Jack Harlow has listed Kanye West,OutKast and more in his Hip Hop album Mount Rushmore.
In a sprawling interview with Rap Radar, the Louisville rhymer shouted out Ye, Drake, OutKast and JAY-Z as he listed off some of his favorite albums of all time.
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“Late Registration, Aquemini, Nothing Was The Same,” Harlow said at the half-hour mark. “I love Blueprint, you know what album I love? When Fish Ride Bicycles by The Cool Kids…I love the Cool Kids. Cool Kids give me all that bounce and tempo that I like.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Harlow added that today’s current G.O.A.T. contenders such as Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole, now sound almost “nostalgic” because they harken back to a time in Hip Hop when “things were a little better.”
“What people want is changing, what the youth wants is changing,” Harlow said at the 48-minute mark, “and it’s almost like Drake, Kendrick and Cole, their voices are damn near nostalgic at this point. We know this is good ’cause this is from the days when things were a little better.”
He continued: “You hear Drake’s voice come on in the club and it almost reminds you of 2012, which was a great time. It reminds you of 2016, which was a great time. It’s almost like the history of the big three continues to reign on because what they’ve already accomplished is like…well we know we’re getting some good shit from them, and it’s why you see people go back and instead of banging new shit they’re listening to Forest Hills Drive, or they’re listening to Late Registration.
“It’s almost if we’re living in a time where people feel like this era isn’t special enough to stamp anything as timeless or classic as if the time of classic shit. It already happened.”
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While Harlow admitted that he wasn’t sure how to articulate his thoughts about the state of rap quite yet, he interjected that Drake’s 2018 double-disc project will likely meet the standard of a “classic” down the line.
“I guess what I’m saying is, I think Scorpion is gonna be a classic,” Harlow declared. “I think these albums as time passes, it’s just how it is.”
Harlow just dropped off his last album Jackman, which was released at the end of April and served as the follow-up to his 2022 album Come Home the Kids Miss You. Harlow’s sophomore effort debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.
