Jim Jones Explains Why He Decided to Pass on Signing Drake
“I’m like, ‘Who the f*ck is Drake on Degrassi?’”
Jim Jones has revealed that he passed on signing Drake during the early days of the OVO rapper’s career.
In a recent interview, Capo explained that he was probably on the road when the Canadian rapper was first pitched to him. “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 said. “He let me hear him rapping like this boy could rap his ass off.”
“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.’”
Drizzy eventually signed with Lil Wayne in 2009, “Once again, I just wasn’t seeing past what I seen in front of me and shit like that.” He added, “Weezy was smart enough to do so, and I remember being on another tour in the back of the bus and hearing Weezy and Drake rapping and Drake saying something about Princess Diana and it’s going crazy. I’m like ‘Wow, life is crazy. This n*gga is dead nasty, f*ck what he look like.’”
Elsewhere in music, Jamie Foxx confirmed he and Ye are “cooking.”
