The compilation album Strength in Numbers, will drop August 28th. It will feature all of DTP’s new artists- Smallworld, Willy NorthPole, Serius Jones, Brolic D, Steph Jones, Playaz Circle and Block X-change. Fans will also hear new music from DTP veterans Ludacris, Shareefa, Bobby V, Lil Fate, Shawnna, I-20, Field Mob and the return of Chingy.
Defsounds: Prior to being signed, you were heavy into the battle circuit, are you ever gonna step into the ring again?...Maybe a Fight Klub battlee or something?
Serius: I don’t think so, at the end of the day it’s almost like—let me try an come up with a good analogy. It’s like boxing versus street fighting..theres a fighting named Kimbo, don’t know if you’ve heard about him..he made his living by fighting on the streets and they were youtubing his fights so he had big underground following and eventually he wound up getting his own pay per view. Once you get to a certain plateau and once you get to a certain level of exclusivity and you’re a buyable product that people would pay to see, you can’t keep cheapening your brand by putting yourself in a position just battling regular people that have nothing to lose.
When it comes down to it, it’s a integrity thing too. Battling is a real funny thing, it’s street fighting versus boxing—boxing is controlled and professional…but battling is all or nothing no matter what, you can go down at any time and I’m the best guy to ever do this, I don’t know what more I can prove.
There are a lot of battles that haven’t been released to the public though, so there’s a lot more of that coming.
Defsounds: How did a Jersey boy and up on a predominantly southern label? ....
Serius: The only thing southern about DTP is Luda [laughs]...Most of the artist in DTP are from New York, it’s only a southern thing because of Luda.
Defsounds: Are you gonna move out to the south now or are you remaining in the tristate?
Serius: I was moving to the South before actually, it’s cheaper and more comfortable. Signing to DTP doesn’t have much to do with it, but there’s a lot of money to get here.
Defsounds: A lot of the times, rappers who come up through the battle circuit don’t do necessarily well on a mainstream platform…how do you plan on breaking that curse?
Serius: I don’t know why people always get that. Every successful East Coast rapper was on the battle circuit. They just didn’t have the fight klubs and the smack dvds—they didn’t have any way to broadcast it. Eminem is one of the hottest rappers to ever do it, Biggie, Jay , Nas, DMX, Beanie Siegel, any mc in the east coast, you have to battle—it’s one of the requirements of being an East Coast Mc. You have to hold your own.
Even people like 50 cent, even though he’s not a real lyrical rapper. Coming up in the hood, you have to rep your hood, thats the way we represent our neighborhood and our talent—by testing it against another mc.The only thing is that over saturating the game right now is that, battling is now looked at some hoodrat underground backpack shit…until some dude like myself comes along and takes it to the next level.
I’m a student of the KRS-Ones, the Big Daddy Kane’s, Rakims.
Defsounds: The DTP roster is pretty extensive, are you worried that your project might get pushed to the side or overlooked seeing as there are 14 other in the works?
Serius: Well, that would be dumb for them..pushing Serious Jones to the side for something else[laughs]..I’m my own damn label!—Cause I gotta make my own path and decide my own destiny. I can’t sit back and wait for someone else to do it, I just shot two videos—Me, I shot em..I get my own studio time, do my own mixtapes, I’m on my grind, but I’m working on my album at the same time.
In terms of support from a label, it’s really hard to get next-level support from any label right now. The game for a rookie, it’s not like it was back in the days when they’d spend crazy money on you and don’t care.
Defsounds: I’d like to get your opinion on a fellow Jersey rapper, What do you think about Joe Budden, a lot of people consider him lazy which is the reason why we’ve still yet to receive a new album from him..do you agree with that?
Serius: [Laughs], you’re tryna get me to talk bad about people?, I don’t know what he’s situation is. I don’t understand someone not going all out cause thats the only way I know how to do it. If I’m doing something, I’m tryna be the best at it, I’m not just doing it to be doing it.
Defsounds: What do you think of TI?
Serius: It’s not important what I think of TI, what’s important is what ya think about me!..[laughs]..I think he’s talented..I don’t necessarily listen to him or anything.
