Jim Jones doesn’t mind controversy. The capo is already feuding with Cam’Ron and he seems to be siding with one time Dipset nemesis 50 Cent. Now, the rapper has a lot to say about his new label situation,
“Sony is a conglomerate…They got movies, everything else they have to offer me. … I sell lifestyle. I sell swag. My aura reeks of it; I’m so smooth. People love it. When I was on Koch, it was political. Now I’m on Sony; I’m politics. It’s about to get heavy,” he recently revealed to MTV.
“I did like nine songs in six days,” he said of his next mixtape, Harlem’s American Gangster. “We just started this right before the deadline. Two days for production [of the CDs], two days for promotion. We just go hard. I just want everybody to know this a free album for Harlem. This side is the Harlem side of Harlem. That side is the Brooklyn side of Harlem.”
Jim also spoke on Jay‘s own American Gangster. He openly discussed Dame Dash‘s involvement in Jim‘s projects and in Harlem.
“I grew up with Dame,” Jones added. “I know the trials and tribulations that Dame went through. In my eyes, people like that are the real Harlem American gangsters … I watched him pay himself through private school. … Roc-A-Fella, the run that they had was bigger than any dope run any drug dealer could ever imagine. Now he’s sitting back reaping the benefits. … He’s one of the wealthiest people I know, period. … Plus, the whole [controversy], Roc-A-Fella [breaking up], him, the whole Jay thing, it was a good spice. [Dame is] just venting, saying how he really feels. Same way I feel.”
He is currently working hard on new material and should be cooking up a new album for Sony. According to some reports, his next LP should hit stores next Easter.
HipHopDX is letting you hear Jimmy‘s new mixtape, Harlem’s American Gangster, in it’s entirety. [Click to listen!]
