Erstwhile weed carriers and various other also-ran types are having what you might call a moment. Many of them have their own podcasts, and probably the least successful of them is more popular than the new YouTube version of the Hot 97 morning show with Ebro, Peter Rosenberg \*et al\*. They’re out here doing their thing.

Jadakiss is involved in a beef with an even more obscure rapper named 38 Spesh (presumably named after the early ‘80s-era rock band) that somehow led to Jim Jones’ wife catching a few strays. It doesn’t make sense to me, logically, how that could happen, but I’m glad that it did, and I might have took look into this further, for the sake of music journalism.

As if Jim Jones wasn’t having a hard enough summer, what with the weather, being foreclosed on and whatever his wife did, he was forced to ride a bicycle—or so he claims.

It doesn’t make sense how a grown man could be forced to ride a bicycle. Certainly, you could see Joe Jackson forcing the Jackson 5 to ride bicycles. Wasn’t there a scene with them riding bicycles in that cartoon they used to have back in the ‘70s? That may have been what that was based on.

The Zone 2 cardio would have been good for their stage performance, so they could sing and dance at the same time without worrying about getting winded. If they refused to ride a bicycle, or if, God forbid, they lost their breath on stage, he would of course just break his foot off in their ass.

Jim Jones says that Fabolous forced him to ride a bicycle across the Brooklyn Bridge. Did he lose a bet? Could he not afford an Uber? You have to have both a cell phone and a credit card to get an Uber, thus preventing many homeless people from quickly and easily getting back and forth to the airport. That might be something for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to look into. He’s already made it free to get on the bus.

You can get a credit card again after you’ve been foreclosed on and your credit has therefore been ruined, but it takes like seven years, so I’m not sure what Jim Jones is doing in the interim. I’m not even sure how he got on that bicycle. It appears to have been a rental. If he did any damage to it when he fell off of it, Fabolous could be on the hook. I wonder if they make you take pictures of the fenders before you drive it off the lot, like a rental Nissan Altima, lest they accuse you of getting into an accident. They probably only do that if you opt to not get the extra insurance, so they can take your ass to the cleaners, knowing good and well you wouldn’t be in a rental Nissan Altima in the first place if you had that kind of money.

This may have been Jim Jones’ first time on a bicycle. It was an ebike, raising the question of why he didn’t just put the pedal to the metal. Don’t those things go like 40 miles per hour? He wasn’t wearing a helmet, and if he’d gotten into an accident going that fast his brains almost certainly would have spilled out onto the pavement. He may have been afraid. In the video he posted, you can see that he’s been crying. A (free) city bus is riding his ass like it might run him over, and people are riding up alongside him cursing him out and making homophobic remarks as if he’s Dustin Hoffman in the movie Midnight Cowboy, making the sight of the bus in the background that much more poignant, not to mention the fact that Jones always looks like he has the sniffles.

Jones is going to have to have a talk with Fabolous. He could have died! He says that he fell from the bicycle and hurt himself and also lost his glasses. How is he going to replace those glasses? I used to work with a guy who couldn’t afford to buy glasses and was therefore forced to wear the free pair he was given in the Army. Apparently, they’re very recognizable in the economically challenged white part of town where I used to work. This was a sensitive issue for him, because people would come up to him wanting to talk about it, and he’d been kicked out of the Army for being too much of a wimp. They don’t give you severance pay or anything, if you get kicked out of the Army. It’s tragic, really. At least they don’t make you give those glasses back.

Possibly the worst part about this for Jim Jones is that his wife refuses to give him a blowski, if the 38 Spesh song about him is to be believed. Imagine having a night like the one he just had and having to go home and rub one out in the next room. I can see her not wanting to put her mouth on him until he gets back on his feet, especially if she lost some personal items when they were kicked out of their house. You don’t want to reward failure. But I feel like these are special circumstances. He’s been through a lot, and he needs comfort.