submitted by Sang on 08.7.2005 in Uncategorized
Chopped and screwed rapper Mike Jones, who created a marketing campaign around his telephone number, has been hit with a whopping $250,000 phone bill from Sprint PCS. What started off as a clever promotional tool to help fans keep in touch with him has turned into a telephone nightmare for the Houston rapper. “A lot of people were booking fake Mike Jones shows, saying I was gonna be somewhere but I didn’t know nothing about it… So, I started putting my number on the mixtapes to kill all of that,” Mike Jones explained in a recent interview with a SOHH.com. After promoting his number on mixtapes, Mike took the concept further by promoting his phone number on his website and in his new video for “Still Tipping,” currently rotating heavily on BET and MTV. His phone number can be seen emblazed upon t-shirts throughout the video. According to Jones, he receives well “over 20,000 calls per day.” While it was a great promotional campaign to keep the rapper in touch with his fans, Mike Jones is now holding a cell phone bill for $251,693.34.
UPDATE: I got a lot of searches from Google by people searching for Mike’s real phone number. It is: (281) 330-8004. Allhiphop.com has it. I will, too. If you don’t believe, search his lyrics. 
+snguyen
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August 25th, 2005 at 23:01:44
Yo, whats up with ur phone we r trying to reach u, but its not working. Get a new phone ur phone cost $5 ha ha. None of ur two number works. I think u just making up those number cause none of it work. I love ur song and try to talk about it, but ur phone dont work. Write to us when u have a chance.