You know Damon Dash is counting on Jim Jones’ next career step to put him back on the gravy train.  Jones has a lot going on including:

"a Christmas album of hard-core street stories…a role in the cable drama ‘Crash,’ an autobiographical documentary submitted to Sundance…and, most important, his major-label debut, Pray for Reign."

And Damon Dash is all wrapped up in Jim’s career at the moment including a documentary, This Is Jim Jones, which they’re hoping makes Sundance and an off-Broadway play, The Hip-Hop Monologues.

Jones presents the play as, in part, a marketing maneuver:

"For the most part, when you’re an artist, you do the conventional thing, like hold a listening session for the media. … So, I was trying to think of something new, now that I had a deal from Columbia…I was just thinking of new ways and new advances and the play was one of them. I’m like, ‘Yo, Dame, I got an idea. You think we can pull this off?’ You know, Dame thinks he can pull anything off.’"

So far they seem to be a good match.  And doing an off-Broadway play is certainly a unique way to signify that one’s moving to bigger and better things.  This may be fun to watch!