Mike Jones had the entire world reciting his phone number when he famously rapped it on the 2004 hit song “Still Tippin” – and 20 years later, he still has the same digits.
Over the weekend, the Houston rapper flew out to the Bay to join LaRussell for a show, which included the aforementioned hit.
After LaRussell and the crowd chanted “281-330-8004” multiple times, Mike freestyled: “And I still got that number today/20 years in this bitch, LaRussell, I don’t play!”
Check out the clip below.
Mike Jones reveals after 20 years he still has the same phone number he mentioned in his rap songs, as he performs his verse from the song “Still Tippin” in Vallejo, California. pic.twitter.com/Jl2tNFkyAK
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“Still Tippin” was released in November 2004 as the lead single from Mike Jones’ debut album Who Is Mike Jones?, and features fellow H-Town heroes Paul Wall and Slim Thug. It has since been certified platinum while becoming a staple in the canon of classic Hip Hop songs.
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In 2023, NLE Choppa took aim at Jones over a sample dispute relating to “Still Tippin,” calling the Texas rap legend “lame.”
The Memphis rapper dropped a new song at the time called “Cmon Freestyle,” which samples Jones’ 2004 classic.
However, Jones claimed that he never gave Choppa permission to use the sample.
“Don’t care about getting respect especially if the respect wasn’t shown 4 months ago prior to releasing the music without getting the business clear!” he wrote in an Instagram comment. “I told y’all #Welcome2TheMusicBusiness #StayTuned For Receipts & I wish a N-GGA Would.”
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In response, Choppa took to X to accuse Jones of “trying to copyright a song he got cleared.”
“Ion know if it’s Mike Jones or his team but on everything y’all dead wrong for trying to copyright a song I got cleared,” he wrote. “That’s some hating shit especially for a young n-gga like me that’s just tryna please his fans. Ion feel that I lost dumb respect but it’s cool fasho.
“This man lame for that. I’m partnered with a major label! They not even going to release a song if it ain’t CLEARED. If that was the case you would’ve sued instead of copyrightng! Anybody can make a COPYRIGHT CLAIM! That don’t mean the record ain’t cleared. Broke activities.”
Choppa also claimed that Mike Jones doesn’t even own the rights to the original song.
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He then performed “Cmon Freestyle” for 4 Shooters Only‘s YouTube series From the Block, but the performance has since been taken down, with the video “no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Chappell.”
Jones posted a screenshot of the takedown to his Instagram page with the caption: “STANDING ON BUSINESS.”
He also shared a screenshot of an email from July 5 that stated NLE Choppa’s intentions to use the sample, but that they wouldn’t approve the request until a resolution was reached.
“Hi all, I received a new request to clear a Mike Jones interpolation/sample for a new NLE Choppa song coming out soon via Warner,” the email read.
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“I informed Mike’s publisher (Warner Chappell) that we are unable to approve any new requests until we can reach a global resolution with you regarding all the issues currently at-hand regarding Mike Jones. Please advise. Reserving all rights. Thanks.”
Despite the dispute, NLE Choppa continued to promote the video on his Instagram Stories, writing: “Better than original.”
Jones responded on his own Stories: “Let’s see what the #s say then its Business Nothing Personal.”
