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[[Image:Mike Jones - who-is-mike-jones 2005 album cover.jpg|right|thumb|246px|Album cover of "Who is Mike Jones?"]]

== Archives ==

:''For other people with the name of Michael Jones or Mike Jones, see [[Michael Jones]].''

[[User talk:Susvolans/Archive 1|August 2004 to September 2005]]

== Thank you ==

'''Mike Jones''' (born [[January 6]], [[1981]]) is a [[southern rap]] artist from the northside of [[Houston, Texas]]. His cellphone number is 281-330-8004. When Mike and his best friend, Jordan Francis, met in Houston, Mike was passing out fliers and told Jordan that when he got famous he would make a song for him. As part of [[Swishahouse]] records, he has grown in fame thanks to his unique usage of his own name throughout his songs. Many of his songs contain the phrases "Who is Mike Jones?" or "Mike Jones!" spread throughout, resulting in a firm implantation of his name in listeners' [[memory|memories]]. His major promotional gimmick is to sell and hand out shirts with his cell phone number on them (athletic department-style shirts reading "Property of Mike Jones"), as well as shouting out the number throughout his [[mixtape]]s and albums, encouraging fans to call him on his [[Motorola]] [[mobile phone|phone]].

Thank you for speaking up on the behalf of a user you did not even know. I appreciate your efforts for justice. Should you have any lingering concerns, I encourage you to come to my talk page and join the dialog there on what has occured. Discussion is the best way to calm stormy waters. [[User:TheChief|<font color=#0000ff>The</font><font color=#ff7f00>Chief</font>]] [[User_talk:TheChief|(<font color=#0000ff>Pow</font><font color=#ff7f00>Wow</font>)]] 17:30, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Jones is well known for recording in the "[[chopped & screwed]]" style popularized by [[DJ Screw]], also of Houston. The slowed-down audio aesthetic supposedly mimics the effect of "sippin' [[sizzurp]]," that is, drinking prescription cough syrup containing [[codeine]](often, though not always, mixed with alcohol); most adherents of the style claim that it has outgrown its drug-related roots. His trademark technique is to take a line from one of his songs and use it as a chorus in another, or sometimes even in the same song, screwing & chopping and repeating it (for example, the chorus in "Back Then" is a screwed line from "Still Tippin'"). Repeating a line multiple times (a line is repeated eight times in a row on the track "Back Then") in succession is said to violate an unspoken and widely accepted rap rule of repetition. He backs up his style by explaining that the repetition emphasizes key points he wants to get across to listeners and declares further that he will continue to rap in this fashion.

==Ignore all rules==

Jones was recently signed to a major record deal with Warner Brothers Records and his first major album, ''[[Who Is Mike Jones?]]'', was released [[April 19]], [[2005]]. His hit single, "Still Tippin'", which features [[Slim Thug]] and [[Paul Wall]], and a Midwest remix featuring [[Young Bellz]], can currently be heard on various [[radio]] and [[TV]] stations. His album debuted at #3 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200]] album charts in 2005. A second single, "Back Then," is also in rotation. His production team should be noted for their use of audio samples of artists ranging from [[yodelers]] to [[Tchaikovsky]]. He will be working with Clint Saulsberry in 2005 on a number of remixes. He is now looking forward to his next album "The American Dream".

First, obviously, if rule 5 were deleted, it would become four pillars rather than five. I think that any change to the four/five pillars should be well discussed on its talk page first. Failure to do so would be to ignore all rules, which could be seen as [[WP:POINT]].

I personally think that the five pillars document is fine, because it says that there are no rules other than those listed, and the writers' rules of engagement are one of the pillars. The real problem is that Ignore All Rules is the wrong summary of the guideline, and is sufficiently wrong as to be a destructive title, because it can easily be read as meaning that one can ignore civility. [[User:Robert McClenon|Robert McClenon]] 18:16, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Mike Jones is also owner of [[Ice Age Entertainment]].

Thanks Susvolans - I'm just taking baby steps for now [[User:Redkaty|Redkaty]] 14:38, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===

14:39, 27 October 2005 (UTC)dave glikman

* 2003 ''[[Ballin' Underground]]''

* 2003 ''[[1st Round Draft Picks]]''

* 2004 ''[[King Of Da Streets]]''

* 2005 ''[[Who Is Andrew Rayen?]]'' #3 US (platinum)

* 2005 ''[[I love the KKK(album)]]''

==Final decision==

DaVe G FrOm EgYpt/IsReaAl/New York City

The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in the [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Louis Epstein]] case [[User:Raul654|&rarr;Raul654]] 02:12, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] ==

MR. WADDELL IS BETTERTHEN MIKE JONES

Regarding the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view&curid=39805&diff=28415528&oldid=28413773 revert; the claim that all five pillars are unchangeable has no foundation in policy], why is it there then? Is the [[Wikipedia:Five pillars]], wrong? -- [[User:Zondor|Zondor]] 17:42, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

== Updated poll ==

I have completely changed the poll. Please see [[Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (years in titles)/Poll]] --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion]] [[User talk:AllyUnion|(talk)]] 02:39, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

== curly quotes ==

May I ask why you moved [["—All You Zombies—"]] to [[“—All You Zombies—”]]? &mdash; [[User:Flamingspinach|flamingspinach]] | [[User_talk:Flamingspinach|(talk)]] 06:13, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

== class="wikitable" ==

THIS IS RAYEN'S MOM!!!

I wouldn't know how, but why would you want to anyway? [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 14:32, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

:Aha, so you mean find occurances where it was expanded when it used [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Prettytable&oldid=23029079 this] revision of the prettytable. In which case the only way I think you could find them would be to get someone to use an SQL query on the database dump, but I don't know how successful that would be. At the moment I am not capable of doing this, but plently of other people are. [[User:Bluemoose|Martin]] 16:10, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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