Jadakiss’ upcoming album Ignatius was all locked and loaded with a Pusha T feature but in an ironic and eerie twist, their song “Hunting Season” mirrors the circumstances shrouding Pop Smoke’s recent murder and the G.O.O.D. Music President is distancing himself from the lyrical killing spree.
“‘Hunting Season’ was a request that IcePick Jay (RIP) always had and in light of his death me and Kiss mad an incredible song,” Pusha explained on Instagram. “With that being said, the whole concept of hunting season and the hypothetical ideas of ‘killing rappers’ isn’t setting well with me while mourning the recent death of Popsmoke.”
He concluded the public service announcement with “Rest In Peace POP and condolences to his family.”
Over the sinister beat scored by SHROOM, S.Dot, Khardier da God and Buda & Grandz, King Push spits cleverness such as, “To the Victor goes the spoils like I’m Oladipo/All the record labels cheat codes/None for me though.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-9nFzW7Sw
Although he remained mum on social media, Jadakiss recently sat down with BET to discuss the impact of the young Brooklynite’s tragic ending.
“He was a young, black successful man who had just got over being a teenager; 20 years old — he had a lot of living to do,” Jadakiss groaned, also mentioning the two planned to work together. “He was able to be successful in this game to get himself out of doing some other dumb stuff. He didn’t have to sell drugs; he didn’t have to put his family in jeopardy from doing something else senseless. And for him to lose his life like that is just horrible. We’re trying to teach the youth to do something else besides selling drugs or robbing or some sort of heinous, senseless acts.”
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The Meet The Woo rapper was shot dead in a Hollywood Hills residence on Wednesday morning (February 19) during what cops are now saying was a pure assassination. No suspects have been apprehended at this time.
Watch Jadakiss’ aforementioned interview down below.
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Says the studio gangster that raps about selling cocaine in every line. Maybe your fake dope dealer talk doesn’t sit well with victims of drug wars. This guy needs to decide if he wants to be a cocaine cowboy or a humanitarian. You can’t be both. He’s one of the fakest rappers of all time. Talented, but phony. Oh, and Jadakiss would take his head on the mic.
Ok Drake.
harsh but i agree. i don’t begrudge artists telling thier stories or speaking on the environments they came from but hiphop has to make a choice about whether it’s going to get back to its roots. whatever the flaws of its messengers, a huge part of this artform was supposed to be about dropping knowledge and being righteous. now it’s mostly about getting to the money by any means and cloaking yourself in criminality. it’s fucked up.
That can be applied to most rappers….it’s funny seeing these hypocrites virtue signal
Ooou, you love this dick boy
Drug dealing isnt the same as shooting ppl although you can argue that it leads to the demise of others and thus kills the users, but that is the choice made by the users. I’m sorry that he won the Drake beef, I’m sorry Lil’ Wayne’s Pusha diss was so trash, I’m sorry he is one of the best rappers right now and will never be forgotten in hip hop (grindin is one of the greatest rap songs ever), I’m sorry you for whatever other reason you hate him. You have no proof that he wasnt a drug dealer, and all rappers (except the one who dissed him) who came up around the same time and radio personalities acknowledge his drug dealing. Also, nobody is comparing the 2 rappers so I dont know why you ended with that wack statement.
that dude wasn’t assassinated – he got shot
Pusha T has really become a cornball over the years. Maybe he should just start making gospel music with his brother and drop the gangster act.
So now a song about killing rappers is going to far but making fun of someone with a life threatening disease is all good?? Especially when the guy wasn’t even part of your beef. This guy is a bozo!! What happened to no rules in rap?
Shut up biitch no one cares about your watered down fake azz canadian dry ass music 40 shitbib sux anyway!
Pusha T has become Meek Mill. Are they the same person, with alter egos?
The only difference is that Meek cant rap.
