Joe and Jada - Fat Joe, Jadakiss & Jim Jones on Nas, LL Cool J & hip hop idols, making rap money, raising kids

Summary

Podcast Summary: Joe and Jada - Fat Joe, Jadakiss & Jim Jones on Nas, LL Cool J & Hip Hop Idols, Making Rap Money, Raising Kids

Episode Details:

• Title: Joe and Jada
• Hosts: Fat Joe and Jadakiss
• Guests: Jim Jones
• Release Date: June 19, 2025
• Description: Hip-hop legends Fat Joe and Jadakiss team up with Jim Jones to delve into their careers, discuss the dynamics of the music industry, and share personal insights on topics ranging from idolizing hip hop icons to raising the next generation.

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1. Jim Jones’ Motivation and Reinvention in Music

Jim Jones opens up about his continuous drive to stay relevant in the ever-evolving hip-hop landscape. He emphasizes the importance of reinvention and perseverance:

“The money is always the motivation. I mean, hip hop has given me a life that I wouldn't want to trade for nothing else in the world... [02:48]”

Jim discusses overcoming procrastination and staying true to himself, highlighting the necessity of being comfortable in uncomfortable situations to maintain his position in the industry.

2. Hard Work and Continuous Improvement

Joe Crack commends Jim’s relentless work ethic and lyrical growth, noting:

“Look at Jim Jones. He's a hard worker. He's relentless. He don't stop. You definitely got better lyrically over the years...” [04:17]

Jim acknowledges the influence of other artists and the importance of pushing not just himself but also uplifting others within the hip-hop community.

3. Hustling and Financial Security in Hip Hop

The conversation shifts to the ethos of hustling within hip-hop. Joe and Jim discuss the relentless pursuit of financial stability:

“People used to champion a hustler... I'm trying to get this bread to make sure we’re financially secure.” [07:45]

Jim reinforces the idea that the hustle mentality is ingrained in their identities, essential for sustaining their lifestyles and supporting their families.

4. Loyalty and Friendship in the Music Industry

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around loyalty and the lack thereof in tough times. Joe shares a personal anecdote about betrayal:

"They disappear when the time gets rough. Then you want to show up talking about we did it again..." [08:41]

Jim adds his perspective, highlighting how true friends stand by each other, contrasting with those who falter during hardships.

5. Joe Crack’s Personal Struggles and Resilience

Joe Crack narrates his experience with financial and legal troubles, detailing how adversity led him back to the studio and ultimately to success:

“I was... getting robbed... paying my taxes... went to court... Torn to the studio and came out of jail... [09:52]”

He describes the pivotal moment when a single song release transformed his situation, illustrating the unpredictability and resilience required in the music industry.

6. Health and Fitness: Jim Jones’ Lifestyle Changes

Jim Jones emphasizes the critical role of fitness and diet in his life. He shares a personal turning point:

“Six months ago, the doctor told me I was pre-diabetic. So it wasn’t really about how much I was working out... [17:11]”

He discusses eliminating unhealthy foods and adopting a disciplined diet, leading to significant improvements in his well-being.

7. Fashion: Dressing Your Age vs. Wage

The hosts engage in a lively debate about fashion, where Jim Jones articulates his philosophy:

“I dress wage appropriate, not age appropriate... [24:02]”

He stresses that personal style should reflect one's personality and confidence rather than adhering to age-related trends or high-end brands.

8. Influence of Hip Hop Icons: Nas and LL Cool J

Jim Jones delves into his admiration for Nas and other hip-hop legends, highlighting their impact on his career:

“I admired Nas... Nas wrote the playbook for how we were running the streets... [30:09]”

He contrasts his own achievements with those of his idols, asserting the importance of recognizing individual contributions to the genre.

9. Diversifying in the Entertainment Industry

Jim Jones introduces his latest venture—a content space in the Bronx aimed at empowering content creators:

“I brought a major facility in the Bronx... setting up the drip report news and newsroom... [39:26]”

He underscores the necessity of diversifying income streams beyond music, aligning with the modern entertainment landscape’s demands.

10. Raising the Next Generation

The discussion turns to parenting and instilling the right values in their children. Jim Jones reflects on the influence of being a role model:

“If your son knows you to be a hustler, guess what’s gonna happen... [49:35]”

He advocates for providing better opportunities while preserving the entrepreneurial spirit, ensuring that the next generation can thrive responsibly.

11. Conclusion: Reflections on Success and Legacy

In wrapping up, both Jim Jones and Joe Crack reflect on their journeys, emphasizing resilience, loyalty, and the importance of setting a positive example. Jim shares:

“Money doesn't move me... I will leave a blueprint of what it would take... [47:15]”

Joe adds his aspirations for lasting legacy, aiming to be remembered for his contributions and influence:

“I want to be the fat guy painted in the picture 100 years from now... [50:31]”

They collectively underscore the significance of hard work, continuous growth, and supporting one another within the hip-hop community.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Jim Jones on Motivation: “The money is always the motivation... [02:48]”
• Joe Crack on Hustling: “People used to champion a hustler... [07:45]”
• Jim Jones on Fitness: “Six months ago, the doctor told me I was pre-diabetic... [17:11]”
• Jim Jones on Fashion: “I dress wage appropriate, not age appropriate... [24:02]”
• Jim Jones on Role Models: “I admired Nas... [30:09]”
• Jim Jones on Diversifying: “I brought a major facility in the Bronx... [39:26]”
• Jim Jones on Parenting: “If your son knows you to be a hustler, guess what’s gonna happen... [49:35]”
• Jim Jones on Legacy: “Money doesn't move me... [47:15]”
• Joe Crack on Legacy: “I want to be the fat guy painted in the picture 100 years from now... [50:31]”

Conclusion: This episode of "Joe and Jada" offers an intimate look into the lives and minds of hip-hop stalwarts Fat Joe, Jadakiss, and Jim Jones. Through candid conversations, they explore the complexities of maintaining relevance, the importance of loyalty, the trials of personal struggles, and the responsibilities of raising the next generation. Their stories serve as both inspiration and a blueprint for aspiring artists and entrepreneurs within and beyond the music industry.

Transcript

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[Jim Jones]

I'm a passionate brother. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I cry a lot like that. I'm very emotional. So when people talk about me, I gotta stand up for me. Cause nobody else gonna stand up for me. As you see, you heard, I fight all my battles on my own. I take losses and I take my wins the same way you heard the same smirk. Just like this.

[Joe Crack]

Yeah, yeah. What up, y' all? This is Joe Crack.

[Jada]

It's your boy Jada. You know what it is. The Joe and Jada show presented to you by Boost Mobile.

[Joe Crack]

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[Jada]

Hit up boostmobile.com. go get a boost mobile phone for you and your entire entourage. You won't be disappointed. Now, first things first, we'd like to welcome our guests to the show. You already know him. You don't need too much of an introduction. It's my brother, Jim Jones. Capital status. Yeah, make some noise.

[Jim Jones]

What's up with everybody?

[Jada]

Also, this is a psa. We're not gonna talk about my brother Styles and we're not gonna talk about camp. One, I don't condone that. And two, there's a lot more other beautiful going on in the world than.

[Jim Jones]

Rile up some is another thing to talk about. Me. Me and Styles are actually brothers. Two. Two brothers that love each other. Yeah, I'll be wanting people to know that.

