At least three artists share this name:
1) A southern rap artist fro… Read Full Bio ↴At least three artists share this name:
1) A southern rap artist from the northside of Houston, TX, born January 6, 1981.
Mike Jones has become well-known for his unique repetition of his own name throughout his songs. Many of his songs contain the phrases "Who is Mike Jones?" or "Mike Jones!" His major promotional gimmick is to sell and hand out shirts with his cell phone number on them (athletic department-style shirts reading "Property of Mike Jones"), as well as shouting out the number throughout his mixtapes and albums, encouraging fans to call him on his Motorola phone.
Jones is known for recording in the "chopped & screwed" style popularized by DJ Screw, also of Houston. The slowed-down audio aesthetic supposedly mimics the effect of "sippin' sizzurp," that is, cough syrup containing codeine. Most followers of the chopped & screwed style claim that it has outgrown its drug-related roots. Jones' trademark technique is to take a line from one of his songs and use it as a chorus in another, or sometimes even in the same song, screwing, chopping and repeating it (for example, the chorus to "Back Then" is sampled from the track "Still Tippin").
Jones has used repetition of certain words and phrases extensively in his songs. An example of this can be found in songs such as Back Then when he constantly repeats "Mike Jones" and "Who is Mike Jones." As a result, he has come under intense scrutiny or criticism from fellow rappers in his native Houston such as rappers Chamillionaire and Lil' Flip who have accused Mike Jones of copying their slang or criticized his aforementioned rapping style.
2) Solo pianist. Mike Jones (born August 11, 1962) is an American jazz pianist. He has appeared onstage with Penn and Teller since 2006, and continues to play with them during their nightly show in Las Vegas.
He first garnished praise as a young musician, performing professionally at the age of ten. Following the advice of Oscar Peterson, Jones attended Berklee School of Music, in Boston. While still attending the school he started work as a studio musician.
During his time commuting from Boston to New York, Jones worked as the on-air pianist and music director of the Nancy Merrill Show. He also appeared throughout the New England area with jazz musicians Herb Pomeroy, Gray Seargent, Dick Johnson, and others. In 1994 his first solo recording on Chiaroscuro Records, "Oh, Look At Me Now" was released. This was followed by "Runnin' Wild" recorded live in Buffalo, NY, his hometown, and then "Live At Steinway Hall", in New York City.
3) An experimental tape artist from Cardiff, Wales.
Mike Jones ran the CTOANR cassette tape label in the early eighties which featured the likes of Artists such as The Stripey Zebras's, Instant Automatons and other independent artists. Mike was also a recording artist and played in The Chromosomes, Effigies (UK) and released solo work.
Recordings from Mike and The Chromosomes were released in 2008 by the American Label Hyped2Death. The album Messthetics: Greatest Hiss features "Reckless Policies" from Mikes 1981 solo Album "Pretty Flowers", "Hi Fi Know How" by The Chromosomes plus a Cardiff based radio competition where his band finished third (out of three).
Since 1985 Mike has played in the punk/techno/C86 band named Otalgia (which is a medical term for earache).
1) A southern rap artist fro… Read Full Bio ↴At least three artists share this name:
1) A southern rap artist from the northside of Houston, TX, born January 6, 1981.
Mike Jones has become well-known for his unique repetition of his own name throughout his songs. Many of his songs contain the phrases "Who is Mike Jones?" or "Mike Jones!" His major promotional gimmick is to sell and hand out shirts with his cell phone number on them (athletic department-style shirts reading "Property of Mike Jones"), as well as shouting out the number throughout his mixtapes and albums, encouraging fans to call him on his Motorola phone.
Jones is known for recording in the "chopped & screwed" style popularized by DJ Screw, also of Houston. The slowed-down audio aesthetic supposedly mimics the effect of "sippin' sizzurp," that is, cough syrup containing codeine. Most followers of the chopped & screwed style claim that it has outgrown its drug-related roots. Jones' trademark technique is to take a line from one of his songs and use it as a chorus in another, or sometimes even in the same song, screwing, chopping and repeating it (for example, the chorus to "Back Then" is sampled from the track "Still Tippin").
