This site is a small, unofficial tribute to Jibbs — the sound of a very specific summer, still worth remembering.
"Chain Hang Low" — built on the melody of the old children's song "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" — climbed to number 7 and stayed on the chart for twenty weeks. Jibbs was sixteen.
Jovan Camaran Campbell, born November 13. Started writing rhymes young, trying to get the attention of his older brother, producer DJ Beatz.
Word of the teenage rapper spread through St. Louis' production scene and led to a major label deal.
The single went top 10; the self-titled debut album followed. "King Kong," with Chamillionaire, was the second charting single.
Cameos and cuts turned up on soundtracks and in other artists' videos — a genuine ringtone-rap moment.
No major label follow-through after the second album cycle. Jibbs stepped back from the industry — this page is for the people who never stopped playing the record.
Directed by Benny Boom. © 2006 Geffen Records.
One song, one summer, one real hit — and that's more than most ever get.
It's easy to file "Chain Hang Low" away as a novelty — a nursery-rhyme hook turned into a ringtone. But that undersells it. Getting a song to number 7 on the Hot 100 at sixteen years old, against a wall of grown adults with entire label machines behind them, is not nothing. It takes a real ear for a hook.
Careers like this one don't usually get a retrospective. This page exists because some of us still remember exactly where we were the first time that chorus came on, and figured the guy who made it deserved one small corner of the internet that says so.
Leave a note — a memory, a favorite lyric, where you were when you first heard it. No links or URLs, please.
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