[Jada]

Like, we don't have to get into that because we already know what it is and we gonna. And they gonna see soon enough. I mean, element of surprise is always you. You've been very hard working over the past few years, putting out projects, working everywhere, doing. Doing tech work, doing all kind of you, you everywhere. It's safe to say you been very productive and very lit. What's your motivation to keep making music? To stay, you know, relevant. Buying BMWs for your son and all.

[Jim Jones]

The money is always the motivation. I mean, hip hop has gave me a life that I wouldn't want to trade for nothing else in the world. I mean, I have my ups and downs, but for the most part, this has been a hell of a ride, and I'm just enjoying it even more. But to stay in it, you got to be real with yourself and realistic with your output, because a lot of people try to do it, but they don't. I wouldn't say try to do it. There's a lot of people doing things, but for me, it's trying to be able to reinvent myself. The perseverance, staying current, not chasing the young generation, but finding a medium where we both could. Where we both could benefit from. So there's a lot that comes with this journey in this past few years that I put myself on. I had to prove to myself that a lot of these things you see going on is things that I'm actually proving to myself enough for no one else. Things that I know I could do, things that I constantly tell myself to, get up off your ass and get it done, because you could do these things with your eyes closed and things like that. Procrastination is a motherfucker. When you at the top of your game and you discouraged a little bit, procrastination could hold you even more. And I had to figure out how. I had to learn how to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations and things like that. And, you know, it's no different from coming up where we came from and things like that. When our back was against the wall, we figured out different ways to overcome that, and being in the game is no different.

[Joe Crack]

Look at Jim Jones. He's a hard worker. He's relentless. He don't stop. You definitely got better lyrically over the years, Right? And so at what point you said, yo, I'm gonna get nice and take the lyricism to another level, because we've been hearing it, but we see your growth, you know? And also, I feel like you got a million people on your back, too. Like. Like, did you. I. I learned from so many artists. From you, say a dice peso, say all the other guys. You know, you ain't just pushing you. You pushing the whole. Tell me about that.

[Jim Jones]

It's always my passion to help people. And in music, that's been one of the things that I'm pretty good at. I got a great ear for music, a great eye for talent. I know how to help them and curate them into a way that they have a fair chance of success. And that was one of the things that I always wanted to do, Even when there was a time that I thought I was going to stop Doing music when I had just moved to Miami for a couple years straight and just in a whole different zone. But even in Miami, I chose to help a whole bunch of artists out there, which I did. Miami Vimps. And that's how people got to hear Zoey Dollars and shout outs to my boy Ball Greasy and B Money and all these. I mean, so it's something I have a knack for. But it seemed like the more that I give it was the more that I got, you know what I mean? The more selfless I was was the more that I was blessed. Even in my times that I needed it the most. It was like I gave to people when I didn't have nothing. At certain times, the story of Jim.

[Joe Crack]

Jones is pretty much making something out of nothing. We. I don't want to make this a tradition, but you all from the Bronx. It just so happens, Joe Jada.

[Jim Jones]

We was going for.

[Joe Crack]

Saying he from the BX now. Cause it seems like everybody who come on here really from the BX and you from the bx. All right, Harlem love you. You know what I'm saying? That's cool. You know what I'm saying?

[Jada]

But he just went through this with another guest years.

[Joe Crack]

I have to do it. I have to do it.

[Jim Jones]

I've been both in the Bronx and Harlem asap.

[Joe Crack]

Rocky, don't say he from the Bronx. He from the Bronx. I know this.

[Jim Jones]

I was really born in Harlem. My hospital was in Harlem, okay?

[Joe Crack]

Damn. I didn't know that.

[Jim Jones]

I thought my sister was born in Bronx Lebanon, but I was born in Bronx.

[Joe Crack]

I'm born in Bronx Lebanon. You're hurting right now saying you was born in Harvard.

[Jim Jones]

I mean, they bring from. From Flower Avenue, they bring me to Weeks Avenue, to Katona park. To Katona Park.

[Joe Crack]

I need them all lined up from the Bronx.

[Jim Jones]

N. I'm a Bronx, I'm a Bronx kid. I just. I'm a hybrid. I was. I.

[Joe Crack]

Need them all lined up. I need all my chess pieces. I need, you know, the clips. They from the Bronx, then they move down to va. I'm just telling you the truth.

[Jim Jones]

I got the best of both worlds, man. I got all. All the attributes from the Bronx and everything from Harlem. Like, I'm a rare breed. Like, I understand. I'm a very aggressive rare breed. I'm a very aggressive hustler. You know what I mean? I got the best of both worlds, so I love it, man. Shout outs to the bx, shout out to all my guys over here.

[Joe Crack]

You know, people used to. And I don't want to sound like a broken record, but people used to champion a hustler. Somebody who really wants to get money, want to go on another level, take their family on another level. They used to champion that. And I get it when you sit here and we say, yo, why are you pushing? Why you moving like you 20 years old and you won't stop in this? And you like, yo, I'm trying to get this bread right. I'm the same way. We love hip hop culture, we love everything. I'm trying to get this bread to make sure we financially secure. You understand what I'm saying? Some people act like they cool with being broke or something like that. So I know your motivation and I understand your answer. You know, you just a true hustler from. If we wasn't rapping, we'd be selling whatever juice. Who gives a fuck? We trying to get money.

[Jim Jones]

I'm selling juice, I'll pick up kids.

[Joe Crack]

I love juice. I love juice. I love kid Cafe. But what I'm trying to say is I understand that about Jim Jones. The Jim Jones, a hustler, he loves money. He loves to find the things in life. And I said something the other day, me and you talked about behind the scenes, where people don't get it right. So I said, rappers work check to check 100%. What does that mean to you, that statement? Because me and you had that conversation.

[Jim Jones]

I mean, it's the same difference of the, the people that's coming up on a 9 to 5 and they got to pay their bills, we got to pay our bills too. The expenses that we acquire for having money is the same expense that you have at the end of the month. So we don't meet our quota. We, we don't pay for these big ass houses and these fly cars that we got. Then they start taking them away the same as you. You don't make that money and pay that rent at the end. Then they start coming with them notices to get you out the crib. There's no difference. There's no difference. And the risk is even higher for us because we got so many things going on and shit like that. And we start acquiring bills out of nowhere. And pretty soon they're going as good. And sometimes the going get bad. And then if you ain't prepared for that and able to hold up everything that you just acquired, it disappears in a flash.

[Joe Crack]

You ever had to tell your wife DEFCON 4, huh?

[Jada]

That's when it gets to DEFCON.

[Joe Crack]

Break that down to me.

[Jim Jones]

I've been to DEFCON before you heard, we, we, we.

[Jada]

I'm pretty sure we all three up here could attest when is going beautifully. And then it's like you said, there's a time when ain't going beautiful. How, how do you persevere through them times that builds character.

[Joe Crack]

Let me tell you something, people in life, they always, and this ain't no shots at nobody, right? But people in life, let's say with me, I've been in a situation where I'm doing fucked up, you know, better than your average guy, but I'm doing fucked up compared to how I do. And people find reasons to disattach themselves from you. When you're going through the struggle and you sitting on the couch by yourself trying to figure out how you're going to get up out this hole, you know, I had so called friends from find excuses. One of my friends had an argument, one of my friends, he was like, yo, Joe, I know that's more your man than I am, you know, you stay with your mans and I stay to me, I knew he used that opportunity thinking Joe up, Joe going to need a dollar, he going to ask me, let me, you know. And then you come back and you, you bigger than ever. And them guys are like, they missed it.

