Jadakiss: The LOX favorite and Set Free have a trick to turn horror movies into comedies
Who says rappers don't make time to have fun outside of the recording studio? Turns out The LOX’s Jadakiss and Set Free really get down with the big screen and talk everything from new music to horror flicks with SiriusXM’s iconic Sway Calloway.
Who says rappers don't make time to have fun outside of the recording studio? Turns out The LOX’s Jadakiss and Set Free really get down with the big screen and talk everything from new music to horror flicks with SiriusXM’s iconic Sway Calloway.
Jadakiss and Set Free chop it up with Sway Calloway
Appearing on ‘Sway In The Morning,’ the duo dish on the secret to making the scariest horror movie into a comedy and why the genre can be a bit much for some.
“I am absolutely scared shitless of horror films,” Jadakiss said. “Besides my name being Jason, I want nothing to do with horror films. I’m scared to death, I hate horror films.”
“I’m an only child so I grew up by myself. I would be at my cousins’ cribs or we’d go to the movies and I gotta go home alone. They got siblings, they good. I’m in there I’m seeing Michael Myers, and hearing the closets are shaking, my mom don’t come home ’til 12. I had one of them kind of bad experiences with scary movies. Once I was able to get them out of my mind, but now the cool thing with a horror flick, if you turn the sound off, it’s really a comedy. Turn the music off it’s not scary you can put your own soundtrack to it and it really won’t affect you too much.”
“Them eerie horn pianos and strings and all of that stuff really stays with you. I ain’t a fan of horror flicks.”
DraftKings: Rick Ross, Fat Joe and The LOX's 'The Game' is your NBA playoffs theme song
Three the hard way? You better believe it. DraftKings’ ‘The Game’ is all types of audio fire coming courtesy of hip-hop heavyweights Rick Ross, Fat Joe and The LOX. Needless to say, it’s all types of replay value.
Three the hard way? You better believe it. DraftKings’ ‘The Game’ is all types of audio fire coming courtesy of hip-hop heavyweights Rick Ross, Fat Joe and The LOX. Needless to say, it’s all types of replay value.
DraftKings’ ‘The Game’ is an absolute must-hear this NBA playoffs season
Whether you need a Southern twist coming courtesy of Yung Renzel or love those New York giants via Joey Crack and L-O-X, the new must-hear anthem hits hard from start to finish.
“The Game” is a new single from hip-hop icons Rick Ross, Fat Joe and The Lox (Jadakiss and Styles P) Production credits include Set Free Richardson, Buda & Grandz, Mike Kuz and DraftKings. The track serves as a tribute to basketball and broader, hoops culture. It is inspired not only by the competition, but the lifestyle that makes the game special – on and off the hardwood.
“The Game” debuts just as the NBA Play-In Tournament tips off (April 12) and is available across all major streaming platforms. Fans can also experience the song via an original music video, reminiscent of an “ultimate signature move” highlight reel. Both pieces of creative will live on DraftKings.com/thegame, as well as across multiple digital and social channels.
“The Game” will also show up during commercial breaks of ESPN’s Play-In telecasts (beginning April 12, exact times TBD). Betting on The Culture
Ma$e and Cam'ron's reunion is really happening at the Apollo this month
Harlem on the rise. And you don’t want no problems with the guys, right? Turns out hometown legends Ma$e and Cam’ron are linking back up to make things a movie from the iconic Apollo Theater this month.
Harlem on the rise. And you don’t want no problems with the guys, right? Turns out hometown legends Ma$e and Cam’ron are linking back up to make things a movie from the iconic Apollo Theater this month.
Ma$e and Cam’ron are reuniting at the Apollo Theater
Killa Cam hit up his Instagram page to get fans pumped about what’s on deck. Along with sharing the stage with Mason Betha, the event will also feature The LOX’s Jadakiss on Saturday, January 28.
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Here's 4 key quotes from Styles P talking mental health, Black men embracing therapy and losing his daughter
The LOX’s Styles P has a lot to talk about these days. The hip-hop veteran stepped forward with filmmaker Hezues R to talk with Apple Music 1’s Ebro Darden on the latest episode of ‘The Message’ celebrating World Mental Health Day.
