HipHopWired: How did you feel about The Notorious movie and what was your experience like when you first met Biggie and how did your relationship grow from that? But we got core fans so they ain’t going to wait that much longer but they’re there.
They always changing and the young kids like what they like. Jadakiss: Well you know the fans are finicky. Ya’ll have been screaming that The LOX album was coming for the past few years now so do you have a fear that the anticipation may slowly die as the Hip-Hop audience gets younger? Dre’s next album for nearly ten years now and it now seems like a mirage.
HipHopWired: People have been waiting on Dr. Jadakiss: The LOX album is coming out on Interscope but it’s not coming out till The Last Kiss come out and shut everything off baby. HipHopWired: What’s the situation with The LOX album and what label is it going to be on now? As long as the people like the product, the money is going to come. Once I get the product to the people, I can make millions of dollars on the road regardless to whatever happens and I’m cool with that.
As long as the departments do what they do then I’m gonna do what I do and we hope for the best and take it from there. Jadakiss: I’m still comfortable because I’m not a new artist. When you signed, Jay-Z was in the building and then he left and then Shakir Stewart passed, so how comfortable are you now with the label? You’ve always been plagued by label hang-ups whether with Bad Boy or Interscope and now with Def Jam. HipHopWired: In many people’s opinion, The LOX should be way bigger of a group than they are. If it wasn’t able to happen the correct way then it wouldn’t have happened. It was just a matter of me connecting my peoples with his peoples and making it happen. So it wasn’t like me thinking anything funny was going to happen. I mean Puff respects me and he respects us (The LOX) as businessmen know because he knows we understand it a little bit more. Jadakiss: I just let my peoples talk to his peoples. HipHopWired: What was the process like working with Puffy again from a business perspective after you recorded “Letter To Big” for the Notorious Soundtrack? They ain’t in the building but they got it surrounded. Jadakiss: They was down for a minute but they definitely back. They’ve been quite for a minute, what’s up with Dee and Wah and the whole Double R? HipHopWired: We haven’t heard you or The LOX mention Ruff Ryders in a while. It’s just more upper cuts we’re throwing. Reid on the other along with my whole D-Block family and the Ruff Ryders staff too. It’s just like having Jay-Z on one end and L.A. But since Jay left Def Jam, are you still signed with Roc-A-Fella and what’s Jay-Z’s involvement or is your deal strictly Def Jam now? HipHopWired: When you originally signed with Def Jam you were also signed to Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella imprint. It’s a little bit more difficult but that just means that you gotta work a little harder. You got to keep up with the Jones’ whatever it may be and that’s what it is with me. You have to get your websites up and be aware of the blogs and all the other sites and pay attention to what’s going on on the Internet and that’s how you get yourself out there as well as going and touching people and doing the hand-to-hand thing. It’s just about how you go about doing it. Once they let you in the door, you should be able to create some revenue. Jadakiss: Nah man, it doesn’t scare me because there’s always a loop hole. But with all of these record stores closing, as an artist, does it scare you that the landscape for how you make your money is changing? So if Wal-Mart and K-Mart wasn’t going to put it in there, that would have been a bad business move for me. It was just actually a good business move being that all the retail stores are closing… Virgin Megastores, Coconuts, Best Buys, they closing. Was there a lot of pressure to switch the album title from Kiss My A*s to The Last Kiss? HipHopWired: Congratulations on the success of your latest project Jada.