FM: What are your favorite audiences to perform for, or favorite venues to perform in? J: The venue doesn’t even matter-its on the crowd. I was happy again once I wasn’t paralyzed. Once they seen me move they was happy again. I did like a triple.what I did that time? I did a back flip! I did a back flip! By accident! I thought I was dead! The crowd thought I was dead too ’til I got up. FM: Have you ever done anything really embarrassing on stage? J: Oh yeah. No matter you a rapper, actor, ball player, figure skater, some people gonna like you some people ain’t, you just hope that the majority is more like than dislike. Just make sure you’re pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain’t, that’s just part of the game. FM: What would you say to people who think your music has a negative effect on society? J: You only can do what you can do. It was controversial, you know controversy sells in this business. Like really personal was really just a bunch of personal questions that I had for the past few months or maybe the prior year and stuff that I thought everybody wanted to know why and it happened too, you know.

What was your mindset when you wrote it? J: Coming straight from the heart.

FM: “Why?” is obviously a very controversial song. FM: You have a song entitled “Is We ****** or not?” Has that line ever worked on a girl? J: Oh Kate, I like this interview! This is one of the best interviews I ever did! That line ever work? I mean, I don’t really use that, it work! I don’t really use it but it work! FM: What about “k-i-s-s me?” J: Oh yeah, they love that one! That one’s a guaranteed hit! 4. I just always loved music om listening to what my moms and pops was playing, or just hearing it on the radio, whatever, I just knew I loved music. Joking around with my friends about their clothes or their sneakers or their needing a haircut. That’s how I started, I used to just always be rhyming. FM: When you were younger how did you know you wanted to become a rapper? J: Oh I started from snappin’. I took it and ran with it cause I was looking for a name at the time anyway.

He just called me by mistake and I was smart enough to experiment with it. They probably should have named my shit Jerome though! Romey rome! FM: Don’t be modest, where did that nickname come from? J: I just got it from some of my peers. Fifteen Minutes: So, your real name is Jason Jerome Phillips right? Jadakiss: Oh Kate! My middle name is Terrance though. Before taking the stage at the fashion show, Jada sat down with FM’s Kate Cetrulo to rap about life, music, and the Ivy League. Last Friday, international hip hop sensation Jadakiss came to Harvard to appear at Eleganza 2007.

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