The time Jim Jones wanted to fight Lil Wayne: “I wanted to fuck him up”
Jim Jones is known to be a tricky person to deal with, often getting pulled into beef. He once even nearly came to blows with Lil Wayne, someone he has worked with and ostensibly likes.
Appearing on The Joe Budden Podcast in 2021, Jones recounted how angry he was with Wayne over a couple of songs. Weezy had jumped onto Jones’ 2006 track ‘Weatherman,’ which also featured Stack Bundles. Wayne’s verse saw him rapping, “Weather man with that paper, I make it rain on ’em.”
That’s all well and good, and it suited the song just fine. But the problem is that Wayne rapped something very similar on another track. Weezy also jumped onto Fat Joe’s hit ‘Make It Rain,’ which also came out in 2006, and the parallels were stark.
On ‘Make it Rain,’ Wayne rapped, “I make it rain, I make it rain, make it rain on them hoes.” It’s certainly similar to what he did on ‘Weatherman.’
“I wanted to fuck Weezy up over that record, man,” Jones said on Budden’s podcast, reflecting on his reaction to hearing ‘Make It Rain.’ He wasn’t a happy man.
While Jones characterised Weezy as a “brother” that he loves “to death,” he was nonetheless furious about this situation. He had done “some wacky shit” by recording such a similar hook on Fat Joe’s song.
“That was our hook,” Jones insisted. “Now go listen to that record [‘Make It Rain’], and then pull up ‘Weatherman.’”
Incensed at what he understood as a sort of betrayal, the Dipset man demanded an explanation from Wayne. Weezy’s apparent response of, “Yo, I be high,” was unsatisfactory, and Jones was supposedly ready to escalate.
“I said alright, Ima show you high,” he recalled. “I was ready to take it to the next level.”
Jones’ Dipset bandmate, Juelz Santana, was on call to diffuse the simmering conflict. He apparently calmed Jones down, and he and Wayne never came to blows. Nothing more, it seems, ever came of the issue.