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Jadakiss Reacts To First Week Sales, “The Whole World Underestimated Me”

With The Last Kiss debuting on the Billboard 200 at the no. 3 slot, selling a shocking 134,520 copies in its first week, XXLMag.com caught up with Jadakiss to get his reaction to his first week stats.

Without releasing a solo disc since 2004’s Kiss he Game Goodbye, Jada told XXL he was unsure of how his new album would fare. “I ain’t know what to expect now with the way the game is,” he said. “But I know I got a core fanbase. I don’t think Def Jam expected that, so now we gotta get on the same page. I will say that’s a great number for the climate and the way the music industry is right now and that’s without a big hit at radio.”

Last week staff members at XXL weighed in with their sales projections, placing the Yonkers MC at a much lower batting average. The Roc-A-Fella rapper said everyone “underestimated him.” “The whole world did,” he expressed. “That’s why I got longevity, that’s why I got legs.

“It’s always good when you can say I told you so,” he added. “It’s always good when you get the last laugh. But I’m just happy to be embraced after all these years, cause hip-hop fans’ ears change hourly. I’ma be here for awhile.

Reports recently hit the net that Jada, Styles P and Sheek Louch were thinking of resigning with Diddy’s Bad Boy Records for their long awaited Lox album. “I mean, it was a mere conversation that’s gonna just get blown outta proportion but in a good way, cause the Lox, we back working on the album and to just create that buzz would be good,” he said. “If Diddy buy it, if Diddy pays and he got the bread for that, which he does, if Hov, whoever, Jimmy Iovine, wherever, Dre, wherever… whatever’s financially and statistically better for all of us, we’ll make it happen.”

Yet Jada wants to make clear that contractually the group is still signed to Interscope. “The contract’s still on Interscope so that’s first and foremost,” he explained. “We can’t disrespect Jimmy Iovine like that, he owns that right there.

The Last Kiss is currently in stores.

Source: xxlmag

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Smithilberry

word, hopefully they promote him better next time since he proved to them that he gotta solid fanbase...

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ya and dont waste their time with those Ne-o tracks

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Precinct Phantom

I thought hed do like 115000 or around there. That extra 20K did surprise me a lil
Congrats 2 Jada tho! Hope next time he brings it bak 2 mor street orientated hip hop tho, coz altho it was stil gd music, was a bit 2 commercial 4 my liking

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madnumber24

yeah i hear you, but you gotta remember they in the industry to make money, if that means being a tad commercial then thats what he gotta do. and its unfortunate.

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Raskae

He has ablosutely no Idea what kind of drop is waiting for him, Florida and all them will end up selling even more.

Watch.

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EdG810

ma nigga!!! his cd wasn't so good, but im still a huge d-block fan and i copped it.... idk why he trys to make commercial shit he sucks at it, thats why his mixtapes b the dopest.

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Ed-ucation

^^^^^^^ Agree with U the cd wasn't that good, it was good joints of course, but it wasn,t what we expected.

pLus puttin out that Ne-Yo song, wasn't a good idea, because the song isn't that good. He should at dropped that song with Mary J song instead.

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Combustion

he all happy he did 130,000 lmao that means like 2,000 people outside of NY bought that shit

nearbydesi

since dude squash shit with 50 things looking good for him i guess no one payed attention to that.

Ant_Mo

good for him...havent heard the album tho

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CreativeMind

All these rappers drop in the second week. And Flo Rida ain't going to sell more of anything. He already tanked, even with a hit. Dude is done already. Jada has other things he's doing to promote himself. So he can sell more records. Including a BET reality show, Keyshia Cole style. He's got endorsements coming up, sponsers and so on. So he'll be fine. And on top of that, he doesn't have fly by night fans. That's the difference between him and cats like Flo Rida.

CreativeMind

I don't know why people try to cut dude down. I don't know why people act as if he doesn't have a decent fan base. He ain't as local or small as you think. People outside of NY know who Jada is.

All these popular/big rappers with hit singles, and all the promotion in the world can't even crack Jada's 100k in the first week. Instead they doing Joe Budden numbers first week. And they suppose to be big rap stars.

GMNRecordsCT3

It's gone B hard to sell anymore cuz the best songs on the album are aready his singles...

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Trizzle

yeah he sold that many cuz thats how good it was....not great....so numbers reflected his quality on this one....and you know ppl be waitin for eminem, fif and dre....so they be holding out for those cds this year

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DemonicSinn

Thatz because the staff at XXL ain't nuthin but Aftermath/Shady/G-Unit groupies. They had HIGH expectations for Lloyd Banks' Rotten Apple and it tanked. They said Curtis would do Massacre numbers and he couldn't beat Kanye. XXL= nuthin but haters who only praise Dre, Eminem and 50.

kingjanjic

dogg how many videos did jada have before his album even dropped? 3?

how did def jam not promote? Ross only has that 1 gay video about fuking horses and im sure def jam "expected" him to out sell jada, which he wont, cuz any nigga buying a album about a CO rapping about coke is a loser period

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June7

good to see jada doin his thing... the album is hot

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