Jim Jones (rapero)

Joseph Guillermo Jones II
Información artística
Género(s)	Hip-hop, East Coast rap, Gangsta rap e Hip hop hardcore
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Sitio web	www.capostatus.com

Joseph Guillermo Jones II (nacido el 15 de Julio de 1976),​ better known by his stage name Jim Jones es un rapero Americano, y original miembro de The Diplomats, tambien conocido como "Dipset". Es co-director de Diplomat Records.​​ Jones is also a noted video director under the name of CAPO, for artists including Cam'ron, Remy Ma and State Property.

En 2004 saco su primer album en solitario On My Way to Church. The release of his second album, Harlem: Diary of a Summer in 2005, coincided with Jones landing an executive position in A&R at Warner Brothers Records. A year later he was on his third album which spawned his biggest single to date "We Fly High". He formed his own rap group ByrdGang.

Early life

Jim Jones was born in The Bronx to a Puerto Rican father and a Aruban mother and grew up in Harlem.​ In an essay for Fader magazine, he stated that his mother would allow him to ride the train from their residence at 176th and Jerome Streets to 110th Street and Lexington Avenue.​ He attended Catholic school but later began cutting church to loiter and play hooky at the train station.​ Jones grew up idolizing fellow rapper, Eminem. In 1999 he told Vibe magazine that "the real slim shady" inspired him to become a full scale hip-hop artist.

Music career

With Cam'ron breaking out first Jones was in the background as his hypeman. Soon they would form The Diplomats along with Juelz Santana.​

On My Way to Church

On My Way to Church is Jones' debut album. The album spawned two singles that made the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: "Certified Gangstas" (featuring Cam'ron, Bezel and The Game), which reached at #80, and "Crunk Muzik" (featuring his Dipset group members Cam'ron and Juelz Santana), which reached #84. The album peaked at #18 on the Billboard 200 chart, #3 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and #4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.​

Harlem: Diary of a Summer

Harlem: Diary of a Summer is Jones' second album. It reached number 5 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Independent Albums charts.​ It had three singles that were listed on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart: "Baby Girl", which reached #58; "Summer Wit' Miami", which reached #78;​ and "What You Been Drankin' On?" (featuring Diddy, Paul Wall, and Jha Jha), which reached #106.​

Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment)

Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment) is Jim Jones' third album. This album was more commercial and once again featured Dipset members along with Lil Wayne. The album spawned his biggest single to date, "We Fly High". In the music video of 2006 hit "We Fly High", Jones started a signature dance move of throwing up a fake jump shot every time the ad-lib "Ballin!'" was stated in the song. This dance move became so popular that it inspired Michael Strahan and Plaxico Burress to do the dance move after big plays during a Monday Night Football game in 2006. The album has been certified gold.​

Pray IV Reign

Pray IV Reign is Jim Jones' fourth album. It was released March 24, 2009. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 chart. On July 8, Jones released a promotional single entitled "The Good Stuff" featuring NOE​​The album features "Pop Champagne" which is also going to be featured on Ron Browz album as well. A bonus track on the album is "Jackin' Swagga From Us" with Twista, Noe and Lil Wayne which takes shots at T.I. and Jay-Z for allegedly stealing their styles and mocking their song "Swagga Like Us".​ It is his first solo album under Columbia Records. Along with releasing the album Jim Jones is doing an off-Broadway musical called Hip-Hop Monologues: Inside the Life and Mind of Jim Jones.​ In 2009 Jim Jones became Vice President of Urban A&R at Koch Records which is now E1 Music.​

Criminal charges

In December of 2008 Jim Jones was arrested for allegedly beating up a friend of the R&B singer Ne-Yo outside the Louis Vuitton store in New York City; he has pleaded not guilty​.

During the early hours of March 16, 2009 Jim Jones was believed to have been involved in an argument at the Esko Lounge in Detroit. Shots were fired and two men were injured, one of them is assumed to be local rapper Trick-Trick. ​

Jim Jones was arrested April 5 in New Jersey. Jones was reportedly driving a 2007 black Bentley in New Jersey, when he was stopped by police. He was immediately arrested after officers discovered he had an outstanding warrant for an unpaid ticket from 2005.​

Controversy

Tru-Life

According to an interview with Tru-Life in the June/July 2006 issue of Complex Magazine, rumors had spread that Tru-Life was referring to Jim Jones in his diss song "New New York". Jim Jones reportedly began calling several rappers and telling them that he had a DVD of Tru-Life dissing them. Tru-Life responded by calling Dipset Boss Cam'ron "a bitch."​

