By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Harlem rapper Jim Jones was all smiles Tuesday after agreeing to take an anger management course in connection to an assault charge from earlier this year.
Jones, whose hit single "We Fly High" became an anthem of the New York Giants, pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree in Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday morning, agreeing to participate in a 10-week anger management course.
Prosecutors claimed that Jones, 33, whose real name is Joseph Jones, crashed a Bentley into another car near the Henry Hudson Parkway and West 178th Street in January and then attacked the driver of the other vehicle one afternoon.
Specifically, the "Dipset" rapper was accused of punching the driver, pushing him onto the highway twice and throwing his keys into oncoming traffic, according to the complaint against him. Jones is also said to have kicked the vehicle twice, court documents claimed.
Jones and his lawyer, Scott Leemon, declined to comment on the circumstances of the case.
However, on his way out of the courthouse, Jones told DNAinfo to focus on the good things he’d done for the community.
"Make sure you mention that I’m gonna be teaching a 12-week curriculum for kids [on the music industry]," Jones said.
