Jadakiss Speaks On The Future Of Rap + More On “7PM In Brooklyn”

Jadakiss joins Carmelo Anthony to talk all-stars, Kevin Durant’s legacy, and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance on “7PM in Brooklyn”.

We share this week’s episode of “7PM in Brooklyn”, a Wave Original, hosted by NBA legend, Carmelo Anthony.

As part of the new season, the newest team members of the 7PM in Brooklyn family join the show, as Rudy Gay, Monica McNutt, The Kid Mero, and Kazeem Famuyide chop it up with Carmelo Anthony on a variety of topics.

Jadakiss joins Melo, Rudy Gay, and Kazeem Famuyide to discuss everything that went down during All-Star Weekend, Melo’s appreciation for Kevin Durant’s Legacy, and Jadakiss’ take on Kendrick’s halftime performance being great for hip-hop.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• [25:10] CARMELO SHARES HIS THOUGHTS ON WHY THE ALL-STAR GAME FORMAT FLOPPED

MELO: “I’m not mad at them changing the format of the All-Star game. I think it do need some freshness. I think it do need some different type of excitement. I just think they searching too much on what to do. They don’t know what to do right now. You could keep the teams and all of that. That’s cool. But do that with the rookies. Do that in the rookie v. sophomore game but the All-star game is All-Star game. Don’t matter how bad it is. The All-Star game is the All-Star game. That’s on the players though….Wemby wants to take control over the All-Star game. That n****a say I’m on a business trip. Giannis wants to take control of the All-Star game. I don’t see nobody on the Americans that want to take over the All-Star game.

• [32:53] MELO ON THE IDEA OF ADDING AN “ALL-SNUB” TEAM IN PLACE OF THE RISING STARS TEAM TO THE FOUR-TEAM FORMAT

KAZ: “Let ask one more thing about this concept, right? They had the four different teams to see. What did you think about them possibly doing an All-Snub team like the last eight dudes.”

MELO: “I love it! I’m with the All-Snub team because you got to take the riser stars team out. I love it. I love that the rise stars have an opportunity but they gotta stay on Friday. I’m with an All-Snub team. But hold up we gotta add an incentive ot it. Like if they win it those n****s get their all-star bags taken away from them. If you lose, you get your All-Star bag snatched from you. You’re playing for your All-Star spot, that’s basically what it is.”

• [48:34] MELO CLAIMS SGA HAS THE MVP RACE LOCKED UP

MERO: “So another thing about the second half and end of season is that the MVP race is starting to heat up…”

MELO: “Nah, that’s over. Shai got that shit. Shai got his name on that joint. Players know. Ask the players whose MVP. If the players took a vote they gonna say Shai. The MVP should be a player vote not a media vote. IF your peers ain’t gonna vote for you you shouldn’t be MVP.

• [37:50] MELO SAYS FANS WILL APPRECIATE KEVIN DURANT’S LEGACY IN HINDSIGHT

MELO: “I say I just say the outsiders as a whole. I do– we appreciate ’em but we don’t appreciate somebody like KD until they gone. Until we look at it and say like, damn man, n*ggas ain’t going to never do what that man did.”

• [01:02:33] JADAKISS ON KENDRICK’S HALFTIME PERFORMANCE AT THE SUPER BOWL

JADAKISS: So for hip hop to get anytime, Super Bowl anything is a win for me. You know what I mean? Maybe I feel different because I’m an elder statesman but I don’t care about the other sh*t. Seeing him up there rocking the message, the aesthetics, that sh*t was beautiful. It was good for hip hop. You going to go back to seeing Red Hot Chili Peppers.”