Jim Jones just released his new album Wasted Talent last week. In support of the project, he stopped by A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, where he opened up about passing on signing J. Cole. “J. Cole didn’t have a team when they came to me,” Jones says. “He didn’t have a team, it was just J. Cole rapping.”
“A little light-skinned kid coming to the studio every day rapping like Drake,” he continues.” And at that point it was Drake [and] n****s didn’t know what to do with no Drake. Drake was just a phenomenon at that point. Shit, you can’t have two of them right now. As you see, it took him a few years after that to kind of find his place and what he wanted to do. He ain’t rapping like Drake no more but when he was in my studio he was.”
Check out the full interview below.
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