[Jim Jones]

Nah, I got a funny story, I.

[Joe Crack]

Got, Let me hear Jim, I gotta hear it. We ain't talk about nobody, but I'm.

[Jim Jones]

Just saying, I got an example.

[Joe Crack]

This gotta be an education.

[Jim Jones]

When I was up, no, you come ask for some help, cool, go down, nobody comes to help you, you heard? But he's up now while I'm down, you heard? And I'm, you know, I see him all the time now I'm back up, he's down. Guess what he's doing?

[Joe Crack]

Asking you for help. No, I'm not doing that, I'm not doing that. Yo, Jim, Jim, I'm not doing it, I promise you, on God, I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it. I'm done with that. I might be too old, y' all might be younger than me to play that.

[Jim Jones]

I'm not playing, I'm just telling you how to discycle. Like, yo, bro, this is the craziest shit doing that to me, bro, I'm not doing.

[Joe Crack]

Let me tell you, I got a story, hold up, hold up. I got a story. I'm fucked up. They take all my money. I know y' all don't want to believe me. Accountant robbed me, didn't pay my taxes. When the government come to me, he robbed me for 1.2 million. He ain't pay. I'm paying him to pay. And show the government the wires. That I'm paying the accountant to pay my tax. They know I gave him the money, but they said, you as the leader of your household, boom. I go to court. I paid him the 1.2 again. Pay the lawyer another 7, 800. I got the number one guy cool. Fuck me, put me a little jail time. The point is, I go first day to the studio. Yo, Jim Jones, I know your story too well. I go first day to the studio, come out of jail. You got these little niggas with purple hair, yellow hair, thinking what the OG is doing in the studio. They really looking at us like we're wasting our time. Don't know if you know that, right? So they looking at me. We come up all the way up. Yo, Ram, come get on the song. It's all the way up. It spun one day, that strip club in Aces right there was flying queens. They said, yo, we want to do that single release party.

[Jim Jones]

Bet.

[Joe Crack]

Yo, Rem, let's go. She's at she's jail.

[Jada]

Eight years.

[Joe Crack]

I lose all my money. I might as well been in jail for 20. I don't do broke. Don't take this the wrong way. Take this encouraging. I don't do broke. I'm allergic to broke. Imma go get it if it's in the Africa, Timbuktu, Asia. No rock unturned. I'm going to get that dollar. Like, don't worry about it. And I'm not complaining. I don't do bro. But one day the shit ring, the next day they say single release. Maybe two days after all the way up come out. You knew when you heard. All the way up. You knew when you heard it. Holy. These guys hit one out the. You know it off one spin, they hit one out the park. So we go to Aces. This is a two day effect. And this probably ball in the side like these are two day effect. The club is on tilt. The walls is sweaty, out of control. I get to my section and it's a hundred people in my section. And I'm sitting there like this. And they coming up. Yo, God, we did it again. God, we did it. Yo, yo, God, yo, yo. Private jets again, God. Yo, yo, yo. They coming, right? And I'm sitting there and Remy's there, Pistol's there. Rest in peace. Percy was there. So we rock. I mean, not even Lean Back. Yeah, Lean Back did this. But just two days later, how they understood every word I didn't know it was one of them, right? They turned the lights on. We walking out. I'm walking out with a hundred behind me. I stopped. This is the same story. You breaking out. I stop. I turned around, I said, your pistol, Percy. I don't ever want to see these in my life again.

[Jada]

Yo.

[Jim Jones]

Yo.

[Joe Crack]

Yo, yo, yo, Remy. Turn around and look at them and go. You heard the God. We don't want to see y' all no more. We walked out. We never seen him again. So you think after all the times we put people on privates, we take them on hotels, you ward shows, you eating steaks, you eating lobsters. We paying your bill, we paying your rent, we paying your this and this and that. You guys disappear when the time get rough. Then you want to show up talking about, we did it again. I'm not. I swear to God. I've forgiven people before. This time it was over, cuz. I know I went to the bottom of the barrel.

[Jada]

God forgives. I don't.

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[Jada]

Now. Working out. I watch you work out every day. How important is it?

[Jim Jones]

Fitness is everything, man. I mean, that's how I found the youth. That's a way to live a longer life. Fitness and diet. Diet is just important as fitness. I had to learn that. I was dismal.

[Jada]

Yeah. Cause I know you like eating. I know you gotta like, you have cheat day with sweets. Yeah.

[Jim Jones]

And I had to stop all that. Actually, I had. I was about to tell you, like the doctor, like six months ago, the doctor told me I was pre diabetic. So it wasn't really about how much I was working out. It was about how much sugar and bad foods I was eating and trying to use the excuses. Working out. Even though I was looking good, the inside wasn't looking good. So I had to reverse that whole thing and just cut out the sugars, cut out the cakes, cut out the ice cream, cut out everything that I really liked and shit like that. And start eating real food and 6 it up to a lot of fruits and shit like that. And I feel 100 times better.

[Joe Crack]

Yo, when you cock diesel, you doing? Nah, you doing too much. Yo, Jim, you doing push ups in the snow with the dog on top of you with the chain hanging off a one arm. This is unbelievable. Like, I'm looking at this guy, I could be anywhere in the world. I'm looking at Jim Jones and he shows you how much you're not healthy. When I see this guy just zooming through the gym. You too, you, you big on it too.

[Jim Jones]

JB in there, I'll be watching.

[Jada]

I just want to let you on.

[Jim Jones]

That pull up ball going here.

[Jada]

I can't, I can't get.

[Jim Jones]

I'm just trying to be prepared for whatever come at me.

[Jada]

That's it.

[Jim Jones]

You know what I mean? Like, I know I, I live, I live a life that comes with a lot and I gotta be ready to stand tall for whatever comes at me.

[Joe Crack]

Let me ask you a question. When we done with that, when we, I feel like I'm done with that, with anything coming at us, right? Like, I think we all prove. Hold up, let me just, let me say something.

[Jim Jones]

Let me see you inside the Bakara Hotel.

[Joe Crack]

No, I know, I know, but what I'm saying to you, I know you ain't start with him.

[Jim Jones]

Okay, so that's, this is what, that's what you mean. So if I wasn't on my team, the white man would have got the best of me and with my whole career, with half of my career would have been down.

[Joe Crack]

Oh, the white man beat you.

[Jim Jones]

That would have been the biggest thing in the media for years. Like, don't. You should have tough with the white man. Like, they would have been wiling me up. You heard? No, I would say white man, but he was white.

[Joe Crack]

I'm with you and I know he with you. You because I know you well and I know your character. So I know he over with you.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah, he definitely.

[Joe Crack]

You understand what I'm saying? He taunted you to the, to the level of. I know about this. I opened the curtain and Roy Jones was waiting for me beyond the curtain. Champion of the world that's ready to knock my block off. Okay, So I know about being alone. When I got shot, I had 30, 40 guys. I turned the corner, Roy waiting for me alone. I'm telling you, true story. I'm the king of getting caught turning that one.

