There will be moments when things get tough and you have to do shit that you might not want to do. For example, Jadakiss explained with a laugh that he had threatened to quit rap earlier in the afternoon when he found out that he wasn't allowed to smoke in the car service his label had hired to take him around town. He had spent the morning chaperoning his daughter's school trip to an aviation museum and, as he put it, "when I need to smoke, I need to smoke." Then he got over it.

"You know," he said, "that's the beautiful thing of being able to be in the game for so long. It's only a minute that a thing like that makes me mad. It ain't no biggie." What's one smoke-free car ride in a two decade career, really?

