Jim Jones crowns Drake greatest in hip-hop history.
Jim Jones teamed up with Hitmaka for a new joint project “Back In My Prime” this week, and he now connects with Complex for a new interview as part of the promo run. The album, which features collaborations with Jeremih, Ty Dolla $ign, Stefflon Don, and others, consists of eight tracks and was released on Friday, March 10th. During the conversation, he was also asked about recently appearing at Drake’s show at the Apollo, along with other Dipset members.
“Drake has a lot of respect for [us] coming up listening to Dipset music,” he said. “So, it just was a full circle [moment], you know what I mean? It was dope. He gave us our flowers that a lot of people don’t give us. That we deserve. So, I really tip my hat to him. Plus, it’s a family-oriented thing. Drake is Young Money, Young Money is Dipset. It’s one big family.”
Capo was then asked about Drizzy’s place in hip-hop history, to which he crowned him the greatest of all time. “I would say he’s the greatest of all time,” he said. “I would just give that to him. And I mean, there’s a lot of people from the beginning and people that invented hip-hop, I know. But the greatest of all time, it’s a big statement, and the relevancy that he keeps showing year after year, hit after hit, record after record. Any song that he has put out has seemed to go multiple platinum. That’s never happened before in history. I mean, there are a few other people that do astronomical numbers like that, but he really in it, you know what I mean? From all angles of music. It ain’t no place you go where they’re not going to play some Drake records to get the party started. He moves around here like the real Bruce Wayne. He’s my spirit animal, man. I just got to give credit where credit is due, and not taking away from nobody else.”
Jim Jones mentioned Jay-Z as a potential contender for the title, but claimed that the latter “exited music a long time ago.” In contrast, he stated that Drake is “still going strong to this day.” Jones’ remarks were made following Drake’s invitation to him and The Diplomats to perform at his concert at The Apollo Theater in Harlem earlier this year.
He continued, “What [Jay-Z] has done to this game is astronomical. He’s like Michael Jordan for what he has put on and what he has done since he came in the game and where he’s at right now. But Jay exited music a long time ago. And that space, that void, I don’t know if it’s a void, but Drake has not exited and he’s still going strong to this day and it doesn’t seem like he’s stopping no time soon. So, I would say the difference between Michael Jordan and LeBron James. LeBron James has accomplished way more than Michael Jordan has accomplished. Maybe not everything, but he’s got championships on four different teams or three different teams. Drake definitely has the scoring title for the whole rap game. You got to give him that. [The greatest] would definitely be Drake or [Lil Wayne] or Tupac. And I’m saying Tupac because I’m selfish with that. He was my all-time favorite coming up.”
“Plus, half of these kids don’t know any Jay records. They’re not quoting no Jay records. They’re quoting all Drake sh*t. They know multiple Drake records. So, in our day, we’re willing to highlight Jay or Tupac, then yeah, we could. But in this day, us highlighting our era really don’t hold no merit in what’s functioning right now. And it ain’t basketball, it’s rap. So, we tend to forget a lot of that sh*t from back in those days.”
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