Jason Phillips (born May 27, 1975 in Yonkers, New York), better known by hi… Read Full Bio ↴Jason Phillips (born May 27, 1975 in Yonkers, New York), better known by his stage name Jadakiss, is an American rapper currently signed to Roc-A-Fella Records. He is also a member of the rap group The LOX, which he formed in 1994 with friends Jamaal, Sheek Louch, and Styles P. He released his solo debut album Kiss Tha Game Goodbye in 2001, and followed this with 2004's Kiss of Death and his most recent album, 2009's The Last Kiss.
By the age of twelve, Jadakiss was a freestyle rapper, engaging in competitions. He and some of his friends were given the opportunity to compete in the "Jack the Rapper Competition" in Florida, where Jadakiss was noticed for his battle rap ability. He met Dee and Wah of the Ruff Ryders (then a management company), and began hanging out and battling outside of the Ruff Ryders' studio where artists like DMX made their first hits.
Jadakiss founded the rap group the Warlox in 1994 with friends Jamaal, Sheek Louch, and Styles P. They later signed to Bad Boy Entertainment, where it was suggested that they change their name simply to "The LOX", which came to stand for Living Off eXperience. They made their first appearance on The Main Source's 1994 LP "Fuck What You Think" on the track "Set it Off".
The group, especially Jadakiss, developed a close relationship with The Notorious B.I.G., during which time Jadakiss was taken under Biggie's wing. The LOX's first multi-platinum hit was the tribute to Biggie called "We'll Always Love Big Poppa" (the B-side to Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You") in 1997. In 1998, the LOX released Money, Power, Respect. Following this album, they left Bad Boy Records.
Jada's debut solo album, Kiss the Game Goodbye, was released in August 2001 under the Ruff Ryders/Interscope label. The album featured popular guests and producers such as Snoop Dogg and Swizz Beatz, but was written off as repetitive and uninspired. Jadakiss has acknowledged the criticism as, generally speaking, valid, saying the record was done less out of inspiration and more out of contract obligations to Bad Boy. The album produced the single "Put Ya Hands Up" with the chorus "Put ya hands up/nah, f**k that/ Put ya hands down" reflecting Jada's distance from the album.
Jadakiss' second album, Kiss of Death, was released in June 2004. Prior to the release, his fans were polled, and most claimed the rapper wasn't personal enough in his lyrical stylings.[citation needed] As a result, Jadakiss released the song, "Why?", which bared his innermost thoughts,[citation needed] and it became one of the biggest hits of that year, spawning a remix featuring Styles P, Common, Nas, and Anthony Hamilton. It remains as his biggest hit, peaking at #11 on the Hot 100. Another single from the record, "You Make Me Wanna" featured Mariah Carey and was a much more commercially driven love song. Kiss of Death did not reflect the popularity of its lead single, but it was better-received than his first effort, eventually achieving platinum-selling status.
Recently, in late 2007, Jadakiss signed to Jay-Z's Roc-a-Fella Records, a move Jay had been trying to arrange for a long period of time. He reportedly will have an as-yet-untitled album on Roc-a-Fella in 2008, executive produced by both Jay-Z and the Ruff Ryders CEOs/management team of Dee and Wah. The move comes on the heels of increased D-Block/Roc-a-Fella collaborations; in 2006, Kiss and former rival Beanie Sigel collaborated on DJ Khaled's album Listen..., and in 2007, on Freeway's album Free At Last, while Styles P has appeared on a radio freestyle with Freeway and Sigel. He has also appeared briefly in Jay-Z's latest video for his American Gangster second single, Roc Boys, in which he appears throwing up the famous Roc-a-Fella sign, "the Diamond."
On May 26th 2008, The New York Post reported in its Page Six section that Jadakiss has signed on to play a gang leader in Russell Costanzo's provocative movie-directing debut, "The Tested"
By the age of twelve, Jadakiss was a freestyle rapper, engaging in competitions. He and some of his friends were given the opportunity to compete in the "Jack the Rapper Competition" in Florida, where Jadakiss was noticed for his battle rap ability. He met Dee and Wah of the Ruff Ryders (then a management company), and began hanging out and battling outside of the Ruff Ryders' studio where artists like DMX made their first hits.
Jadakiss founded the rap group the Warlox in 1994 with friends Jamaal, Sheek Louch, and Styles P. They later signed to Bad Boy Entertainment, where it was suggested that they change their name simply to "The LOX", which came to stand for Living Off eXperience. They made their first appearance on The Main Source's 1994 LP "Fuck What You Think" on the track "Set it Off".
