Mike Jones Biography, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Still Tippin, Albums, Songs and Net Worth

Mike Jones Biography

Michael A. Jone is an American rapper, actor, and entrepreneur and he is well known for the release of his breakout singles “Still Tippin’” and “Back Then”, which peaked got ranked 60th and 22nd respectively on the Billboard Hot 100, and led to Jones released his debut studio album Who Is Mike Jones? on April 19, 2005, which got ranked 3rd on the US Billboard 200 and is certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Mike Jones Age

Mike was born on 18th of November 1981 in Houston, Texas, United States. He is 37 years old as of 2018.

Mike Jones Family

There is no information about his family background, He gave giving him the ideas to pursue rap, to use his real name, and to write songs for strippers.

Mike Jones Wife | Married

There are no records of past or present relationships, he has also not shared any information about his love life and has decided to keep numb over that and concentrate on his career.

Mike Jones Education

Mike was transferred from school to school many times that led him to only play in YMCA leagues due to transfer rules after the 9th Grade. Jones later dropped out of high school and briefly took jobs at fast food restaurants.

Mike Jones Career

Mike began his career in 2001 by forming his own independent record label, Ice Age Entertainment and began rapping. He then independently promoted his music on the streets and showed them to DJs at strip clubs. He then started from nobody whom people always asked “Who? Mike Jones?”, he then gathered public attention through his self-promoted music. Mike later got signed to SwishaHouse, which he later became the house for Slim Thug and Paul Wall.

He then was embarking on a partnership with ProConcept Marketing Group to release his own line of Cognac called “House of Dobbe”. He as well actively involved in charity programs, Ice Age for Kids and the American Dream Foundation, through which he hosted community youth events and donated thousands of dollars to help Hurricane Katrina victims. He later released his first studio album titled “Who Is Mike Jones?” The record was a big success as it peaked at number 3 on Billboard Hot 200 and was certified platinum with more than 1,000,000 selling points in 2005. With his, hit singles lifted from the effort included “Still Tippin’” and “Back Then”.

Mike later follows up his debut album with another effort, this time called “The Voice”. He as well drops it across America on April 28. Hurricane Chris, Lil Wayne, Twista, T-Pain, Trey Songz, and Devin the Dude are all lined up to make guest appearances at the record. Beside busy making music for his own album, Mike later makes a cameo in several hit TV series, such as “Punk’d”, “Prison Break” and “The Game”.

To he delivers Houston hip-hop to the widest possible market in the mid-2000s, He assumed the role of a carnival barker. The carnival, though, was Mike Jones himself. He got his name on every track he could usually be prefaced by a “Who?”, and doled out T-shirts emblazoned with his cell phone number (281-330-8004, sadly a dead end now). He then named his debut album Who Is Mike Jones? and shouted out its title on the mega-premiere single, “Still Tippin’,” that preceded the album by a full five months. By April 19, 2005 — a decade ago this Sunday — the relentless self-marketing had clearly worked: Who Is Mike Jones? sold 180,000 units in its first week, and by June, it had gone platinum.

He later went on a hiatus and he announced his return, explaining the reason for his hiatus was due to financial disputes with his former label, Asylum Records and that money had been taken from him. He then announced he was to finished with his next album, Where Is Mike Jones? and that he was working on its follow-up, titled WHO!Print, with further plans to release a mixtape called Ballin Underground 2.

On October 31, 2013, Jones would release a mixtape titled Back Ballin’ Underground. In 2015 he released a mixtape titled Money Train where he was announced via his Instagram he was working on another mixtape entitled Money Train: Reloaded which will be a sequel to his mixtape Money Train. On October 22, 2018, it was announced via his Facebook page that his third studio album Where Is Mike Jones? is slated for a 2019 release.

Mike Jones Net Worth

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Mike Jones Albums

2002 – Ballin’ Underground
2004 – Runnin’ Tha Game
2006 – King of the Streets
2007 – Running 4 President 2k8
2008 – Self Made
2013 – Back Ballin’ Underground
2013 – Money Train
2013 – Money Train:

Mike Jones Songs

  • “Long as You Come Home” – (Brooke Valentine featuring Mike Jones, Kilo andPaul Wall)
  • “They Don’t Know” – (Paul Wall featuring Mike Jones and Bun B)
  • “I’m ‘n Luv (Wit a Stripper)” – (T-Pain featuring Mike Jones)
  • “Way I Be Leanin’” – (Juvenile featuring Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Skip and Wacko)
  • “Pourin’ Up” – (Pimp C featuring Mike Jones and Bun B)
  • “Bounce” – (Marc Spitz featuring Paul Wall and Mike Jones)
  • “It Ain’t Nothin” – (Ultraballin featuring Mike Jones)
  • “Handle Mine” – (K-Four featuring Mike Jones)
  • “Still Tippin’”- (featuring Slim Thug and Paul Wall)
  • “Back Then”
  • “Flossin’” – (featuring Big Moe)
  • “Mr. Jones”
  • “My 64” – (featuring Bun B and Snoop Dogg)
  • “Drop & Gimme 50” – (featuring Hurricane Chris)
  • “Cuddy Buddy” – (featuring T-Pain, Lil Wayne and Twista)
  • “Next to You” – (featuring Nae Nae)
  • “Swagg Thru The Roof”
  • “Boi!” – (with Young Problemz featuring Gucci Mane)
  • “Leanin’ on dat Butter”
  • “3 Grams” – (featuring Slim Thug and Yung Duece)

Mike Jones Still Tippin

Mike Jones Next To You

Mike Jones speaks with Okayplayer about the good ole’ days in the H-Town, his original rap name, and how he may be working with Lil Yachty.

