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Artist
S.L. Jones
12+ albums
Dirty SouthrapSouth Rapsouthern rapunderground
about
All too often when people think of Little Rock, Arkansas, the first thing that comes to mind is HBO’s award-winning 1994 documentary Gang War: Bangin’ in Little Rock. Not any more. With the Rock on his back and a Razorbacks’ fitted cocked just so on his dome, rapper SL Jones is out to prove that Little Rock gangsters can bang in more ways than one. “I’m from one of those places where nobody has ever just stuck their chest out and made it appealing to be from where we’re from,” says Jones. “But I’m here to change that. No matter where I go, I am Little Rock.” And in that fashion, SL Jones’ new project, The Number 23: Editor's Cut, isn’t the rapper’s claim at G.O.A.T. status or some underdeveloped basketball analogy, but instead a reference to his home turf, Little Rock’s notorious 23rd and Wolfe Street neighborhood. SL Jones grew up like so many others around his way – a true blue Crip. But Jones isn’t just another gangsta rapper waving a blue flag. He tells stories that are as different from the rest of the rap world as his sound, his slang, and his flow, and when you couple his unique perspective with his college education and his commitment to doing more with his studio time than simply squeezing off shots in the dark, you’ve got Southern rap’s new triple threat. “Sophisticated Gangsterism, I like to call it,” Jones says of his sound. “I’m not out here telling you to forget your set, but we shouldn’t be killing nobody just ’cause they Blood or ’cause they a Crip. I’m not g
