![]() ![]() But now the game is so fickle, so instant, so microwave. I could get the beat from a producer and I could create. In those days, I didn't need many people there. When you’re creating now, how much has changed for you since 2004’s Kiss Of Death, which Jackson co-executive produced? You’ve been a major label solo artist for longer than the entirety of most other rappers’ careers. I kept a tight knit staff with me doing it, a group of individuals that he loved. That helped me through the process, as opposed to trying to explain it to somebody why I'm doing this this way or why I'm making this type of feeling song. I tried to keep people around that knew Pick, that really, really knew him. ![]() He felt it too, ‘cause he is the same, like family. So that gave me some help in making the project because I wasn’t on my own. He knew Pick like us, so it made it much easier to articulate things. He also did the 2 Chainz record He's been with The Lox and myself for 15, 20 years now, so he’s my brother. Poobs, my engineer and producer was right there. When you were making this album with these very personal songs, who was around you? This is my real chance to ventilate and exhale, cry and laugh and reminisce and all the things you do. His cousin stares at the table, his drink untouched.Do you see Ignatius as part of your grieving process? Jadakiss tells him they are not having the conversation. His cousin tells him he’s his best friend. His cousin says he’s really scared and doesn’t want to go. Jadakiss hugs a thirtysomething cousin goodbye. Hamilton tells him he’s working with a local non-profit in regards to homelessness and says he can help him. Anthony Hamilton approaches him and says he’s with the protest. The homeless man folds his hands in prayer and walks to a hot dog stand. Jadakiss hands a homeless man twenty dollars. He signs up online to organize a protest. Thousands of people were going to overseas and fight over a powerful man’s grudge. Bush was lying about the weapons of mass destruction. The then-President wasn’t speaking to him. Hamilton joins the protest and walks with the group of people. Jadakiss, a homeless man, stands by the liquor store, holding up his cardboard sign. A fiftysomething man, a reporter, asks him a question. A second twentysomething man walks with a “Buck Fush.” Jadakiss leads the protest as the group of people walk in the street. ![]() A second twentysomething woman holds up a sign at a protest, reading “ask why”. The fortysomething man tries to turn him off. Jadakiss, a reporter on television, discusses the latest news during a broadcast. ![]() A twentysomething man slaps his phone on his palm to get it working again. A fiftysomething man, sitting with a fiftysomething woman on the couch, tries to get his television work. Anthony Hamilton leans against a fence as he sings on the sidewalk. A fortysomething man, with his foot on the table, presses the remote as he watches television. His jacket comes off and he talks on the sidewalk with a group of people. On the sidewalk, he holds up two compact discs and runs from two police officers. He sits in the cell and talks with the twentysomething man. Turning his head, he sees a twentysomething man sitting in a cell. Jadakiss sits in his chair in the family room and continues to change the station. ![]()
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