Rapper Jim Jones claimed during a podcast appearance that his mother taught him how to kiss "with her mouth", later slamming the backlash the interview received.
"My mom … taught me how to tongue kiss when I was younger," the 45-year-old shared on Angela Yee's Lip Service podcast on Thursday during a discussion about what he had learned from his mother on the topic of sex.
"What was the instructions?" Yee asked, with the rapper responding: "There wasn’t no instructions, she showed me with her mouth."
Yee, clearly in shock, then asks: "She kissed you?"
"It’s my mother, what do you mean?" Jones responds.
Jones went on to explain that his mother was a teenager when she had him, telling the host: "Remember, my mom was 17. She’s a baby. Look at all the babies that’s having babies now and look at how they act with their babies. It’s like they have a little sister or little brother more than they had a child."
He was then asked if he felt the kiss with his mom was "nasty", to which he said, "With my mom it didn’t phase me" but that "the first time I kissed [another] girl I was so … pissed off. I didn’t know what the f*** was going on."
Needless to say, the childhood story sparked backlash online - to the extent that Jones decided to post a video stating that it had simply been a "joke".
"For the record, I love my mama more than anything in the world," he explained. "And for the record, it was a joke. People take things way too far. It don't bother us anyway, but let's get it clear...That's weak what you're trying to project."
He continued: "Something simple. Something from my childhood. We were talking about childhood things. I thought that was funny. I appreciate you mommy for helping me out, but no. Cut it short, Jack. Cut the bulls***, you heard?"
On January 7, the rapper's mother, Nancy Jones, responded to her son's remarks during an Instagram Live with DJ Dior Cartel.
"Everybody needs to understand, you're taking it wrong," Nancy said. "I am not a nasty mother. All I am is a mother that was teaching my son exactly how to survive and how to actually be able to deal with a woman."
She continued: "And, for their information, it wasn't no tonguing down. It was a way of showing you how to tongue. He licked out his tongue, I licked out my tongue, that was that. Wasn't no mouth-to-mouth resuscitation...It wasn't like that.
"It's all about my son growing up and me as a young mother showing her son how to do, and deal with life with the young girls ’cause he's a nice, handsome-looking guy."