As a founding member of Dipset, Jim Jones knows a thing or two about rap crews. Following the clique’s ascension up the hip-hop ranks, the Harlem rapper began to focus on a solo career and hit it big with his 2006 single “We Fly High.” Now fresh off a multimillion-dollar deal with Columbia Records, Jones uses his past experience and influence to introduce a new collective, Byrdgang, with their debut, M.O.B.—The Album. Made up of Jones, NOE, Mel Matrix, Sandman, Freekey Zekey and producer/rapper Chink Santana, Byrdgang deliver a brand of music that doesn’t differ much from the Diplomats’ hustlin’ ethos—but ...