The LOX’s Styles P has a lot to talk about these days. The hip-hop veteran stepped forward with filmmaker Hezues R to talk with Apple Music 1’s Ebro Darden on the latest episode of ‘The Message’ celebrating World Mental Health Day.
During the chat, they discuss work with the S.I.C. Film School platform, empowering young creatives and focusing on the importance of mental health and power of therapy. Kick back and check out four quotes from both Styles and Hezues.
Styles P on Why He’s Not Afraid To Be Emotional and Why He Encourages Black Men To Embrace Therapy…
I wake up, most of the times I get, it's from my community too, I'm in a juice bar, and most of the time it's women, sometimes it's older Black women too, sometimes it's men and younger people, but I always get, "I like how you're not afraid to be emotional." And it scares me because we are not supposed to be afraid to be emotional. You're really, especially speaking of mental health, you holding in your feelings and bottling them in, being scared to cry, yell, scream, laugh, share pain, thinking you're weak for handling a problem, Black men thinking they can't go to a therapist, you're just building shit up inside of yourself and you're kind of hurting yourself. So it's not about how someone else judges how you are a man, it's about how you judge how you're a man. And being an emotional man doesn't make you a weaker man, that makes you a stronger man because you're more in sense of your weaknesses. When you try to be strong all the time, and you may not have adapted to what your weaknesses are or even be knowledgeable of them to strengthen yourself up. So it's okay to reach out to a therapist, get on the phone, call your brother, call your sister, call your homie, tell him how you're doing. I think that should be the norm now.
Styles P Reflects on Losing His Daughter to Suicide…
I've lost a daughter to suicide. And thinking about mental health, I probably look at it different from most people. She didn't have signs, didn't see it, didn't know, she never had no attempts, no anything. Most people don't know how other people feel. Really, at the end of the day, even mental health specialists, even the experts, a lot of people don't go around asking people how they feel or expressing how they feel. And with understanding that, like you said, I'm pretty sure most mental health experts have to go through some sort of specific training or class to keep their mind state intact. I think the average individual doesn't look at their own life, what they're going through and measure it on their own scale without comparing it to someone else and how they feel and what's going on and what they should do, what they should not do, and what makes them tick. A lot of us aren't in touch with ourselves to even be mentally healthy.
Filmmaker Hezues R on How His S.I.C. Film School is Helping Kids Trade Violence for Cameras…
I’ve known Styles maybe 20 years now. I had the opportunity to film him in 2001 for one of his album release parties at Club Cheetah back in the day of a show I had called Eye On It. Eye On I.T., I.T. stands for inspirational television. So the progression over the last 20 years, I've done different nonprofits and organizations like Guns for Cameras to now this year we're doing the S.I.C. Film School. And S.I.C is the Evolution of Eye On It. S-I-C, which stands for Social Impact Content. So we're opening up a campus facility in Yonkers in New York. It's at the largest sound stage development in the Northeast. 15 stages, a million square feet of production space, and we're providing a lot of opportunities for the youth in the community. Beyond an education platform, we also develop community programs and partnership with other agencies. So we have an organization called Glocks for Ocs. We have Guns 4 Cameras. An Oc is a Oculus headset. So Styles has been super supportive throughout the years, everything we've done, he's always been there for the community, for the youth, introducing me to other people, being very vocal about his passion and commitment.
Filmmaker Hezues R Tells Styles P How His Song “The Life” Influenced Him To Turn His Life Around…
I do want to say that the first song in our playlist, “The Life” by Styles P and Pharoahe Monch, I was just telling him in the green room how much that song meant to me. And we've been friends for years, but I don't think he ever knew how much that song meant to me. When I was 22 years old, I was shot at 22 times. I got hit by three different guns, a nine, a 45, a 22, still got a slug in my stomach. It was 2:22 in the morning. But when I heard “The Life,” it made me question and readjust my perspective and to try to understand, "Am I a product of my environment, everything that I'm going through and what my friends are going through, my peers are going through?" And I started to realize... And this is why I'm so passionate about The Message because at that point I started to realize nobody was going to come in and fix this for us, nobody's going to change this or the conditions that we lived through, what's going on.