Jadakiss and Fat Joe are teaming up to enter the podcast space with their new show Joe & Jada, where they’ll discuss music, sports, culture and more.
A press release on Monday (May 5) confirmed the show will be produced by The Volume and Roc Nation and will air twice a week – starting this week.
“My brother Jadakiss and I will be delivering a podcast experience like none other,” Joe said. “We’re both passionate and opinionated about music, sports, entertainment and culture, so you can definitely expect to get unfiltered analysis, versatile interviews and untold stories. We’re coming to shake up the podcast game and set a new blueprint.”
Jada added: “I’m looking forward to teaming up with Joe on this podcast and showing another side of my personality. We’ve been friends for a long time, so we have the right chemistry and foundation to make this a really special show. Everyone is finally going to get to hear what we debate and discuss all the time behind the scenes.”
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Both legendary New York artists have entered the talk space in recent years. Joe found success with his Instagram Live convos, which eventually spawned his Starz show, Fat Joe Talks. Meanwhile, Jada’s long-running podcast with The LOX and ItsTheReal, 2 Jews & 2 Black Dudes Review The Movies, recently picked up steam and has been dropping new episodes weekly.
One topic likely to come up is Joe and Jada’s thoughts on today’s Hip Hop, as they’ve both spoken out about it in recent months.
In January, Joe confessed that some of the rap music released by younger generations leaves him feeling “confused.”
“I encourage the youth and I love the youth, [but] I’ve sat in traffic and [heard the music] — I felt like they were playing devil music right next to me,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Yo, what the fuck? That’s Hip Hop?!’ They got some weird shit going on.
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“I fuck with them, I’m always gonna salute them. I don’t know how they spiraled into this particular sound. Hip Hop’s so diverse — we got Lauryn Hill, we got Biz Markie, you got Eric B. and Rakim, you got Nas… You’re not gonna open this shit and hear the same shit.”
And in February, Kiss emphasized the importance of originality in what he says has become a diluted game – using Kendrick Lamar‘s recent run as an example.
“It’s all about balance. Some dudes can rap and sing. Some dudes should just rap,” he said. “Some dudes should do some other shit. But rap is for rapping. Start doing a bunch of everything else, it’s getting away from the elements and it’s diminishing the culture. We don’t need to hear 53 more ‘Not Like Us’es.
“Just because that got him five Grammys and Super Bowl, this and that – when you go to create, don’t try to make that. We do have a lot of people that once one thing hits, everybody’s calling the producer [to get a similar beat]. And [it] never works.”
