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MTV: One of the most bugged things about this whole situation is that you and 50 are actually on the same label. I've heard you say before that a lot of people at the label aren't so fond of 50.
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"You gotta do what you can do to get where you gotta get without getting outta your element. Plus, when you humble, you gonna benefit at the end anyway."
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Jadakiss: You'd be surprised. A lot of people want me to get this guy, big people inside the office that run the Interscope machine. They just can't be as verbal as they would like to be about it. That's how much of a secret society, and how political, it is. I think some of them is just plain scared of him. It's because he's selling records and he's definitely one of the top bread-earners over there.
MTV: Are you surprised that [Interscope chairman Jimmy] Iovine hasn't reached out to you about this whole saga with your labelmate?
Jadakiss: Nah, I ain't surprised at all. Jimmy's there to make the music go out, and some things he can't control. I could leak a song and Jimmy ain't got nothin' to do with it. Some things is out of his reach. This is not his element — drama is not what he's about. He's about money and business and he's makin' money off of it, so he has no reason to call nobody. Keep it going. He ain't sayin' nothing, I don't how he feel, but I know if everything goes right, he's gonna be the one eating at the end of the day. Cha-ching.
MTV: With that being said, do you feel that you're a pawn in this battle?
Jadakiss: We all pawns, to a certain extent. Till you get up there and get one of those Jay-Z positions — and he's even a pawn till he gets to the next position, until he's runnin' Universal like he wants to do. Then you still might be a pawn, 'cause there's somebody higher than that. You gotta do what you can do to get where you gotta get without getting outta your element. Plus, when you humble, you gonna benefit at the end anyway.
MTV: 50 recently fell out with another of his labelmates, the Game. One of the main reasons for that clash was because Game said he was good friends with you and refused to ride 50 in the "Piggy Bank" beef.
Jadakiss: I don't really think that had anything to do with me, though. I think they had some other personal issues long before this. This maybe was the icing on the cake when Game said he wasn't gonna ride. I don't think Game is a yes-man. He wanna have his own career, he wanna do his own thing. I don't think he's one of them people that wanna take orders like that, even though he's a humble person. But you know, he's got Dre — he's good. All he needs is Dre.
MTV: The "Animal" joint is out right now, there's more songs in the stash. How do approach making battle records for 50? I heard Jay-Z said that he did some research on Nas before [writing his battle track], "The Takeover." Do you do the same for 50?
Jadakiss: You'd be surprised how much he's not a well-liked person. It's people that just call me, sending me e-mails, faxes, all kinds of stuff. Even other rappers is sending me stuff to say about him. I take some of it. But for the most part, everything's up here [points to his head], when I'm working.
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