Jim Jones reveals how CPR lessons helped him save his friend’s life.
Harlem native Jim Jones is being praised for saving his friend/photographer’s life. The “El Capo” rapper recently visited a crypto event in Florida for his capo coin, where his photographer Jerry Flete suddenly collapsed. The rapper reacted quickly and helped his friend, who was choking. Both of them had a conversation with Inside Edition Digital’s Stephanie Officer, where they shared details of what exactly happened during the whole situation.
“We was just literally just hanging out on a break from work. Just hanging out,” Jerry Flete said. “It just happened so fast. Basically, I woke up, Jim giving me chest compression and telling me, ‘Wake up. Wake up.’ He basically saved my life. I’m here today because of Jim.”
Jim Jones then recalls that he was on the phone when his partner, Doug screamed his name, which caught the rapper attention. “I just saw Flee sitting, just going through something that didn’t seem good like he was choking,” Jim said. “He couldn’t breathe, and his eyes was going back in his head, and he was catching a bit of a seizure. I actually didn’t know what was going on. Kind of scared me.”
“I didn’t know what was going on at the moment,” Jerry recalls. “I guess everything happened so fast. But I had an out-of-body experience. I felt like I was telling myself to come back to myself. Then I just, I guess when I snapped out of it, Jim was giving me chest compressions. The first person I woke up to was just Jim. He was holding me. I was sitting down. It happened while I was sitting down, so Jim was over me, hugging over me, I guess giving me chest compressions. That’s how I started breathing.”
Jim Jones reveleaed that he was just 12 years old when learned how to do CPR. “When I was younger,” he said, “I had to take these classes for CPR and all that type of things for my little sister who has a heart condition. They needed the whole family to take these special classes before she came home when she was a baby. I think all those classes stuck with me all the way to this day because I remember everything vividly they told me to do in certain situations. I got over there. I just was as frantic and confused as everybody else at first. And then something just jumped in me like, get to it. It gave him life again.”
Jones said that the incident made him take his health more seriously, along with photographer friend Jerry. “Movement is medicine,” Jim said. “The easiest exercise you can do is make sure that you walking and you running a little bit. I work out extremely hard so I can eat how I want to eat, but that’s not an excuse. I should be eating way better than I do, and I try to eat 50 percent better than I have yesterday. So I’m a work in progress myself.” “Health is wealth,” he added. “I encourage everybody to take care of themselves. Take care of you. Take it as if it’s a job, and every day you should do something different that’s going to help you live longer.”
“if it wasn’t for Jim, who knows what would have happened? I probably wouldn’t be here today,” said Jerry at the end. “I’m not a hero. Batman a superhero, but I’m not a hero,” concludes Jim Jones.
The Harlem rapper is now working on a new album, which is rumoured to be entitled Prime 112, a homage to the eatery where the Dipset rapper allegedly got into a confrontation with Freddie Gibbs last year.
The rapper also shared the post on his social media, where he’s being applauded for saving his friend’s life.
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