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Mike Jones

Mike Jones

Mike Jones has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 5 December 2013. Mike Jones's music has been featured on 42 episodes.

A southern rap artist from the northside of Houston, TX, born January 6, 1981.

Mike Jones has become well-known for his unique repetition of his own name throughout his songs. Many of his songs contain the phrases "Who is Mike Jones?" or "Mike Jones!" His major promotional gimmick is to sell and hand out shirts with his cell phone number on them (athletic department-style shirts reading "Property of Mike Jones"), as well as shouting out the number throughout his mixtapes and albums, encouraging fans to call him on his Motorola phone.

Jones is known for recording in the "chopped & screwed" style popularized by DJ Screw, also of Houston. The slowed-down audio aesthetic supposedly mimics the effect of "sippin' sizzurp," that is, cough syrup containing codeine. Most followers of the chopped & screwed style claim that it has outgrown its drug-related roots. Jones' trademark technique is to take a line from one of his songs and use it as a chorus in another, or sometimes even in the same song, screwing, chopping and repeating it (for example, the chorus to "Back Then" is sampled from the track "Still Tippin").

Jones has used repetition of certain words and phrases extensively in his songs. An example of this can be found in songs such as Back Then when he constantly repeats "Mike Jones" and "Who is Mike Jones." As a result, he has come under intense scrutiny or criticism from fellow rappers in his native Houston such as rappers Chamillionaire and Lil' Flip who have accused Mike Jones of copying their slang or criticized his aforementioned rapping style.

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Mike Jones

Mike Jones has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 5 December 2013. Mike Jones's music has been featured on 42 episodes.

A southern rap artist from the northside of Houston, TX, born January 6, 1981.

Mike Jones has become well-known for his unique repetition of his own name throughout his songs. Many of his songs contain the phrases "Who is Mike Jones?" or "Mike Jones!" His major promotional gimmick is to sell and hand out shirts with his cell phone number on them (athletic department-style shirts reading "Property of Mike Jones"), as well as shouting out the number throughout his mixtapes and albums, encouraging fans to call him on his Motorola phone.

Jones is known for recording in the "chopped & screwed" style popularized by DJ Screw, also of Houston. The slowed-down audio aesthetic supposedly mimics the effect of "sippin' sizzurp," that is, cough syrup containing codeine. Most followers of the chopped & screwed style claim that it has outgrown its drug-related roots. Jones' trademark technique is to take a line from one of his songs and use it as a chorus in another, or sometimes even in the same song, screwing, chopping and repeating it (for example, the chorus to "Back Then" is sampled from the track "Still Tippin").

Jones has used repetition of certain words and phrases extensively in his songs. An example of this can be found in songs such as Back Then when he constantly repeats "Mike Jones" and "Who is Mike Jones." As a result, he has come under intense scrutiny or criticism from fellow rappers in his native Houston such as rappers Chamillionaire and Lil' Flip who have accused Mike Jones of copying their slang or criticized his aforementioned rapping style.

Tracks featured on

Most played tracks

Still Tippin' (Instrumental)
Mike Jones
Asylum Records2004
Still Tippin'
Mike Jones feat. Paul Wall, Slim Thug
Swishahouse, Asylum Records, Warner Bros. Records2005
Still Tippin (JD. Reid's Sovereign Tippin Mix)
Mike Jones (JD. Reid mix)
Terrorhythm Recordings2013
Still Tippin - Club
Big Tyme, Slim Thug, Mike Jones, Chamillionaire
Blackstone Entertainment2004
Flossin'
Mike Jones feat. Big Moe
Warner Bros. Records2005
Dick Don't Fail Me Now (Clean)
Mike Jones
Not On Label2005
Still Tippin
Mike Jones
Violent Turd2007
Pourin' Up
Pimp C feat. Bun B, Mike Jones
Rap-A-Lot 4 Life, Wood Wheel Records2006
Still Tippin (DJ F Sharp Remix)
Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Paul Wall (DJ F Sharp mix)
Not On Label2006
Still Tippin (Acapella)
Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Paul Wall
Not On Label (Teki Latex Self-released)2017