In their smoothest event to date, Verzuz delivered Hip Hop heads an epic verse-for-verse clash between New York City heavyweights Jadakiss and Fabolous on Monday (June 29). While this was the most lyrical battle to date, the highlights (in true Verzuz fashion) happened when the artists were interacting and reminiscing.
During the 10th round, after Fabolous noted that LOX’s appearance on Black Rob’s “Can I Live” was a feature, Jadakiss quickly clarified, “That was our song … when we got off Bad Boy, Puff gave it to Black Rob.”
He also recalled the late, great Notorious B.I.G. knocking the joint before it was released to the public.
“That was originally a LOX song, produced by Deric ‘D-Dot’ Angelettie,” he explained. “We had a little bit of discrepancy with Bad Boy, they held on to it (which was very smart) and they gave it to [Black Rob] for his album.
“It was a great album cut that should have been a single off that ‘Whoa’ album that sold a lot of records,” he added — referencing Rob’s 2000 debut LP, Life Story.
Veteran Hip Hop fans will recognize D-Dot for his alter ego persona, The Madd Rapper. During his heyday, he was early in helping facilitate the career of an one Mr. Kanye West,
When Fabolous took back the airtime, noting again that it was a good feature (even appearing to badger the slightly tipsy Jada playfully), Jadakiss once again chimed in, “It wasn’t a feature, that was a LOX song.
“Corporately, they gave it to Black Rob. You can ask anybody … we left it there. He had three years to say the other shit,” he exclaimed, adding that Rob killed it and it was all love with Puff.
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As he prepared to move on, he ended with, “That was a LOX song. Diddy will tell you that, Deric Angelettie will tell you that … the receptionist will tell you that.”
Black Rob’s Life Story also featured appearances from Jennifer Lopez, Cee-Lo Green, Lil Kim, and even Diddy himself. The project was certified platinum in August 2000 — five months after it dropped. The song in question, “Can I Live,” has become an iconic NYC radio freestyle staple in the 20 years since its release.
Watch Jadakiss tell his story below.
https://youtu.be/7Tju41NynQg?t=1217
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THIS IS 100% ACCURATE
Can i live is a jay-z song thou
Blueprint is a KRS-ONE album though
No it is not Krs one had an album named Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop.Not the blueprint. Nas told so many lies on ether its laughable. So if a rapper name an album ghetto music did he bite off KRS too ?
Point is the word “Blueprint ” is in the title..and to answer ur question yes..
Side note to ur off the topicness: if Nas told so many lies y did shawn get mad? Why did he challenge Nas to a fight?? Why did he sound suicidal on the angie Martinez post Ether interview??? You sir are “laughable”
First, nas was the one crying about jay z and others on the radio while jay was on vacation LOL. Two albums that has a common word is not unheard of. KRS one album was not called simply the blueprint. I guess nobody should have the word death in their album title it because he would be biting biggie life after death. Forever is out because wutang used it LOL.
Still wit the off the topicness I seeLMAO….if I remember correctly, nas went off the RADIO STATION for not letting him hang a Gay-Z dummy(nice reach)….hes not crying over J who went waayyyyy cross seas and dropped more disses post Ether LMAO…(if you wanna hear crying listen to the angie Martinez interview)u dont have to admit it buddy but jay z is a biter….its not about 1 word…but lines and bars dude stole or rearranged…
Point is the word “Blueprint ” is in the title..and to answer ur question yes.. Side note to ur off the topicness: if Nas told so many lies y did shawn get mad? Why did he challenge Nas to a fight?? Why did he sound suicidal on the angie Martinez post Ether interview??? You sir are “laughable”
That production crew Badboy had in the 90s still hasn’t gotten their credit. They were dope. People acted like they were ‘just looping beats’. Nah. They were catching old samples and recreating them into a clean lush sound in a way other producers were not doing, except maybe the Trackmasters. They were also using live musicians, especially with the strings. They had a boom-bap/R&B hybrid sound that was taken under appreciated by hiphop fans who were hating on it at the time n favor if Rawkus and Soundbombing records, which absolutely did NOT stack up to those badboy records then, and still don’t if you listen to them today. The other thing was the engineering. Bad boy’s records were louder and way clearer than any other records being put out. I’d like to see a documentary on bad boy’s producers. Not Puffy, unless he’s just talking about them, and nothing about Biggie’s death or anything salacious. Just the production squad. D-Dot, Prestige, Nashiem Myrick, Doc Rodriguez, etc.
You’ve said it all, They are so unappreciated, and the engineering like you said was exquisite at that time, incomparable.
@D
@D…7/2