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Jim Jones Doesn’t Regret Promoting Gang Culture: ‘It’s Not a Crime to Be a Blood’

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Angel Diaz
Jim Jones had a lot to say during his recent interview with The Breakfast Club while promoting his latest album At the Church Steps, but the most notable topic he talked about was about his gang affiliations.
While talking about his connection to the infamous 6ix9ine case, Charlamagne tha God asked him why he doesn’t run from his affiliation with the Bloods to which Jones compared being a member of a gang to being a member of a fraternity. “It’s not a crime to be a Blood,” quipped. “It’s not a crime to be a banger. It’s not a crime to be a fraternity member. It’s not a crime to be a sorority member. It’s all the same thing. It’s a crime if you do crime while being that and that turns into other things. If it’s more than one of y’all doing crime while being Blood, that turns into a RICO and things like that. I do business. I’m a businessman, you heard? Always music, baby!”
DJ Envy then asked him if he regretted commercializing being a gang member and to Jones’ credit, he didn’t shy away from the question and owned up to it. “Yeah, I made it cool, but I also commercialized it,” he admitted. “I made millions of dollars off the gang culture. Same thing with [what] Snoop has done and the West Coast.”
Adding, “Do I regret anything? No, I don’t. Because I’ve done so many positive things being in this position as being a man, as being a gang member, as being a father, as being all these things, you dig? If I didn’t have this platform, people would never know how great some of these people can be, because I’ve put on a lot of people and put them in positions to feed their family.”
“It’s not a crime to be a Blood.”
Jim Jones admits he made millions commercializing gang culture and says he doesn’t regret popularizing his past gang affiliations.
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Elsewhere in the interview, he challenged fellow Dipset member Cam’ron to a celebrity boxing match with the winner taking home $10 million and called 50 Cent “a sucker” when discussing New York artists to do a Verzuz with.
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