It is clear Jim Jones isn’t easily impressed. When asked about The Clipse’s new music he made it clear he wasn’t a fan.
As spotted on HipHopDX Jim Jones was making his rounds at the 2025 BET Awards media room. During a sit down with Bootleg Kev, CAPO was asked about The Clipse’s new single “Ace Trumpets.” As expected he did not bite his tongue when it came to the Virginia duo. “What’s so great about it? It’s good in what? The nostalgic value of it? I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it, I don’t believe them” he explained. “But that’s a whole other story and I don’t wanna downplay nobody’s craft, but I don’t listen to their music and never have. I don’t recall too many records that I can remember.”
Jim Jones is no stranger to The Clipse. He and Pusha T have traded jabs over the last few years and it stems from Push’s ranking in a Billboard Magazine’s 50 greatest rappers list. “What has he done that puts him in the greatest rappers of all time? Besides talk about cocaine that he probably didn’t get himself. He could rap his ass off but what has he done?” Jim Jones responded when asked about it. “Nobody has dressed like him. Nobody want to be like Pusha T. I don’t remember nothing.”
It is widely believed the “Mercy” MC responded to Jim Jones in a song that was played during a 2023 Louis Vuitton fashion show. “Beware of my name, that there’s delegate / You know I know where you’re delicate / Crush you to pieces, I’ll hum a breath of it / I will close your heaven for the hell of it / You think it’d be valor amongst veterans/ I’m watching your fame escape relevance / We all in a room but here’s the elephant / You chasing a feature out of your element.”
You can see Jim Jones discuss The Clipse’s new music and more below.