Jim Jones has suggested that Nike start a program that incentivizes students to do better at school, rewarding them with free shoes in return.
During an interview with Full Size Run that premiered last week, the Dipset MC shared his thoughts on the Nike Refurbished program that allows sneakerheads to buy second-hand shoes directly from Nike, rather than through a reseller.
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“Nike need to have a give-back program every month for students who excel well in academics and athletics,” he said. “Give them a chance to get some free sneakers. Nikes cost a lot of money, and these kids been supporting Nike for so many years.
“Why refurbish a pair of sneakers and sell them to somebody for cheaper when you got enough means to give these kids back some free Airs?”
See the rap veteran discuss the idea at the 10:14 mark below:
In late October, Dee-1 singled out some of Hip Hop’s biggest names and urged them to set a better example for their listeners through their music. Among those he named was Jim Jones, who didn’t take kindly to the criticism.
Jones stopped by Sway in the Morning on SiriusXM earlier this week and shared his thoughts about the New Orleans rapper namedropping him on air.
“He could have reached out,” Jones said. “That avenue of talkin’ to me is [now] out. I would have loved to have had a conversation with that young man to enlighten him on certain things when he was mentioning my name. I had the same conversation with [Louis] Farrakhan.
“He [Farrakhan] summoned me for sayin’ his name. ‘If you know not what you’re talking about, young man, let me school you to what you’re doin’.’ And he once told me that, [I realized] I said certain things about certain people that I wished I didn’t as I got older.”
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Going back to Dee-1, he continued: “But I don’t think he went about it the right way, especially talkin’ about people like Rick Ross and Meek Mill. […] How could you ever talk about about people that’s doing these type of things? […] Okay, yeah. Our music is rough. But we grew up in rough places. So when we talkin’ about these rough places, we talkin’ about these things that we went through. You don’t have to go through it!”
“And if you listen to my music, my music is heavy on the spiritual side from the moment I made my album, On My Way to Church,” he concluded. “And I’ve been battlin’ with my demons, and my sins, from the moment I’ve been born. So how dare you talk about another person that’s trying to help people out here. And help theyself at the same time. And you don’t know my story!”
