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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back to the eighty five Self Show
Backwoods Lounge. We live here at the One Music Fest
with none other than one of hip Hop's greatest kis
one of the coldest niggas they ever do it My
more Tex Dones say you can raise a child off
Jada Kiss lyrics alone, none other than Jada Kiss.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And I got my dirty boy Potner in here with.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Me today, my brother in radio.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Come on, man, what's that list? Finisterity years of hip hop?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, Why, there's a whole lot of hip hop shit
going on right now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
How y'all doing today? Man? Amazing? Man?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That was backstage One Music Fest.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
How you feeling feeling great weather?
Speaker 5 (00:43):
It's great? You know, my people looking beautiful. What more
can you ask for?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What more can you ask for? We hear live at
the One Music Fest. Now, Kiss, you known for putting
putting something in the air man, and it's only right
that you come over here and talk some ship at
the Backwoods Lounge. No doubt how long you've been fucking
with the Backwoods Gee uh.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
A few years now, you know, Starting like everybody else,
I started with Phillies, then Duchies, and then trans I
transformed over to the backwoods. Uh rest in piece the Biggie.
The first time I ever smoked the backwoods with Biggie.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We never we had never even seen or heard backwoods.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
And I think he may see gotta roll up some
backwoods and we smoke with him, so we knew about him.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I say, like the last last five, last ten, seven
to ten years, I've been going strong with bats.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Never got it like graduates to backwoods and smokers. You know,
you gotta graduate the back with It's like that's.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
When you know your you gotta get professional with rolling backwoods.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I say, was rolling in at the easiest thing in
the world. You gotta you gotta really be enrolled with
it because the edges off.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
You know what I'm saying, you gotta win it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And you know that's the whole point. I've been working
real closely.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
With the people over there back woods. I guess something
coming down exclusively for the streets. I mean, I might
just sell a pack of corners, all them corners that
get cut off. I might just put all them together
and make one flat leaf. You know, if you're just
kicking some ideas around right now, the kids, I wanted
to ask you this hip hop just had his fiftieth birthday, man,
(02:36):
and they were honoring some of the legends up there,
but a lot of names got left off. Did you
see anybody up there or did you see anybody who
got left off that you felt might have should have
got honored on the fiftieth anniversary because everybody got.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Their old Jesus people get left off. Yeah, I think
people got shot tracked.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
With the whole fifty year, you know, the whole thing,
and and let some greats that shouldn't have slipped through
the cracks. They didn't get the acknowledgement that they were
supposed to get.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I think that's always gonna.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Happen though, especially in our our genre, our people, we
you know, we don't tend to big up people to.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
To they no longer heir or too.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Something happens, you know what I mean for the most part,
and the other genres of music, they would to make
sure they covered everybody.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
But who's somebody that you would have wanted to honor,
like if you had, like, I just want to get
his person.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They flowers, Now.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
So many I could name, but you know, dudes like
red Men, Scarface, Uh, A lot could go on. I
could stay in for hours and name dudes that I
feel are underappreciated.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah. No, hip hop is an individual sport. Music is.
It's like something that.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Whoever you like, that's that's your personal You listen to
it in your personal space and you you feel a
way about them that nobody can feel about it. So
that's the beauty, beautiful thing of music, you know what
I mean. You get in the zone on the mood,
you could throw on whoever the fuck you want to
listen to it and enjoy it for yourself.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But then you got to be a part of so
many great moments and hip hop for the last you
shit most of it. You've been there for a lot
of it, man, a lot of great moments. So what
are some of those moments that stand out to you
as personal favorites?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Man?
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Of course, Uh, you know, signing with Bad Boy, being
able to meet Big, going on tour with Damn Max,
just learning the game, just being a fly on the
wall in certain studio sessions, being able to be on
(05:13):
the Life After Death double CD that didn't have that
many features, so you know, being young in the game
and being honored to be on there, it was a
big accomplishment. That we felt being on Holme's album back
in the you know, early album during the Reservoir Dog song.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Exactly, Like that's what I'm saying. These are these are
moments that are jaigantick.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, those those just like priceless social media.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Those are things that you just have to keep up
here because it was no no phones, no Johnny Newtonaz's
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
And then you got to be a part of one
of the most legendary groups in hip hop.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Come on, brothers, you know that Lax for Life.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I was gonna say, you know, hip hop has transitioned
so much over the last fifty years. What's something you know,
how bigge say, like, we never thought they'd take it
this far. What's something that you didn't see coming that
you were like shot that happened, Maybe a trend or
something switching up in a game where you like, dang,
I ain't expect this from hip hop.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It could be good or bad.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
I mean just how just how they implement hip hop
and everything that they try to sell or that they
trying to market. They're trying to market or promote it
started from that's just a bunch of noise and a
bunch of thugs and a bunch of hooplah. They need
that same noise in hooplah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That to move the world.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Yeah, you know what I mean, No matter that the
cell phones, automobiles, sniggers, you know, fast food they call us,
they call us for everything.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah man that whatever Jadakin's nigga. The walls would never
lift up and the floor would never do it. Three six, dinny,
Who else is gonna have enough that they got to
use the scale that they weigh the wells.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And even entrepreneurship like you into kiss cafe. You got
that going on like a lot of You see a
lot of artists now going to black businesses and make
sure they invest in their money differently.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Like the cars and closed.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Its cool.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
I see a lot more artists graduating to entrepreneurship in
buying real estate.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Tell me about that and your question what you got
going on? You know, rappers is stepping stone.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Of course, when you're young, you're gonna blow some money
and have some fun and do some reckless things. But
as you if you're able to have a career and
you know, and being it for a minute, you want
to start graduating and doing some things own and some stuff.