The group, especially Jadakiss, developed a close relationship with The Notorious B.I.G., during which time Jadakiss was taken under Biggie's wing. The LOX's first multi-platinum hit was the tribute to Biggie called "We'll Always Love Big Poppa" (the B-side to Puff Daddy's "I'll Be Missing You") in 1997. In 1998, the LOX released Money, Power, Respect. Following this album, they left Bad Boy Records.
Jada's debut solo album, Kiss the Game Goodbye, was released in August 2001 under the Ruff Ryders/Interscope label. The album featured popular guests and producers such as Snoop Dogg and Swizz Beatz, but was written off as repetitive and uninspired. Jadakiss has acknowledged the criticism as, generally speaking, valid, saying the record was done less out of inspiration and more out of contract obligations to Bad Boy. The album produced the single "Put Ya Hands Up" with the chorus "Put ya hands up/nah, f**k that/ Put ya hands down" reflecting Jada's distance from the album.
Jadakiss' second album, Kiss of Death, was released in June 2004. Prior to the release, his fans were polled, and most claimed the rapper wasn't personal enough in his lyrical stylings.[citation needed] As a result, Jadakiss released the song, "Why?", which bared his innermost thoughts,[citation needed] and it became one of the biggest hits of that year, spawning a remix featuring Styles P, Common, Nas, and Anthony Hamilton. It remains as his biggest hit, peaking at #11 on the Hot 100. Another single from the record, "You Make Me Wanna" featured Mariah Carey and was a much more commercially driven love song. Kiss of Death did not reflect the popularity of its lead single, but it was better-received than his first effort, eventually achieving platinum-selling status.
Recently, in late 2007, Jadakiss signed to Jay-Z's Roc-a-Fella Records, a move Jay had been trying to arrange for a long period of time. He reportedly will have an as-yet-untitled album on Roc-a-Fella in 2008, executive produced by both Jay-Z and the Ruff Ryders CEOs/management team of Dee and Wah. The move comes on the heels of increased D-Block/Roc-a-Fella collaborations; in 2006, Kiss and former rival Beanie Sigel collaborated on DJ Khaled's album Listen..., and in 2007, on Freeway's album Free At Last, while Styles P has appeared on a radio freestyle with Freeway and Sigel. He has also appeared briefly in Jay-Z's latest video for his American Gangster second single, Roc Boys, in which he appears throwing up the famous Roc-a-Fella sign, "the Diamond."
On May 26th 2008, The New York Post reported in its Page Six section that Jadakiss has signed on to play a gang leader in Russell Costanzo's provocative movie-directing debut, "The Tested"
Synergy
Jadakiss Lyrics
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Ghost, Kiss
Just Blaze!
We don't ride how you niggas ride
Politics to the side no one sicker than I
First the devil will try to conquer
Then he'll divide
It's my job as a man
To forever provide
What's the meaning of living
Since you barely survive
If you came from the dirt
Now you touching the sky
You keep fucking wit me
You must be rushing to die
So you better decide
'Cause it's better to ride
I'm 2 slots after the 3rd dead or alive
You can give me the racks instead of the shine
'Cause I been doin' what I'm doin' ahead of my time
If you ain't hearin' what I'm doin' you better rewind
The only thing I'm scared of doin' is federal time
I sold crack out the building several dimes
And I done counted up a million several times
Gold plated desert eagles incredible nines
Better flows better fabrics better designs
Family and loyalty
Then the cheddar behind
I put some money on ya head
Or some bread on ya mind
We ya problem alone
But we better combined
Do it for those not here
And forever confined
And we ain't promised tomorrow
So lets treasure the times
And we ain't givin it away
So lets measure the lines
And keep killin these niggas
The pleasure is mines
We get better with time
So you better resign
Yea
Before death be the treasure you find
We don't care
Cuban link, Rollie affair
Ruthless and blowing smoke in the air
Freaky women and Benjamin's, soldiers was here
You know it's lit 'cause you know we was there
And oh yeah, we don't care
Throw a gun in the sky get ya money and slide
But keep in mind, still ride or die
What really make you the Top 5
Cannot lie dead or alive you cannot find bars better than mine
Go head and ask the other 4
The tip of the gun is hotter than the oven door
Get baked 'cause I'm half baked
Boss of the mob
You just a protege like Billy Bathgate
Protype car at the crib 'cause the cash straight
Boss don dadda
Bo-dadda-dang
Listen to my 9 millimeter go bang
Heroin and cocaine when Hov
Chilled wit Dame
I got a gold
Shane
And then hoes
Changed
Yup
Red bottoms
The head got 'em
You don't wanna hear ya homeboys name
And the feds got 'em
Niggas caught him slippin
Hit 'em the lead got 'em T5doa
G5 Benz truck
When I was 19 I said I could sell a key a day
It ain't hard work if the white hard, the spot jump
And I'm jumpin in just like a life guard
On the deep end
What you know bout 50 on a week day
Hunnid on the weekend ya heard me
No we ain't Jeezy and Baby, but we Snowman and Birdman
Montega jada pinico pinero any further questions, just speak to the barrel
We don't care
Cuban link, Rollie affair
Ruthless and blowing smoke in the air
Freaky women and Benjamin's, soldiers was here
You know it's lit 'cause you know we was there
And oh yeah, we don't care
Throw a gun in the sky get ya money and slide
But keep in mind, still ride or die
You know I'm the Top 5
Just Blaze!
