im Jones Explains Perceived G-Unit, Dipset Rivalry & Calls Cam'ron Relationship "Weird"

Jim Jones on 50 Cent: "Our movement was just as strong as his; maybe not as commercial as his, but just as strong as his."

Jim Jones recently spoke with XXL about a perceived rivalry between G-Unit and Dipset. 

“It was definitely a level of respect, and it was definitely a level of, ‘We don’t really give a fuck who they are,’"Jones says in an interview with XXL's Dan Rys. "There’s a heavy bit of competition with New York City...But when it came to G-Unit, it was like, ‘What’s up? We’re all pretty much on the same level.’ I mean, we all know 50 was one of the biggest artists to come out of Rap in history. But on the level of the movement, our movement was just as strong as his; maybe not as commercial as his, but just as strong as his.”

Jim Jones On Cam'ron: "We Moved In A Little Bit of Different Directions"

Although he praises the Dipset movement, Jones acknowledges that he and Cam'ron have gone in different directions recently.

“Me and Cam always been weird with each other, even at our closest moments," he says. "I couldn’t call him a weirdo without calling myself a weirdo. The love we have for each other I know is unconditional, regardless of what goes on. It’s 

funny

 like that. So I just take it for what it is. I love that nigga to death. We moved in a little bit of different directions, but we got something in life that will always be a bond that we can’t take away, and that’s the Diplomats, what we started.”

Jim Jones Says Rap Is A Little Bit Friendly Nowadays

Moving beyond the Diplomats, Jones says that Rap today is different than it was in the past.

“Everybody’s a little bit friendly nowadays," he says, though he later praises Bobby Shmurda. "As you can see, being friends kinda erupts and turns into bullshit. I’ve watched the game in the past few years and it seems like it was one big alliance, everybody is holding hands and shit like that, niggas doing music together. It didn’t feel like it was really any competition, or niggas was scared to have to go up against competition. That shit ain’t how Hip Hop is… That sport of the game is gone. When people see Backstage and they saw Jay Z and DMX rapping, that was some real shit that went on every day in Hip Hop. You dig? I think the last of that was probably around the time when Cassidy and Freeway was battling, and Cassidy went crazy, you dig? That was the real last of us niggas really doing that."