“I’m not really famous, but I bet all the famous people know me. I guess I moved past that,” declares Jim Jones” as he exhales a plume of smoke at the beginning of the new documentary This Is Jim Jones.

He’s moved past all of that Hollywood glitter for sure, and that statement rings out louder than shots from a drive-by. If you know who Jim Jones is, you can’t deny him.

Jones is an icon in the best way possible. The rapper/label exec/video exec doesn’t try at all. He just is Jim Jones. Similar to his current masterpiece, Pray IV Reign, there’s no pretense, no bullshit, no façade and absolutely no pulled punches in this film. This phenomenal down and dirty documentary shows Jim to be the man he claims to be—Harlem’s most passionate and determined Capo.

This is Jim Jones traces Jim’s journey from growing up surrounded by drugs and addiction in Harlem to his first taste of success with Cam’Ron and The Diplomats to becoming a solo artist to releasing Pray IV Reign on Columbia
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