Defsounds: The saying Quality Over Quantity comes to mind, what can we expect from Strength In Numbers?
Serius: Honestly, I haven’t heard the finished product but I do know there’s some bangers on there…definitely some talented artists. I’m just here to lend my energy to the compilation, I’m gonna always body my part in whatever I do. But you’ll definitely enjoy this album.
Defsounds: And when can we hear a full album from Serius Jones?
Serius: You can hear one right now actually, go to myspace.com/seriusjones and you can download or purchase the King Me Mixtape…It’s actually an album but I did it like a mixtape.
I’m also working on Life Is Serious—its a classic album..the hottest shit i can think of…I’m about to fuck your head up when you hear my shit.
COMMENTS
Ive heard dis dude before and i saw him tear down jin. Jin spit some hard flows but, Jones comediec but lyrical delivery killed him. Now he's like a backpacker that can appeal to da masses.Ill b buyin Life Is Serius
jones is hard he lost to murda mook but that was clearly becuz they was in his hood
i was wondering where i recognized the game, he did own jin he was funny and had the crowd on his side
dis man is funny n talented i jus hope he dnt b cum another shaheem da poster boy r sunny
nah i hope dude dont become another jin...that nigga got on ruff ryders and flopped before numbers in tha industry overall started to drop
he's good but he's like every other rapper that beat Jin,he started chatting about China.
But he ate Murda mook alive!
thank u man u are the only person other than myself that thinks that serius jones spit his written stuff and freestyled as well. How many rappers in the game actually freestyle and have the same lyrical abilty
Yeah Serius Jones is nasty but he didnt kill Murda Mook...Murda Mook one that battle..real talk
smh fck outta here jones got personal with dat nigga all mook did was spit his same shit bout shooting niggas
King Me was crack, cant wait till Life Is Serius
lol a yall boys shut up.Serious Jones is only a battle rapper buddy can't make music.Lol he makes niggas laugh buddy a joke joke.Now Murda Mooke is serious he will beat anybody in a freestlye battle but lloyd banks and cassidy and fab.He will kill Lil Wayne
idk bout u but punchlines usually make me laugh... but a recycled flow will get really annoyin.
MURDA MOOK RECYCLE HIS FLOW.....HE SPITS THE SAME SHIT IN DIFFERENT BATTLES.....THEN HIS CREW KNOWS HIS PUNCHLINES WORD FOR WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lets be clear on that Murda Mook battle...IT WASNT FAIR cuz the whole damn room was ridin with Mook. Mook did win but its all about being fair. I wanna seem them do it on Fight Club where its fair!
cant wait to hear the album!
mook barely won that even with tha crowd behind him now thats real dick ridas right?
ill smash serius in a freestyle battle........just playing. ill get my ass served. be an espn highlight
If yall do your homework you would know they battled twice. The first time jones won but the time when mook had all his people he won. but I agree with N.O. when he said he recycled his flows cuz he do. I would have to give ti to serious cuz he freestyles all the time. Did you hear him on the basement. Damn he tore that down.
man FUCK serius jones. he's not a rapper he's a comedian. but don't get me wrong he did slay mook and jin, but at power summit he got beat by professor green. haha PROFESSOR GREEN ladies and gentelman. are u SERIUS JONES? haha and when jin challenged him again at the power summit he bitched out and if u don't believe that it's all on YOUTUBE.COM. i'm not being a hater man it's all facts lol
he lost 2 prof. green???? get the fuck outta here what u smoking on i want some lmao
sure that wasnt jones best battle but green was wack as fuck jones got yanked
u dont believe me u be da judge here da link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=st3z6_AQBWY
i want some of that smoke too lol
serius smashed mooke cant wait for da album
serius went to the sterotypes, cant say jin lost it.
t rex > mook
Jin lost when he tried to reply to the stereotypes...like I would go gold in Africa...u never stoop to someones level...he made that come out! lol
Jin is a good battle rapper...but Serius was spittin facts...
2 billion people in china...u cant even go platinum over there...thats a classic azz line!