Jones has used repetition of certain words and phrases extensively in his songs. An example of this can be found in songs such as Back Then when he constantly repeats "Mike Jones" and "Who is Mike Jones." As a result, he has come under intense scrutiny or criticism from fellow rappers in his native Houston such as rappers Chamillionaire and Lil' Flip who have accused Mike Jones of copying their slang or criticized his aforementioned rapping style.
2) Solo pianist. Mike Jones (born August 11, 1962) is an American jazz pianist. He has appeared onstage with Penn and Teller since 2006, and continues to play with them during their nightly show in Las Vegas.
He first garnished praise as a young musician, performing professionally at the age of ten. Following the advice of Oscar Peterson, Jones attended Berklee School of Music, in Boston. While still attending the school he started work as a studio musician.
During his time commuting from Boston to New York, Jones worked as the on-air pianist and music director of the Nancy Merrill Show. He also appeared throughout the New England area with jazz musicians Herb Pomeroy, Gray Seargent, Dick Johnson, and others. In 1994 his first solo recording on Chiaroscuro Records, "Oh, Look At Me Now" was released. This was followed by "Runnin' Wild" recorded live in Buffalo, NY, his hometown, and then "Live At Steinway Hall", in New York City.
3) An experimental tape artist from Cardiff, Wales.
Mike Jones ran the CTOANR cassette tape label in the early eighties which featured the likes of Artists such as The Stripey Zebras's, Instant Automatons and other independent artists. Mike was also a recording artist and played in The Chromosomes, Effigies (UK) and released solo work.
Recordings from Mike and The Chromosomes were released in 2008 by the American Label Hyped2Death. The album Messthetics: Greatest Hiss features "Reckless Policies" from Mikes 1981 solo Album "Pretty Flowers", "Hi Fi Know How" by The Chromosomes plus a Cardiff based radio competition where his band finished third (out of three).
Since 1985 Mike has played in the punk/techno/C86 band named Otalgia (which is a medical term for earache).
Grandma
Mike Jones Lyrics
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Oh grandma (Mike Jones! Who?)
DJ Slice, tear me up baby, tear me up
This heah for my grandma mayne
I love you baby
The whole family miss you baby
I'm fin' ta tell the world, how important you was to me
Oh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
Ohhh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
The way you used to hold me, the way you used to hold me
The way you used to show me, the way you used to show me
Befo' you left you told me, befo' you left you told me
That I was gonna have to keep the family up
(Mike Jones!)
April 14th was when, I felt I lost a friend
I damn near stopped rapping, damn near stopped pimpin pens
Cousin locked in the pen, when will this drama end
I get success but it feels like my stress begins
At 17 thought I was grown, had to move on
Moved out T. Jones home, had to do this on my own
My grandma left my life, I felt it wasn't right
I get awards and I break down and I cry on sight
Cause she ain't here with me, but I know she hearing me
Beg and plead, that she could still be here next to me
Even though you passed and left, yo' memories are kept
In my mind, heart, and soul, even on my shelf
Now I'm left with cousin Shelly, Jessie, and they real, and Gary
(?) and my brother, Uncle June, and my mother and
Even though sometimes I get too busy to touch you
From me to y'all I want y'all to know I love you
Oh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
Ohhh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
The way you used to hold me, the way you used to hold me
The way you used to show me, the way you used to show me
Befo' you left you told me, befo' you left you told me
That I was gonna have to keep the family up
(Mike Jones!)
Grandma remember when we used to play them bones and you would skunk us
And you never had a problem punking us in front of company
Wally just had a son, he's a daddy, I'ma uncle now
Wally just had a son, he's a daddy, I'ma uncle now
Latran playing ball, I pray to God he goes pro
And Gary Jr. getting bigger, I just thought I'd let you know
That the family's okay, everything's cool and straight
Juanita and Nicky just told me to tell you they said hey
And I pray day to day that the Lord'll pave the way
And you keep looking down here just smiling, just showing ya pretty face
And I still hang around my homies that you see while you were here
Oh and my girl better than ever, she too wish you was here
You know I'm grown now, so I'm putting food on the table
24 years old and I got my own label
Ice Age Entertainment, we about to take it over
T. Boy rappin now, he's Mellow, and Wally is Lil' Soldier
(?) still rolls with me, we close shoulder to shoulder
That gator that you gave my granny I use it to sew the game up
Me and (?) was partners, we both now CEO's
It's all good but I wish you was able to see me grow
Oh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
Ohhh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
The way you used to hold me, the way you used to hold me
The way you used to show me, the way you used to show me
Befo' you left you told me, befo' you left you told me
That I was gonna have to keep the family up
(Mike Jones!)
