Jesse Jones Jr. is Filayyyy — the melodic, stop-and-go voice that took over basketball highlights in 2015. Today that voice carries a streetwear label, a training academy and a pro playing career. 2.2M follow him on Instagram alone.
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Partnerships, appearances, commentary and player development — all arranged directly.
Campaign voiceover, content and ambassadorship. Published work includes a Nike voiceover deal and the NBA's This Is Why We Play campaign, plus two Deuce Brand capsule collections. Current rates are not published.
See the partnersLive events, panels, hosting and custom experiences, virtual or in person. He is listed for booking through the ENGAGE talent roster as "Professional Basketball Player, Founder of Filayyyy Brand".
EnquireThe thing that started it all — the half-preacher, half-R&B run over a highlight. He co-hosts the Famous Los & Filayyyy Show on Team Whistle, where the two break down clips sent in by viewers.
EnquireIn June 2015 he was watching Game 5 of the NBA Finals. Steph Curry went behind the back on Matthew Dellavedova, and Jones posted a clip of it with his own voice over the top — a rapid-fire, stop-and-go cadence that broke into a melodic run on the word filayyyy. It is short for filet mignon: something cool, something well cooked.
By 2018 the account had gone from roughly four thousand followers to more than a million, and Bleacher Report had called him "the preacher of the basketball internet." LeBron James has hashtagged it. Carmelo Anthony has mimicked it.
He kept hooping the whole time — Passaic County Community College, then the University of Bridgeport on scholarship, then a pro career that has taken him through Canada, Mexico, Lebanon, Morocco, Iraq, Qatar, Tunisia, Rwanda, the UAE and China.
You can’t just put logos on clothes and call it a brand. You have to tell a story. I built mine. I put the time in.
Pulled from filayyyy.com and his own Instagram accounts — @filayyyy, @bpf_jesjones and @filayyyy_academy.
