JADAKISS On Leading The Culture, Sport & Hip Hop Being Synonymous, AI, TakeOff & More | I AM ATHLETE S4 Ep5
I Am Athlete
I AM ATHLETE
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Even though it's a young man's sport, since it's not so physical, I'm still a samurai |
| 0:06.8 | warrior. I don't feel like I could chop heads off still. I don't feel like the old |
| 0:13.8 | guy that you just need me on the team for some no disrespect, but I don't feel like the |
| 0:20.0 | Adonis has a lot of the rap game. They don't want it with me, you know? I'm still |
| 0:25.3 | surgeon. We had to fight to get a meal. Yeah, wrongfully accused. We had to fight to get |
| 0:29.8 | a bill. So are we right to get a deal? He on the team, you got to eat you know? Despite |
| 0:34.2 | your skills, fat. Keep it rotten for the fam. You got a light, then we're getting |
| 0:37.4 | real straight up. We're getting the pass bad. Work up in the trash bad. I'll pass a lot |
| 0:42.3 | of take to test before I pass class. Yeah, have my family need a bread. I had to come |
| 0:46.6 | correct. That's why I keep airing it out. Like I just passed. I'm excited about this one. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. This next guest, this is the culture. Welcome, Jada. Thanks for having me. It's |
| 1:12.3 | an honor. I'm pleasure. I'm a big fan of the show and, you know, to finally get my |
| 1:18.7 | chance to sit here kicking with you guys. It's a beautiful thing. This is so surreal for me as a |
| 1:24.7 | New Yorker. I mean, as a hip-hop fan, yes, but as a New Yorker, this is even more surreal. I mean, |
| 1:30.5 | your songs were the soundtracks of so many memories. So I want to do something with you. I have |
| 1:34.9 | one of my favorite verses. I want to see if you can finish it. I know you can finish it, but |
| 1:38.0 | I'm just going to start it. All right. I'm not cocky. I'm confident. So you tell me on the |
| 1:43.4 | best, it's a compliment bars bars. Listen, when I think of you, I think of a pioneer in the direct |
| 1:53.4 | relationship between hip-hop and sports. I mean, I go back to the Allen Iverson commercial, |
| 1:59.3 | Reebok. I feel like that was the jumpstart of that relationship, that relationship in terms of |
| 2:05.0 | the business aspect. Obviously, hip-hop artists were always rocking with athletes and athletes were |
| 2:09.8 | always rocking with hip-hop artists. But it was the first time we saw it on the screen like that. It |
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