Man, it's crazy, ya know what I'm saying?
Dis the main reason here, she the main reason why,
Y'all listening to me today, ya know what I'm saying?
True story check it out, true story
A lot of people always used to wonder how I got up in the game
Ya know what I'm saying? My grandma was, 99.9 percent of the reason ya know what I'm saying?
It's crazy though, I mean, I used to go to strip clubs all the time and
Try to get people to listen to my CD, you know?
And they be like who are you? And I'm like "Mike Jones"
And they'd be like WHO, ya know what I'm saying?
And I used to always tell my grandma and she used to always tell me
To use that, ya know what I'm saying? Cause they gon' regret what they did to me
Ya know what I'm saying? So I started using it, and it worked, ya know what I'm saying?
And.. it's it's just crazy man y'know?
I started saying my name a lot, ya know what I'm saying?
I started giving my phone number out, ya know what I'm saying?
When people was telling me that it wasn't gon' work
My grandma was telling me to do it, ya know what I'm saying?
She told she seen a vision and, that's a hell of a vision ya know what I'm saying?
And.. really I started giving out my album, I started promoting it and
All the stuff that y'all been hearing me do, I got it from her
Ya know what I'm saying? And and that's the main reason, why I'm here today
Ya know what I'm saying? And and it's crazy man, it's crazy y'know
I'm I'm I'm here and y'all listening to me, y'know
So I never would of ever thought
That I'd have the whole world listening to Mike Jones, man, it's crazy man
I didn't even want to use my real name, y'know?
But grandma was like, boy you better use that name
It's gon' blow you up one day, ya know what I'm saying?
And I was like man you don't know what'chu talking about
And now I'm here, "Who is Mike Jones?"
Holla at'cha boy
DJ Slice, tear me up baby, tear me up
This heah for my grandma mayne
I love you baby
The whole family miss you baby
I'm fin' ta tell the world, how important you was to me
Oh grandma, I miss you
Ohhh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
The way you used to hold me, the way you used to hold me
The way you used to show me, the way you used to show me
Befo' you left you told me, befo' you left you told me
That I was gonna have to keep the family up
(Mike Jones!)
April 14th was when, I felt I lost a friend
I damn near stopped rapping, damn near stopped pimpin pens
Cousin locked in the pen, when will this drama end
I get success but it feels like my stress begins
At 17 thought I was grown, had to move on
Moved out T. Jones home, had to do this on my own
My grandma left my life, I felt it wasn't right
I get awards and I break down and I cry on sight
Cause she ain't here with me, but I know she hearing me
Beg and plead, that she could still be here next to me
Even though you passed and left, yo' memories are kept
In my mind, heart, and soul, even on my shelf
Now I'm left with cousin Shelly, Jessie, and they real, and Gary
(?) and my brother, Uncle June, and my mother and
Even though sometimes I get too busy to touch you
From me to y'all I want y'all to know I love you
Oh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
Ohhh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
The way you used to hold me, the way you used to hold me
The way you used to show me, the way you used to show me
Befo' you left you told me, befo' you left you told me
That I was gonna have to keep the family up
(Mike Jones!)
Grandma remember when we used to play them bones and you would skunk us
And you never had a problem punking us in front of company
Wally just had a son, he's a daddy, I'ma uncle now
Wally just had a son, he's a daddy, I'ma uncle now
Latran playing ball, I pray to God he goes pro
And Gary Jr. getting bigger, I just thought I'd let you know
That the family's okay, everything's cool and straight
Juanita and Nicky just told me to tell you they said hey
And I pray day to day that the Lord'll pave the way
And you keep looking down here just smiling, just showing ya pretty face
And I still hang around my homies that you see while you were here
Oh and my girl better than ever, she too wish you was here
You know I'm grown now, so I'm putting food on the table
24 years old and I got my own label
Ice Age Entertainment, we about to take it over
T. Boy rappin now, he's Mellow, and Wally is Lil' Soldier
(?) still rolls with me, we close shoulder to shoulder
That gator that you gave my granny I use it to sew the game up
Me and (?) was partners, we both now CEO's
It's all good but I wish you was able to see me grow
Oh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
Ohhh grandma, I miss you
And wish I could kiss you and hug you girl
The way you used to hold me, the way you used to hold me
The way you used to show me, the way you used to show me
Befo' you left you told me, befo' you left you told me
That I was gonna have to keep the family up
(Mike Jones!)
