Jadakiss’ Ignatius album was supposed to drop on Friday (February 28), but the veteran MC has decided to delay its release. The LOX rapper will now deliver the LP on March 6, delaying its arrival out of respect for the late Pop Smoke.
“The New York Hip Hop community is mourning the untimely passing of one of our brightest young stars, and I felt it was best to pause for a moment to come together and reflect,” Jada said in a press release. “The Ignatius album means a lot to me – it celebrates the life of my brother Icepick Jay, another one we lost too soon.
“It was Jay’s dream for me to collaborate with Pusha T on a new song. The single we’d planned to release together – ‘Hunting Season’ – is a lyrical metaphor about taking out MCs in the rap arena, and we didn’t want anyone to confuse it with anything else. So out respect for Jay’s memory, for Pop Smoke’s memory, Pusha and I agreed to put this one on hold for a minute.”
He concluded, “You can hear it when the album drops on March 6th. Listen as it’s intended: two MCs who love Hip Hop and have a lot of love and respect for the next generation coming up.”
Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a home invasion in Los Angeles on February 19. He was 20 years old.
[This post has been updated. The following was originally published on January 29, 2020.]
Jadakiss plans to drop his next LP in February. During a stop by the HipHopDX office, The LOX MC revealed the release date for his fifth solo album Ignatius.
“New album coming out late February,” he said before looking over to his rep for the exact date. “February 28. I’m not sure, you know it’s a lot of things in this business with clearances and things of that nature. But new album, February 28, Ignatius! Rest in peace my brother Ignatius ‘Icepick’ Jay Jackson.”
Ignatius will be Jada’s first studio album since 2015’s Top 5 Dead Or Alive. The Def Jam rapper’s upcoming LP is named after and inspired by the aforementioned “Icepick” Jackson, a Ruff Ryders producer/A&R who passed away after battling cancer in 2017.
“The project is beautiful,” Jada told DX. “It’s not like nothing out there. It’s not turn-up; it’s real pain … it’s just real music. It’s real musical. It’s beautiful. You need it. I love how it’s put together sonically. I think my fans, old and new, will be able to really enjoy this body of work.”
Look out for DX’s full interview with Jadakiss in coming the weeks.
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These new rappers have such weird names lol. Jadakiss? Wtf? No thanks, I’ll stick to the OGs and classic hiphop artists…
Jadakiss is Not new. He is OG classic… The LOX… Been I’m the game 2 decades. Top 5 DOA
zach, it looks like you’ve been trolled. ain’t no way someone could think kiss is a new rapper – no matter how ignorant or retarded they are. He’s one of the GOATs, for god’s sake.
What type of troll attempt is this?
New? Oh, wow.
How do you say you mess with o.g. wtf you think Jada is?!
“Jada’s da good guy, Kiss is the monsta.”
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He needs a drake feature to be relevant. He can beg drake for a feature or sell 10 copies to the 10 losers still wearing baggy jeans refusing to adapt with the times. In 2020 if u dont get a drake feature or cosign you are a nobody in the rap game. Drake has the rap game by the throat.
Explain the word relevant? Its clear you are either a minor or don’t know shit about Hip-Hop. So when an artist begs Drake for a feature and they put out a shitty song, have they accomplished the goal of relevancy? We are here for good music and real Hip-hop. Its cos of losers like you Drake can be succesfull. Hip-Hop personifies the character delivering the rhymes, his experience, personalities and views of life, Then you have the nerve to tell me someone who doesn’t write his rhymes has the game by the throat, Boy you a fool! how bout Picasso didn’t paint all those pictures? How bout Dr Dre and Timbaland never made any of those beats and it was Ghost producers? or Rakim, Kool G Rap and your best Rapper Eminem never wrote any of those rhymes. Your’e either an illiterate of Hip-hop and was roped in by an R&B track from drake or you jus keep failing class every time someone like me schools you about it.
Did you really just say Eminem doesn’t write his own shit… yeah I think you might be retarded lmaoo
Hes saying what if…..
You’re fucking dumb is Fucking Dumb
Nobody need drake lol. These new dudes coming out the gate with #1 without drake or sounding like drake
Drake has songs with French Montana which automatically makes your rebuttal irrelevant. Also, he’s a pop artist. You can’t tell me One Dance, Hotline Bling, and Hold On, We’re Going Home are rap songs. His biggest songs are bullshit pop music and you are obviously some young punk that just listens to what society thinks is popular and cool when it’s not. Drake is wack, fake, and doesn’t write his own shit.
Why Kiss look like Lil Fame in that photo?
Kiss album, features everywhere, a few shit beats looking to attract the ladies, fans from South, auto-tune and a song questioning himself “what if” to sound profound. Great rapper but shit album maker
Damn…I though this was Bobbie Brown for a second..lol Can’t wait for the album
Jadakiss and the LOX only know how to make subpar albums. It’s the same repetitive shit every time they drop….
I keep saying Jada needs to have an album fully produced by Alchemist. Would be his best album for sure.
Or he could just get Premier and cut out the biter all together. LOL. Let me guess, Action Bronson and Alchemist over Ghostface and Premier in your book?
Hip-Hop needs a Ghost Primo collab to happen- not just blend mixes
Alc’s not a Premo biter, the fuck? His beats sound nothing like Premier’s. But Jada/Premo or Ghost/Premo aren’t bad ideas either.
I’ve always been skeptical about his albums. I love hard hip hop, but I tend to get disengaged when listening to an entire ‘kiss album. I’ll listen before buying. Good news though, always looking for the greats of my era
Last year, Jada said he and Beanie has a project together. Wonder what”s going on with that.
I’ll give it a listen but I’ll keep my expectations low. I’ve yet to enjoy any of his albums but I always give him a chance because he’s dope lyrically.
Kiss my nigga but since he gotta rep the home team, u know he gonna have mediocre NY artist like Pop Smoke, Casanova, Dave East, A Boogie etc. Hopefully he gets better features this time like Griselda, Action Bronson, of course LOX and MAYBE a Jay Z feature???
Love Jada but he’ll never top his first album Kiss the game the goodbye.. he needs that blueprint again, last few albums after kiss of death i was disappointed, i felt like Defjam dropped the ball on the Last Kiss album that singke wit Jasmine Sullivan could have brung him over the top…
I at first I was reading like what you talking about but that smoking gun track on kiss album was the one.
he just dropped kisses to the sky feat ross
And he def got a joint on there with Pusha T
another garbage solo joint from Kiss and he’s in my T5DOA but he will never have a dope album till hes independent work wit alchemist
He gon add a Popsmoke verse for clout
Fuck this childishly dressing, washed up ninja turtle lookin ass mufucka.
Who’s checking for you? ? Negative ass hater STFU
Hey Jadakiss.
Has it leaked lmao