Who Is Mike Jones

Mike Jones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 19, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asylum Records
• ASIN: B0007YMV1K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,775 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #41 in Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > Southern Rap

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Back Then

3. Flossin'

4. Still Tippin'

5. Got It Sewed Up [Remix]

6. Scandalous Hoes

7. Screw Dat

8. Turning Lane

9. Laws Patrolling

10. 5 Years from Now

11. Cuttin' [Remix]

12. What Ya Know About...

13. Know What I'm Sayin'

14. Type of N**ga U Need

15. Grandma

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: JONES,MIKE
Title: WHO IS MIKE JONES?
Street Release Date: 04/19/2005
Domestic
Genre: RAP/HIP HOP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars First Major Debut With The Same Redundant Flow (Rating: 5 out of 10- -2.5 Stars), February 27, 2007

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Chandler "Infamous" (Atlanta (College Park), Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who Is Mike Jones (Audio CD)

I used to live in San Antonio, Texas between 2000-2004. Somewhere around that time one of my friends put in some chopped & screwed mixtape by some guy named Mike Jones. I thought it was okay at best, although he did have somewhat of a flow. One thing I seemed to notice in his songs was the repititon of his name "Mike Jones. WHO? Mike Jones. WHO?", as well as repeating the same line 4 times so he can have his verse the full 16 bars. I thought, "Okay...maybe he is trying to do something different. I don't know..." Well then his debut dropped in 2005, and guess what? His flow has not changed one bit. He still shouts out his name throughout his tracks and repeats the same line four times in many of his songs. Now he had brought a new gimmick, saying his phone number in his songs as well (I guess I wasn't the only person who dialed that number). So really his flow really hasn't changed at all since I first heard him, which was somewhere in late 2003 (which is funny because he said at that time "Who Is Mike Jones" comming soon).

I won't lie though. I was hyped up to see Texas artists finally get their albums out (Slim Thug, Pall Wall, Chamillionare, and of course Mike Jones). I bought this the same week it came out for my support, only to be dissapointed. And to the day I'm typing my review, I've only played this a total of three times, and had very much trouble making it to the end of this album. A lot of these songs have absolutely no replay value. "Type Of N**** U Need" and "Cuttin' (remix)" are some of the worst tracks that I've heard from Mike Jones.

There are some tracks that I liked. Ironically the two singles were the best songs on his album. "Still Tippin'" with the help of Slim Thug and Pall Wall was probably the best song on the album. And a close second was "Back Then" which if you haven't already noticed, the chorus is from "Still Tippin". "Five Years From Now" is okay, so I'll call that my honorable mention track.

So "Who Is Mike Jones?" was a horrible CD, although I admit it was catchy (that might explain why it went platnum). I really can't recommend this to anyone, except those of Texas music as well as Chopped & Screwed music (the version I had came with a chopped & screwed CD). Even so, I know for a fact Texas is more capable of this. If you want anything from Texas, give Slim Thug, Chamillionare, Lil Flip, or even UGK a listen. I just cannot recommend this to anyone else. Hopefully while he is recording his next CD, he thought about changing his flow. Word.

Lyrics: D
Production: C+
Guest Appearances: C
Musical Vibes: D-
Overall: C-

Favorite Tracks: Still Tippin, Back Then

Honorable Mention: 5 Years From Now

Peace Everyone!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you don't know his name by now..., May 9, 2006

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Anthony Rupert "shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP!!!" (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who Is Mike Jones (Audio CD)

I'm rather surprised that there are so many low ratings for Mike Jones' album. It's not that I disagree with them, though; it's just that it's usually MY review that's the odd one out. Anyway, I really don't think many people are asking Who Is Mike Jones any more because Mike made sure that people would know who he is.

I'm going to start things a little differently this time around and first talk about the album's final track, "Grandma". This memoriam to Mike's second-generation matriarch has good intentions, but unfortunately, it really only comes off as average. Mike says in the song that his grandmother is the person that told him to get his name out there any way he could, and he really took that to heart because, well, remember how B.G. always used to say "I'm known as the B.G." in most of his songs? That's not as annoying as in Mike's case, because as I'm sure everyone knows by now, he takes time to say, "Who? Mike Jones! Who? Mike Jones!" on EVERY SINGLE TRACK.

But even worse than that is something else he does on every track: shout out his phone number. As to why a musician would just give out his phone number is a head-scratcher, but in any case, Mike reserves 4 to 12 bars per song for his telephone announcement (if I heard "[phone]" one more time, I was going to go insane). And sometimes he even repeats old songs within new songs; his verse on the otherwise good "Still Tippin'" ends with the entire chorus to "Back Then".

Because of this redundancy, it's really hard to tell if Mike has any skills at all. But most of the songs aren't worth hearing anyway, especially the obligatory song for the ladies, "Type of N U Need". And it doesn't help that Paul Wall outshines him whenever he shows up (see "What Ya Know About..." and the aforementioned "Still Tippin'"). It's one thing to promote yourself; it's another thing to OVERpromote yourself. The way things are going NOW, the next time people hear Who Is Mike Jones, chances are they'll say, "Who cares?"

Anthony Rupert

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Same Thing, The Same Thing, The Same Thing, October 25, 2005

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Tha Undaground King (Richmond, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Who Is Mike Jones (Audio CD)

Stay away from this album, literally. When you're in the record store stay 10 feet away. The repetitive lyrics, I said, the repetitive lyrics, are... the repetitive lyrics. Who? Repetitive lyrics. The repetitive lyrics plague the album like a virus. We get it, you drink grape soda with codiene and promethyzine. You smoke blunts full of Purple dank. Girls like you know that you got scrilla (which doesn't make you a pimp you idiot, it makes you a trick, didn't you hear 'Pac?). And what's your name again? Oh yeah, Mike Jones. Good thing you reminded me 215 times throughout the album. Why do you keep giving me your number if it doesn't work? We have heard you on cameos with other artist and it seems like your flow is actually decent. So why don't you show that instead of bore us? Imagine how devestated people would be if they heard "Ether" by Nas, and then he filled up Stillmatic with the same 75 words through the album. Use your full potential. I could only listen to a select few tracks on this album if I was more blazed than a California forest fire, crusin' around town with my tinted windows rolled up so that folks wouldn't know it was me bumpin' this bullsh*t. I'm an H.C.P. fan, and I'll admit that they got pretty limited subject matter, but they are still lyricists, so why can't another cat who follows the same basic demographic be just as original, if not more? C'mon dawg, show folks the real Mike Jones. The guy that eats at barbeques and watches T.V. The guy that likes to walk down the block sometimes. Show us the real, young nicca that you are. We all know good and god-damn well that you don't drive around Houston all day gettin' head and sayin' your name over and over again. We all know that you spend a couple hours of your day sober. We all know that you live in a two-story house somewhere close to the hood, not in a 20 bedroom mansion. We all know that you don't sleep with $450,000 worth of jewelry on. So give us the real Mike Jones on your next album. A major label debut should be better than this.