[3] He subsequently recorded his debut album Jelleestone Thirteen, which was produced by Jon Levine of The Philosopher Kings.
[1][5] The album's single, "Money (Part 1)", was a top 40 hit in Canada, reaching number 6 in September 2001.
[6][7] In a 2005 profile of Jelleestone, Now Toronto quipped that the song was "getting more spins than an amnesiac in a revolving door".
In the July 7, 2001, issue of Billboard magazine, the single received a "critic's choice" designation, with music writer Eric Aiese praising the song's "fun tempo and catchy chorus, not to mention the witty — albeit serious — message" and likening it to rap records of the early 1990s, concluding that it was akin to a Will Smith single "without the namepower".
[11] Danish Vice columnist Fritz the Cat ranked the song as one of the best of 2001, behind Mystic's "The Life", while Complex suggested in 2021 that Canadian rapper Drake was "channeling Jelleestone" when he sang that "money can't buy me happiness" on his own song.