

That was a big shock and trauma to my whole world.

We just got super tight and then he passed on me. He was helping me get my brand off the ground so we got tighter over those years. But after the label went down around the time Dee had the accident, I hired Pick to start working with me and being the A&R for my projects. He used to be on my back all the time and asked me to do too many verses and do too much s–t when he was the A&R for Ruff Ryders. You guys were very close with each other.

Talk about your relationship with Icepick. Out of Respect for Pop Smoke, Pusha T & Jadakiss Remove 'Hunting Season' From Streaming On songs such as “Keep It 100” and “Angel’s Getting Pedicured,” Kiss even expands his rapping voice into an unfamiliar territory: singing. “I had a lot of s–t to deal with, so that’s why this new album is like a breath of fresh air for me being in this state,” he says.ĭespite those hindrances, IGNATIUS serves as a celebration of Icepick’s life, and everything from the features to the production was curated as if the late-manager executive produced the album. I can’t wait to see him again and smack the s–t out of him.”Īlong with that tragedy, Kiss was also plagued by personal issues, including fathering a child outside of his family. Icepick didn’t want it to do what it did to me anyway. People knew our relationship and they knew what it would’ve done to me. “He didn’t want it to throw me off from what I had to do, and he forced people not to tell me. “It stayed with me longer than anybody else that knew him because he didn’t want me to know,” Kiss explains about when he found out about Pick’s condition the day before his passing. What Jadakiss Has to Say to Megan Thee Stallion as She Battles Her Label