Man, it's crazy, ya know what I'm saying?
Dis the main reason here, she the main reason why,
Y'all listening to me today, ya know what I'm saying?
True story check it out, true story
A lot of people always used to wonder how I got up in the game
Ya know what I'm saying? My grandma was, 99.9 percent of the reason ya know what I'm saying?
It's crazy though, I mean, I used to go to strip clubs all the time and
Try to get people to listen to my CD, you know?
And they be like who are you? And I'm like "Mike Jones"
And they'd be like WHO, ya know what I'm saying?
And I used to always tell my grandma and she used to always tell me
To use that, ya know what I'm saying? Cause they gon' regret what they did to me
Ya know what I'm saying? So I started using it, and it worked, ya know what I'm saying?
And.. it's it's just crazy man y'know?
I started saying my name a lot, ya know what I'm saying?
I started giving my phone number out, ya know what I'm saying?
When people was telling me that it wasn't gon' work
My grandma was telling me to do it, ya know what I'm saying?
She told she seen a vision and, that's a hell of a vision ya know what I'm saying?
And.. really I started giving out my album, I started promoting it and
All the stuff that y'all been hearing me do, I got it from her
Ya know what I'm saying? And and that's the main reason, why I'm here today
Ya know what I'm saying? And and it's crazy man, it's crazy y'know
I'm I'm I'm here and y'all listening to me, y'know
So I never would of ever thought
That I'd have the whole world listening to Mike Jones, man, it's crazy man
I didn't even want to use my real name, y'know?
But grandma was like, boy you better use that name
It's gon' blow you up one day, ya know what I'm saying?
And I was like man you don't know what'chu talking about
And now I'm here, "Who is Mike Jones?"
Holla at'cha boy
"Grandma" is a song by Mike Jones that is dedicated to his grandmother who passed away. In the song, he speaks about her impact on his life and how much she meant to him. A major theme of the song is family and how important it is to keep the family together. He talks about the tough times he has gone through with his family, such as his cousin being locked up and the stress that comes with his success. Through it all, he remembers his grandmother's words of encouragement and advice, telling him to keep the family together.
The lyrics are emotional and heartfelt, showcasing Mike Jones's vulnerability and his love for his grandmother. He reminisces about the times they spent together, playing bones and how much he misses her. The chorus of the song repeats the words "Oh grandma, I miss you, and wish I could kiss you and hug you girl," emphasizing the depth of his love and the pain he feels at her loss. The song is a tribute to his grandmother's memory and a reminder of the importance of family and holding on to those we cherish.
Lyrics Β© BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Mike Jones, Antwan Thompson, Kevin Mccord
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Anthony Garza
My grandmother was my favorite person in this world. I didn't think I could love anyone as much as I did her. Most beautiful person I've ever known.
King Davis
Swear im at work trying not to cry.
U can hear how much his grandmother was a big influence on him.
I feel him 1000%.
Always use to pass this song up cuz of him singing so never listened to it but damn...most heartfelt song I've ever heard.
brandon mentzer
Big facts
Jared Ishmael
My grandmother passed on 23 November 2020. I cannot hold back tears listening to this and will play it at her funeral. I know you can't see this but i love you Ouma
YoWoody
my grandma passed too may they rest is peace
Deandre Lacy
7-24-17 DAMN MANNN.!!!!
Renzzo
My Grandma Died the Same Year This Song Came Out Man π RIP πΌπ½ To All The Grandmas That Put Out Effort To Their Grand Kids π
BadRish
3-14-08
summer 91
π.....Grandmothers are the Gods of Life.
Reginald Gilyard
Mine too