If you had any doubt that this was going to be no. While Kiss Tha Game Goodbye isn't a classic, it's still a very solid listen overall, the tracklist just needs to be trimmed down some. Kiss Tha Game Goodbye is also infamous for giving us the epic Styles and Jada classic "We Gonna Make It", which has made the line "fuck the frail shit" a massive part of hip hop in one way or another. With production from Timbaland, The Neptunes, DJ Premier, The Alchemist, Just Blaze, and of course Swizz, Jada gives us solid verses, exaggerated street tales, hit singles, a ton of great features from names like DMX, Nas, Nate Dogg, Snoop, Carl Thomas, and of course the Ruff Ryders crew. This isn't the album I expected from Jada on his debut, so I was a bit disappointed with the commercial direction and the lengthy tracklist, but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this album a lot when it first came out. This is a disappointing album, yet it's also a really good album to me. Still, it's an enjoyable introduction to the Yonkers crew. The title track, the Jada and Styles solo records, "The Heist Part 1", and the Biggie dedication "We'll Always Love Big Poppa" are all standouts, and if they trimmed about 7 songs off of this album, it could possibly be a classic. 5 choice, but oddly enough I feel like Money, Power, Respect has aged better than Kiss Of Death. I've since my changed my tune, as I've grown to appreciate the music and I put this on my list over Jadakiss' second album, which was my initial no. Not that Bad Boy couldn't be gritty as well, but it was a much more polished sound that at the time, I wasn't too fond of.
Truth be told, I was young and listening to every freestyle I could find from the streets and The LOX always seemed to bring solid verses and tracks that were better suited for a more street centered label. It's the style of Bad Boy that rubbed me the wrong way more than anything, but whatever the case may be, I wasn't too fond of the album when it first released. The LOX dropped their debut album, Money, Power & Respect, at the beginning of 1998 to strong sales thanks to the hit singles “Money, Power & Respect” and “If You Think I’m Jiggy” but the trio were unhappy with the pop direction and eventually made the switch to the harder Ruff Ryders label, but not before threatening to drop a fridge on Puffy.-I remember when this album dropped, I oddly enough wasn't a big fan of it. to Live” and Puffy’s “It’s All About the Benjamins” as well as collaborating with fellow Yonkers rapper DMX on “Ni**az Done Started Something” and “Blackout.” Blige passed their demo to Puff who signed The LOX to his Bad Boy Records.ĭuring the late ’90s, the Yonkers trio were all over high-profile Bad Boy records like Biggie’s “Last Day,” Mase’s “24 Hrs. Blige, a fellow Yonkers native who had made it big with her hip hop soul sound. One of these demos managed to find their way to Mary J. Jadakiss | WHO?MAGįollowing their debut appearance, the trio continued to grind it out in their Yonkers hometown, appeared on DJ mixtapes and pushing their demos. We sat with the beat for like 30 minutes and laid the song. They had the beat and we went to Long Island somewhere in the studio. But before we did the deal, we did the song with them. We were like teenagers, but it didn’t work out. Jadakiss: We were going to sign with Main Source. and talking about getting jiggy, they made their first recording appearance on Main Source’s 1994 album, Fuck What You Think.Ĭredited as The Dog Pack, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch (Styles P was missing) set it off for The LOX when they dropped their trademark gritty verses and raw, street flow on the track. Way before The LOX were trading rhymes with The Notorious B.I.G.
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