[Jim Jones]

That wasn't for you.

[Jada]

What happened when, what happened when you.

[Joe Crack]

Don'T do that Everybody know the Roy Jones. Don't do that to me.

[Jada]

Not the Roy Jones story.

[Joe Crack]

The Roy Jones when he was waiting.

[Jada]

For you with Dolo.

[Joe Crack]

Oh, my. He wasn't Dolo.

[Jada]

He had.

[Joe Crack]

First of all, I had 150 guys. Let's be clear about that. It was Ja rules. This is what I'm trying to tell you. You could be with 150, open the curtain and be Dolo. These dudes over there, yo, they rapping. We in New York. Ja Rule album released. New York is the biggest song I just performed with you. I spun around, I opened the curtain to walk to the back. Jim Jones is up there. Roy Jones is standing there with the devil in his eye. No, you not understanding. This is the champ of the world. I had to grab his wrist, be like, yo, Champ, yo, that was smart.

[Jada]

I don't even know.

[Joe Crack]

No, no, no, no. I've avoided everything you could think of. I know how to do it. So I grab his wrist, and I'm pretty much begging him not to. Not to knock me out. Yo, Champ, I know you're gonna knock me out. Yo, this. He had the guy. He had some guys with him. He had one of them. Yo, let me tell you, the way most people die is the guy in the back. Get him, Champ. Knock him out, Champ, yo, and he.

[Jim Jones]

Tried to put that battery to stand back.

[Joe Crack]

I'm here. I'm the last person that's pussy. But I don't want to start arguing with him because I might agitate the chair.

[Jada]

He might let his wrist go.

[Joe Crack]

So, yes. So I'm trying to talk to him. I'm trying to talk to him. Like, I'm like, yo, Champ, yo, hip hop this, this, that. So the guy trying to gas him, you know, to hook off on me. It happened to me one time. They caught me over a second. They were trying to kill me. It was about 30 guns, some. And one guy with bifocals kept trying to guess the yo, just light him up. That I'm pleading for my life. Yo, this. We all Puerto Rican. We can make this happen. Don't worry about it. My guys are chill. They're ready to come. Yes. I'm over there trying to. And it is a dude with bifocals. Give it to him now. Like, it's. It's always. You can't go with them with the bi.

[Jada]

With those guys with the back team.

[Joe Crack]

Long story short is once the crew figured out and I tell. I start feeling pussy. I let the champ go. I go, yo, Champ, like I said, I'M gonna be honest with you. No, no. He know the story and I'm not. I see your champ. You see those 150 guys, and they over there chilling, smoking bloods, rapping the guns. I said, nobody's gonna fight you. Those guys right there, they with me. So he looked, he said, it's hip hop. He's not pussy. For no one's sake. Roy Jones came.

[Jada]

I don't think anybody think Roy Jones is.

[Joe Crack]

Nah, Roy Jones came to pack me up. The point is what he's saying. You got to be ready for it. I'm just talking about in general.

[Jim Jones]

I don't know if a nigga ready for that Roy Jones, though. We gonna have to. We have to jump this shit out this nigga.

[Joe Crack]

Oh, no. You got 150 to try. It's like 100 men against.

[Jim Jones]

But it's just. It's just the one second it's going to take. For him to punch.

[Joe Crack]

Oh, no, no, no, no.

[Jim Jones]

For him to punch you three times.

[Jada]

In the face at one second.

[Joe Crack]

I was trying to take you. Let me ask you something. You thought I didn't know that hand.

[Jada]

Is like a switch one.

[Joe Crack]

I didn't know that. You thought I wasn't telling them.

[Jim Jones]

Y' all know where that coming from. Yo, you think a stuff you for the back, you gonna rock this.

[Jada]

Now, Joe tried to say there's no such thing as dressing your age. You as being known as one of the freshest.

[Jim Jones]

I don't think there's a thing that's dressing your age. I think there's a thing that's dressing your wage. I dress wage appropriate, not age appropriate.

[Jada]

Explain that.

[Joe Crack]

Hello.

[Jada]

Not for the people that don't understand the difference between age and wage.

[Jim Jones]

You don't know the difference between age and wage, and you out the loop, nigga. That's pretty simple. I mean, but for the most part, I dress how I feel, man. When it comes to fashion, it's all about who you are, man. It's all about your personality, what makes you feel good, what makes you feel confident, what makes you feel fly. And that's all I've been doing. I haven't been doing anything too special. I got a different aesthetic than most people and things like that, and it kind of connected to the masses and things like that. But I haven't done nothing different than what I've seen outside on the street corners from the hustlers and bits and pieces from television. And I get my style from so many different array of different things, you know what I mean? From Past things that I've seen, even to now. I mean, this is all how I feel in a day. And things like that. People get caught up in thinking that fashion or having style has to do with a name brand when it really doesn't. It's all about you. You're the name brand. How you put that shit on. Just because it has a name brand don't mean that shit is looking good when you got it on. That's what I'd be trying to tell people, things like that. I mean, like, I bought some from Walmart and look probably look better than you and you got some on from. From Louie and like that. It's all about who Rocking.

[Jada]

Take a shot at my Louie hoodie.

[Jim Jones]

I think it's Louie down.

[Joe Crack]

Let me explain something to you, man. This, well, this the flyest. This podcast. I don't know if you've been tuned.

[Jada]

In, but buying more, we just was getting. We just. We just got a couple of friends and he making us lose them again.

[Joe Crack]

All right? We throw that shit on daily. Okay, when can I get you to rewind the time? Will you ever rewind the time?

[Jim Jones]

Nah, I'm not that type of person.

[Joe Crack]

You just won't.

[Jim Jones]

Nah, I'm just not that type of person. I mean, I put a lot of work in to be here this long to. To see these grays. God bless my Uncle Clinton. He used to have a face full of grays in the bed. He's pretty much the reason why I grew my bed. When I was coming up, the bed was always fly. And I watched his bed go from black to gray, and it was silver. And he always kept that thing lined up. It was just dope. And I'm like, man, he respected his age. He respected the work he put in. He was like, I ain't with no dying. I'm not doing none of that.

[Joe Crack]

And I kind of not doing effectively. And I love.

[Jim Jones]

Nah, you look good. Listen to me. You look good. I don't knock nobody for what? Everybody. Everybody got their own.

[Joe Crack]

Everybody gotta do what they got. Everybody.

[Jim Jones]

Everybody gotta do what they gotta do. It's a beautiful business endeavor you got going on. You know what I mean? Like, I cannot knock that.

[Jada]

Everybody could rewind. Everybody. Everybody.

[Joe Crack]

Yeah. But you see somebody like, this is a perfect transformation. I should have caught him on Father's Day and told him, yo, can I please come with the barber Rewinder. This guy won't rewind the time. That's the guy I gotta convince to.

[Jada]

Rewind the time I got.

[Jim Jones]

I gotta. I Got. I'm like an old school lumberjack type of dude. That's my type of vibe. You know what I mean? Like, I don't put too much on family. I have a shoe.

[Joe Crack]

You're a hero. You're a hero to your family. You provide. You provide passion. I know you got a big family, sisters, moms, and I don't want to speak out of place, but I feel like you, like me, you take care of everybody.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah, I take care of everybody in my family. Everybody. Everybody take care of the bills, everything, you know, I mean, it's my pleasure. It's my pleasure.

