Jim Jones as soon as revealed Dr Dre “punked” him within the studio

Former Dipset rapper Jim Jones was a Harlem icon in the course of the 2000s and, as a part of The Diplomats, labored with one of the best producers within the business, together with Kanye West, Simply Blaze and even the enduring West Coast beatmaker Dr Dre.

Nonetheless, in an look on The Superb AllHipHop podcast, the New York lyricist unveiled that, at occasions, he felt just like the producer was punking him along with his intense perfectionism. 

Opening up about their studio session, Jones acknowledged, “That was a great night in Hip Hop, a great night for the Diplomats! I had a little studio on 28th street, and Dr. Dre was trying to recreate his new sound for his new album at the time, and we had that sound. He came to my studio. Me and Cam did like four records in there. Juelz came and did a record at the end.”

He continued, “We did about four or five records with Dr. Dre. I don’t know what he ever did with the records, and yeah, he did them directly to his hard drive so we had a copy of it to listen to and shit like that.”

Jones admitted that the information nonetheless should be launched. Nonetheless, he careworn how much of a perfectionist Dr Dre was and the way exhausting it was to get the tracks sounding precisely how he wished them to.

The On My Approach to Church unveiled that Dre typically made him rerecord his verse over a dozen occasions earlier than he was glad. He admitted that after some time, it made him really feel just like the producer was “punking” him, stating, “It was the first time I ever had somebody really make me do my verse over like 20 times. The first time I got a piece of that, it had made me think about 2Pac and Snoop and all the others that had to get the beats from Dre.”

He continued, “Dre was punking n*ggas like, ‘Man, go back in there and spit that shit over, bro. You bugging the fuck out.’ Every time he told me, ‘Nah nah, do that over, man.’ [I was] like, ‘Bro you’re cursing at me. You don’t even know you’re cursing at me. You’re punking the shit outta me right now!’”

You possibly can watch Jim Jones interview on The Superb AllHipHop podcast beneath.