Baauer scored a breakout hit with the viral “Harlem Shake,” which has crowned the charts for the past few weeks. While the record is a certified hit, Jim Jones says that the track originally belonged to him.
During an interview with Jenny Boom Boom, the Capo said that he recorded a song over the “Harlem Shake” beat for Pauly D‘s album but that they never ended up using the track. After keeping the song in the vaults for a year, he heard Baauer’s version and subsequently decided to release his rendition of the cut.
“Actually, that record was mine for a year, I had that record a year ago and I never was… It was supposed to be for Pauly D’s album and we never did nothing with it,” he said. “When I started to hear the ‘Harlem Shake’ and heard the beat, I was like damn, I had the record for a year. So I just put the record out. I been had that record before anybody even thought about that record. It was a record for Pauly D’s album from ‘Jersey Shore.'”
The Dipset member isn’t the only one to lay a verse over the instrumental. Fellow Harlemite Azealia Banks released her version of the track that Baauer tried to block. She later released an email from Baauer who praised her rendition that was recorded in December.
Listen to the full interview below (via HHNM).
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Who gives a *uuuuuuck?!
fuck that gay-ass song and all the gay-ass people who make those stupid videos
THIS NIGGA FUNNY
shoulda coulda woulda
Where’s it at? let’s hear it Jimmy
The link is in the article…
he heard Baauer’s version and subsequently decided to release —-> his rendition of the cut
LOl this dude ain’t had shit since that ballin song. One hit blunder with nothing to his name. Getting shit on everyday of the month, shouldn’t have gone against that boy HOV.
or MAX B
FREE MAX B
you may not have heard of Dipset….yeah they were huge, hes no one hit wonder – but he is a hit only because of Camron
Max B sucks too.
Jay Z stay winning.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! It’s obvious he wasn’t feeling it if he did indeed have it, but now that it’s garnered fame, he’s going to release his so called version? Nuh please…What cracks me up is how the likes of Juelz and company are talking about how Harlem isn’t being represented musically by the likes of ASAP etc but yet Capo rocks the worst beats/songs and to prove a fact, wants in on this joint? Dipset is dead.
So this is what happened, i recorded the song and thought is was okay, not a banger.
This dude Baauer took the song i slept on and it is getting some buzz and rotation.
So I have to let the public know that it was originally my song.
Damn man….where is my buzz? VAMP LIFE!!!…. not really
Must suck to realize you had something valuable and didn’t know what to do with it.
thats pretty much the Dipset Records mentality bro
Snooze=Lose
succinct summary….
What kind of a dude even uses a name like that. Jim Jones? Why does this clown even have fans.
thats his real name you fucktard
lol if u BELIEVE thats his real name..i gotta UFO OUTBACK FOR SALE..u FUCKTARD SMH GO READ A BOOK..REAL JIM JONES KILLED ALOT OF PEOPLE..DO UR KNOWLEDGE
real jim jones didnt kill anyone, they killed themselves! this mans name is james jones, jim is short for james.
You right. Each takes care of himself. Nobody forces no one to join a cult. Thats how it iz.
You can tell it was yours jimmy, because it’s fuckin terrible.
When it came down to it he figured Vampire Life would be bigger than Harlem Shake… to bad Twilight beat him to that too.
Fuck Jim
Why would this nigga disrespect himself by even aligning himself with that song right now? Harlem would beat his ass for this
At least you got VH-1 Jimmy.
GOODBYE, JIMBO!
GOODBYE, DIPSET!