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Jim Jones and Hitmaka Set March 10 Release Date for ‘Back in my Prime’ Album

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Jim Jones and Hitmaka Set March 10 Release Date for 'Back in my Prime' Album

Jim Jones and Hitmaka are ready to give you an album. The two have announced the release, Back in my Prime, for this Friday. The album is fully produced by Hitmaka, and Jones wants his fans to know “we got hits.”

The cover for the album is shot outside Prime 112 restaurant in Miami.

Jim Jones and producer Hitmaka dropped a lavish visual for “Seen The Money.” Capo raps about his luxurious lifestyle over Hitmaka’s production led by the Alicia Keys “You Don’t Know My Name” sample. Jim can be seen popping bottles on a yacht in Miami Beach and stacking his bread like a Jenga tower. 

Jones reflects on his current lifestyle and how his past lifestyle helped elevate his superstar lifestyle with the cadence: “We jumping out of Ferraris and private jets without a suitcase, ‘cause we shop when we land, we got no top on the lamb, hood n***a, all white airs with no socks in the sand. I used to play with the keys, but the locks didn’t jam. We was in, mama’s kitchen playing with the pots and the pans…”

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Weavahman Jim Jones Is Fed up With New York Weather: ‘I Don’t Even Know How To Get Dressed Anymore’

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We are in that weird part of the year where the weather fluctuates from cold to lukewarm and vice versa. Like many others in the tri-state area, Jim Jones is over it. Hitting social media, Jones hopped back in his “Weavahman” bag and spoke for the city.

“F*ck this weather and whoever the f*ck is in charge, because the shit is just not adding up at this f*cking point anymore,” Jim Jones said. “A n-gga told me it was damn near 80 in Philly yesterday and snowing in New York today. The shit is just going wild.”

Capo doubled back with more weather-related questions.

“A n*gga don’t even know how to get dressed anymore. There was no snow advisory. I don’t make the weather, I report the weather.”

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Jim Jones and Hitmaka Build Anticipation for ‘Back in My Prime’ EP With Their Video “Seen the Money”

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As seen on WSHH, Jim Jones and producer Hitmaka dropped a lavish visual for “Seen The Money.” Capo raps about his luxurious lifestyle over Hitmaka’s production led by the Alicia Keys “You Don’t Know My Name” sample. Jim can be seen popping bottles on a yacht in Miami Beach and stacking his bread like a Jenga tower. 

Jones reflects on his current lifestyle and how his past lifestyle helped elevate his superstar lifestyle with the cadence: “We jumping out of Ferraris and private jets without a suitcase, ‘cause we shop when we land, we got no top on the lamb, hood n***a, all white airs with no socks in the sand. I used to play with the keys, but the locks didn’t jam. We was in, mama’s kitchen playing with the pots and the pans…”

Jim Jones and Hitmanka have another video/single, “I Am,” featuring Stefflon Don releasing Friday, and their Back In My Prime is scheduled to release in March.

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Jim Jones And HitMaka Comes Together To Release ‘Back In My Prime’ EP

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After a successful 2022, the Harlem hero Jim Jones teams up with producer HitMaka for their EP Back In My Prime. The eight-track project displays Jim’s ability to adapt his sounds to the ever-changing times in hip-hop culture. 

The stand-out singles “Gunshot” featuring BEAM and “I Am” featuring Stefflon Don prove their musical chemistry. 

“YKTV” featuring Ty Dolla $ign shows Jim rapping in a graceful manner. He opens the song with lines reflective of his failures leading to success. He raps, “I’m trying to leave my son a legacy, for my dogs I’m trying to leave a better pedigree… So many nights I slept in a crack den, I done took a bunch of L’s trying to stack M’s”. Jim’s mature cadence compliments his signature fly talk where he talks of having his lover covered in “furs dragging like a broken exhaust” and flooded with jewelry on her neck. 

Back In My Prime is what happens if Harlem: Diary of A Summer was a wine aged by eighteen years. The beats are smoother and the maturation of Jim’s storytelling and cadences packs a stronger punch than his 2005 run in music. Rather than what the title of the EP implies, Jim is entering into a new prime at this point of his career.

TRACKLIST:

  1. “Gunshot” feat. BEAM
  2. “FU Better” feat. Jeremiah
  3. “Bet It All” featuring Benny the Butcher and Trav  
  4. “YKTV” feat. Ty Dolla $ign
  5. “First Plug” feat. Pleasure P
  6. “Let It Go” feat. Tink & Ball Greezy
  7. “Status Update”
  8. “I Am” feat. Stefflon Don

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50 Cent Reacts After Jim Jones Said G-Unit Didn’t Start Mixtape Trend

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There are a few people who claim to have pioneered mixtapes including Jim Jones and 50 Cent. Mixtapes have undoubtedly evolved since their inception, though who re-invented their format is up for debate. Since the late 90s, it became a common practice for artists to take other people’s beats and freestyle over them, then deliver them as a free body of work. However, there are also the mixtapes that play out like albums, which Jim Jones claimed Dipset started during a recent appearance on the Flip Da Script podcast.

