J. Cole reflects on the first time hearing Drake.
J. Cole has released the third episode of his new audio series Inevitable, and in this instalment he talks about his mixtape “The Warm Up”. During the episode, the Dreamville rapper talks about first time hearing Drake’s music on Myspace.
“It was one dude in particular that I remember seeing on MySpace, and he was this light-skinned R&B-looking ni–a, but he had raps,” he said. “It was kind of neo-soul-type raps, like on some Little Brother sh-t, but he was talking about women or something. The ni–a’s whole demeanor was hella smooth.”
“But his plays were through the roof for a ni–a you’ve never heard of or has never been signed! I was like, ‘Who is this ni–a? How does he have 20,000 plays in a day?’” “Come to find out, a couple of years later, [Cole’s friend] Jessica Nabongo put me onto this song from this artist named Drake called ‘Sooner Than Later.’ I was like, ‘This sh-t is f–king amazing.’ Ni–a, I played that sh-t back to back to back.” “Come to find out, the reason he had all of those plays was because he was already famous and I didn’t know that. He was already a ni–a that was popping off of Degrassi, but I didn’t know Degrassi and I didn’t know who he was.”
He also recalled reaction to Drake’s “Say What’s Real” freestyle: “He f–king destroyed that sh-t. I was blown away at how much he bodied that f–king beat. I was like, ‘Yo, he’s f–king phenomenal.’”
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