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My Take
Jadakiss has one of the most distinctive voices in hip hop, that gravelly rasp and the signature laugh that you recognize in a single bar. What I admire is his consistency: he came up with the Lox alongside Styles P and Sheek Louch in the 1990s and never coasted on it, staying respected as a pure lyricist across decades when trends churned hard. Yonkers shaped a no-nonsense, streetwise delivery that feels earned rather than performed. He's the rapper other rappers cite as a rapper's rapper, and that quiet authority is harder to maintain than a flash of fame.
Overview
Jason Terrance Phillips (born May 27, 1975), better known by his stage name Jadakiss (, JAY-də-kiss), is an American rapper who began his career in the 1990s and formed the hip hop trio the Lox alongside Styles P and Sheek Louch in 1994.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jadakiss
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェイダキス
- Reading
- じぇいだきす
- Born
- May 27, 1975 (age 51)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Rabbit
- Origin
- Yonkers, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- rapper / songwriter / businessperson / composer / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://www.jadakiss.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jadakiss/
- Xhttps://x.com/Therealkiss
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B9
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.