What’s Jim Jones Net Worth?

Jim Jones is an American hip hop artist who has a web price of $400 thousand. Jones is the co-CEO of Diplomat Data with Cam’ron. He’s a founding member of the rap collective the Diplomats. Jones makes use of the pseudonym CAPO as a music video director and has directed for Cam’ron, Remy Ma, and Juelz Santana. He has launched 5 studio albums together with three that reached #1 on the U.S. Rap chart.

Early Life

Jim Jones was born Joseph Guillermo Jones II in The Bronx, New York on July 15, 1976. One among three kids of Nancy Jones and Joseph Guillermo Jones, he was raised in Harlem by his maternal grandmother. Jones has two sisters, Valuable and Keisha. He attended an area Catholic college and would usually skip church and college to hang around on the native practice station. He grew up with fellow rapper Freekey Zekey.

Jones had a troubled childhood and on one event was caught stealing from a retailer, prompting his expulsion from college at a younger age. He was simply six years outdated when he met Dame Sprint, an enormous title in hip-hop and one of many future co-founders of Roc-A-Fella Data. As a younger teenager, Jones additionally turned mates with Cameron Giles, AKA Cam’ron. The 2 would go on to have a major affect on one another’s careers as musicians.

Profession

He began off as a hype man for rapper Cam’ron and was a member of the hip hop group The Diplomats. The Diplomats launched albums in 2003 and 2004. Their debut album Diplomatic Immunity was licensed Gold and hit #1 on the U.S. R&B chart in addition to #8 on the Billboard 200.

Jones launched his solo debut studio album On My Approach to Church in 2004. In 2005, he launched his second album, “Harlem: Diary of a Summer time.” This coincided with him touchdown an govt place at Leisure One Music. A 12 months later he launched his third album “Hustler’s P.O.M.E”, which produced his largest hit, the 2006 single “We Fly Excessive” which was licensed Platinum and reached #1 on the U.S. Rap and #5 on the Billboard Scorching 100 charts. His second largest hit was “Pop Champagne” in 2008.

He has created the clothes traces Nostic and Vampire Life. He has appeared within the movie State Property 2 and on episodes of The Wire and Crash: The Collection. He appeared on the VH1 actuality present Love & Hip Hop. Jones has his personal freestyle inline skating staff referred to as Dipskate. He gained an City Music Award in 2009. Jones launched the albums Harlem: Diary of a Summer time in 2005 Hustler’s P.O.M.E (Product of My Surroundings) in 2006, Harlem’s American Gangster in 2008, Pray IV Reign in 2009, and Capo in 2011, which was supported by the lead single “Good Day.”

Jones additionally launched the collaborative album The Rooftop with DJ Webstar in 2009. From 2012 to 2013 he starred within the tv sequence Chrissy & Mr. Jones with Chrissy Lampkin. He shaped ByrdGang and ByrdGang Data and launched M.O.B.: The Album in 2008 which reached #29 on the Billboard 200 chart. In Could 2019, Jones returned to music for his sixth album, “El Capo.” In December 2017, Jones turned half proprietor of Richmond Roughriders.

Controversies

In 2006, Jones challenged rapper Tru Life to a fisticuffs with a $50,000 wager after Tru Life referred to as Cam’ron and Jim Jones “bitches.” Tru Life responded to the problem by stealing jewellery from Jones and taunting him on the 2007 mixtape “Tru York.” The album featured Jones photoshopped in a “Borat” fashion thong. Jones retaliated by hacking Tru Life’s MySpace web page.

Jones additionally began a feud with Jay Z when he criticized Z’s work as president of Def Jam. Jay Z responded with a diss observe set over the beat of Jones’ widespread “We Fly Excessive,” referred to as “Brooklyn Excessive.” Jones punched and kicked a pal of Jay Z’s on the Manhattan Louis Vuitton retailer on December 22, 2008. He pleaded responsible to expenses of assault the next 12 months.

Different feuds embody with ASAP Mob, after a 2014 interview when Jones criticized Mob’s fashion as “not road.”  “[T]hey’re creative, however they are not from the road… We obtained bonafide swag and the definition of get fly… Worth level and excessive style do not actually make it cool.” Jones additionally had a battle over social media with Azealia Banks in July 2012 after Banks dissed Jones for getting extra credit score for her phrase “vamp.” She attributed this to not solely his observe titled “Vamp Life,” however to his mixtape sequence and label of the identical title, “Vampire Life.” Banks dissed Jones in a observe title “Succubi.”

Residence Foreclosures

In 2006 Jim and Chrissy purchased a house in New Jersey for $680,000 with a 6.875% rate of interest. That gave them a month-to-month mortgage fee of round $4,500. In keeping with a lawsuit filed by the Nationwide Financial institution Affiliation in 2017, the couple stopped making funds in 2010 and their debt reached $1.24 million with curiosity. The financial institution finally foreclosed on the mansion and offered it.

Private Life

As of this writing, Jones remains to be relationship long-time love Chrissy Lampkin. In 2014, he proposed to her in an episode of “Love & Hip Hop.” They’re nonetheless not married and in accordance with social media, regardless of having been collectively for 16 years, they’re in no rush.