'I had to figure out how to manage, balance and understand that his death was a reality,' TheRealKiss says of the late Icepick Jay
Imagine meeting someone and getting so close to them that they become your best friend. Now think about that same person being on the verge of death and you didn’t even know because that person wanted to keep it a secret from you. This was the case forwhen he lost his best friend and manager, Ignatius Maurice “Icepick Jay” Jackson, to colon cancer in June 2017.
"It stayed with me longer than anybody else that knew him because he didn't want me to know," Kiss explains about when he found out about Pick’s condition the day before his passing."He didn't want it to throw me off from what I had to do, and he forced people not to tell me. People knew our relationship and they knew what it would've done to me. Icepick didn't want it to do what it did to me anyway. I can't wait to see him again and smack the s--t out of him.
Colon Cancer Awareness is this month. How important is it for Black and Latino men to get their colons checked? He was healthy, man. That's what’s really crazy about this. He was super strong, and when I saw him in the hospital, he was about as thin as a wire. It crushed my whole world and I just dropped to the floor because of how crazy it was seeing him like that. They had to get me out of there because my s--t was so distraught, and he died the day after that.
It was really thanks to my team that encouraged me to do it. I always say my last album is going to be an R&B album. For my last contractual album, I'm doing an R&B album. With me having this raspy voice, people always asked when I was going to sing on a song. When I was going at it with 50, people were saying I don't sing on my own hooks. That always stuck in my head and people always told me I had to use my own voice not just to rap.
A radio personality begged me to do one with Push. I've talked to Benny the Butcher about doing one. There's one I'm definitely doing with Beanie Sigel calledWait a minute. The same Beanie Sigel you had a vicious rap beef with in the early 2000s?], we already have a couple of records done for that. Don't be surprised if that comes out this year.
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