In J. Cole’s Vibe interview, he said he might produce Wale’s next album while they’re on tour. Read an excerpt from the interview below:
You’ve been working with TLC for your next single, “Crooked Smile.” What do you think about how they’re depicted in the promos for their VH1 biopic?
It’s crazy, it was scary how good they look, how close they look. I was thinking, “Lil’ Mama? How is she going to be Left-Eye?” Then I seen it and she was, like, spitting image. It was amazing.Your What Dreams May Come tourmate Wale says he wants you to produce half of his next album. Is that something that you two have discussed?
We’ve talked about that for years. It’s just about timing. Since we’re going on tour together I don’t see why that can’t happen. Wale is somebody that I want to see win all the time. All the times he wins I get happy because I know what he’s been through. With “Let Nas Down” I’m kind of pulling the curtains, showing you how the industry was working, which helps it not have to work like that anymore. Because people wise up and they know better. But in order to get to that you have to have guinea pigs. You had to have people that were victims of the way the system worked. To me Wale was a guinea pig that I got to watch firsthand because when I got signed he was about to put out his first album and I saw the way Jimmy Iovine and Interscope did him. No disrespect to them but it was the system at the time. So every time he wins I get happy because I know what he was up against. I went through a similar thing, but I made it through, and nobody should have to go through those things anymore. Nobody that’s a real artist should ever have to got through that because the curtain’s been pulled.
