My last post on Jim was about the Jackin' Swagger From Us
track he is orchestrating, talking about
Hov & T.I.
T.I responded saying he wouldn't retaliate or pay attention
to the negativity coming from Jones.
Jim Jones recently sat down with the people over at Rhapsody,
and addressed the situation,
and
answered other questions that needed answers for awhile now.
Now that you and Cam aren’t really on good terms, is there regret on your part that you went to bat for Cam and got into a beef with Nas?
Nah. F*ck Nas. I don’t give a f*ck about Nas. He’s a rapper that just lost his pizazz. When I was in high school, he was the sh*t. He was the n*gg* that got us hyped. “New York State of Mind,” Illmatic and all of that.
Is there any possibility of a reconciliation?
What kind of reconciliation? I was never cool with him. I seen Nas a few months ago in L.A. with Dame. We was staying in this hotel right above the Ferrari dealership. Dame seen him and was talking to him. I was laying back on a couch laughing. He didn’t know what to do. I was looking dead at him. [Laughs.] And then Dame was like, “You know Jim?” He started [stammering], “Ah? Ah?” Dame is just burnt out. He not thinking about none of that frivolous [beef] sh*t. Me neither, for the most part. Nas was never on my level ever. Ever.
What was your reaction to Cam telling Miss Info he sold Juelz' contract to Def Jam for $2 million?
No one sold anything, first of all. Juelz has his own equity. He’s becoming a platinum artist under the Def Jam and Diplomats umbrella. And it was just a business move that came in time for Juelz to do things on his own because he didn’t feel like he was getting dealt with justly. He signed up at a very young age where a lot of people are naïve and they just looking to get into the game. This was all business.
So, Cam selling Juelz contract for $2 million is false?
He made some money off the transaction. But this ain’t slavery. Ain’t nobody sell nobody. That’s the difference.
With Dame and Cam being close, has Dame ever tried to play mediator between you two?
Well, yeah, Dame is always trying to be the mediator. But sh*t, Dame can’t get no responses neither. We all in the same boat. [Cam’ron] don’t hit back nobody. He’s on his own tangent right now.
Do you feel like since you kind of came in under Cam and trusted that he would do right by you, you entered the game naïve, too?
I didn’t come in naïve. I came in understanding two n*gg*s coming up from nothing to have a bond and above all was supposed to be loyal to each other and everybody could get their equal share. That wasn’t the case. We definitely moved like brothers. We used each other, but it was his artistry and him being Cam was the reason why we got here, and a lot of my hard work standing behind him or standing in front of him.
Is there regret that a good friendship was ruined by the business?
There’s never no regrets. As you get older, you lose friends. But you make new rapports and it’s all about the money and taking care of your family. It was a good friendship though.
You think that can be reconciled?
I don’t know about that. That’s another conversation.
Would you consider making another Diplomats album with the original members?
Yeah, why not? It would be worth a lot of money. I’ve been trying to do that for the business and money's sake.
A lot of people were surprised with your comments to Complex regarding T.I.
People took it the wrong way. I wasn’t really deliberately doing nothing to knock T.I. I was just saying what I felt regarding swagger and who sets the precedent for it. I know for sure that people have said, "Yo, you looking like Jim Jones. I’m trying to get that 'Jim Jones' look." But I haven’t heard people saying you’re looking like T.I. or whoever. Where I’m from, n*gg*s don’t run to go look like no Kanye. I don’t hear n*gg*s in the ‘hood like I need to get that jacket Jay had on.
Well, Jay did get everyone to start rocking button-ups.
Yeah, he caught that. But that was in his moment when he was hot. He was able to dictate sh*t. But that was because Dame was around him and gave him a little bit of “cool” factor. Sh*t, what can he dictate now? He’s dressing like me. I seen him with some skull scarves and some Louis Vuitton scarves and all types of sh*t. That ain’t Rocawear. If that’s what you own, you should be vested in what you own. You should be wearing that sh*t all day because it should be some fly sh*t that you wanna have on. It should be like Ralph Lauren where you know I got some fly sh*t. But no n*gg*, you see him dressing like me and turn Rocawear into skulls and shit. [Laughs.]
Has T.I. or anyone from his camp reached out to you regarding your comments?
It’s not even that serious. I don’t care about that sh*t. When I see him, it’ll be like, "What’s up, What’s poppin?" N*gg*s can’t tell me nothing in this game, period, even if you had a problem. I ain’t tripping on nobody. You can’t never use me for a publicity stunt. I’m always gonna get cabbage. I’m like the Fruit Man. I’m waiting for a new shipment of cabbage. So, I can just give out some humble cabbage.
Dame Dash: Cabbage is a vegetable. [Both laugh.]
Jones: The Vegetable Man then.
Have you seen T.I.’s clothing line, AKOO?
I haven’t seen it. I seen an ad and his jeans look like some Pepe Jeans. But that’s another story. I ain’t mad at nobody in this b*llsh*t game.
Do you think the press misconstrued your comments regarding T.I.?
I don’t care what the press did. They misconstrued it or they got it right. You can take it how the f*ck n*gg*s wanna take it. I suggest they take it in f*ck*ng stride.
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