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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.
01:15Let's see my little Joker running across the screen. I have a wall 418s sponsored by DS18.
01:24I 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
02:00in the 8 pillars. Everything is the DS18. The highest DBs I got in this truck was maybe a 162.8.
02:12That was Outlaw. And sealed. The highest I got was like a 160.6.
02:19This is the Ghosts. Got the Ghosts Joker in here. Custom Joker license plate. Over here is
02:30more amps with the Harley Quinn. And what else I got? And of course, you see me on here with
02:37the little sticker. I got the little chrome piece to say ha ha ha. I got this truck on my birthday
02:45probably 4 years ago. It was just a plain truck. It was like a dark blue. It didn't have nothing on it.
02:50It 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 cut out that says Infinity Tahoe
03:08lights up. That's all I got. Oh, the hood. It's got a Joker face on the hood. The engine
03:16is just a 5.3 V8. I put an air intake on it to make it faster. It ain't no race car nothing,
03:28but you pull up beside it. I think I can get you.
03:35It took three and a half months to do the audio bill. It took the guy a year to do my paint.
03:47I'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.
03:59I use this truck mainly to go and do the shows. This helps me deal with the death of my dad.
04:06My dad passed away three and a half years ago. When I go to the shows and I win, it does something to me.
04:12It messes me up. When I leave, after I get my trophies, I ride in the truck by myself and play my music.
04:20I shed a tear because I feel like my dad watching me.
04:24Every weekend I do shows. It might be two to three shows every weekend. I got 169 trophies now.
04:40The 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.
04:53They come over there with cameras or they come over there with their phones.
05:06They talk to me and they enjoy my truck. Like the kids, they love it.
05:10But when they sit on the inside, the first thing they do, they grab their ears.
05:13No, don't grab your ears. What you need to do is learn how to control your breathing.
05:18Because the bass will pull your breath. And I tell them, hold on to your hat.
05:23Because it's a bass hit. It blows your hair. It makes towers float. It makes bags float.
05:29It'll knock their glasses off. And they love it. Like, they love it.
05:39I focus on audio because I like to please the crowd.
05:43I like to get the crowd moving. I like to see the kids dancing around.
05:47Even the old people, you know.
05:55When it gets dark, this truck really comes to life.
06:02It probably looks 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'll let it go.
06:21Even though I put a lot of hard work into it, I'll sell it and do something bigger.
06:25I would have to do something to top it.
06:27Hey, I don't know how much the right money is.
06:30What you have to do is come to me and say, look, I want to get this truck.
06:34Bring a bag and just dump the money on the hood and then we can go from there.
06:39Bring me the money and then we can talk.
06:41Then we can talk.
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