I wanna see him battle Loaded Lux...WHAT YALL THINK?????????
Now that would be fresh. I personally still think that Jae Millz is the best in the business.
JAE MILLZ????? da best in battle rap?? is that what u mean?
anyway yea i would wanna see that battle that would be hot
Jae millz ATE mook up in broad day in front of a whole crowd of neutral people.
You got to see that battle,i swear i saw Mook crying in it.
i know i seen dat shit millz did smash him
serius jones he iight. hes not a good song maker but he is skilled when it comes to the freestyle. but murda mook still gave it to him even though i dnt like murda mook
Who is these Murda Mook dick riders??? Serius Jones is that shit! Mook still don't have a label that says it all. DUMMIES!!!!
Defsounds Doin da SHIT with dem Interviews
man fuck all these fuckin batlle rappin ass niggas,eminem was the best at the shit; now all niggas do is battle about how they gone shoot, shank, stab, grab and do whatever else to a nigga ,shit is fuckin trash man for real dat why dont none of them fluke ass nigga make it no where they might drop an album then what...and yeah im hatin so fuckin what
Serius Jones is sumthin serious, dude is coo with his flows on fight klub and his lil get it how you live track..in adition to that hes fuckin gorgeous.Image+Flows=Money
not to mention what kind of fuckin name is serious jones dis nigga should just stick to doing def-sounds interviews even though hes a fuckin NOBODY
Verdict on Serius Jones after checkin him out on youtube is that he's a good punchline artist. Can he make a hot song, I dont know but he's funny. DTP is a good place for him.
Serious Jones is serious
didnt murda mook eat this nigga up. i just seen somebody said he ate mook alive. to this day im wondering where da fuk yaal get that analogy
i got that analogy cuz u need 2 listen 2 da lyrics not the crowd jones got personal
talking bout how he been battleing for ever and still dont got no deal, how he talk
gangsta but went 2 private school, how he was bout 2 go 2 college for ballin den
wanna be hood, how dis nigga can't make a hot track 2 save his life, and how he
recycles his lines
all mook talked about was how he gonna kill him, called jones a comedian, then
talked about his guns (like always)
so tell how did mook beat that???? nigga u need 2 get off dat stuff its fucking with ur brain cells ..... smh
wack interview
if u wasnt thinkin bout being Wayne's bytch...U WOULD BE INTERESTED IN REAL HIP HOP TALENT! u lame nyggaz trip me the fuck out!
s jones is tha shit on that battle shit but what about LP's mmmmm? so basicly in his interveiw he said streetfighting and battling is diff. so his LP gone be diff from his mixtapes? i think he should keep it battle style in his flow that shit funny as hell
Serious jones is so sexy! He would have to put that shit on tape if i saw him on the streets
wtf.......... lol....
What the fuck you gay ass nigga you a fagot you homo I hope you was just playin bekuz if you wasn't then kill yourself you homo thug
Well his name is "Gays".. so he is probably serious
GAYS: u r gay u homo ass hand down u r gay what type of homo r u lol u r the first ever hood homo talkin about i cant what to c u at the street u r gay ya dicc head lmao
i CANT WAIT TIL HE DROP CAUSE HE CAN BATTLE BUT I WANNA SEE IF HE CAN MAKE SOME HITS
I FROGOT DUDE WAS STILL ALIVE. GOOD TO SEE HE'S STILL BREATHING
he is fuckin garbage...........
if he gabarage, than u a dumpster
Infaredd15 shut the fuck up be because you don't know shit bitch!
dis nigga iz serious cant wait 2 hear wen hiz shit cum out
Serious jones is sick when it comes to battle rappin and thats how he get his cake, but if he was to release a album, that shit probably flop to hell. he still one of fav battle rapper
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Word??? lol
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wut UP MURDA MOOK.......U GOT'EM BOY.....THAT ROUND 2 AN 3...HOMIE WUZ DONE...WUT UP THA WHOLE 115TH....PEACE
serius is still fucking sexy! wattup jokesta baby!? =)
hes my 4th favorite rappa and aint even dropped a 2nd album yet
hes fire fa reel!