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]On his latest album, Dispet Christmas, Jones released the remix of We Fly High. However, the album was not very sucessful.
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 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
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
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".
Cam'ron
Rumors begin to spread stating that Jim Jones has 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 which 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 caught up with jones and interviewed him in which he describe the situation with him and Cam'ron. He said:
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"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 |
” |
When Cam'ron was available for an interview with Miss Info he talked about his relationship with Jim Jones He Said:
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"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. |
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Filmography
Discography
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