Jim Jones has doubled down on his recent claim that Drake is the greater rapper, even over JAY-Z — and he doesn’t care how anyone feels about it.
The Dipset capo made his remarks on the Rap Caviar podcast on Thursday (April 6), where he was asked to clarify earlier remarks where he crowned Drizzy the G.O.A.T. over Hova.
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“I mean, why not?” Jones asked, rhetorically. “Drake is the only one that gets played anyplace on this Earth, and they’re gonna know it in English … If you’re not putting Drake in the Top 2 of all time, like, what are we gonna do? We gonna keep putting shade on his name? He has broke every single statistic, period. You heard?
He continued: “Okay, JAY-Z has done some shit for Hip Hop that will never, ever be duplicated. He is HOV.”
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When special guest Bootleg Kev interrupted and asked if everyone could agree that JAY-Z was No.1 on the “G.O.A.T. list,” Jim Jones wasn’t hearing it.
“We can’t agree on that,” he said. “I can’t agree to that … But let me talk some shit. Yes. He’s at the top of the barrel when it comes to what he’s done. He’s a billionaire. He’s done some shit for dope boys that people never even thought could be. He’s put himself in rooms that you never could imagine. Alright? And his business acumen is way bigger than his music acumen, at this point. I haven’t heard too much JAY-Z music in the last six to seven years that was really hittin’ out here in these streets.”
Check out the interview clip below:
Jim Jones previously sang Drake’s praises in a Complex interview on March 10, and the comments raised a lot of eyebrows.
“I would say he’s the greatest of all time,” Jimmy told the outlet. “I would just give that to him. And I mean, there’s a lot of people from the beginning and people that invented Hip Hop, I know.
“But the greatest of all time, it’s a big statement, and the relevancy that he keeps showing year after year, hit after hit, record after record. Any song that he has put out has seemed to go multiple platinum. That’s never happened before in history.”
He continued: “I mean, there are a few other people that do astronomical numbers like that, but he really in it, you know what I mean? From all angles of music. It ain’t no place you go where they’re not going to play some Drake records to get the party started.
“He moves around here like the real Bruce Wayne. He’s my spirit animal, man. I just got to give credit where credit is due, and not taking away from nobody else.”
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Meanwhile, Jim Jones recently dropped a new collaborative album with Hitmaka titled Back In My Prime. Released on March 10, it comes equipped with eight tracks and includes features from Jeremih, Ty Dolla $ign, Stefflon Don, and more.