Jim said Dipset “started the mixtape movement” as they formatted each project as an album. Though G-Unit often gets their dues in this regard, Jones explained that 50 Cent and G-Unit were largely using other people’s beats to make their own projects. “We was using our mixtapes as albums to promote our real albums,” he explained, adding that it often gauged the interests of which singles would work for radio. “We put the Dipset mixtape out first before G-Unit put their mixtape out. Now go Google it.”

50 Cent Disagrees With Jim Jones

50 Cent finally chimed in on the conversation, though he appeared to find Jones’ take humorous. After The Hip-Hop Wolf shared the clip on their Instagram page, 50 Cent slid in the comments to offer his opinion. “He lying LOL,” he wrote along with several clapping emojis and a laughing emoji. Clearly, 50 Cent finds humor in Jones’ take, even if it discredits the contributions of G-Unit throughout their reign and the overall effect it had on hip-hop culture as a whole in the past two decades. 

Though Jim might feel as though Dipset’s mixtape revolutionized the approach to marketing music, you can’t deny the power of 50 Cent’s mixtapes during the lead-up to his debut project, Get Rich Of Die Tryin’. “A lot of people don’t even know how different marketing and non-traditional marketing impacts the actual culture,” 50 explained in an old interview. “Before 50 Cent Is The Future was released, what they call a mixtape now didn’t exist. A mixtape prior to that was me sending 16 bars to you for your tape.” Do you think 50 Cent has a point? Sound off in the comments.

Happy 47th Birthday To The Dipset General Cam’ron!

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On this date in 1976, rapper, actor and entrepreneur Cameron Giles, also known as Cam’ron, was born in New York City.

Following the break up of Harlem-based group Children Of The Corn, Cam’ron and childhood friend Mason Betha embarked on solo careers, with Cam releasing his debut solo album Confessions Of Fire, while Mase put out the platinum-selling Bad Boy powered Harlem World LP.

In 2001, Cam’s career took a sharp turn for the better when he signed with Roc-A-Fella Records and released his third and best-received album Come Home With Me. Following the success of the album, Cam debuted his talents as an actor and screenwriter when he appeared in the Roc-A-Fella Films Paid In Full, Paper Soldiers, Death Of A Dynasty, and State Property 2.

Currently, Cam is working on the second installment of his Purple Haze series while still working on other solo and Dipset endeavors.

Happy Birthday to the Dipset general Cam’Ron!

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Deion Sanders & Jim Jones Visit Young Dolph Pop-Up Museum

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A pop-up museum was curated in honor of the late Memphis rapper Young Dolph, who passed away in 2021. Football coach Deion Sanders and rapper Jim Jones were the first two celebrities to visit the museum. Late Memphis rapper Young Dolph, who was shot and killed in November 2021, was honored with a pop-up museum, called […]

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Jim Jones Denies Fighting Freddie Gibbs At Miami Restaurant

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The truth behind the infamous Prime 112 scrap involving Jim Jones and Freddie Gibbs remains a mystery as both parties continuously downplay the melee.

Jim Jones recently appeared on FlipDaScript podcast where he was certainly open to any questions sent in his direction. During the appearance, he discussed Max B, Stack Bundles, and more. However, at one point, QueenzFlip pressed the Dipset rapper about his dispute with Freddie Gibbs. “He got attacked in the same restaurant you were in. Where were you?” QueenzFlip asked Jones, who immediately denied his involvement afterward.

ATLANTA, GA – September 15: Jim Jones attends the Official Revolt Summit after party at Compound on September 15, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.(Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)

“I don’t remember being in any restaurant and a fight broke out,” Jones said. “I don’t like to go to them type of places where all the hip-hoppity stuff and these guys, they – you know what I mean? The big chains on and very aggressive. I’m not into that.” 

“I just do music and try to stay home and stay out the way,” he continued. “These guys are actually crazy. I’m scared of most of them. Like, it’s a scary thing. You ever been in a room with a bunch of these rappers? They, like, so fucking scary. I had to hold onto my money and make sure I put it in my sock.”

Jones’ latest comes a few months following a veiled threat to leak footage of the fight. After Gibbs described the altercation as a food fight, the Dipset rapper briefly responded in a since-deleted post.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 14: Freddie Gibbs attends Experience The Resort & Casino Special Listening Event at on September 14, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

“Prime footage loadin lol,” he wrote before suggesting that it could be a career-ending moment for Gibbs. “Should I b petty or keep or player cause this shit look nasty is all I’m a say lol.”

At this point, it seems as if we might never know what really went down at Prime 112. Check out Jim Jones’ interview below.