People change overtime and realize their faults and mistakes son and quite frankly you ain’t God therefore it’s not in your actions to judge thunder cat
I can only laugh at all of the HATERS ON HERE! This is called ENTERTAINMENT LADIES! ENTERTAINMENT! Just because an entertainer raps about sailing drugs, shooting people, being rich, being in the TRAP or whatever, at the end of the day ITS JUST ENTERTAINMENT! When it comes to being LYRICALLY SUPERIOR/ Not one person committing on here can NAME 5 REAL MC’S THAT CAN FUCK WITH KING PUSH ON THE MIC NOPE! Drake learned the hard way that those little high school RYHMES that someone else wrote are not on the same level as the BARS that PUSHA T SPITS NOPE! What’s funny is some of you will call PUSHA T a fake drug dealer BUT NOT ONE OF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIS LIFE BEFORE HE GOT INTO MUSIC! What’s really sad is your ok with DRAKE SCREAMING 666 ALL THROUGH HIS MUSIC CLAIMING TO BE THE 6 GOD! That my friends is DEVIL WORSHIPING IN YOUR FACE! I’m from DETROIT and real niggas don’t bump no Drake unless there are kids or girls around. Long story short, just because Pusher T is trying to show some respect to another young black man who lost his life over nothing ,is actually a good thing, as he us trying to use his platform to make positive change. All the haters on here ,I look at you as another hating black person committing BLACK ON BLACK CRIME, HATING FOR NO REASON AGAINST ANOTHER BLACK MAN! King Push Mist DEFINITELY ONE IF THEE MOST LYRICAL, INFLUENTIAL MC’S OF ALL TIME!
Shut up ho
Real Talk King Push one of the greatest lyricist in the game ever. His brother a beast too he just on his spiritual grind.
Yo 4 real pusha? How absolut promoting selling Dope 2 da youth didn’t saw him take Down his old records not that i checked but … 4 real pusha u clout chasin mane foh
Isn’t sitting well??? Wtf would you make music like that anyways if you ain’t bout that life. Idiot
You dumb af if you think a rapper got to be about that life artistically make a track about killing rappers. You think real killers are making tracks about killing people? Rappers are called recording ARTists for a reason. They creat ART .musically. I guess you think actors shouldn’t be killing people in movies if they ain’t killing people in real life LMAO . They are all in the ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS.
*about that life to artistically….
This the same guy who’s album cover was Whitney Houston’s bathroom after her death
Hip Hop is Audio Movies for the Hip Hop fans. Pusha, you sound stupid after all that drug rap saying this shit! People get shot everyday B. RIP Pop Smoke but he’s not the 1st to get shot and killed and damn sure won’t be the last. You might as well quit rap now if this is going to keep you from releasing certain songs. THIS IS HIP HOP… From the streets for the streets! STOP CRYING!
This is a hot song dude. I don’t think it actually relates to the actual violence happening to brothers in the industry. This sounds like the usual rap trash talk and high confidence that rap has been known for. But I guess it can be misconstrued
Of course all the Drake fanboys are on here in their feelings. Lol. Still upset that Pusha put your boy in his place? Like one dude said below, it’s all entertainment anyway. Are you guys gonna get mad at Quentin Tarantino for making violent movies or at Francis Ford for making “The Godfather”? Of course not. Plenty of rappers say things that contradict each other and fabricate their lyrics often. It’s nothing new. It’s all how well you can rock the mic and kill a beat and Push is a beast on both.
No Malice told this nigga Terrance what was up. Being a career coke rapper is beneath him nigga raps like he’s possessed by it someone can say can I order a Coke 20 ounce and the nigga in his 40s Terrance will rap about coke all excited SMH
What’s being in his 40’s got to do with anything? You do know its entertainment. The same way aa when a actor in his 50s + goes on a movie set and plays a coke dealing mafio role for entertainment .
The beat is good.. Jadakiss voice is an asset as usual.. His verses was cool.. Pusha though.. Masterful verse as usual.. The cadence, language and potency is ill.. Had to run it back a few times from first listen.. Just raw.. listening to the track.. I understand his decision.. Contradictions are there.. but how many of you even think about the radical traditions focused on changing material conditions of where most these Emcees come from.. Besides most people are grey.. not black and white.. not to say that you’re wrong.. but none the less.. This is a good track
The idea of promoting killing rappers doesn’t sit well with him, but he’s whole discography is a glorification of drugging your won community?
Lmfaooo at the hypocrisy.. all this bozo raps about ia selling coke qnd jillin his own haha.. its unreal how hypocritical ppl r..if no malice said this itd b legit