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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?"


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

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Transcript
00:09When 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.
00:22Hi, I'm Jay Jones and my truck is the Infinity Tahoe.
00:28And the reason why they call me Joker, it's J-O-K-A not E-R. It stands for justified
00:34over
00:35known adversities. I have doors that are made of infinity glass. I'm the first person to
00:42ever done infinity mirror doors. With 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.
01:17Let's 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. I have 418 inch troublemakers behind the seat in a
01:39flat wall. Then in the back stunt wall, I have 16 tweeters. I have 16 horns. And I have 8
01:4910s in the back.
01:51Then in the doors, I have 2 10s, 8 tweeters, and 1 horn each door. And then in the A
01:58-pillars, it's speakers.
02:00It's tweeters in the A-pillars. Everything's DS18. The highest DVs I've got in this truck is maybe a
02:10162.8. That was outlawed. And sealed, the highest I got was like a 160.6.
02:23This is the Ghosted Joker in here. Custom Joker license plate. Over here is more amps with the Harley Quinn.
02:32And what else I got? And of course, you see me on here with the little sticker. I got the
02:40little chrome
02:41pieces to say, ha, ha, ha. I got this truck on my birthday probably four years ago. It was just
02:48a plain
02:48truck. It was like a dark blue. It didn't have nothing on it. It was just clean. Right here, I
02:53have 30 inch
02:54rims. Star Judge. And here I have the wheel lights. I have digital LED creation lights. Down here, I have
03:06a plate
03:06cutout that says Infinity Tahoe. It lights up. That's all I got. Oh, the hood. It's got a joker face
03:14on the hood.
03:15The 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
03:31you.
03:35It took three and a half months to do the audio bill. It took the guy a year to do
03:45my paint.
03:47I've had a passion for cars mostly all my life because my dad did car shows when I was little,
03:55and that's what really made me want to be in the car scene as I got older.
04:00I use this truck mainly to go and do the shows. This helps me deal with the death of my
04:06dad.
04:07My dad passed away three and a half years ago. When I go to the shows and I win, it
04:12does something
04:12to me. It like, it messes me up. Like if I, when I leave, after I get my trophies, I
04:18ride in the truck
04:19by myself and play my music. You know, I shed a tear because I feel like my dad watching me.
04:32Every 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 end up winning nine trophies.
04:48When 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
05:11the inside,
05:12the first thing they do, they grab their ears. No, don't grab your ears. What you need to do is
05:17learn
05:17how to control your breathing because the bass will pull your breath. And I tell them, hold on to your
05:23hat because it's a bass. It blows your hair. It makes towers float. It makes bags float. It'll knock
05:30their glasses off. And they love it. Like, they love it. I focus on audio because I like to please
05:43the crowd. I like to get the crowd moving. I like to see the kids dancing around. Even the old
05:49people,
05:49you know. When it gets dark, this truck really comes to life. It probably looks like a big disco ball.
06:04You might think it's actually Christmas. I have roughly probably like 60,000 in this truck. Too much.
06:16I think I would consider selling the truck. If the right money come along, I let it go. Even though
06:22I put a lot of hard work into it, I'll sell it and do something bigger. I would have to
06:27do something
06:27to top it. Hey, I don't know how much the right money is. What you have to do is come
06:33to me and say,
06:33look, I want to get this truck. Bring a bag and just dump the money on the hood. And then
06:39we can go
06:39from there. Bring me the money. Then we can talk.
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