The moment Jack Harlow realised Drake was the “best rapper alive”
Jack Harlow claims Drake is the “best rapper alive” and has pinpointed the moment he realised.
The Louisville rapper released his latest album, Monica, in March and has heaped praise on Drizzy in a new interview.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Harlow stated that he realised Drake’s greatness following his If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late project, which was released in 2015.
“I remember vividly this album coming out and being like, ‘Oh, Drake’s the best rapper alive,’ right then,” he said. “It was powerful, powerful.”
Harlow collaborated with Drake in 2022 on the song ‘Churchill Downs‘, which appeared on his Come Home the Kids Miss You album.
“It was an amazing experience,” he recalled. “Watching him work, not punching in … It’s just cool to see a rapper really be a rapper and not be some packaged thing that a team is putting together.”
He continued, “The minimalism of his approach. I know he’s been known to strip things off of beats, act as a producer in his own way. I relate to that. I like to take things away, I like to reduce down to the bare essentials and maybe build back up from there.”
Harlow believes Drake has improved on a technical level, as the Toronto rapper prepares to release his new album, Iceman, on May 15th.
“I think he does a great job of recognising what’s actually necessary,” he said. “A lot of his greatest songs are so spacious, him and a couple instruments. And I think people forget, just either out of habit or a need to compensate, that you don’t need that much, sometimes. It’s really in the essentials. That’s something I definitely learned from him.”