You know, we got I think five, we got six
six juice bars. Styles and his wife got the Pharmacy
(07:51):
for Life. You know, the supplement is doing well. And
then I got the Kiss Cafe coffee with my son
and my dad. You know, the hip hop industry could
teach you a lot if you just keep your.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Head up, eyes and there is open about ownership.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You go through so much stuff with clearances and things
like that, with the label that you should get to
a point in your life where you want to own everything.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, that you that your name is on, or that
you invest in.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
You want to try to be there so on or
own a big percentage of it or.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
On the whole thing said.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Hip hop is like y'all a lot of artists first
introduction to entrepreneurship in real business. Yeah, so it teaches
you a lot. I like to the trends that I'm
seeing of, like artists going taking more control of their
health and being more on it, like you said the
juice bar, because you know, hip hop at one point
it was all about drugs.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
How much? Yeah, and now that the.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Artist everybody talking about getting to the back. But if
you ain't, if you ain't healthy, boy's gonna leave it
back for somebody else to get to you.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What was that moment?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Where?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
When was that moment that you realize or like in
your life?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
For one, I got five kids, three of them is
very young, two nine year olds and one a year
old daughter. So you just want to be able to
go to the parking, not pull a hamstring going on
the slide with them anyway, but uh, just traveling and
you know, being up late, not getting to sleep you need.
(09:25):
We were able to bump into the juice bawl and
learn about taking care of your body. We all have
mothers and fathers, grandma's aunties that got high blood pressure
or some of them type of ailments. We're just trying
to lower that as much as we could in our communities.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
You know what I mean, if we could.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Get one person at a time that it's hard to
just switch how you live or how you eat, but
if you could just be mindful of it, then you'll
start doing things a little differently.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And you talking about health right now, I'm a ball nigga.
I've been ball right. But you were bald for so
long and then you showed up with praise headline tax
so you was just that you wanted to be bald.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You wasn't even bald no more.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
That was like in Wyo. That was like a that
was like the thing that you know. X was like
the king the icon of the town, and Paul Heads
was Onyx.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Ball Heads was right. And I always told stousand loose.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Down the line where y'all ships going, I'm growing my
head back. They used to be like, nah, whatever because
they had afros hard times. Now I'm like, Yo, it's
gonna be a time, y'all ship's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm gonna let my head grow back.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Fellas, What if that's the key to preserving your headline.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You just gotta be bald in your younger twenties. Save
your ship reverse.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Reverse, you don't push your hairline. Man, what you talked
about being a dad, I wonder like what has been
a father shows you or taught you differently about yourself,
Like just from being a man in general.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
It's as Jaden Kisses as my stage name.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's my job. You know. It is a time when
you you gotta turn that ship off.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You around your mother or your family, dudes you grew
up with, you know, things of that nature. You go
back to just being Jason. I mean kisses for when
they when the lights and that when the cameras go
on and they look up the mics, that's when I
go to kiss. Rather than that I'm just Jay. I'm
just regularly Jason. You know, guess whatever. And when you
(11:46):
keep that balance, you.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Be all right.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
You know, kids, kids are the honest, the most honest
people in the world. They gonna tell you they hate
your sneakers, they hate you, they hate that song.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I mean it's with no balage.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
So I try to use my kids, my younger ones
and my older ones that you know, I don't listen
to them solely, but I take their advice and see
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
In there world.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Man, you've said so much cold shit on records, so
many of the coldest bars and all of this sh
Do you ever put like pressure on yourself to be like, Nah,
I ain't say enough shit on this one.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, I mean gets a time like when you feel like, see,
I love music so much.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I can just hear something and make me want to
go to the stool.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
And I think, as long as I feel like that,
I always want to create. But yeah, sometime I get
on my like you gotta go harder. Man, going in,
I thought, hold, I have something that I think is crazy,
Like now you gotta be crazy and.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
That man, you've been saying some crazy shit. Only put
the coke in the tires if they miss it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Mission fair sending niggas way up Michigan crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
My fus would carry it out. I go way back.
Knock yourself out. She used to model for a year
and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Why she stopped? You got you ain't saying enough because
if she take a.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Pens out in a half fall down to a caf
I don't know. If it was spending too much money
on hair products.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And she was, she was even and she had to stop.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
She had to stop though, man, yeah, man, because you
know her man, he was the chef up north.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And he would have got left.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
But that's you know, bro, It's like you listen to
this ship and it's like you got so many real
lifehood problems in there.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Even when you said, uh, the niggas had the Sprint
cell phone and they was churching it.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Every nigga can't relate to this ship.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Bro. You gotta try to say this ship that that
that touch home.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean everybody, everybody.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Can't afford the ferrari, or everybody might not know about
buying art or things of that. Yeah, but if you
say everybody been behind on the bill, or everybody knows
some real life ship, everybody had to make a grill jeesus.
So ship like that, they gonna it's gonna hit. It's
gonna hit. Man, even with the rich people.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I appreciate you dropping that type of ship in there
and showing the growth and showing the progression.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Like in the music you.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Still say gangster ship, but you still have you still
make sense, and you still give niggas like that direction
the level up, like take my little man to the
Gucci store and just.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Showing the loaf and the loafs man don't even if
he don't want the loaf for showing show introduce to
think about it, come back down there and grab next time.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I just wanted to let you know that that type
of ship don't go unnoticed. And even the cats from
the deepest, dirtiest parts of the South, Man, we appreciate
you always fucking with the jumping on them records and
shouting us out and showing us love man, because it's
a lot of niggas from a lot of different places
that didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Fuck with what what we had.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Going on is for a Southern hip hop, but man,
you have features from rappers all over the game, from
all over the South, So from the South, just wanted
to make sure you know that you love.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And you respect it out Big Love eighty
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Five South Show, Backwoods Lounges, none other, J Kiss J
Niggas you in here,