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Jim Jones
Background information
Birth name	Joseph Guillermo Jones, II
Born	July 15, 1976 (1976-07-15) (age 31)
Origin	New York City, New York, United States
Genre(s)	Hip hop
Years active	1998 to present
Label(s)	Byrd Gang, Columbia, Diplomat, Jones Family, Warner Bros
Associated acts	The Diplomats, Purple City Productions
Website	www.capostatus.com

Joseph Guillermo Jones II (born July 15, 1976) better known by his stage name Jim Jones, is a rapper of Puerto Rican and Aruban descent.^[1] Jones is an original member of The Diplomats, also known as Dipset. He is Co-CEO of Diplomat Records and is director of A&R for Warner Music Group. ^[2][3]. He has recently set up his own record label called Byrd Gang Records, through Asylum Records and will be releasing albums by the late Stack Bundles and Max B.^[4] In October 2007, Jim Jones signed a joint venture deal with Columbia Records and Jones Family Productions.^[5]

Contents 1 Life & music career 1.1 Early life & music career 1.2 Founding The Diplomats 1.3 Solo career 2 Controversy 2.1 Tru-Life 2.2 Jay-Z 2.3 Cam'ron 3 Filmography 4 Discography 5 References 6 External links

Life & music career

Early life & music career

Joseph "Jimmy" Jones was raised in Harlem's Taft Projects and the Bronx.^{[citation needed]} He attended Catholic School, where he would meet his life-long friend, Cameron Giles.^{[citation needed]} He would serve as Cam'ron's hype man and right hand throught the early part of Cam's career.^{[citation needed]} Meanwhile, Jones made his on record debut on the Cam'ron song "Me, My Moms, & Jimmy" from Cam'ron's 1998 debut Confessions of Fire.^{[citation needed]} He would also appear on the forthcoming Cam'ron album S.D.E..^{[citation needed]}

Founding The Diplomats

Jones and Cam'ron founded The Diplomats in 2001, and Jones began hosting a series of mixtapes showcasing the Dip Set crew while honing his own skills.^{[citation needed]} Jones made a mixtape called Ryder Music in 2002, and he also appeared on the Diplomats debut, Diplomatic Immunity.^{[citation needed]}

Solo career

In 2004, Jones released his debut album, On My Way to Church which featured appearances from the Diplomats, as well as Lil Flip, T.I., The Game, and Bizzy Bone.^{[citation needed]} The album featured the modest hit "Certified Gangstas" a remake of and Eazy-E song.^{[citation needed]} His next album, Harlem: Diary of a Summer was released in 2005.^{[citation needed]}

Jones struck with the song "We Fly High" from his third album, Hustler's P.O.M.E.. The song was among the biggest songs of 2006, and was best known for is ad-lib in the chorus, "Ballin" while doing a fadaway jumpshot with money in hand.^{[citation needed]}

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."^[6]

Jones responded by challenging Tru-Life to a brawl with US$50,000 at stake.^[7] 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.^[8]

The beef 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.^[9]

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.(Now sigined to Roc-A-Fella Records) Jim Jones has also dissed Jay-Z's performance as president of Def Jam Recordings.^[10]

Jay-Z has since responded with a diss track called "Brooklyn High" over the beat from Jones's "We Fly High".^[11] 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".

Cam'ron

Rumors begin to spread stating that Jim Jones has been in many rifts and disagreements with fellow Dipset member Cam'ron ^[12]

On May 7, 2007, Jones was to appear on the "Funkmaster Flex radio show", but due to unknown reasons Jones was a no show which bloggers and listeners began to wonder if this statement of a possible break up within the group was indeed true ^[13] However, Radio-Personality Miss Info caught up with jones and interviewed him in which he 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."[14]

”

When Cam'ron was available for an interview with Miss Info he talked about his relationship with Jim Jones He Said:

“

"I still haven’t spoken to Jim. But Jim ran with me for over 10 yrs, he worked hard, and I wish him the best of luck. Everybody thinks I’m mad at Jim. Why am I mad? I told people for years that Jimmy was gonna be a star. So its better on my resume…I wish him the best. The only thing is, him being with 50, I can’t really run with that. Hang out with who you want to hang out…but me, I can’t really do nothing like that."[15]

”

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	State Property 2	himself	Direct-to-video DVD
2006	Killa Season	himself	Direct-to-video DVD

Discography

Main article: Jim Jones discography

• 2004: On My Way to Church
• 2005: Harlem: Diary of a Summer
• 2006: Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment)
• 2008: Untitled Jim Jones album^[16]

References

External links

• Official website
• Jim Jones at All Music Guide
• Jim Jones at the Internet Movie Database
• Jim Jones at MySpace

v • d • e Jim Jones
Albums	On My Way to Church · Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment) · Harlem: Diary of a Summer · Harlem's American Gangster ·
Singles	"Certified Gangstas" · "Crunk Muzik" · "Baby Girl" · "Summer Wit Miami" · "We Fly High" · "Emotionless"  · "Weather Man" · "Don’t Love Me No More"
Related articles	Discography · The Diplomats · Diplomat Records

v • d • e The Diplomats
Cam'ron · Juelz Santana · Freekey Zekey · 40 Cal. · Hell Rell · J. R. Writer · Jim Jones
Albums	Diplomatic Immunity · Diplomatic Immunity 2
Related articles	Dipset the Movement · Diplomat Records