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| by rocafan on 4/06/2004 11:36:00 AM |
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Yay A Jim Jones Solo CD....LOL
 Diplomat capo Jimmy Jones is fast-tracking his debut LP, Jim Jones the Ghetto's Advocate on the Way to Church. We've been hearing Jim rap here and there ever since his boy Cam'ron came on the scene in 1998, but now we're going to get the full picture. "You'll get the whole progression from hustling. ... Rap is so cliché, but everybody has their own story. I came up hard," Jim said last week, sitting in his Manhattan office. "I'm just trying to put my story out there. You know, there were times I was not going home for four days straight, not showering for three days straight because I was on a serious grind. [On the album] I'm talking about all the hopelessness, the baby mothers, the fathers not there."
The first big serving of angst Jim is serving comes via "Certified Gangsters," which features Game and Cam'ron. (Lil' Flip is on a remix.) "A certified gangster is like Geronimo Pratt, Che Guevara, John Gotti, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King," Jones explained. "Anybody that's about that business, that real business, making a mark. It ain't have to be good, it ain't have to be bad, but it's about being a strong, powerful person. It ain't about love, it's about the respect factor."
Jones and company shot the video in Carson, California, a few weeks ago. "It was the Boo Yaa Tribe that let me do the video in their old 'hood," J.J. said. "The whole video was their houses, their backyards, their LoLos, their warehouses. They showed me nothing but love. The real players from Cali, the certified gangstas showed me what was good." Aside from the Tribe, real street figures such as Bone, who acted in "Training Day," also appears, as does the son of Eazy-E.
While Jones doesn't have a concrete release date for his LP, he does have a slew of guests lined up to lend vocals to the project, including Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Rell and Fiend.
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