[Joe Crack]

No, you do every.

[Jim Jones]

You.

[Joe Crack]

You just. You just got moms and pops a new spot.

[Jim Jones]

I'll be watching.

[Joe Crack]

He got it.

[Jada]

He got his.

[Jim Jones]

He got his baby girl.

[Joe Crack]

Yeah, but I'm talking about this guy, his sisters, everybody on.

[Jim Jones]

I carry on.

[Joe Crack]

Okay, okay. But he. We not interviewing you.

[Jada]

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[Joe Crack]

I recently saw a clip on Instagram where a young kid was comparing you to NAS and saying that you got.

[Jim Jones]

Yes, my young boy, big hits. He's wow.

[Joe Crack]

Yo, he looked to you. He learned how to wear the BB Simon belt from you. He got his swag. Like, how crazy is that? Because in my era, you know what I'm saying?

[Jim Jones]

Nas is like a God in my era, too.

[Joe Crack]

I mean, to be compared. Let me not. Let me.

[Jim Jones]

Let me.

[Joe Crack]

That young kid, he was young and we love that. He loved Jim Jones. I want you breaking.

[Jim Jones]

Let's break this down. I admired Nas, but remember Nas first record, the Barbecue came out when I was in 11th grade. So Nas was my idol when I was young, like you did. Came to dressing the word, play the music, everything. I was a superior Nas fan, period. I never take that away from him. But then as I got in the game, you got to realize that your rivals would be idols and not to take anything away from that. I developed my own style in my own lane that these kids start to grab. Gravitate towards who? Towards two. The same way I gravitated towards Nas when I was younger and things like that. It's a whole different. Whole different generation. We talking about 94, 93. I was in 11th grade. It's 20, 25. There's a big gap there, you know what I mean? And I want people to understand that. So when Shorty's telling people that, yeah, he's 20 some years old, that goes to show the part of the era that he's in that I came in into light and started going crazy that these kids love me. They don't really know who Nas is. If he's 22, he's born in 03.

[Jada]

Not all of them. Some of them know, but, you know, I mean, like, no.

[Jim Jones]

Yes, but it's the essence music.

[Jada]

Not some kids that.

[Joe Crack]

No, I love that.

[Jim Jones]

Some kids that love hip hop. He's your son.

[Joe Crack]

He's your son.

[Jim Jones]

He's your son.

[Joe Crack]

No, but he knows my son.

[Jim Jones]

My son. Can't tell you one Nas record. You heard, like, let's not. Let's. Let's keep it a buck here. Let's keep it a buck. You heard, let's keep it a buck. Because you'll bring it up. There must be some type of misconception or what's that word? When it comes to Jim Jones and what Jim Jones have done in this game, a lot of these rappers, we.

[Jada]

Made them take the darkies off.

[Jim Jones]

A lot of these rappers have done a tremendous job. And I take nothing away from them, but they forget I got a hell of a catch catalog. Me, Jim Jones, myself, gold records, platinum records. Gold albums. Platinum. No, me Jim Jones. No. Diplomats? No, Nobody else. Me, Jim Jones. Check my track record, then check everybody else track record, then go to the billboards and check all my entries. Then check all them entries and like that. And I'm not taking nothing away from nobody. But I hear the comparisons and then be trying to act funny when it comes. No, I've been spanking a lot of this. I'm talking about the industry I've been putting on. So let's not get into that where we get into numbers. And I got to show you the statistics of what I've done. You heard to what other people was doing. You heard them. You want to go to the Billboard entries, pull up Nas Billboard entries, then pull up my Billboard entries.

[Joe Crack]

Listen, we can't compare the two. What I'm trying to tell you.

[Jim Jones]

I want to go down. No, I want to go down the line now, because now we're going down the line.

[Joe Crack]

No, he's a rapper and I'm a rapper. Listen, you know.

[Jim Jones]

No, no, let's go.

[Joe Crack]

Statistically, it feels great.

[Jim Jones]

No, but I want to go statistically because when people be like, I feel the same and forget about the numbers. My numbers back up.

[Jada]

Let me step up to the forefront. Us in the music of hip hop culture have a problem is it is a thing and there's nothing. The world goes off numbers. But in hip hop, we don't pay enough homage to those before us the correct way. And sometimes it's even myself. So it gets no other genre of music. I don't even know who to use.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah, but you gotta understand, hip hop.

[Jada]

Is like, basketball's never gonna say that.

[Jim Jones]

About hip hop acts like basketball. John Moran get on the call with LeBron. So this is what this is about.

[Jada]

Any of that is this is what this.

[Jim Jones]

This is what this is about. There's nothing that could. There's never is me putting me up against anybody. I'm taking me every time. Every time.

[Joe Crack]

Okay?

[Jim Jones]

In every category, I get busy.

[Joe Crack]

You started off saying you grew up watching Nas. The only problem, I didn't take that away from the only situation. I'm saying now to you, right? There is no situation. Tell kids should worship you. You started. No, no, I'm not doing this. I'm not doing. I did not know it was going.

[Jim Jones]

Cuz you're really friends with him.

[Jada]

He gonna be mad at you, not me.

[Jim Jones]

I don't know him.

[Joe Crack]

You heard, oh, he's a beautiful guy.

[Jada]

I understand, bro.

[Jim Jones]

He gonna be mad at y' all. Bring my name up in that conversation, bro.

[Joe Crack]

Like Come on, we didn't know all.

[Jada]

That all the time. Somebody saw the Internet.

[Jim Jones]

You're not gonna mention to nobody. I'm not going to talk myself.

[Jada]

You didn't have to do that.

[Jim Jones]

I'm a pop minds. Every time you heard, I just told.

[Jada]

The people none of that. And what did he do?

[Jim Jones]

The audio you heard. Listen, niggas don't even know about the audio.

[Joe Crack]

Can we talk? Can we talk? Can we talk about. All right. I love this interview. Although it was very painful, you had a tough time. When I seen you, I don't forget where it was at. If it was Hot 97 or something, where you were just saying, yo, you a family man. You never made no excuses. Even when you went through tough times, you know, you took care of your family. They never knew you was going through tough times. I applaud you with that interview. I feel like that's one of them classic interviews that stands out to me in hip hop music. Do you feel like after that interview now, do you feel like that's what you was talking about? Like, I'm gonna fight my way back to the top and I feel good right now about where I'm at in the world. Cause I love that interview.

[Jim Jones]

Well, that interview was just a test of where I was at the time and the things that I knew I had to do in order for me to progress.

[Jada]

You think he brought the temperature back down?

[Jim Jones]

I mean, I wanna hear that shit.

[Jada]

I got you.

[Jim Jones]

I'm talking switched this shit off and on. You heard I got different characters I gotta play. We talk about the sport and I'm gonna go hard. You heard me talk about the sport.

[Joe Crack]

Let's talk about that interview and the passion you have behind that.

