J.COLE TURNS DOWN DRAKE'S NAS COMPARISON: GUESS HE WOULD RATHER BE COMPARED WITH JAY-Z

A couple of days, DRAKE compared J.COLE (member of JAY-Z's ROC NATION imprint) to nas, and i guess cole has other plans. He started off his response (in a recent interview) giving props to nas, saying it was too early to be compared to the rap veteran, but that wasn't the only reason he declined the comparison.


"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)

Well, from reading that, you can deduce that he would rather be compared to jay than nas; just like many other new acts on the scene. Although they acknowledge nas's skills and creativity on the mic, they would rather be associated with jay's financial status.

 Below is drake's initial comment on j.cole...
"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)


Well, all said and done, it is just cool that the two of them would pay homage to the real legends of hip hop.