Throwback Thursday: Mike Jones – “Still Tippin'” (featuring Slim Thug & Paul Wall)
Mike Jones turns 40 years old today, so how about we revisit his “debut” single?
“Still Tippin'” has an official release date of November 12, 2004, but it had been out for over a year as a track on independent label Swishahouse’s 2003 compilation project, The Day Hell Broke Loose 2. Up until that point, Mike Jones’ music was popular in Houston strip clubs, but with “Still Tippin’,” radio began taking notice. The song gained so much airplay that Mike Jones landed a record deal with Warner Records while Swishahouse inked a distribution deal with Asylum Records — a subsidiary of Warner.
The original version of “Still Tippin'” featured Slim Thug and Chamillionaire, but after Mike Jones fell out with the latter, Paul Wall was tagged in. This song’s hook is a looped line from Slim Thug’s “I’m a Hoe (Freestyle)”.
“Still Tippin'” didn’t crack the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, but the length of its legacy — evidenced by the number of times it’s been sampled — speaks to its importance to hip-hop.
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