Jadakiss Quotes

1. “Life is short, tomorrow's not promised, so to be there with my kids, and do things with them, and go on family vacations - this is more valuable than anything.”

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

3. “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.”

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

5. “My dream was to go to Syracuse. I wanted to be a part of the Orangemen. I actually thought I was going there up until around 10th grade when I knew that wasn't really going to happen, so I started pursuing rap.”

6. “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.”

7. “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.”

8. “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.”

9. “I think praying is very important. I'm not going to say that I'm very religious and I don't go to church as much as I should probably, but I definitely pray more than the average person. I'm a man of the Lord.”

10. “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.”

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

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

13. “You only can do what you can do. Just make sure you're pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain't, that's just part of the game.”

14. “I really like South Beach.”

15. “My pops got his own coffee company. My pop distributes coffee.”

16. “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.”

17. “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.”

18. “I think Damian Lillard is the best lyricist to be in the NBA or play basketball.”

19. “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.”

20. “Diddy was trying to squeeze the life out of me. I felt like I don't wanna keep giving him my bars. Cause he's taking from my tank. I need all of these bars.”

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

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

23. “A healthy lifestyle is the only lifestyle.”

24. “The top five producers that I have a creative chemistry with are Swizz Beatz, The Alchemist, Vinny Idol, Pharrell and Timbaland.”

25. “The people love when you give them a part of you. You know what I mean? Those are the most successful artists. Artists with a story to tell when the people can feel that they are growing with you.”

26. “The song 'Why' was always in my head. Three or four years, I always wanted to do a song called 'Why' and just ask wild questions. And I guess, strategically, after the 9/11 thing, it worked.”

27. “After getting off Bad Boy and then finally getting on with the Ruff Ryders/Interscope deal, it was like being able to exhale. The studio sessions were a lot different than the Bad Boy studio sessions. Like, we were able to just do anything we want.”