Jim Jones has once again linked up with legendary civil rights leader Ben Chavis Jr. for his new album, At the Church Steps.
Chavis previously appeared in skits on the Dipset rapper’s 2004 debut On My Way to Church, as well on a song on his 2006 album, Hustler’s P.O.M.E.
Now as On My Way to Church celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, Capo has linked back up with the activist as he prepares what appears to be a continuation in the series.
“I’ma give y’all something special might be the last album we get to hear like this in these digital times,” Jim said on Instagram with a video alongside Chavis in the studio. “At The Church Steps @drbenchavisjr he’s been fighting for our people since Martin Luther king did the marches to show there’s power in unity.”
He continued: “I remember watchin the movie Belly and that speech he gave DMX moved me. it didn’t feel like they gave him that as a script, it felt like he was praying in front of the camera. and at that time in my life, I needed that prayer. didn’t matter that it was a movie. 20 years of preparation. it’s always bout the journey the destination is gone be there when u get there.”
In the background of the clip, Chavis’ At the Church Steps contribution was playing, which finds him blessing the LP on what appears to be the opening track.
Outside of music, Jim Jones recently took issue with Lil Yachty’s comments about New York fashion, and has put forward a way to settle things once and for all: a drip-off.
In a video with District One NY that dropped earlier this month, the Dipset capo strongly disagreed with Yachty’s take, expressed on his A Safe Place podcast earlier in the summer, that Atlanta is the real trendsetter when it comes to fashion and that the Big Apple has been biting ATL’s style.
“What Lil Yachty was talking about the other day? This n-gga smoking coke,” Jones began. “I love Lil Yachty, but you bumped your muthafuckin head, bro.”
Then Jones came up with his contest idea.
“Let’s go and do a shop-off,” he said. “Let’s do some Harlem shit. You get a thousand, I get a thousand — let’s see who look better.
“We could do it in New York, we could do it in Atlanta. You get a stack, I get a stack, let’s see who come out flyer. And then we put it up on the ‘Gram for the people to judge.”
Yachty has not yet responded to Jones’ shop-off suggestion.
