Quotes from Jadakiss

My track record - the bars, the delivery, the flow and the voice - makes Jadakiss top five dead or alive.

It's definitely a beautiful thing to have a little trademark or something that sets you out from everybody else.

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 ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.

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.

Creating the perfect lyrics is not a process, it's just something that comes in your brain.

I always wanted to make a song like 'Why' even before my second album. It was just something I always had in my mind. But when I got the beat from Havoc, it was like the perfect beat, I felt... I wanted to get some questions I thought everybody... felt like 'why?' to.

I'll kiss the game goodbye when I no longer have the passion and love for it.

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.

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

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.

I try to make my schedule around parent-teacher conferences, school plays, and school trips.

I reap benefits outside of work, as well as hardships because of work. You deal with it. It's no different than your favorite actor or your favorite ballplayer. You pinch us, we still gotta go 'ouch.' Some people think your life is so vainglorious that you're unpinchable.

Well, my family used to live in Atlanta a few years back so I always had a good relationship with all the artists down there, as well as artists from Houston and Memphis, before the South took over, I was already like a family member of the South so there's always love.

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 'Ignatius' album means a lot to me - it celebrates the life of my brother Icepick Jay, another one we lost too soon.

You can't be a sore loser or a sore fan.

Before you drop an album, you need some momentum.

You don't get what you ask for, you get what you negotiate in this business.

You can't let nobody step on your ego, dismantle your whole image for no reason.

I love what Griselda is doing. It's not the norm and they got out of that box everyone tried to put them in. They created their own highway.

I got a lot of fans, like core fans, that love me. I ain't one of the dudes that sell five or 10 million brackets, but my followers are stern. They're there. My fans - Jadakiss fans, LOX fans, D-Block fans - they loyal.

A limo is corny. It's extra long. You feel stiff when you get out.

Kids give you their most honest opinion and that's a beautiful thing. They don't care about hurting your feelings, they're just getting their point across whether they like it or not and sometimes you need that.