[Jim Jones]

I still got the same passion, as you can see. You heard, I'm a passionate brother. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I cry a lot and shit like that. I'm very emotional. So when people talk about me, I gotta stand up for me. Cause nobody else gonna stand up for me. As you see, you heard, I fight all my battles on my own. I take losses and I take my wins the same way. You heard the same smirk, just like this. Yeah, let's get this correct. Cause you know, the media stretched this shit so many different ways. When they see me get excited, I get excited. Because I'm a very passionate person. Everybody knows this. And I said, man, when you talk about me, I'm always gonna pick me first. But as a fan, one of the biggest fans of Nas, I know one of his albums, Word for Word back and forth like that was my era when I was first coming outside and things like that. Nas had wrote the playbook for how we was running the streets and things like that. He also dressed the way we was running the streets back then and things like that. Not to take him out away from my Harlem, but Nas had a hold on us and shit like that when we was younger and things like that. The same way Pac had a hold on us, but for New York City. He came with a whole different flavor and a different cadence at the time that was well needed. It switched from what we heard in Big Daddy Kane to a whole nother way of hustlers was talking and rhyming and things like that. And everybody understood that. Like, yo, he was like, I can never take away anything that he's done in the game. I can't, you heard? And that's not it. But as a competitive man, that's all I'm doing is popping my shit. And this is what hip hop is about. But for the most part, I got no problem with Nas. Shouts to. Nas shouts to all them guys Most influenced you.

[Joe Crack]

Now that you that you said that from. From growing up. Artists who's miss you could even to this day who's most who. Name some artists or whatever. Yeah, whatever.

[Jim Jones]

Rakim, definitely. Nas. Big Daddy Karris 1.

[Jada]

No.

[Jim Jones]

Cool G. Cool G. I'm going down the line now. I'm going down the line. You gonna make me go.

[Joe Crack]

That's good shit.

[Jim Jones]

You know what I mean? Like you like you wanted to do. You one of the few people that persevered from the Cool G era to now. Like, that's. You dig? Like you dig. Like, you gotta always remember that. I don't know if you ever sit down and think about that, like, yo, we've been watching you for a long time and things like that.

[Jada]

LL Buster, Fat Joe, who else got a lot of.

[Jim Jones]

It's a lot of. I'm a hip hop. I'm a hip hop. I'm a hip hop, baby. I used to rock watch Ralph McDaniels every day after school. I want to see every bit of videos, everything. I want to see all of that. You heard. Like, I knew everything about that.

[Jada]

That channel still the Fatback tv.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah, you had, you had and you had. It was 13. You had to turn to 13. You had to turn it to 13.

[Jada]

You 31. 13.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't know about that. Yeah, that's Colecovision days.

[Joe Crack]

Tell me some of the things you doing right now. Some of the things.

[Jada]

Look at y' all turning into a real journalist.

[Joe Crack]

No, I'm not.

[Jim Jones]

I just. I actually. I'm kind of excited. I just brought a major facility in the Bronx where I'm doing an incredible content space, and I'm opening the doors to some incredible content creators and influencers and streamers and gamers and things like that. It's also my office in there. It's a bit of a headquarters. I'll be setting up the drip report news and newsroom in there and things like that.

[Joe Crack]

I like that. I ain't seen one in a while.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah, I'm about to.

[Joe Crack]

With the leg doing all this.

[Jim Jones]

I'm gonna do everything myself now. It's a beautiful thing. So, you know, I'm be running a lot of TV shows out of there. Got like two podcasts set up in there studio. It's a beautiful thing, you know what I mean? So that's one of the things that I'm excited that I've been working on. You know, the music is out right now. The album been doing pretty good. Thank you for everybody that been supporting the album at the church steps. Shout out to all my artists that have been supporting me. Shout out to Dice Peso. The movie's about to drop. The movie will be out in the store.

[Joe Crack]

Yo, the movie. I wanted to be in the movie. I just. Ain't nobody tell you.

[Jim Jones]

I ain't gonna lie.

[Jada]

I missed it.

[Jim Jones]

I got two days of reshoots. I'm doing it. I want to do it.

[Jada]

Let me catch.

[Joe Crack]

Make me a priest this morning.

[Jim Jones]

You heard?

[Joe Crack]

No, I'm in. Yo, I'm in. I want to be in the movie. I believe in your creativity. I believe in your drive. And when I seen you shooting the movie, I didn't know how to tell you, yo, Jim, give me a little five minutes of fame. I want to be a little pastor. I want to be.

[Jim Jones]

I'm sorry.

[Joe Crack]

You know, I say Frank Lucas life in that shit. That's Slim Lou. He was about to blow up in this. I distracted him. Car blew up. You know what I'm saying? But this movie. Tell us about this movie. I love when you do that. I love everything you saying right now, how you take matters into your own hands. I always get upset when I look at mine career because, you know, I discovered Big Pun, Rebbe Ma, DJ Khaled, Cool and Dre. I could tell you who I discovered. The one person I fumbled a bag with was Tony Sunshine, and he was incredible, ahead of his time. And I kept waiting for the Record label to do it. And now we know how to do it ourself. And if this was years back, I would have been able to blow him up, because we know what we doing now. So I love that you said, you know, you create movies in your studio space, podcast this. I love that you taking matters into your own hand to push the future forward. That's a commendable thing right there. You know what I'm saying?

[Jim Jones]

I mean, we gotta do something. Looking at these youngsters making money off these streams and all these things. And, you know, as businessmen, we gotta learn how to diversify. And this is the direction that hip hop and entertainment is going. So we got to be on top of everything. So I need a piece of that, too. That's how I'm thinking. That's how I think across the board. Like, I'm not trying to get left in what was going on yesterday. I'm trying to be wrong what's going on tomorrow. And I know tomorrow never come. That's why you got to be prepared for it. You know what I'm talking about?

[Joe Crack]

I know exactly what you talking about. I feel the same way. You talking to you preaching to the converted.

[Jim Jones]

You know, we've been blessed, man. How about y' all? So. So I could say I honestly known both of y' all since 97. I could say since 97. And watching both of y' all just go crazy in the game, from a fan's perspective, before I actually got to be in it and shit like that. And then seeing y' all just make so much money and just going. I remember watching you on mtv, you had like, the drop top Bentley black shit. I believe it was. I was just like, oh, like, I gotta get this bag. I don't know what the is this is going on. And then Jada the used to always come to Harlem. They'd be with D, they got all type of cars on 2 5th. And like that, I'm like, oh, man, what the. So how does it feel to know that you lived a life like this for so long? Like, you know what I mean? Like, would you trade it?

[Jada]

No, not at all.

[Jim Jones]

Would you do it all over again? Would you. Would you change something?

[Jada]

I do it all over. This same. If I. I could do it all over, I would just probably listen a little more and fixed a little bit of, you know, situations like crack said I had had accounting situations where, you know, they put lean on the accounts and up and I mean, so a little like that. But it was also learning lessons to never let it happen again and you know what I mean, and get straight as you get older. But yeah, I would have did a little more lesson and listening and paid a little more attention to the business aspect of it at a young age instead of just being worrying about my verses and rhymes and, you know, the wrong. Other than that, I would have did everything exactly the same.

[Jim Jones]

What about you?

