Following the LOX’s Verzuz battle against Dipset, the trio sat down for a Breakfast Club interview to talk about the response to the performance.
One of the people who was most vocal about their appreciation for Jadakiss in particular, was Tyler, the Creator, who popped up in the comments of the Verzuz event throughout the night. He praised the rapper’s “confidence and voice control,” and also joked, “Pause I think I gotta crush on Jadakiss.” He later dubbed Jada the “MVP” of the event after, and he made more glowing comments about him speaking in his Ebro in the Morning interview last week.
In the LOX’s new Breakfast Club interview, Charlamagne asked if Tyler had hit him up after sharing his “high praise” of the Verzuz. “Tyler, the Creator, man, chill out,” he laughed. “I like Tyler, the Creator. That just mean that he tapped into our frequency and he loved the Verzuz, so I didn’t take it as disrespect. He said he got a ‘crush’ on me or some shit. … Very talented, very smart dude.”
As Tyler said in his Ebro in the Morning conversation, he clarified his appreciation for Jada. "Bro, Jadakiss, bro…that man cares," he told Ebro. "He gives a fuck! Every time he would perform, him and Styles P, there wouldn’t be 80 n***as onstage."
Closer to the end of the chat on Breakfast Club, Styles P gave his thoughts on the lack of artist development these days and suggested that mental health advocates shouldn’t be encouraging the “cancellation” of anyone and used DaBaby as an example after the response to his homophobic comments shared at Rolling Loud Miami.
“If you gonna be on cancel culture, you can’t be with mental health culture either,” he said at the 50:40-mar of the interview. “I’m pretty sure he’s been around plenty of gay people, he has he’s in the industry. He’s been styled by them, been dressed by them, he’s done deals. … I’m saying he did something wrong, but who developed him in that building and said, ‘Young man, you getting multiple millions now, when you’re around corporate this is how it goes.’ And this and this… Nobody’s teaching.”
P suggested that instead of using these moments as an opportunity to teach people, the response is often to further ostracize these individuals. “Because if you say something or do something out of line, in front of the world, that’s kinda a mental health issue,” he continued. “You just can’t keep cancelling everybody and say you concerned about mental health and not developing them. He was probably selling drugs three years ago in North Carolina, carrying guns selling drugs. What makes you think he got all of that money, and if y’all not there to guide him… Saying, ‘Yo bro, we can’t do this we can’t do that.’ Help the brother out.”
P also added that he thinks that people need to be taught how to apologize, too, and said that DaBaby’s apologies “probably weren’t homely enough for people felt the damage.” He went on to suggest that in “cancelling” DaBaby, people were also “cancelling” his family, his team, etc. “I’m not saying nobody deserves to get cancelled, I’m just saying when it’s kids we gotta start thinking about their mental situation, where they came from,” P said.
Jadakiss provided his thoughts on the situation briefly, too, adding “There’s a bunch of people that deserve to get cancelled that get overlooked.”
