S. Samuel
Rap newcomer J. Cole has downplayed Drake's assertion that he is the next Nas and said his future in hip-hop is too unpredictable to make comparisons just yet.
Cole thinks he has a lot to prove before he can be given such accolades.
“Comparisons are natural,” Cole said in an interview. “But in this particular instance, and no disrespect to [Drake’s] opinion, because that’s how he feels, but I feel like it’s too early. You can’t call things like that, that early. You can’t say I’m Nas because, look, Nas was in the game for 16 years. What if I’m not here next year? What if you’re not here next year? I don’t think you can say stuff like that this early, but I understand what people are saying. At his status right now, he’s the most talked-about guy in the game. The Nas comparison is like, ‘He gets a little bit beyond the surface,’ but I feel like when it comes to those comparisons, it’s way to early. And you never know, 10 years from now, I could be Jay.” (MTV)
Last year, Drake revealed how he views his position in the rap game.
“I’m at the starting line,” Drake said in an interview. “Those guys are at home, putting on their tracksuits, getting ready to make their attack. When J. Cole gets it super-right, I think he’s gonna have a place as a Nas-type character who really stands for hip-hop, but still makes ill records that everybody f*cks with.” (Complex)
Cole previously said he was influenced by artists like Nas and the late Tupac Shakur.
“The more lyrical rappers. I gravitate toward the classic and more lyrical rappers,” he explaind in an interview. “Sometimes when I’m in the studio we spend an hour on YouTube watching old rap and freestyle. For a while there it was really lyrical and witty and was always personalized. I’m drawn toward storytellers like Nas and Tupac. I’m realizing my own work in this day is generally not something that is out there. There is a lot of talent, but they just aren’t putting out what I am. The whole game is exciting but nobody in a long time has come out with the skills for lyrical writing that I am coming out with.” (Spinner)
Drake has also credited Nas for influencing his own music.
“It’s gonna be bigger, it’s gonna sound happier,” Drake said comparing his debut album to So Far Gone. “Yeah, it’s gonna sound bigger, it’s gonna sound victorious because that’s where I am in my life — I really studied Nas to be honest, Nas was like somebody that I used to listen to his raps and not really understand ‘how’ he did it, I always wanted to understand how he painted those pictures and his bar structure and all of that. I went back and really studied Nas, studied Andre 3000 [for this album] and I hope you like it.” (IM Flashy)
Check out Drake speaking on Nas below:
& a lame , rich socialite’s opinion on a chick with a sex tape as her only talent is related to hip hop, how?
Cause she stay fucking black dudes.
By SOHH Reckless on July 28, 2006 4:45 AM | 468 Comments
“I got at this alleged slut whore [DJ Envy’s wife], heh, and this little half a lo-mein eater…. Yes, I disrespected your seed. If you didn’t hear me, I said, I would like to do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her.
“I’m disrespectin’ your seed. I would like to skeet on the face of your seed. Now that’s, that’s real talk dawg…
“Now, again, to the woman, who carried that little mongrel for 9 months. … I’m coming for your seed. Did you hear me?… I want to do an R. Kelly in the mouth of your seed… You holla at me now I’m the easiest man in the world to find…You holla back now, DJ Envy.
“Let me see now, uh, DJ Benji attention! In case you didn’t hear me, I said, I want to put some mayonnaise in between your baby girl’s ass crack and take a bite.”
Despite the harrowing content of these sickening comments, the District Attorney’s office ordered the criminal charges against 42-year-old Troi “Star” Torain to be dropped in six months as long as he does three measly days of community service.WTF? That’s not justice.
Damn has it got that bad in your sh.tty career that you are digging up old stories.?lol You never were funny to begin with .do the world a favor and “Donny Hathaway” yourself. Lol
Nigga, I’m right here. You got 55 minutes now…where’s the hate? You think this is ‘hurting’ my rep? Fuck outta here, bitch nigga. Where’s the knock out blow you were gonna give me? I’m waiting. 54 minutes…-S
Damn you 50 years old? Lol holy sh_t .lol man your old ass should be somewhere getting his 401k and prostate checked. Hell you doing on sohh.lol
You kind of old for this bs and why you always look away when you talk looking like you got parkinsons you unfocused mf.lol
lol
Star uz a fool my nig
ayy ummm what?
you still here you skinny chicken shit?
Well damn !! Lol
Lmao y’all fooling lol
imagine that 3 way
Me, u and 787 right?
why is my name in yo mouth? do i stay on yo mind?
Let ho’s be ho’s ….. she will end up fuckin somebody else, can’t change a ho into a house wife lol lol…….
who cares?
Voice in Paris Hilton’s head: Fuck that big booty bitch, she knocked me out the limelight….she got that famous for no reason at all shit on lock and nobody cares what the fuck I do anymore. Who ever thought fucking black guys would become the thing to do?
Out loud: Congratulations to her. I’m so happy for her.