[Joe Crack]

You know my favorite record right now is It's Not Enough. It's not like I hear this shit. Like, when I hear It's Not Enough, I hear different way. They got guns, but it's not enough. They got dudes. It's not enough. Like, I really. That shit is cemented in my brain, right? And when you ask me, I say to yourself, it's not enough. And when you talk about finances, it's not enough. Success is not enough. Everything's not enough. I'm not fulfilled, My cup is not full, I don't feel cool. And I'm going to be a man about this. That I came in the same game with guys and they got to the Billy and I ain't get to the belly. And just like he said, I fucked up. I was in the club seven days a week, 30 dudes buying 50 bottles every day, 50 steaks, Jimmy's Bronze Cafe. All I wasted a lot of time. So when you ask me, sure, I'm grateful. Sure, I'm thankful to God that I'm in the position that we are. And you people might look at it as like, yo, he's successful. It's not enough. And so I know you could relate to this because you saying the same shit I'm saying in a different way. It's not enough. Like, I want. And I'm not lying, guys. So maybe y' all could understand me a little bit more because people get a little mad at me because they think I brag. And I think a big. That's who I am, right? And so I want to be the fat guy painted in the picture 100 years from now and great grandchildren to be like, we're here because of fat Joseph Carter Jean. Hundred years ago, this man made a billion dollars and left it to us in the trust. And we're still eating off this guy. I swear to God, that's what I want. And if everybody could do it, they do it. So it ain't attainable. I just realized I could have did it, but I was bullshitting a lot. So now when you see me, I'm on my business ventures on another level. Just all my shit is like. And life is life. And, you know, I'm projected to win. I'm telling you, I'm projected to win everything. I'm telling you, I. I'm projected to go there. Like, I'm on that. Like, I know. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, you know, when a football player hang on to the back of the jersey, trying to. I'm on the back of the jersey. I got so many arrows pointed the right way. But it gotta happen. I want, I don't. I want to know what it feel like when that level of success happens where you could turn around and be like, that's it.

[Jim Jones]

I guess. I guess we all have a different painting. Painting of success. I feel like my mistake was I depended on people to do things that I knew I knew how to do on my own. That's from accounting to engineering to marketing to doing videos to doing movies. I learned that 20 years later, like, yo, bro, all that shit you let people do and they fail for you and shit like that. You could have did it on your own and been up. You heard, Cool. But being up is one thing. Making a billion dollars is another thing. Yeah, we all would love to make a billion dollars. From my perspective, money doesn't move me. Like, like, like people do. You know what I mean? So maybe I might not leave money here for generations to come, but I will leave a blueprint of what it would take for you to get to a bag. And I do know that my whole family and my bloodline going, no, this was a dog. And if you follow what he did, God bless you, because you're going to go somewhere that you didn't know you could go. You heard, And I think for me, that's worth more than any money that I could leave. And God bless me, I hope I leave all the money in the world. But I think that blueprint will be strong enough for my son to take with him and go crazy.

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[Joe Crack]

We got that. We, we Got my son is right outside. We got that. Where it's safe for me to say we grew up with not much, and then we want to make things better for our kids. And historically, when you look at successful people that come from nothing because we protected our kids so much, they're not hustlers like us or would want them to be hustlers. Do you find that in hip hop? Do you find that? Or, you know, that's how I look at it. Just everybody I meet, billionaires, I meet people who make money.

[Jim Jones]

Absolutely right. But if you have a son, your son vice vicariously gonna grow into who you are, you heard? So if your son knows you to be a hustler, guess what's gonna happen for your son when his back is against the wall and daddy ain't around no more. Everything he seen daddy doing, daddy teach him, he gonna start to instill. He's not gonna sit there to be like a champ, you heard? Like, I watch my son closely, and just his mannerism, every. How he move and things like that. And the rebel, the rebe, the rebel with him that he shows me and shit like that only shows that he's trying to show me, bro. I'm about to get on my shit, you know what I mean? Like the things. Some of the things that he do, like, these kids ain't no chumps. Just because we raised them right, just because we covered them up, just because we wanted to have a better life in them, doesn't mean that they don't have the hustle in them, you know, they just have better. Better chances and better odds of doing something way different than we ever had a chance to do.

[Jada]

I agree.

[Joe Crack]

I love that answer. You know, I ain't gonna lie to you. I love that answer. Because we just want what's best for our kids. We want them to step up to the occasion. And I just think, like, parenting, right? Parenting ain't easy. Every kid is different.

[Jada]

Takes a village, man.

[Jim Jones]

And they don't give us no instructions.

[Joe Crack]

For parents, no fucking. That's what I'm trying to give them. Now, if you don't know where I've been going, this whole interview is, I've been going about family and fighting through and going through this. This whole infamous. That's what I see in you. I see passion. I see drive. I see relentlessness. I see you working for your family. I see you working for your team. You putting guys on while you still trying to get to where you go.

[Jim Jones]

That's the thing. See this game of smoke and mirrors I don't want nobody to watch what I say, watch what I do. Cause in the midst of me talking shit, I'm still getting up, getting to the bag. I'm still working, I'm still going to the office. I'm still making sure everything has to be done under my. My roof for me to live and, and be successful about it. You know what I mean? Like, never forget that. Bottom line, I'm still doing all the things I need to do in the midst of this circus that y' all see going on. You know what I mean?

[Joe Crack]

Like, and they see it, you know what I'm saying? What I'm trying to tell you is if I see it, they see it.

[Jim Jones]

But that's for anybody. Like a told me one day, even if you don't got a job, you get up.

[Joe Crack]

That's my mind.

[Jim Jones]

You get up and go outside and act as if you got a job. Don't stay in house. Go outside and hustle. Go outside and find some. Go outside and do something, bro.

[Jada]

Get your ass up, man.

[Joe Crack]

I come from a father. My father was an immigrant from Cuba. My father was a master baker. He had an argument with his boss. He was 13 years in the bakery. He had an argument with his boss. He thought he couldn't get fired. He got fired the next day. We went with money he had saved up, say like a G. This was long time ago. And we went and bought toys in 23rd Street street in Broadway. Brought it up to where my store's at. That's why I got my first up NYC store on 158 and Broadway and was selling toys and snowstorms, hustling little motorcycles and, and, and baseball bats and shit for double the money. That's where I learned to be an entrepreneur. When the summer came, my father was the old man you saw with the icy. He made no excuses. That's why I don't make excuses. We just got better situations at getting to where we're getting. And thank God for hip hop. That the music you see, you still. You still. You still an emcee, meaning, like you still are on that. I was like that for a very long time. Till I said to myself, I said like this. For a long time I lived off of shows. I'd be like, yo, I got two, three shows this month. This is my. And then I realized when gets slow, I gotta diversify and find other ways to get money. You understand what I'm saying? So I was. So then I had to learn how to make businesses and do like that.

[Jim Jones]

You just said what you said, told me, stop worrying about how to make money and learn how to make business. Because you make business, that gonna make the money for you. You said it. I had to learn that, bro, because I. I wasn't making music off of money off of music for a long time. Like, bro, I didn't have no hits or no. I had to figure out how to make business to make myself some money and still sustain this lifestyle. Because at the end of the day, it's all about sustainability. You heard this lifestyle, no matter how you look at it, we etched in stone.

[Joe Crack]

They don't understand. I'mma play the I'm older than you thing right here.

[Jada]

Well, that always.

[Jim Jones]

30 years of sustainability. Your niggas is on.

