“Hov was like, ‘Well, it sounded like you talking about me on it.’”

Jadakiss recently sat down with Genius on the latest episode of For The Record. During the show, he reminisced with VP of Content Strategy Rob Markman about the days when he and The LOX would compete with rappers like The Notorious B.I.G. and Beanie Sigel for lyrical supremacy. As an example, Jada confirmed Styles P was dissing JAY-Z on the Brooklyn rapper’s own song, 1998’s “Reservoir Dogs.”

The Yonkers rapper said the LOX were on already “on edge” going into the studio because although they received the call about collaborating with Jay at the airport, he wouldn’t wait for them to go home and drop off their luggage. Jada recalled the group thinking Jay wouldn’t have come to the studio with his luggage if the shoe was on the other foot.

When the trio got to the studio, Jay’s signee Beanie Sigel was already laying down his contribution to the track. Jada and his fellow LOX member Sheek Louch followed up by recording their verses, but Styles and Jay didn’t lay down their bars until the next day.

Styles opens his verse by rapping:

I don’t give a f*ck who you are, so f*ck who you are

I don’t care about a pretty bitch, watch or a car

I don’t care about your block and whoever you shot

I don’t care about your album and whenever it drop

I don’t care about your past if I did I woulda asked

I’m too busy lighting ‘dro with a whole lotta hash

When asked about the verse, Jada explained Styles' intentions. “He was going at Hov on there,” he said, before sharing Jay’s reaction to it. “Hov was like, ‘Well, it sounded like you talking about me on it.’”

A few years later, The LOX and the rest of the Ruff Ryders were involved in a beef with Jay’s Roc-A-Fella Records, with Jada and Beanie at the center of the feud. Sigel set it off with “Beanie (Mac Bitch),” his first single from 2001’s The Reason, by taking subliminal shots at the size of Jada’s car:

I sit four-thirty deep in wheels

You ‘bout four-thirty cheap in wheels—small Benz

Look at your small rims, small wheel, small grill

“That was for me. I had the CLK back then,” Jadakiss told Genius, adding that he was really hurt by the diss because he thought they were on good terms. “It was personal, and it hurt me more than the other [beef with] 50… The Beanie one went to my brain and went to the head. Yeah, I thought we was cool.”

In 2012, the rappers finally mended fences before Sigel’s two-year prison sentence for federal tax charges. During a sitdown with MTV News hosted by Markman, Beanie explained the feud wasn’t personal. “I was riding for my team,” he said.

Watch the full interview above, and read all the lyrics to JAY-Z’s “Reservoir Dogs” featuring The LOX, Beanie Sigel, & Sauce Money on Genius now.