TO mark the fifth anniversary of the death of former Mineral Boss Records (MBR) CEO and artiste Cleon “Corey” Jones, US-based independent label released The Realest by emerging artiste Stinga J.

“This is a tribute to my husband Corey because November 4 is Corey’s birthday and also this year marks the fifth anniversary of his death,” said Tawanna Jones, principal of MBR and Corey’s widow.

Visuals for the project were also released simultaneously with the single.

“It’s my way of saying it’s OK to let go emotionally. It took me five years to release the project, but it was voiced five days after his death… but I didn’t want to come to terms with it. But I am going to come off the road and start focus on my producing now, and I was going through my catalogue and I decided it was time to release it,” she said.

Corey Jones was gunned down by unknown assailants on December 12, 2017. According to information obtained from the police’s Corporate Communications Unit, Jones was shot and killed in his community of Caymanas Bay, St Catherine, by unknown assailants.

Jones and his wife founded Mineral Boss Records over 15 years ago and produced a plethora of songs, including Mavado’s 2016 hit Progress. The single was featured on American producer DJ Khaled’s Grammy-nominated Major Key album.

Since her husband’s death, Tawanna Jones has single-handedly kept the label relevant with timely releases.

In the summer of 2022 MBR released the Ruku rhythm, with songs including Lisa Hyper’s Sculpture, MBR engineer/artiste JoviDiPree’s Cash Lingo, and I-Octane’s Kudos.