[Joe Crack]

Yeah. What I'm trying to tell you is that we know guys, especially us three, and we salute the guys. Because I salute a guy I knew who was getting money in 88 and be like, yo, such and such. Like, I'd salute him like, I'll never. I never look at people. My lenses never look at people at they down moment. I always remember when they was on top or when I. They inspired me or they was rocking. But a lot of the guys that I grew up with or I knew had runs, and that's over now. And I'm not mad at them. If they got a legit job and they moving on with life or whatever, I salute them. But you know how hard it is to be fly for 30 years to walk into the casket fly? You got to walk into the casket fly.

[Jada]

Joe, how you walk into the casket?

[Joe Crack]

Well, you don't walk into the casket. But the point. You get what I'm saying?

[Jada]

Come in.

[Joe Crack]

No, that's hard. It's like you, yo, don't talk about that. Old dudes that had it be the same old dudes that ratted facts. You know how crazy that line hits me every time I hear that song? And you say that line. And it ain't even got to be the purpose. Don't even got to be about rat it. It's just about so many guys have runs and then they start talking about, yo, I used to be this. I used to be that. Yo, I used to have this.

[Jim Jones]

Cool. I'm not mad. I used to. But don't make it seem like they used to is relevant now. I'm with a good. I'm with a good. I'm with a good glory story finish, you heard? I'm with that. I love all the old hustler stories, but some old hustlers carry it the wrong way, you heard. And no disrespect, I'm looking at YouTube.

[Joe Crack]

Some of them got an AARP card. Talking that, no teeth, still talking that. I'm like, yo, bro, you can't hold a smack 20, 25, and you ain't.

[Jim Jones]

Carrying it right, so you should. You should be home. Don't even mention it. Because what you. You talk about and how you looking is not reflecting on what we doing out here. You know what I mean? And. And not taking nothing away from you. You can tell your story and be humble about it, but if you're not looking apart to get into the bag, your story means nothing in the eyes of people that's really doing it. And you trying to prove a point. And we not talking down to you, but come on, you heard, like, we.

[Joe Crack]

Love you and we big you up. And we probably the only guys that'll pull a car over and be like, yo, all the hustlers, homie, this and this and that. But then it's like, cool. If you ain't got that run no more, you get yourself a job. You take care of your family. You can salute the same way. Don't talk.

[Jim Jones]

I know a bunch of old hustlers that used to give money, that got good jobs, right? Now when I see them, I still praise them the same way I praised them when I was younger.

[Joe Crack]

I'm the same way.

[Jim Jones]

You heard.

[Joe Crack]

So we preaching the same thing you did. But.

[Jim Jones]

But there's a few of them, they out of control. They miss me. We didn't even. Out of. Oh, no, they didn't have a conversation. We just.

[Joe Crack]

This man walking the other way, out of control. And so you looking at him and you like, yo, y' all talking about, like, I keep. I don't think I slept good last night. You know what it is?

[Jim Jones]

Like, I be feeling like they gotta say some type of yo, but entitlement vicariously through the hustler fake rule that they had. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, yo, bro. Like, yo, bro. Like, yo, bro.

[Jada]

Forever old. Because what they did back then.

[Jim Jones]

What you talk about, bro? I don't even know you, bro. You ain't from my era.

[Joe Crack]

I'm sitting here, go to Fat Joe with the hoodie, right? Once again, got a hundred guys outside.

[Jim Jones]

You keep 100?

[Joe Crack]

No, no, always. Always. Back in the day, right? I walk in the bathroom, it's a cock. Diesel, Spanish dude, Diesel out of this. Like, he looked like he ate the refrigerator, you know, the man came home just now, he's got the bathroom. Got a long mirror, right? And the man sees me and he goes, by the way, I've never been extorted in my life. I don't understand it. You gotta kill me. It just doesn't exist in my DNA. The man looks at me and said, ten years.

[Jim Jones]

Ten.

[Joe Crack]

Now, you know, you think you know these people some. 10 years. 10 years. I did 10. So I'm looking at the mirror. I'm taking the piss. Somebody got the pay. It's 10 years. So I'm like, no, I'm listening. No, it really happened. Like, I'm being honest. So I'm like, he's 10 years. So I'm thinking he thinks I got him in trouble for 10 years or something. I'm trying to hear him out. 10 years I've been reading the magazines. I've been hearing you talking this. Straight up. He told me, just like that. We talking off the hearing, you talking this. I come home, everybody's saying, don't with Fat Joe. This, this, that, this. He said, I don't believe it. I had a hundred guys outside that door. I said, I don't believe it. And you gonna do this the hard way or the nice way? Somebody got to pay for my 10 years. So, of course, for me, I'm looking in the mirror and I'm like, finally a tries me. Finally, I'm human. I'm looking at the mirror. I'm like this. Now, it's one thing to disrespect Fat Joe, but we in the bathroom, and the. The. The. The. The. The toilet. Hold up. What?

[Jim Jones]

Joe was this.

[Joe Crack]

Big Joe. They all outside. But listen what I'm saying. The door opens the door to somebody taking this. And it's my brother Serge. And Serge is like, these guys, they can't take you violating Fat Joe on no. Like, he can't breathe. He's, like, crawling on this. It's in the mid. I see him. I'm like. He's like, huh? Like, they talking to Joe like this. Ah. He's grabbing the wall like he can't believe. He can't. He's hyperventilating. He cannot believe this, right? Man, we put the beats on this guy. So legend, not 100, just us two. He drank piss water and everything. And I gotta salute the man because he never. I never heard of him again. I never seen him again.

[Jim Jones]

But Joe, I ain't gonna lie, y' all. Y' all Puerto Rican. Was putting beats on back in the day. From the fever on up. I've been outside somewhere like 94, 93. Y' all been rubbing. I'm talking about, bro. God bless Big Pun, bro. I seen Pun punish so many, bro. Like, so many. I seen Pun take his chain off in the tunnel and punish the Punisher. Punish like. No pun intended, but Pun intended. Punish like, yo, bro. Big Pun was yo, bro. Y' all were some wild Puerto Ricans, bro. I cannot lie, bro. Just looking at the history of this watch.

[Joe Crack]

Yo, listen, man. Pun had this thing called nose to the brain. I swear to God, he had this thing. I'll tell you a quick one, but, you know, you know, I. I'm, like the biggest liar on the Internet now. They call me the Cap King, right? I used to play softball. This is an ill story. I used to play sophomore in my block. So this dude walked by. You know, I'm from the block, but I'm from them projects my whole life. I don't care if I'm Fat Joe the rapper. Somebody who grew up with me, they might talk funny to me, and you'll be like, yo, what the. They took, like, you know, we know each other since kindergarten. You ain't picture you did. He's going crazy. It's a dude I grew up with, right? You suck my. You know, we're doing all that. So Pun was my number one fan. When I play softball, Pun sit in the dugout every game. He would watch every game, right? So Pun start talking to him. Yo, what's up, Stupid? This stuff, they arguing. So, you know, the city park, they got the. The city park, they got the gates. I watched Pun Batum to come close enough, and he punched him through the gate. Bam. And knocked him out. They had to bring the ambulance through the gate. I'm talking about the hand ain't go through the gate. But you know what I'm saying, He got close enough. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Through the boom. Nose to the brain. This at night, it was. Yo, he had legendary strength. This is that Boost mobile cash app for that ass. The Joe and Jada show with the capo.

[Jada]

Thanks for having our guest today. Capo status makes some noise for my brother.

[Jim Jones]

Yeah.

[Jada]

Foreign.

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