Mike Jones Paul Wall talks "misunderstanding", weight loss and a new album [EXCLUSIVE ...

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Ten years ago, had Houston rapper Mike Jones Gold - better yet, platinum several times - when he made his first single, "Still Tippin '", from his debut album "Who is Mike Jones The line was Swishahouse Records and Slim Thug and Paul Wall, who? closely with the backbone H-Town. Rap But every Grand Prix presented, there is sometimes an even greater loss.

"I really bulls-," the 33-year-old told the Boombox. "Not what I thought. Based on questions from people who never thought I would have to answer to answer."

Five years were between his first and second solo albums passed - "The Voice" are not covered until 2009 - and the rapper said it was intentional. "In those years, from 2006 to 2009 I went into politics, so I left," he recalls. "I left the scene, but I was still pointing to the hood, on campus.'m work on new music, traveling."

In 2010, the Journal of the Ozone Layer Swishahouse, Paul Wall asked set the fate of Mike Jones, who offered him a sharp answer.

"Since he left Swishahouse I have not really kept track of them," he said. "I do not know him so well before he came to Swishahouse. Would I say that he his own grave. He lied to a lot of people that turned away many people and burned many bridges."

When asked about today's interview Jones hair. "I mean, A. I do not know why he say that," he said. "I saw him not long ago, and everything is fresh., I think it was just a misunderstanding, because I've never done before, burned bridges, to my knowledge. I showed him the love that he has the love shown me without in all things extra ".

Wall infidelity Jones also mentioned in the interview in 2010:

"I would be so [we were a unit], but Mike Jones did not want to," he said. "I wanted it to be a bit of everything in it. If that's what you want, I will not be the one to ask you to stay there, mainly because all my greatest success came just after the break me and Chamillionaire. was in a mindframe where it was like, "If you do not want to be here, I will not force ..."

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Four years have passed, but Jones is clearly frustrated by the idea of seeing the wall. "It's like putting something together with other people and the use of the masses, is a beautiful thing, but people do not know what's behind the screen, you know? Happens," he said.

"I was surprised," said Jones a break. "Imagine if your own shop and hair and is 19 workers. Beats for you. Are you one of the favorites, but still the other 19 workers to eat. Now do not like the way you eat. .. I mean, I do not decide to come and everyone else. humans put it on me.

"As a 'Who Is Mike Jones? Ging, said the people Mike Jones is next on n--," I did not say, "Do not buy this album and buy the ones I have." I did not for this. Fans they came for me. Therefore, if I know you as a person, I think 100 still, I mean, I guess you should never. "

This feels like rhymer personal problems should have been left by the media. "Everyone will say you have burned the bridge with people who have created something., But they do not know what's going on because you do not try, there put this machine. This is like me and attack you, keep family inside . No reason for everything I say about someone, take any magazine or media or whatever. should n I've never been there. Even when I saw him, he was good, like, 'Oh, it was just a misunderstanding . "Like, he knows me and I know him."

During the time, Jones was in shadow, the sound went with Houston rappers like Drake and the flow of A $ AP Rocky H-Town adoption of inspiration. "Two things: First, that love, because we have what we created was with", "People have tried to say that he is dead and was over with, worn ... C. 'was a lie" began Nobody wants. do or do not talk more about it. "But now, everyone is in it. And two, you just look like you just show love."

Within five years, Jones was discrete, focused on wellness. He lost 100 pounds in the process, while jumping on the treadmill every day. "First, in 2005, was 305, 310 pounds, but I do not Trippin '" she shares. "I really do not want to miss anything at this time, because I happy with my size, but when I then started by a policy and do not understand the people, music tags, I took some time away from it all and put the work on my health. "

Jones shows that 2009 song "Drop & Gimme 50 'was actually inspired some of their extreme weight loss When it hit the bar lost 50 pounds .." He said, "If I lost only 50, losing 50 Women's finna get by on the dance floor. Males. Last time I was in the club was like and gave me the ladies 50 a week ago "

"When the song ended and I are playing, people are dancing for themselves," he explains. "Diving, you know?"

Brand Mike Jones is still standing, with the permission of the influence of her grandmother, a fact increasingly recognized that you can. It was she who proposed bypass the DJs and dancers naysaying victory, in this way their songs could get some laps in strip clubs. She was the one who suggested you use your cell phone number as a marketing tool.

"It was the best marketing idea," said Jones recalls. "It was to be a good way to the regional groups, blew And many developers were booking shows wrong - .. People said I was a" no-show "Sun he was like, 'I made here and I will say, if I is at this show or not. "

He said if she was still alive, she tells him. "Stay brewing" He did what he could.

In 2003, Jones recorded $ 10,000 per show. In 2005 it was $ 80,000. But because some studies in 2005, the success of T-Pain: "I'm 'n Luv (Wit A Stripper)" in 2006, Jones spent most of his time in court.

Now that everything squared away, legally he is able to move a little more. He reveals that while he did not get to show the same amount of money these days, it is good to live on the brand, which was built 11 years ago, always.

"We will make the money in 2005, these days, because politics take us away from the big screen, beat that kind of lame, but we are still here hit $ 10K, $ 20K here ... We are always in motion, because people respected the name. "

Their third album, "Where is Mike Jones? 'S 60 percent finished, but it is the question of negotiating a status label. As it stands, Atlantic Records is responsible for the distribution. Meantime, however, his" Money Train "was soon be down. "This is a movement," he says. "It's just a group of people who are all about making money and with money. Once people really understand what is the money train, if they be on board with him. "

Jones said there are already a number of artists who signed on the mixtape features, but the expectation of the teams on the official tracklist before the share name.

It should not be a task for the "Back Then 'rapper, who even now, that too hard, says" that have stood over him. "" Love is always there. It's not just the girls, "he explains." At that time it seemed as if people do not want to show me love, when I was in the game, but when tryna heat demand ... You're all over me, they have to show to love me, because now the whole world to see me ".

"There was a time in which many people do not even know who I was. During this phase is over for me., We have gone this way, all you have to do now is to re-invent the wheel and touch the fans and have fallen in love with us. "

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