Jim Jones opened up about his time working as Vice President of Urban A&R at Koch Records in 2009 and revealed he could have signed several big artists before they blew up, including Drake and J. Cole.
“J. Cole used to be in my studio all the time. I can say that wholeheartedly, and then Drake, Alan Grunblatt let me hear some of his music. But I kept telling him he had no image. I didn’t understand it, it didn’t connect, but he could rap his a– off,” Capo told The Art of Dialogue.
He continued, “Would it have been nice? Yeah, that might have been dope. But who knows, they might have not had the success that was given to them from the work they put in if it would have went through the channels that I had to offer.”
Another artist he said he could have signed was The Weeknd, who he said he was supposed to meet but missed out on the opportunity because a close friend of his died the same day.
All three artists went on to become some of the biggest mainstream artists of modern times. Did Jim Jones drop the ball not signing Drizzy?