We don't ride how you niggas ride
Politics to the side no one sicker than I
First the devil will try to conquer
Then he'll divide
It's my job as a man
What's the meaning of living
Since you barely survive
If you came from the dirt
Now you touching the sky
You keep fucking wit me
You must be rushing to die
So you better decide
'Cause it's better to ride
I'm 2 slots after the 3rd dead or alive
You can give me the racks instead of the shine
'Cause I been doin' what I'm doin' ahead of my time
If you ain't hearin' what I'm doin' you better rewind
The only thing I'm scared of doin' is federal time
I sold crack out the building several dimes
And I done counted up a million several times
Gold plated desert eagles incredible nines
Better flows better fabrics better designs
Family and loyalty
Then the cheddar behind
I put some money on ya head
Or some bread on ya mind
We ya problem alone
But we better combined
Do it for those not here
And forever confined
And we ain't promised tomorrow
So lets treasure the times
And we ain't givin it away
So lets measure the lines
And keep killin these niggas
The pleasure is mines
We get better with time
So you better resign
Yea
Before death be the treasure you find
We don't care
Cuban link, Rollie affair
Ruthless and blowing smoke in the air
Freaky women and Benjamin's, soldiers was here
You know it's lit 'cause you know we was there
And oh yeah, we don't care
Throw a gun in the sky get ya money and slide
But keep in mind, still ride or die
What really make you the Top 5
Cannot lie dead or alive you cannot find bars better than mine
Go head and ask the other 4
The tip of the gun is hotter than the oven door
Get baked 'cause I'm half baked
Boss of the mob
You just a protege like Billy Bathgate
Protype car at the crib 'cause the cash straight
Boss don dadda
Bo-dadda-dang
Listen to my 9 millimeter go bang
Heroin and cocaine when Hov
Chilled wit Dame
I got a gold
Shane
And then hoes
Changed
Yup
Red bottoms
The head got 'em
You don't wanna hear ya homeboys name
And the feds got 'em
Niggas caught him slippin
Hit 'em the lead got 'em T5doa
G5 Benz truck
When I was 19 I said I could sell a key a day
It ain't hard work if the white hard, the spot jump
And I'm jumpin in just like a life guard
On the deep end
What you know bout 50 on a week day
Hunnid on the weekend ya heard me
No we ain't Jeezy and Baby, but we Snowman and Birdman
Montega jada pinico pinero any further questions, just speak to the barrel
We don't care
Cuban link, Rollie affair
Ruthless and blowing smoke in the air
Freaky women and Benjamin's, soldiers was here
You know it's lit 'cause you know we was there
And oh yeah, we don't care
Throw a gun in the sky get ya money and slide
But keep in mind, still ride or die
You know I'm the Top 5
The lyrics to "Synergy" by Jadakiss and Styles P emphasize their resilience and determination to rise above adversity. They assert that they do not conform to societal expectations and are not swayed by political games. They see it as their responsibility as men to provide and support those around them. The song celebrates their journey from humble beginnings to reaching new heights of success.
The lyrics also touch on themes of loyalty, family, and self-confidence. Jadakiss and Styles P emphasize the importance of staying true to one's roots and remaining loyal to those who have been there throughout their journey. They assert their superiority in the rap game, proclaiming themselves as two of the top five artists. They acknowledge their past involvement in illegal activities but also highlight their growth and evolution as artists and individuals.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network, RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
Written by: David Styles, Jason Phillips, Don Blackman, Justin Gregory Smith
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