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Jim Jones (0:00)
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Ocho Cinco (Chad Johnson) (1:09)
Hello, it's your favorite sports thunk here. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button to join the fastest growing community on YouTube. Remember, Nightcap doesn't happen without you, so please subscribe or you're gonna make Ocho cry. Jim Jones is joining us as Ocho was breaking him in. Jim, how you doing, bro?
Jim Jones (1:30)
How you feeling, my brother?
Ocho Cinco (Chad Johnson) (1:33)
You good?
Jim Jones (1:34)
Yeah, I'm good, man. Life is good. God is good. I can't complain.
Ocho Cinco (Chad Johnson) (1:37)
Yeah. So talk to us a little about this music thing. You've been in this thing for a minute now. So talk about Jim Jones of twenty years ago, Jim Jones today. Have you noticed anything different in the music industry? Have you noticed, have you tried to do anything different with your sound to keep up with the way the industry is headed?
Jim Jones (1:57)
Oh, yeah, the industry. The industry has changed tremendously from, from when I started. There wasn't no social media for one.
Ocho Cinco (Chad Johnson) (2:05)
Yeah.
Jim Jones (2:06)
When I started in 2003 with my first first deal and even before that when Cam started with his deal, so these kids got a bit of advantage when it comes to marketing the promo that we didn't have. They had access to a lot of information that we didn't have. A lot of people say it works against us, but I think it works for us. And watching the way that these kids work in, in the present day and things like that, I've learned a lot for them from how they carry their music, from how they sell their music, and from how they market and promote their music. Us as being here for so too long, for so long. We seem. We tend to get caught up in our dinosaur ways from yesterday, how they carry artists, but that's not the way they carry artists today. So there are platinum artists that have their nose up because they're big platinum artists, but that don't count in today's society. They don't carry it the same way. So what I've chose to do was always chose to try to reinvent myself, but not to the point where I'm chasing. But there's a medium that reach because I always want to teach these kids, but I always want to learn something also. So you know that and, and, and, and reinventing yourself, you got to be willing to be disciplined, to know what direction you want to go in when it comes to reinventing yourself, you know what I mean? One of the things I credit do is the gym. The gym is one of the biggest attributes to me being able to sustain this long in the game. Sustainability is a motherfucker.