In an appearance on Way Up with Angela Yee, Jim Jones broke down what happened between him and the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who Jones claims wanted to fight him after they fell out.
At around the 23:30 point of the interview above, Yee asked Jones about the time he spent with Ye recently and the subsequent fallout between them.
“Kanye’s a dope person, let’s not take that away,” Jones said. “Everybody has their shit they going through, he’s obviously going through the most.”
Jones spoke about their trip to Japan and said that he was feeling good about their friendship at the time, but when they got back to America, he thought that Ye started to see him as an “employee.”
“He’s just a wild boy, man,” the Dipset capo said. “Who am I to start spazzing on him and going crazy? … As you can see, he obviously have something going on with him. He needs some type of help. I think he just needs a lot of normal people around him, ‘cause one thing I did notice is that when I was around him… He [had] a bunch of yes people around him.”
Jones said that Ye has “a little screws loose.”
“I do see that he needs attention, like, he seems to want the most attention in the world,” he continued. “He wasn’t on the Carti album, wild out on Carti. ‘I’m not in the news today, I’ma suck a dick today!’ … And I don’t knock nobody, but that was… Way pause. But this is what I’m saying, it doesn’t matter what this man seems to say. He’s not going to go out the good graces of people.”
The Harlem rapper joked that if he wore a KKK-style outfit like Ye did in his interview with DJ Akademiks, people would be a lot quicker to call him out for it.
“Let him do him, I appreciate the times we had,” he said. “But we had our own back and forth. N***a said he want to shoot the fade with me. I said, ‘Cool, I’m flying out to L.A. tomorrow, we can shoot the 31. That’s terms where I’m from, we fight for 31 seconds, I’ll kick your ass for 31 seconds, I hug you, then I fly [back].’ He said, ‘No, I was just venting, we don’t have to do that.'”
Jones said that in one of the texts he received from Ye, he straight-up said, “I will fight you.”
No matter what their current status, Jones maintained that he appreciates Ye’s “energy,” which he described as “innocent” when he’s in person.
The pair’s public falling out came when Ye posted a lengthy tweet accusing Jones of fleecing $2 million from him and said that the rapper didn’t know how to make a PDF file. In response, Jones teased a t-shirt referencing the accusation.
“It wasn’t that deep for me, though,” Jones said to Yee when discussing the incident. “It was deep for him, obviously. The PDF he was asking about was about fashion. He wanted me to design his whole spring line.”
He said that Ye’s tweet happened because Jones wanted to prioritize his own album release, which arrived around the same time.
“Bro, I’ve created my own technology with Amazon. You think I don’t know how to do a PDF?” he added.
