Dominating Atlanta’s thriving car-modding scene has come easy for one man and his Joker-themed, speaker-packed bass-mobile. Jay Jones, AKA ‘Joka’, used 62 speakers to transform his 2004 Tahoe into an earth-shaking monster on 30-inch rims, and he’s causing a stir at car shows around the South East US. Jay, whose moniker stands for ‘Justified Over Known Adversity’ told Ridiculous Rides: “When I go to shows and people hear me turn the truck on, they get to dancing, they come over with cameras, they enjoy my truck. “I focus on audio because I like to please the crowd and also I like to get the crowd moving, I like to see the kids dancing around, even the old people, you know?"
00:00When I play my music, everybody enjoy it. They get behind my truck, they dance, and I let them get in, take pictures. That's what it's about, man. It's about the kids.
00:30Hi, I'm Jay Jones, and my truck is the Infinity Tahoe. And the reason why they call me Joker, it's J-O-K-A, not E-R. It stands for Justified Over Known Adversities.
00:47I have doors that are made of infinity glass. I'm the first person to ever done infinity mirror doors.
00:54With my 10s, sponsored by DS-18. Custom seats with custom pillows done. With my Joker face on here.
01:06I can hook this one up. It's the Joker. It was custom made. Turn his head. Turn the base up. Turn the base down.
01:14And everything is custom. Custom console made up. It lights up. It has the Pac-Man clock with two EQs in it.
01:27You can see my little Joker running across the screen. I have a Wahl 418s, sponsored by DS-18. I have 62 total speakers in this truck.
01:38I have four 18-inch troublemakers behind the seat in a flat wall.
01:50Then in the back stunt wall, I have 16 tweeters. I have 16 horns. And I have eight 10s in the back.
02:00Then in the doors, I have two 10s, eight tweeters, and one horn each door. And then in the A-pillars, it's speakers.
02:11It's tweeters in the A-pillars. Everything's DS-18.
02:15The highest DBs I got in this truck was maybe a 162.8. That was outlawed and sealed. The highest I got was like a 160.6.
02:28It's a ghost. Got the ghosted Joker in here. Custom Joker license plate. Over here is more amps with the Harley Quinn.
02:43And what else I got? And of course, you see me on here with the little sticker.
02:49And got the little chrome pieces to say, ha, ha, ha.
02:52I got this truck on my birthday probably four years ago. It was just a plain truck. It was like a dark blue. It didn't have nothing on it. It was just clean.
03:02Right here, I have 30-inch rims, star, judge. And here I have the wheel lights. I have digital LED creation lights.
03:14Down here, I have a plate cutout that says Infinity Tahoe. It lights up. That's all I got.
03:20Oh, the hood. It's got a Joker face on the hood.
03:25The engine is just a 5.3 V8. I put an air intake on it to make it faster.
03:33It ain't no race car or nothing, but hey, but you pull up beside it. I think I can get you.
03:45It took three and a half months to do the Audiobill.
03:49It took the guy a year to do my paint.
03:56I've had a passion for cars mostly all my life because my dad did car shows when I was little.
04:04And that's what really made me want to be in the car scene as I got older.
04:10I use this truck mainly to go and do the shows.
04:14This helps me deal with the death of my dad. My dad passed away three and a half years ago.
04:19When I go to the shows and I win, it does something to me.
04:23Like, it messes me up.
04:25Like, when I leave, after I get my trophies, I ride in the truck by myself and play my music.
04:31You know, I shed a tear because I feel like my dad watching me.
04:35Every weekend I do shows. It might be two to three shows every weekend.
04:48And I got 169 trophies now.
04:51The last show that I just went to last week, I end up winning nine trophies.
04:58When I go to shows and people hear me turn the truck on, shoot, they get to dancing.
05:03They come over there with cameras or they come over there with their phones.
05:16You know, they talk to me and they enjoy my truck.
05:19Like, the kids, they love it.
05:21But when they sit on the inside, the first thing they do, they grab their ears.
05:24No, don't grab your ears.
05:26What you need to do is learn how to control your breathing.
05:28Because the bass will pull your breath.
05:31And I tell them, hold on to your hat.
05:33Because it's a bass hit.
05:35It blows your hair.
05:36It makes towels float.
05:38It makes bags float.
05:40It'll knock their glasses off.
05:42And they love it. Like, they love it.
05:44I focus on audio because I like to please the crowd.
05:54I like to get the crowd moving.
05:56I like to see the kids dancing around.
05:58Even the old people, you know.
06:05When it gets dark, this truck really comes to life.
06:08It probably looks like a big disco ball.
06:14You might think it's actually Christmas.
06:17I have roughly, probably like $60,000 in this truck.
06:22Too much.
06:26I think I would consider selling a truck if the right money come along.
06:30I let it go.
06:32Even though I put a lot of hard work into it, I'll sell it and do something bigger.
06:35I would have to do something to top it.
06:38Hey, I don't know how much the right money is.
06:41What you have to do is come to me and say, look, I want to get this truck.
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