Jadakiss Speaks On Album Delay

Jadakiss dropped his last solo album, The Last Kiss in 2009. After the unexpected success of the album (it sold over 400,000 copies with little promo), he believed he would drop a follow-up to the album the following year, but Def Jam didn't have the same vision as he did. They preferred to focus on the new artist on the label, and keep budgets sealed on the older rappers. And three years down the line, Jada still doesn't have a set release date for his fourth studio album- Top 5, Dead Or Alive.




In a recent interview over at New York radio station (Hot 97) , when he was asked about his next project, he said...





"Me, I'm always sitting on an album though. We're always sitting on material. My situation over there at Def Jam is a different [complication]. Def Jam is different right now. I ain't just speaking for myself. You can ask Fab, you can ask Jeezy, Ross, you can ask Kanye, anybody. So it got to be right and it got to feel right. Until then, I'm just doing [my thing]. They got this new thing where it's like you're auditioning. I got a whole album. See, with that, it's a lot of stuff people won't ever heard. Pecas has been to the studio, he's been up there, before [former Def Jam head] Joie left, he been up there. He knows what it is. But I don't know what's going on. I ain't tripping, I'm just working. That's all we do, make music. ... Who don't want to put their album out? I'm just not gonna pass it to you like it's nothing. It's not going to be a filler or a quota." (Hot 97)