I think the fans that came in with me have changed their listening habits. How do you think your fans' listening habits changed? And it all worked itself out - there are no words to explain taking five years off and then coming back and still having a good first week, still having a good album, and still having the people love you. After taking that long off, I was really more concerned with how they were going to accept and respond to the music, as opposed to the sales. Everybody wants to sell a lot of records, but it's more about catering to the fans. Once I was able to create the music that I wanted to create, everything else just fell in place. I just wanted to make some good music that would make my fans happy and that would cater to the people that have been following 'Kiss. After taking five years off, you don't know what to expect in this rap industry. My goal for this record was just to embrace the people. But when you just drop an album because they say you've got to drop it, then it might not be a good album. You've got to have your team and use your own money and then the label will get on board. Yeah, the marketing and all of that we've got it down now. I waited until I was happy with it, and until people knew it was coming out. An album can't come out until it feels right. And then I had to do a couple more songs, so I went back in to the studio with Swizz Beats, Mary J. The only delays were me and Def Jam getting on the same page and making sure the timing was right. And I had a court case - a little gun charge - that I was fighting for about a year and then just doing the deal from Interscope to Def Jam for the remaining year and a half. For two years I was still doing shows from the Kiss of Death.
It was probably eight or nine months of that five years. How much of that time was devoted to creating The Last Kiss and were there any delays in putting out the record? It's been about five years between your latest release The Last Kiss and your last solo record, Kiss of Death. Still, 'Kiss maintains, it's hard work to stay on top. Blige - sold over 130,000 copies in its first week. His previous record, Kiss of Death, earned Jadakiss a number one spot on the charts thanks to the contemplative single, "Why?" and the latest release, The Last Kiss - which features production and cameos from long-time affiliates Pharrell and the Neptunes, Swizz Beats, and Mary J. It's a testament to the game that Jason Phillips has been a part of for over 20 years and just how difficult it is to achieve stadium status even though you're a relative household name and have been backed by impresarios from Diddy to Jay-Z. He's three solo records deep and Jadakiss says it's still tough to get a single on the radio.
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