The adlib that will forever be tied to the legendary Houston rapper, whose real name is actually Mike Jones. By now, a few other songs may have popped into your head: “Flossin’,” “Cuddy Buddy,” and “Back Then” — home to the iconic “2-8-1, 3-3-0, 8-0-0-4” line.

Mike Jones the artist, who at one point was one of the biggest celebrities in hip-hop, gave his real-life telephone number for the entire world to hear. Mind you, this is the early 2000’s when streaming platforms had not yet taken over. During a time when pushing hard-copy albums and going to radio stations to have your records played were two things at the forefront of any up and coming artist — Mike Jones did not fall short.

At one point, he was running the H-Town, breaking into the mainstream scene and taking over airwaves all around the city. Besides the nostalgia that ensues upon hearing his famous line, “Back then hoes didn’t want me / Now I’m hot, hoes all on me,” the hit record landed him his first-and-only top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist — peaking at #22.

Despite the fact that that line may not work in 2018, Mike Jones knows the impact he had on Houston hip-hop, giving legends such as Z-Ro and Paul Walla run for their money. We got a chance to chat with the enterprising rapper about back-in-the-day H-Town, his original rap name before using his real one and possibly working with Lil Yachty.

Okayplayer: For a generation who might not be as familiar with you and your music, can you talk about how the whole “Who? Mike Jones?” adlib got started?

Mike Jones: The adlib really got started when I was just trying to get people to really know about me and my music, and people were being really sarcastic at the time. So when I went back to my grandmother’s and I was telling her what happened, she was just telling me to throw it back in their face. When they being funny about it, just throw it back in their face. And now I am like, ‘Who? Mike Jones! Who? Mike Jones!’ And now it’s like household thing.

OKP: Can you talk about why you chose to use your real name instead of creating a rap moniker?

MJ: I chose to use my real name because I just wanted to be me. That was gonna be something that I was gonna have to live with for the rest of my life, so I didn’t wanna have a name that I was gonna have to hide behind. Mike Jones is mine [and that was who I was gonna be].

OKP: Did you ever have one before you professionally used your name? If so, what was it?

MJ: I did. It was ‘Sace. I called myself ‘Sace because I used to always wear the Versace shades. People used to always call me ‘Sace because they saw me with the shades and they knew I was smooth with the flow.

OKP: Recently, your manager told us about your Spotify situation. Can you talk about how you adapted to the change from physical sales to streaming numbers?

MJ: I think we were able to change [our ways] and stay the same from physical to streaming because we always came in through the physical. The fans stayed with us and I think when it changed over to the streaming—because of the success we always had—it just placed us right into it.

OKP: How do you feel that has impacted your hit records and what they mean to the buying public?

MJ: I think it means a lot now to the buying public because that’s what they look at as far as what’s needed or what’s in demand. Right now, Spotify is how people dictate if [one’s music is] successful or not. We didn’t have Spotify when I came out, so all we had to do back then was sell records. Now, all we gotta do is get a million streams. So it changed the dynamic of what the game was and what the hustle is all about.

OKP: The theme for this month is Nostalgia. What were some of your most memorable moments from the old days of Houston rap?

MJ: My biggest memories back then was everybody was coming together. Everybody was trying to come together, but the goal was to put the city on. Because at that time, the city didn’t have the light. They didn’t need it. Now that the city has the light, everybody just feels like they can do it themselves. But if everybody comes back and feel like we gotta put the light back on for the city, it’ll get back that feeling.

OKP: How would you say the legacy of Houston rap and hip-hop has impacted the culture?

MJ: I’d say it impacted the culture-heavy: two cups, drank, and lean. Everybody [is] screwed up [these days]. I mean, just a little bit of what we did [went everywhere], and we finally got opened and accepted in the game.

OKP: Speaking of, “purple drank,” or “lean,” it has been documented in numerous ways. For those on the outskirts who might not be familiar, can you talk about how it originated?

MJ: From what we know, it’s been out for a minute. It just got popular and publicized through Houston, and throughout the South. So when we started using it in the videos—showing it—it really just got popular [and more exposed].

OKP: The dangerousness of “lean” has taken some of Houston’s greatest minds away from us at an early age. Despite that it still remains a hip-hop staple, why do you think it has remained as popular as it was back in the day?

MJ: It’s because the people that it affected—R.I.P.—but it’s a small percentage. And it’s like anything that you mess with, you can die off of. Drinking too much water, you can die from. You can die from smoking too many cigarettes. Anything that you mess with too much, it can mess you up. And it’s still people that still sip lean and it’s nothing happening to them. People just take what a story says and blows it all the way up. If I take a story and say, ‘Cigarettes will do this if you smoke two of them,’ then the next story [after that] will be crazy.

OKP: The story of your come up is legendary and the people you were affiliated with have an equal measure in the game. Can you talk about any never-before-told stories involving you and Paul Wall or you and DJ Screw?

MJ: I never met DJ Screw. I never met him, but he’s still a legend. Me and Paul, we got earlier stories… just us on the grind. Just trying to come up together to do things to help each other out to get to the top. It was a lot of sleepless nights and a lot of grinding, but we finally got up there.

OKP: Any other stories you got from H-Town?

(Adopted from: https://www.okayplayer.com)

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