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was engaging in freestyle rapping competitions by the time he was 17. In 1994, he founded the rap group The Warlocks with friends Sheek Louch, Chris "Lil Mac" Pelkey, and Styles P. They later signed to Bad Boy Entertainment, where it was suggested that they change their name simply to "The LOX", which came to stand for Living Off eXperience. They made their first appearance on The Main Source's 1994 LP Fuck What You Think on the track "Set it Off". Soon after, the group, and in particular Jadakiss found a mentor in Biggie Smalls. The LOX's first multi-platinum hit was the tribute to Biggie called "We'll Always Love Big Poppa, released in 1997. In 1998, the LOX released Money, Power & Respect. The album found huge success, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and spawned two charting singles, "Money, Power & Respect" and "If You Think I'm Jiggy," making Jadakiss a rap star in his own right.


Following their impressive debut album, The LOX left Bad Boy Records, and Jadakiss started to think about a solo career. His 2001 debut album, Kiss Tha Game Goodbye, met with little commercial or critical success, but Jadakiss came back in June 2004 with the song "Why?" (featuring Anthony Hamilton), which became one of the biggest hits of that year, spawning a remix featuring Styles P, Common, Nas, and Hamilton. "Why?" remains Jada's biggest hit, peaking at #11 on the Hot 100 and also making the album it was off of, Kiss the Game Goodbye, a solid success. In late 2007, Jadakiss signed to Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records a move Jay had been trying to arrange for a long period of time. Jadakiss released the album The Last Kiss on Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella Records in April 2009, and it yielded the hit singles "By My Side," featuring Ne-Yo, and "Can't Stop Me." And, in fact, it doesn't look like anything can stop Jadakiss now.