Mike Jones
The early 2000s marked a period of broad expansion for hip-hop, as artists from cities outside the traditional coastal centers began establishing themselves within the genre. Michael Allen Jones, known professionally as Mike Jones, was among those who emerged from that moment.
Born on November 18, 1981, in Houston, Jones attended Nimitz High School before developing a career that would reach across several creative and commercial fields. Working in English and rooted in hip-hop, he established himself as a rapper and musician, pursuing the kind of career in which recording and performance formed only part of a larger professional picture.
Jones extended his work well beyond music. He built credits as an actor across both film and television, and also took on the role of screenwriter. That combination — rapper, musician, film actor, television actor, screenwriter — gave his professional life a range that set it apart from more narrowly defined careers in the genre. He worked additionally as a businessperson, engaging with the commercial side of the entertainment industry alongside his creative output.
A United States citizen born and raised in Houston, Jones accumulated a set of occupations that crossed performance, writing, and business. The documented breadth of those roles — spanning hip-hop, film, television, and commerce — stands as the most concrete record of what his career comprised.
Quotes by Mike Jones
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The type of product, the customer, the need to protect IP, the landed costs, the latest exchange rates, tariffs and duties--these all dictate how we source our manufacturing. It is mainly the customer requirement that feeds into our model and helps us decide how to source.
I'd seen (Morrow) wide open and I just tried to get back as fast as I could. Most of the time a shooter's wide open, he's gonna knock it down. I'm known for my offense, but today (my) defensive played a really big role.
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I just feel like it was such a good way to do development, over a period of time, pre-planned.
If you're a player and you're open, you have to take the shot. Tonight that happened. A lot of us got really good shots.
Not many guys have a race in their hometown. It was nice to be able to come back here and ride. Unfortunately, we didn't have the right team. It came down to a field sprint, and we didn't have a field-sprint team.
