Tha Jacka died last night. RIP

[2osiccs]

R.I.P.

 

[Tremendos]

Damn RIP Jack!

 

[hipowered]

He always knew what beats to pick... shit usually had that distant, catchy sound that you could just vibe to.

Him & Hus should have made more projects.. I felt Shower Posse was a letdown

 

[Superfly Snuka]

Here is the scoop on what happened. My nigga Big Heezy stay right there. 94th and Mac. That's why they were posted out front hella deep. Someone up the hill on 94th let loose 30 rounds on the crowd hitting only Jack in the head. It was from far away up the hill on some coward shit so they didn't see they shooter. Smh

 

[Hood Rat Matt]

Here is the scoop on what happened. My nigga Big Heezy stay right there. 94th and Mac. That's why they were posted out front hella deep. Someone up the hill on 94th let loose 30 rounds on the crowd hitting only Jack in the head. It was from far away up the hill on some coward shit so they didn't see they shooter. Smh

Damn that's fuckin foul. Thank God no babies got hit

 

[DJ Coma]

They know who they are....

That's their problem tho, i'm not gonna argue back & forth with some internet "OGs" in an RIP thread.


I'm still tore up about all this... Jacks music helped myself & many others get through the rough days. I feel like I lost a friend I never met but could relate to.

Word.

I feel kinda bad because I criticized Jacka in a thread recently for his freestyle when he was on the Wake Up Show with Joe Blow and Freeway. I didn't say anything out of pocket though, and I only said it because as a fan of his I knew he was better than that.

 

[Superfly Snuka]

I didn't like his freestyle on the wake up show either. Kinda like he was leaned out and didn't try.

 

[S.SAVAGE]

If half these rap cats were putting in work, practicing what they preach to find the sucka who did this coward shit instead of flossing, ....claiming what they are gonna do, talkin loud & putting themselves on social media with the "ALL BOUT ME" parade... this coward shooter would be a corpse.

I get it, mourn for your people, ...but the internet showboating is a whole new level of faggotry.

...unfortunately the more social media likes you get, the harder you are in 2015 apparently.

RIP Jacka

No disrespect to those who push the line & do work.

 

[infinity]

On Monday night, the Jacka, a Bay Area rapper who’s been around forever, was murdered in East Oakland. This one hurts. The Jacka was never a star, and he was never going to be a star. There’s a good chance you’d never heard of him before he died. Speaking personally, he was always on my “I should pay more attention to this guy” list. When someone makes a ton of music, stays resolutely underground, and sticks to a lane that rarely demands attention, he can be easy to overlook. But with Jacka, that’s a mistake. He was a fascinating voice, a conflicted street-rap moralist who always seemed to carry a huge weight on his shoulders. The Jacka started out with the Mob Figaz crew in 1999 and released his first solo album in 2001. And since then, he’s been cranking out a staggering amount of music: Solo albums, collaborative albums, mixtapes. He never really made hits. But he did, over the years, piece together a powerful persona: The reluctant Muslim dope boy, the man who longed for transcendence and who sounded traumatized by years in the violent street life, someone who didn’t see a way out. And in light of the way his life ended — shot on the street at 37 — that persona is even more poignant.

The Jacka wasn’t a showy rapper, but he was a charismatic one. His delivery was a growly under-the-breath mutter, a tough-guy monotone, but it had a certain melodic slickness to it. He’d deliver his own singsong choruses, barely switching up his delivery but somehow letting it float just a tiny big more. He was a big fan of East Coast technicians like Cormega, who he hit up for guest verses a few times over the years. And he had a quiet intensity that was similar. He gave off the impression that he was too smart to be selling drugs but that he felt helpless to stop, and his music drew much of its power from that tension. Musically, he tended to stay entirely within the Bay, using Bay producers but staying outside the hyphy and ratchet-music waves. Instead, he made what’s been called Mobb Music: The lurching, bass-heavy, secretly melodic Bay Area genre that guys like Too $hort and E-40 popularized, a scene that’s never died or even seemed in danger of dying. That music fit him well: Never crowding him out, never forcing him out of his sleepy-eyed comfort zone, always punching hard without forcing anything. When he’d work with out-of-town artists like Paul Wall or Devin The Dude, it always seemed like he was bringing them into his world, never vice versa.

