It kind of told his story from his point of view in regards to Harlem. It was one of his favorite records because it meant a lot to him. This is a joint where you have to sit down and really listen and take it in. It's me.' I remember walking to the studio hearing the track while it was being mixed and I knew this wasn't no party record, this wasn't no turn up joint. 'Yo come down to the studio I laid this joint. Jim Jones-Hustlers P.O.M.E Jim Jones-Dipset Xmas 40 Cal-Broken Safety JR Writer - History in the Making Cam'ron-Killa Season Purple City-The Purple Album Cam'ron Presents DukeDaGod- The Movement Moves On Juelz Santana-What the games been missing Diplomat Records Present S.A. So I sent him some beats and I remember getting that phone call like. So I did that at his studio and I met Juelz, I met Jim and Jim said he needed some heat. Back then, you would go to the actual studio session, plug up your equipment, and track the beat into the Pro Tools. I remember going to Juelz's studio to track out the beat. "I had did 'Take Em to Church' for Cam'ron which was the Ma$e diss. The track was produced by Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson, who was a member of Bad Boy Records production team, The Hitmen. “Even though we still went in the wrong direction, we had some balance because we knew we were in a different position.This is the opening track of Jim Jones' second album, Harlem: Diary of a Summer. “The fact that we got a chance to do that deal so young - we were all 18, 19, something like that - it saved us from a lot of things that we were heading into. “It saved us in the fact that the direction we was headed in was not a good direction from a young age,” he said. I gotta really get into this rap mode.’ And that’s what really propelled me, seeing all the success that they was having.”Įarlier in the conversation, Jones explained that his life was heading in a very different direction before Cam’ron and Ma$e introduced him to the rap game. I was like ‘Nah, I gotta figure this out. I was doing everything - directing, security, engineering, but they was coming every night, $30-40,000 off that show money. Preview the appropriate book list for your grade-level and the. He added: “Wouldn’t be no Jim Jones if it wasn’t for them guys, and I ended up catching on. Lakewood Summer Literacy Initiative 2013.
He was like, ‘Boy, once you figure out how to rap the same way you act in these streets, it’s going to work for you, just keep going.’ So I always gotta give credit where credit is due.” “Ma$e taught me how to rap and Cam always made sure I was on every single album he had. “The music didn’t start for me until later on in the 2000s after Cam and them figured it out,” he said.
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