“You’d see the same people at the Tunnel, or studios: Sony Studios, the Hit Factory. “The hip-hop industry was smaller then,” says Fabolous.
But they can’t pinpoint when, exactly, they first crossed paths. He transitioned from a group member in the Lox - a marquee group at Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Bad Boy Records that went on to ink a deal alongside DMX at Ruff Ryders and, later, start its own label, D-Block - to lead artist with 2001’s gold-certified Kiss Tha Game Goodbye.Īs young MCs they rose up through the city’s hip-hop scene at the same time, recording in the same studios, partying in the same nightclubs. Jadakiss, meanwhile, was carving out a solo niche. At the time, Fab was riding the commercial high of his second album, Street Dreams, and its hit singles “Can’t Let You Go” (featuring Lil’ Mo and Mike Shorey) and “Into You” (featuring Tamia), both of which hit No. Fabolous and Jadakiss first collaborated on the remix to the former’s “Keepin’ It Gangsta” in 2003. After painstakingly trying to cut slices with a plastic fork and knife - he says he wants to be polite - he gets fed up and tears through the crust with his hands.įriday on Elm Street has been a long time in the making. When lunch from Serafina arrives, Fabolous digs into the Jumbo Shrimps al Cognac, while Jadakiss goes to work on a classic Margherita pizza. “We wanted,” says Jadakiss, “to put out a project that felt good to both of us.” Both MCs are glued to their respective phones, looking up, intermittently, to make a point or to underscore the other’s assertions. On Halloween, he donned Jason’s trademark hockey mask, while Brooklyn native Fabolous (born John David Jackson) rocked Freddy’s ratty, striped sweater from the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The Yonkers native - born Jason Phillips - has long been drawn to the star of Friday the 13th. Not nothing force-fed, just working with your homie,” says Jadakiss, slouching on a sofa in the newly renovated lobby of Def Jam Records in midtown. Thankfully, the relationship between the two New York City rappers is anything but adversarial. In the film, the slasher kings fight to the death, with Jason seen carrying Freddy’s laughing, severed head as a trophy at the end. That 2003 neo-horror classic provided the inspiration for Friday on Elm Street, the long-anticipated collaboration from Fabolous and Jadakiss. machete - in a slasher clash of the titans. Jason, Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees face off - razor-glove vs. Fabolous and Jadakiss, together at last Def Jam Records
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