Last year, the Jacka and Freeway got together to release the collaborative album Highway Robbery, and the combination made sense. They’d already worked together, and they seemed to be friends, but that wasn’t all of it. Free and Jacka were both Muslim street-rappers, and both of them rapped about trying to resolve the tension between their highest aspirations and their day-to-day reality. But the two of them didn’t treat the contradiction the same way. At his peak, on songs like “What We Do,” Freeway sounded torn apart by his warring impulses. His voice was strained, raw, dramatic, close to tears at every moment. Jacka was something else. He sounded grim, resolved, haunted. His voice sank deep into beats, like he’d realized his place in the universe made no sense but he’d made peace with it anyway. He had a gravity to him. There was a mournful heaviness in his voice, but he still sounded ready to rip someone to pieces if that’s what he needed to do. Thanks to his old Roc-A-Fella association, Freeway at least brushed crossover pop stardom at one point in his career. Jacka never had that. He had his cult audience, and that’s who he made music for. He sounded content and comfortable in his corner of the rap universe.

Last year, the great rap writer Noz published a fascinating interview with Black Dog Bone, the founder of the underground street-rap magazine Murder Dog. Toward the end of the interview, Black Dog Bone was talking about the Jacka, using him as an example of someone who could’ve been a superstar if he’d come along a few years earlier: “I went to Seattle to do an article. I’m in all these rappers’ cars and in every car they were all playing Jacka. I didn’t even know Jacka was that big. He’s like a legend there. And he’s a Muslim. So all these rappers in Seattle are becoming Muslim because of Jacka. That’s the power of music.” I don’t know if the Jacka ever could’ve been a crossover star; his music was too insular and heavy for that. But he did make the sort of music that can change people. The Bay has always had a weird resonance in certain corners of the map; far-flung cities like Seattle and Kansas City are practically, in rap terms, Bay satellites. I have no idea how something like that happens. But the Jacka was the sort of artist who gets passed along from hand to hand, like a secret. He died too soon, but he left an impression.

The Week In Rap: Farewell To The Jacka - Stereogum

 

[hex]

I posted in the other Jacka RIP thread that got deleted on accident that Enemy of the State was the first time I heard Jacka and I have been a fan ever since. That's the exact verse.

the first the time i heard the figaz was on c-bo's TIL MY CASKET DROPS... And i instantly became a fan... then i heard them on Agerman's album.... i was trippin hard... they reminded me of a bay version of THE OUTLAWZ.... Before i knew it i was buying every album that had a mob figa feature on it....

 

[DFresh77]

Here is the scoop on what happened. My nigga Big Heezy stay right there. 94th and Mac. That's why they were posted out front hella deep. Someone up the hill on 94th let loose 30 rounds on the crowd hitting only Jack in the head. It was from far away up the hill on some coward shit so they didn't see they shooter. Smh

fucking cowards...

 

[SocialResponsibility]

Here is the scoop on what happened. My nigga Big Heezy stay right there. 94th and Mac. That's why they were posted out front hella deep. Someone up the hill on 94th let loose 30 rounds on the crowd hitting only Jack in the head. It was from far away up the hill on some coward shit so they didn't see they shooter. Smh

Damn be careful with saying anything on here - your post will get deleted like mine did.

 

[Arson]

Here is the scoop on what happened. My nigga Big Heezy stay right there. 94th and Mac. That's why they were posted out front hella deep. Someone up the hill on 94th let loose 30 rounds on the crowd hitting only Jack in the head. It was from far away up the hill on some coward shit so they didn't see they shooter. Smh

Damn , every phone in Oakland is tapped so these fucks better keep quite.

 

[W0RM_Da_C0N]

he went off on that aspen track

That's one of my favorite Jacka slaps

 

[tweeze]

who would wana do dude like this i mean i met the brotha when i was working at wack ass wallmart at 3 am in the morning feeling like a straight fuckin bum tha jack comes in my area and was looking for some thing i was like man aint you the jacka he was like
yeah i was like man fuck this job sign me i quite right now lol but yeah man it was hella late in the night and we just chopped it up nigga made my night was like dont trip handle this shit lol well iam finish of this vodka for THE JACK GOD BLESS THAT BROTHA STUPID COOL

 

[707north]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK3euYuUdk8

 

[JimmydaButcher]

One of the few Artists I checked for. Again RIP Jack.

 

[Slapmaster Promo]

Here is the scoop on what happened. My nigga Big Heezy stay right there. 94th and Mac. That's why they were posted out front hella deep. Someone up the hill on 94th let loose 30 rounds on the crowd hitting only Jack in the head. It was from far away up the hill on some coward shit so they didn't see they shooter. Smh

this

 

[vinylfiend]

DOPE new tribute mix I just found. the tribute mixes are circulating now. RIP THE JACKA!

 

[Superfly Snuka]

Check out this video of Jacka shot at the exact spot he died. Rip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-M8qzBoSU4