Jadakiss and Fat Joe are teaming up to enter the podcast space with their new show Joe & Jada, where they’ll discuss music, sports, culture and more.
A press release on Monday (May 5) confirmed the show will be produced by The Volume and Roc Nation and will air twice a week – starting this week.
“My brother Jadakiss and I will be delivering a podcast experience like none other,” Joe said. “We’re both passionate and opinionated about music, sports, entertainment and culture, so you can definitely expect to get unfiltered analysis, versatile interviews and untold stories. We’re coming to shake up the podcast game and set a new blueprint.”
Jada added: “I’m looking forward to teaming up with Joe on this podcast and showing another side of my personality. We’ve been friends for a long time, so we have the right chemistry and foundation to make this a really special show. Everyone is finally going to get to hear what we debate and discuss all the time behind the scenes.”
Both legendary New York artists have entered the talk space in recent years. Joe found success with his Instagram Live convos, which eventually spawned his Starz show, Fat Joe Talks. Meanwhile, Jada’s long-running podcast with The LOX and ItsTheReal, 2 Jews & 2 Black Dudes Review The Movies, recently picked up steam and has been dropping new episodes weekly.
One topic likely to come up is Joe and Jada’s thoughts on today’s Hip Hop, as they’ve both spoken out about it in recent months.
In January, Joe confessed that some of the rap music released by younger generations leaves him feeling “confused.”
“I encourage the youth and I love the youth, [but] I’ve sat in traffic and [heard the music] — I felt like they were playing devil music right next to me,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Yo, what the fuck? That’s Hip Hop?!’ They got some weird shit going on.
“I fuck with them, I’m always gonna salute them. I don’t know how they spiraled into this particular sound. Hip Hop’s so diverse — we got Lauryn Hill, we got Biz Markie, you got Eric B. and Rakim, you got Nas… You’re not gonna open this shit and hear the same shit.”
And in February, Kiss emphasized the importance of originality in what he says has become a diluted game – using Kendrick Lamar‘s recent run as an example.
“It’s all about balance. Some dudes can rap and sing. Some dudes should just rap,” he said. “Some dudes should do some other shit. But rap is for rapping. Start doing a bunch of everything else, it’s getting away from the elements and it’s diminishing the culture. We don’t need to hear 53 more ‘Not Like Us’es.
“Just because that got him five Grammys and Super Bowl, this and that – when you go to create, don’t try to make that. We do have a lot of people that once one thing hits, everybody’s calling the producer [to get a similar beat]. And [it] never works.”
Suki Waterhouse has spoken candidly about how she found herself crying constantly after the birth of her daughter.
The singer and actress reflected on her experience as a mother more than two years after she and her partner, actor Robert Pattinson, welcomed their baby girl in March 2024.
During an interview with The Standard published on Thursday, Suki explained that motherhood has completely shifted her outlook on life.
"I think it's made me marvel at our humanness. It's so funny, even just your kid getting a fever, watching a little body recover from that, it's brought me down to what it is to be alive and I really love that," she said. "It feels very survivalist and medieval in a way, especially birth, birth is medieval."
The Daisy Jones & The Six actress, 34, shared that she was caught off guard by just how exposed and emotional she felt after giving birth to her daughter.
"I'm almost two and a half years in now, but when she was first born, I remember thinking that I can't believe everybody does this and I can't believe how vulnerable I feel," she told the publication. "I was crying all the time."
Suki continued, "It makes me cry now thinking about it. It was just... shocking."
The Notting Hill singer also admitted that she has never considered herself someone who cries easily, making those emotions all the more surprising.
"It's so f**king weird! I'm not a cryer! I'm so not an emotional person, I'm such a Capricorn. But being a mum just fed me up in such a sweet way," she stated. "It just absolutely broke open my heart, and I'm just madly in love and, despite my crying right now, I enjoy it so much and I'm so taken by my daughter and so in love with doing it with my partner and I just feel the preciousness of it very much."
Suki and Twilight actor Robert, 40, have been in a relationship since 2018 and announced they were expecting their first child together toward the end of 2023.
The pair have largely kept their romance away from the spotlight and have yet to publicly share the name of their daughter.
