After their Final Four victory in April, Drake claimed to have been a longtime Kentucky Wildcats basketball fan after visiting the team in the locker-room. The rapper’s association with the program has only increased, his friendship with coach John Calipari on full display as he warmed up with the team ahead of a game last month.
Now, Calipari, who coached for UMass, Memphis, and for a short stint in the NBA prior to his current post, compared Drake to Pop icon Michael Jackson in an interview with Campus Insider, explaining how the rapper has remain grounded despite his success.
“Well it started pretty early when he was just coming on to his own,” Calipari said of his friendship with the Toronto artist. “I’ll tell ya, I loved him as a person. I’m like, ‘This guy, if he makes it, I wanna see if he’ll change.’ Grounded, the same guy, kind heart. Then you find out, like, wow, Michael Jackson talented, megastar, has not changed.”
Last month, Drake was filmed shooting an air ball during the warm-ups with the Wildcats, catching flack and then responding to jokes from Kevin Hart about the miss.
Obvious troll.
Jay Balfour how can i take your journalistic view serious when you misspelled WILDCATS. I understand that is not a high end website but take pride in your work. Smh
Arron thanks for pointing out the typo. But as a white guy who goes on a Black hip hop site to just point out typos, how can I take your opinions seriously…
How can we not respond to the dude who wrote this article? And how is this a “black hip hop site” when you post about white rappers and white people constantly like TMZ. Also, you should take your readers comments seriously not derail them when they’re pointing out YOUR mistakes. Journalism is supposed to adhere to basic grammatical standards why the fuck can’t you proofread your shit.
I’ve been coming to this website for 7 years and you just pointed out why I should come here.
JAY B you a fuck boy
Watts misppeled? Do’nt undastend?
Wow Jay you idiot
Who said this was a black web site ? Can blacks even make websites ? Are there any black web developers ? lol
dont get uppity boy.. Or you’ll end up back in Africa you monkey
haha 2 crackkas, cathing feelings over what I said, same bitch ass white dude talkin about typos. u know the attention span of todays humans, almost less than a gold fish. in other words, so wen people read the mispelled word, they quickly forget about, u actuallly sound like someone who once worked for journalism and got fired from it, so you act like a scorned bitch now…. You wanna be webster dictionary…. now correct my spelling bitch
Oh, I get it now. Jay Balfour is Real Talk. So does that mean other HHDX staff are also acting like trolls on the comments?
@Black Album, I’ll go back to Africa the day you decide to get your land grabbing, unwashed, hot dog water smelling ass back to the caves of Caucus you mouth breeding cretin!
Hahahahahahahahahaha! Joke of the day. Drake is light-skinned as MJ, but that’s about it. Stop with this nonsense.
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Sorry Cal Drake is no where near Michael Jackson there may never be another King of Pop ,Michael come out of a era of real talent to many to mention, todays so call artist have no real talent couldn’t play a instrument to save their life these auto tune millie villie frauds ,
Drake is the new Michael Jackson..
Kendrick is the new Tito Jackson.