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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 us: “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?"


Video Credits:
Videographer / director: Aakash Bakshi
Producer: Joe Roberts, James Thorne
Editor: Sonia Estal

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Transcript
00:00When I play my music everybody enjoy it. They get behind my truck, they dance and
00:14I let them get in, take pictures. That's what it's about man. It's about the kids.
00:18Hi, I'm Jay Jones and my truck is the Infinity Tahoe.
00:26And the reason why they call me JOKA is J-O-K-A not E-R. It stands for justified over known
00:35adversities. I have doors that are made of infinity glass. I'm the first person to ever
00:42done infinity mirror doors. I put my tins sponsored by DS18. Custom seats with custom
00:52pillows done. With my Joker face on here. I can hook this one up. It's the Joker. It
00:59was custom made. Turn his head. Turn the bass up. Turn the bass down. And everything is
01:07custom. Custom console made up. It lights up. It has the Pac-Man clock with two EQs in it.
01:15You can see my little Joker running across the screen. I have a wall 418s sponsored by DS18.
01:25I have 62 total speakers in this truck.
01:28I have 418 inch troublemakers behind the seat in a flat wall. Then in the back stunt wall,
01:44I have 16 tweeters. I have 16 horns. And I have 8 10s in the back. Then in the doors, I have
01:532 10s, 8 tweeters, and 1 horn. Each door. And then in the 8 pillars, it's speakers. It's tweeters
02:01in the 8 pillars. Everything is the DS18. The highest DBs I got in this truck was maybe a 162.8.
02:12That was outlawed and sealed. The highest I got was like a 160.6.
02:18It's a ghost. Got the ghosted Joker in here. Custom Joker license plate. Over here is more amps with
02:32the Harley Quinn. And what else I got? And of course, you see me on here with the little sticker.
02:40And got the little chrome piece to say, ha, ha, ha. I got this truck on my birthday probably
02:46four years ago. It was just a plain truck. It was like a dark blue. It didn't have nothing on it.
02:51It was just clean. Right here, I have 30 inch rims, star, judge. And here I have the wheel lights.
02:59I have digital LED creation lights. Down here, I have a plate cutout that says Infinity Tahoe. It lights up.
03:09That's all I got. Oh, the hood. It's got a Joker face on the hood.
03:16The engine is just a 5.3 V8. I put an air intake on it to make it faster.
03:26It ain't no race car or nothing, but hey, but you pull up beside it, I think I can get you.
03:31It took three and a half months to do the audio bill. It took the guy a year to do my paint.
03:48I've had a passion for cars mostly all my life because my dad did car shows when I was little.
03:54And that's what really made me want to be in the car scene as I got older. I use this truck mainly to
04:03go and do the shows. This helps me deal with the death of my dad. My dad passed away
04:08three and a half years ago. When I go to the shows and I win, it does something to me like
04:14it messes me up. Like if I, when I leave after I get my trophies, I ride in the truck by myself and
04:20play my music. You know, I shed a tear because I feel like my dad watching me.
04:33Every weekend I do shows. It might be two to three shows every weekend. And I got 169 trophies now.
04:41The last show that I just went to last week, I ended up winning nine trophies.
04:47When I go to shows and people hear me turn the truck on, shoot, they get to dancing.
05:02They come over there with cameras or they come over there with their phones. They, you know,
05:07they talk to me and they enjoy my truck. Like the kids, they love it. But when they sit in the inside,
05:12the first thing they do, they grab their ears. No, don't grab your ears. What you need to do is learn
05:17how to control your breathing because the bass will pull your breath. And I tell them, hold on to
05:23your hat because it's a bass hit. It blows your hair. It makes towers float. It makes bags float.
05:30It'll knock their glasses off and they love it. Like they love it.
05:34I focus on audio because I like to please the crowd. So I like to get the crowd moving.
05:45I like to see the kids dancing around, even the old people, you know.
05:49When it gets dark, this truck really comes to life.
06:02It probably look like a big disco ball. You might think it's actually Christmas.
06:08I have roughly probably like 60,000 in this truck. Too much.
06:13I think I would consider selling the truck. If the right money come along, I let it go.
06:22Even though I put a lot of hard work into it, I'll sell it and do something bigger. I would have
06:27to do something to top it. Hey, I don't know how much the right money is. What you have to do is
06:32come to me and say, look, I want to get this truck. Bring a bag and just dump the money on the hood.
06:38And then we can go from there. Bring me the money. Then we can talk.
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