Dipset’s Jim Jones has plenty to talk about right now with his new Gangsta Grillz: We Set The Trends album streaming everywhere. The hip-hop veteran and producer DJ Drama chop it up with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1 to dish on their first collaborative album in nearly 20 years, coming together and even digging into the state of Big Apple hip-hop.

Jim Jones chops it up with Apple Music 1

Jimmy and Drama linked up to talk about their newly released studio effort. Jones made sure to spend some energy talking about how music is feeling from the Empire State.

“I feel like we coming back wholeheartedly with the Fivios and all the young energy that they're putting out there. With the drill music and how the drill music is starting to move further down south into the west coast. We took something from Chicago and made it our own. Now it's New York drill. It's a sound that we known for, it's just so much going on. So I like the way that the music industry is going in as a whole. The money is better, the stream's work in our favor, and New York we back on the rise. No disrespecting nobody else, but we been in a black hole for a long time and people have been throwing stones at us. So now to see us rising above that black hole makes me feel very good.”

Jones isn’t falling back after the new release. He’s already gearing up to put out a handful of more albums.

“I got six albums done, completed already. So now we going to start with the Gangsta Grillz. Then we going to go into the Lobby Boys, from Lobby Boys, we going to go into the Yung Berg album, from the Yung Berg album, we going to go into the Latin album I got, after the Latin album I got, I'm going into the Byrdgang Compilation. After the Byrdgang Compilation, I'm going to the Scram Jones project that I have. And then I'm going to do a whole Jim Jones project that I'll be working on during this year while all these projects are coming up.”

DJ Drama digs into his Jim Jones bond

Drama made sure to chime in on their new collaborative effort. The Philadelphia-bred and Atlanta-based deejay explained how this joint effort made more sense than most people would assume.

”Me and Jim, we talk frequently, you know what I'm saying? And discuss music and life and just the game and everything. And we started talking about it, I think probably even about maybe a year ago. Honestly, Jim reached out, we were bouncing around some ideas. He told me about some things he was working on and what have you. And it was around a time when I was working on other projects. Tyler's project was in the making and what have you. And then Jim came to me with the idea of how he wanted to do this project and it showcasing what he's got going on. He's dropping sh*t all the time. So his sh*t is just cracking the streets. And then as well as showcasing some new artists that he's working with, and giving it that platform. Gangsta Grillz has always been that type of platform to break new artists as well. I was hyped because me and Jim honestly haven't done a tape in over a decade.”

Jimmy speaks on linking up with The Migos

One of the biggest standout records off the new album is Jim and Migos’ We Set The Trends.’ Jones revealed how his close-knit relationship with Migos’ Takeoff ultimately sparked the collaboration.

“Me and Take have an incredible relationship; I got a good relationship with all of them. For me... We consider members of the same pressure. But he was in the city one day, he was like, "Yo, where you at?" I was in the midst of doing Gangsta Grillz. I’m at the studio, he pulled up. He just sitting there. He like, "Nah, load one up. Let's get one in. We due for one." We did it. I posted up on the gram being excited. Offset hit me like, "Nah, I got to get on that. Y'all bugging." I went to the studio, he was gambling that night. He ended up doing it. Then posted that up, Quavo seen it said, "Nah, you got two out of three. You can't forget the Cho." But the way Quavo did it was ill because Quavo actually came and did his verse and the video all in the same hour before he went into the plane. So he knocked the verse out. Then we got up and did the video right in the staircase... It was all organic. Like one of the most organic and dope records that I've made, the way it came together. And I actually was there with the artists while they did it. So that doesn't happen too often with all this digital stuff going on. So that was dope. Got all the footage, shout out to Migos, man. I tip my hat to them.”