For further proof, listeners looking to go deeper are strongly advised to seek out The Champ Is Here, a teaser mix presented by Big Mike and Green Lantern. No matter the number of bright moments, you can't help but feel that Jadakiss has his best days ahead of him.
These issues aside, Jadakiss makes good on his promise to become a rounded lyricist and receives some valuable help in the form of tight production work from a handful of pros - surprisingly enough, Swizz Beatz's work on "Real Hip Hop" tops anything that producer did for Cassidy's debut, and the Red Spyda-manned title track (bizarrely tucked near the end) is Jadakiss' most vicious track yet. This, along with a particularly ill-suited "soft and smooth track for the ladies" featuring a carted-in Mariah Carey as well as a too-familiar-sounding Scott Storch production, is thankfully the only outright blights on an otherwise satisfactory showing. The most startling thing about Kiss of Death is that Jadakiss dumped a bunch of Neptunes productions and kept only "Hot Sauce to Go," one of the record's poorest tracks. This is why Jadakiss is as hard as it gets.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. These are the albums that put Dipset in ICU and make Jada’s fans scream THE CHAMP IS HERE. (I’m skipping the LOX mixtapes and EPs though, this list is long enough.)
I’m adding his collaborative album with Fabolous, his heralded mixtape run AND all four studio LPs with his brothers the LOX. And in this case, I’m not just focusing on his five solo studio LPs. What he DOES have is a seemingly infinite array of bars, wicked punchlines and one of the most recognizable flows in hip-hop.Įveryone’s been rightfully celebrating Jadakiss this week and I’m more than happy to keep that going by revisiting and ranking all his LPs. No, he doesn’t have the mountains of platinum plaques and Grammys he deserves – nor does he have scores of classic albums that the children can yell about on Twitter all day long. Between Nas cementing his name as the best rapper alive, Lauryn Hill returning to the game to remind y’all that she’s arguably the best woman to ever touch a microphone and Jadakiss single handedly mopping the floor with Dipset during the last edition Verzuz, it’s been a very, very good week for hip-hop.īut if you’re a true fan of Jason Phillips, his Verzuz dominance shouldn’t surprise you.
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