets and the people, anything can happen and good music will always come to the top.

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.

Battling is therapeutic for Hip Hop, but you can't take it serious. I mean, you got to take it because when you're preparing your material for your opponent but when it affects your heart or when you let it get too personal... you got to have fun with it.

There's some discographies out there that are therapeutic to listen to before you write.

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.

It's bigger than the music. You have to have a personality, you have to have a character you have to have a good rapport with people. Those are things that also give you longevity.

To be critically acclaimed, to get a Grammy, to be on MTV, you gotta talk about current events. You gotta talk about controversy, just stuff people want to hear. At the same time, you gotta get a message across.

There's a lot of one-hit wonders and a lot of come-and-go artists and even the labels give up on you after a couple years.

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.

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.

A healthy lifestyle is the only lifestyle.

Timing is important with music.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

It's important for Black and Latino men to go to the doctor in general. We don't get checked up enough unless something hurts or we feel a lump or something like that.