Jim Jones Explains Why Drake Is the King Of The Culture

One of the biggest regrets of Jim Jones's career is that he passed on signing Drake.

"Drake definitely ran across my desk. I got a call from Alan Grunblatt, I think I was on tour, and Alan was like, ‘I got this guy named Drake uh he’s an actor he’s on Degrassi.’ I’m like, ‘Who the f*ck is Drake on Degrassi?’ He let me hear him rapping like this boy could rap his ass off," Jones explained in 2021.

“Then I looked at him. I’m like, ‘Boy, what do you mean? What am I going to do with boy? He’s an actor, he’s in a wheelchair on the Disney Channel.’ I’m like, ‘Boy, I don’t know how to make this work out.' Once again, I just wasn’t seeing past what I seen in front of me and sh*t like that.”

Even though Drake never became Jones' artist, Capo has support from the Canadian over his career.

That continued during the Dipset rappers interview with Angela Yee.  In it, he declared Drizzy the culture king.

"He's changed the way that we listen to music in the past 10 years, wholeheartedly," Jones explained. "And, everybody that's been around, he's helped change their sound also. For all our favorite rappers, you name the top rapper right now, he's helped them tremendously out in their career by just jumping on a record or putting them on a tour. He's done more for our culture than most of these people."

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