Jones responded by challenging Tru-Life to a brawl with US$50,000 at stake. ​ Months later, Jones told an interviewer that Tru-Life did not respond to the challenge, doesn't count in the rap industry, and lacked the money and heart to accept Jones' challenge.​

The argument continued into 2007, when Tru-Life released his DJ J-Love hosted mixtape entitled Tru York with Dipset diss tracks and whose cover superimposes an image of Jim Jones' face over a swimsuit-clad Borat picture.​

Jay-Z

Jones' beef with Tru-Life may have stemmed from a dispute between Cam'ron and Jay-Z, as Tru-Life was signed to Jay-Z's Roc-La-Familia label at the time. Jim Jones has also dissed Jay-Z's performance as president of Def Jam Recordings.​

Jay-Z has since responded with a diss track called "Brooklyn High" over the beat from Jones's "We Fly High".​ On December 1st, 2006, BET's Access Granted debuted the video for Jones's "We Fly High" remix, with Diddy, Baby, T.I., Young Dro, and added Juelz Santana's verse from his response on the "We Fly High Beef Mix".

He recently got in to an altercation with a Jay-Z associate who was with Ne-Yo at the time and turned himself into the police shortly after. But was recently reported that Jones did not get into a altercation with recording artist Ne-yo, it was just a rumor to stir up the beef.[1]

Cam'ron

In early 2007, rumors began to spread stating that Jim Jones had been in many rifts and disagreements with fellow Dipset member Cam'ron ​

On May 7, 2007, Jones was to appear on the "Funkmaster Flex radio show", but due to unknown reasons Jones was a no-show. Bloggers and listeners began to wonder if this statement of a possible break-up within the group was indeed true. ​ However, radio personality Miss Info interviewed Jones and got him to describe the situation with him and Cam'ron. He said:

"Me and Cam'ron haven't spoken to each other in a year...I kept quiet out of loyalty, I felt like if we can't be friends then at least we can do business together," Jones explained to Miss Info. "But now I can't be next to you...I'm through with being in hot water because of you...We still the Diplomats. We worked too hard to achieve our own success and now we're gonna do something new."​

On April 8th, 2009, after three years of not being on speaking terms with Jones, Cam'ron stated that the rift in the Diplomats is too big for him to make music with Juelz Santana or Jim Jones ever again. The Harlem rapper said the "last straw" was Jim Jones publicly denying a phone call between the two that took place back in February.

"Basically, to be honest — it's a wrap," he said. "I called Jim. Everybody has not been speaking for the past three, four years. It just got in the public. Once the problems get in the public, to me, it can't be fixed. Recently, maybe a month ago, I called Zeke's phone," he added. "I speak to Jim, I say, 'Cool, B. Maybe we can work some stuff out.' I was really at the point where we could work some stuff out. Maybe three minutes before I did an MTV interview ... we just got off the phone, so I did the interview and said we just got off the phone. Jim gets on the TV or radio, whatever, and be like, 'No, me and Cam didn't speak. I don't know what he's talking about. He's got Alzheimer's.' Then he said, 'We did speak on the phone.' My thing is, why lie about a phone conversation? Why would I lie about a phone call?"

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	State Property 2	himself	Direct-to-video DVD
2005	A Day in the Fast Life	himself	Direct-to-video DVD
???	The Wire	Man standing in front of store	Cameo
2008	Righteous Kill	himself	Cameo

Discography

Studio albums

• On My Way to Church
  • Released: August 24, 2004
  • Label: Diplomat/Koch
  • U.S. Sales: 450,000+

• Harlem: Diary of a Summer
  • Released: August 23, 2005
  • Label: Diplomat/Koch
  • U.S. Sales: 400,000+

• Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment)
  • Released: November 7, 2006
  • Label: Diplomat/Koch
  • U.S. Sales: 600,000+

• Pray IV Reign
  • Released: March 24, 2009
  • Label: Diplomat/Columbia
  • U.S. Sales: 66,594​

Collaboration albums

• M.O.B.: The Album With Byrdgang
  • Released: July 1, 2008
  • Label: Splash/Diplomat/Asylum
  • U.S. sales: 47,165+

Compilations

• A Dipset X-Mas
  • Released: December 5, 2006
  • Label: Diplomat/Koch
  • U.S. Sales: 20,209[5]

• Jim Jones & Skull Gang Present A Tribute To Bad Santa Starring Mike Epps
  • Released: November 25, 2008
  • Label: Splash/Koch
  • U.S. sales: 111,023

External links

• Official website
• Jim Jones en AllMusic
• Official Jim Jones page on hip hop social network GoldMic
• Jim Jones en Internet Movie Database (en inglés).
• Jim Jones en Myspace
• Jim JonesTwitter
• Pray IV Reign review

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