(It’s all love though: the match is being spun-off into a small tour, alongside State Property.) It didn’t have to be this way though: here’s what the Diplomats could’ve done differently. It was a rough, at times terse and frustrating night for the Dips, as Styles and especially Jada smelled blood early and taunted them mercilessly while performing both hits and deep cuts with the audience live and at home eating out of the palms of their hands. What followed was a bloodbath-at one point Jada joked that the match was “25-2”, and he really wasn’t being hyperbolic.
Dipset, by contrast, were discombobulated from their entrance, when Cam’ron missed the walk-out cue and staggered out casually nearly three minutes later. The LOX walked into the ring first with big “champ is here” energy and they never let up. What I expected wasn’t a lopsided defeat, but rather that Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch would come out strong but lose steam midway, while Cam, Jim and Juelz Santana would endure with the steady stream of unimpeachable hits: Diplomatic Immunity is a two-disc with next to no skips, and together the three of them have at least two solo projects that have six heavyweight contenders each. But that’s not to say there aren’t dozens of classic Jadakiss/LOX songs that stay in rotation for me to this day (and while we’re being honest, I’ll readily lap up new projects from both crews Jim Jones’s most recent album is great, check it out). Nostalgia gave Dipset the edge for me, because my high school formative years coincided more closely with their peak (which we’ll call roughly 2002-2006) than the LOX’s (more late’90s to early aughts). Favoring either group in last night’s Verzuz event, where the two legendary New York rap crews faced off in an actual boxing ring in Madison Square Garden (complete with an intro from Michael Buffer) should’ve been a Sophie’s Choice for rap fans. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.The LOX and The Diplomats are unanimously beloved. And the people know what type of quality it’s going to be.”ġ1- “We’re all in the same game, just different levels. Devil on your shoulder.”ĩ- “People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.”ġ0- “As long as I have a studio with producers, I can make something everyday. If I open one, it’s going to be a lot of expectations.”ħ- “What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?”Ĩ- “Satan is around y’all. That’s why I never jumped into that field. Here we listed best adakiss Quotes and Captionsġ- “No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.”Ģ- “Music just ain’t what it used to We used to have songs that you could shoplift or boost to.”ģ- “Better believe that, whenever I see y’all I’ma test ya Only cause I know that faggots respect pressure”Ĥ- “Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be…”ĥ- “It’s a lot of things that play into having a good sneaker store. Showcasing his freestyle skills by participating in competitions at a young age, Jadakiss first attracted attention with his performance in the Jack the Rapper Competition. American rap artist Jadakiss, real name Jayson Tyrone Phillips, was born in Brooklyn in 1975.