Jim Jones Defends Rappers at Presidential Events, White House

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Jim Jones is having a hard time wrapping his head around the bruhaha revolving around Snoop Dogg, Nelly and other rap stars performing for Donald Trump's Prezzy gala ... he remembers the time rappers were considered enemies of the state!!!

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00:00Okay, so we have to ask you, right? Tell us about the new album. It drops next week, right?

00:07Yes, the album drops on February 28th at the Church Steps, 20th anniversary to my first

00:12album on my way to church. Got a single out now called Joma, and that is still in Harlem.

00:18I love that. Tell us about some of the features, if there are any, what can we expect?

00:24There's a few features on there. Shouts to my artist, Peso. Shouts to Fab. Shouts to

00:29Raw. Shouts to Hitmaker. So that's a few things going on on there.

00:34We love that for you. So you know we gotta ask you about Wack 100. You know, a lot of

00:38people have been coming at you. I don't know why. You know, Wack is saying, Wack 100.

00:44Who?

00:45Oh, okay. I guessed.

00:46Who?

00:47We want to ask some valid questions. Don't ask me no questions. It's going to take time

00:52out of my life that don't make no money. You heard?

00:55I love that. Great response. So we gotta ask about Donald Trump, our president, right?

01:01People were pissed when Snoop performed and Nelly performed. Now all of a sudden we got

01:05a new wave of artists, rappers going to the White House. Okay, is that something that

01:11you would consider? Do you think that people are just keeping it real? Should they not

01:15be doing it for the culture? Where are we with this?

01:19I'm going to take it to the days where I knew the president is the president and we

01:24wasn't allowed to get to the White House and anything to be next to the White House used

01:28to be a great thing to do because you're now talking to the president or you're performing

01:33for the president. The president is still the president. It was a race. Somebody lost

01:37the race. Somebody won the race. So what do they expect us to do? To disrespect the president

01:41because that person didn't want to know? He's still the president of the United States.

01:45So we still have to show that much respect to the president of the United States. That's

01:50how I feel about it. And I'm not political and shit like that. I didn't vote for anybody

01:54here. So if I was to get an invitation, no matter who was in the office, nine times out

02:00of 10, I think I'm a pop out to go to the White House. Like I'm a kid from the projects

02:06that we known the president to be the ruler of the world when we was coming up and we

02:11seen people go crazy just to have. So I said, I want my chance to go to be at the White

02:15House to see what's going on. That's how I feel and shit like that. I ain't got, don't

02:22crucify me for just giving you my honest opinion.

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