*Exclusive* Trick Trick Camp Insider Says Jim Jones Attack Was Retaliation to Ne-Yo Assault

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HipHopWired’s EIC, Michael “Ice-Blue” Harris, got the REAL story on the Jim Jones beat down:

Everybody knows its cold in the D but according to one of our sources in the camp of Detroit rapper Trick Trick, the incident involving Jim Jones at club Esko was no random incident, and reports of the Harlem MC being assaulted for failing to pay his “hood taxes” are totally incorrect. Our source, a “heavy dude in Detroit,” says it was a straight retaliation for Jim Jones jumping Ne-Yo’s co-road manager Vaughn at the Louis Vuitton store in December in New York.

“That’s bullsh*t and it ain’t got sh*t to do with it. That sh*t is 100% behind that Louis Vuitton sh*t. That was the whole retaliation because Jim didn’t even expect that sh*t to come out of Detroit from that New York sh*t.

Even Jay, Dame Dash & Cam are involved

He ain’t know Vaughn and them had family over here. It had nothing to do with Jimmy not paying no taxes because we don’t give a fuck about that. Niggas wasn’t gone let him slide on that little attack shit. We were just waiting on the right time and shit.”

Delving a little deeper, our source revealed that the beef goes back even further before the Roc-A-Fella split.

“When Cam’ron got dumped on in DC in his Ferrari, they said it was Vaughn and Ty-Ty’s brother Murder, who is also Memphis Bleek’s manager. That’s why Jay was like don’t get mad at me when ‘niggas throwing Roc signs outside your Coup.’ So when that happened, Jim and them acted like they were going to be the muscle for Cam. They already didn’t get along because of that whole Dame Dash/Jay-Z thing. They stopped getting along around 2003 but when the shooting happened, Jim acted like he was gone be the enforcer so he said he was going to try to get at anyone in Jay’s camp trying to get at Jay.

Well Ta-Ta being Jay’s enforcer or whatever was like you know, ‘Put your hands on somebody if you want to.’ So everybody knows Ta-Ta and Vaughn look like twins. So we was in Vegas in All-Star weekend and Jim tried to jump on Vaughn at the Bellagio at the table but he didn’t do shit because we were in Vegas at the gambling tables with cameras everywhere. This was in 07, 06. The same year that NBA All-Star and Magic was the same weekend in Las Vegas.

That’s when Jim tried to touch Vaughn at the tables because he thought he was Ta-Ta then. So there had been little riffs seeing niggas back and forth from New York so when Jim strolled up in the Louis Vuitton store with his dudes, it was just Vaughn and Neo, that’s it. They were at the counter buying their shit and the nigga Jim went up to Vaughn and started popping off and told his goons to put it on camera so he could put it on YouTube. Vaughn then smacks the camera phone out one of the dude’s hands and then that’s when everything jumped off.

Well when I got the call, because Vaughn is my nigga, as to what happened, I was pissed because Vaughn and Ne-Yo is like little tiny motherfuckers and they don’t bother nobody. I know Jim personally too and I know he’s a punk. Well when that happened I called Trick like yo, ‘These paper niggas just touched my man,’ and that’s Trick Trick man too. So Trick was pissed and we were going to fly the nigga Jim in and whip his ass but a promoter had already booked him. So when we found out he was going to be at Esko, we had a conference call with the “B.I.