Jim Jones has claimed that he once passed on signing Drake, J. Cole and The Weeknd.
Speaking to The Art of Dialogue, Jones claimed the opportunities came about when he was Vice President of Urban A&R at Koch Records in 2009.
He said: “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 ass off.”
Jones added: “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.”
Jones also revealed that he failed to sign The Weeknd due to personal reasons as he met the Candian singer on the same day a close friend was killed.
Jones is not the first person to reject signing J. Cole early in his career.
