Jim Jones says he’s responsible for Cam’ron‘s legendary pink era in the early 2000s – a fact he says Killa himself wouldn’t even try to deny.
Among the many topics discussed during his recent appearance on Justin LaBoy’s eponymous podcast (which sparked a new social media war between Jim and 50 Cent), the Dipset rapper said he’s actually responsible for all of the group’s trendsetting looks during their heyday.
“I created the aesthetic for the Diplomats, you heard? Down to Cam’s pink,” he began. “He’ll tell you. Sooner or later he gon’ have to tell it, where he got the pink from. If I’m lying, I’m flying. You could ask Dame [Dash], you could ask Cam – because those were the two people that was snapping on me when I came in and didn’t get my truck.
“I was supposed to get the Caddy truck when we first got the Diplomat deal. I came to the office and I had on the pink Diadoras with the pink stripes, the pink Polo shirt on. The pink was lighting up the room but the truck didn’t get delivered so they just kept snapping on me, they was like, ‘This n-gga got on all this fly shit!'”
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He continued: “Cam was like, ‘I’m taking that pink. I’m running with it. That shit fly. I’m going crazy with it.’ That was Killa Cam at the time, you heard? Whatever fits what we need, then that’s what we own’ do. But that’s Easter colors. I been doing pink every Easter. Green suit, pink tie.”
The convo begins at the 31-minute mark below.
Elsewhere in the interview, Jim Jones was asked about 50 and Cam’ron’s recent interview where they discussed Fif bringing Jim out on stage at a New York City show in 2007. The G-Unit rapper was beefing with Cam at the time, and he unsurprisingly took it as an act of betrayal.
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“Them n-ggas be on my dick,” Capo responded. “Them n-ggas ain’t got nothing else to think about but Capo. I did a lot for them n-ggas in their life, ya heard? Both of them. Pause, though. Get off my dick! It’s only space on there for baby girl. Come on, man. Tugging on my shit like that.”
Jones also took issue with Cam’ron saying that he was hoping to resolve Dipet’s problems before the concert, implying that he was to blame for the group disbanding.
“That n-gga couldn’t pull nothing together. He couldn’t do nothing with me. He couldn’t tell me nothing, n-gga,” he snapped. “Let’s not get this shit twisted. Nobody could tell me nothing. I was my own boss […] I did what I wanted to do.
“I seen the shit wasn’t going right so I started doing what Jim Jones needed to do for Jim Jones ’cause the n-gga that was supposed to be the don wasn’t taking care of the Capo. It started feeling like the Gotti movie, ya heard?”
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The “We Fly High” hitmaker further defended his decision to join 50 Cent on stage by saying: “I heard what [50] said, ‘Koch was a graveyard’ and all that type of shit. I didn’t give a fuck about none of that.
“They called me like, ‘Yo, you wanna come out and perform at the show?’ [I replied,] ‘Shit yeah! I got the hottest record, I’m popping out.’ […] I wasn’t on nobody’s friendship. I was a pirate.”
He then joked: “Them n-ggas [in G-Unit] couldn’t even dress, but he had a platform for me to perform on in front of thousands of people in New York. Yeah, I’m taking that.”
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The podcast also saw Jim Jones delve into his past issues with Cam’ron, who he claimed was trying to stifle his success, and criticize his longtime collaborator’s since-squashed beef with 50 Cent.
