With greater than twenty years within the sport underneath his belt, Jim Jones is lastly feeling his greatest. “It’s kinda loopy how I’m simply reaching my prime,” he raps on “Standing Replace” from Again in My Prime, his collaborative challenge with regularly in-demand producer Hitmaka. The MC has albums and singles—each as a member of his esteemed Harlem Diplomats group and as a soloist—which are all lengthy cemented in NYC’s gangsta-rap canon, however to let Jones inform it, the very best remains to be but to come back. He’s overjoyed at that conceit throughout Again in My Prime, relishing Hitmaka’s sample-heavy manufacturing as he spits bars that make the prospect of courting him sound each alluring and terrifying. And he principally does so between choruses from a number of the foremost voices in R&B and rap, together with Jeremih, Ty Dolla $ign, Pleasure P, Tink, and Stefflon Don. Nevertheless it wouldn’t be Jones if he didn’t have just a few joints for the streets, and to that finish he’s known as up Benny the Butcher and Trav for “Wager It All” and Jamaican American dancehall toaster BEAM for “Gunshot.”