Drake's fifth proper album Scorpion isn't one that many people claim to be their favourite, despite a few massive hits. Jack Harlow, on the other hand, believes it'll be looked upon as a classic.
In an interview with Rap Radar, Harlow and host Elliot Wilson spoke about the nostalgic feel listening to the biggest rappers of the 2010s evokes.
"What people want is changing, what the youth wants is changing, and it's almost like Drake, Kendrick, and Cole, their voices are damn-near nostalgic at this point," Harlow said. "We know this is good 'cause this is from the days when things were a little better."
Harlow added that due to that nostalgia, people are more likely to revisit their favourite albums from their youth rather than keep up with new releases.
“It’s almost like we’re living in a time where people feel like this era isn’t special enough to stamp anything as timeless or classic as if the time of classic shit, it already happened.”
Doubling down on his feeling that nostalgia is skewing the way people appreciate music, Harlow thinks Scorpion "is gonna be a classic."
Harlow then went on to talk about the state of stardom in media in a post-pandemic world.
"I was talking to John Mayer about this, about how culture's so fragmented," he said. "Artists put out music and the artist's job is to respond or comment on culture and society. He and I were talking about how there's no shared human experience anymore because everyone's living in their own pockets."
"Everyone's choosing what to digest. You got your shows, you got your own artists so you get to live in your pocket and you don't need to be told who's a star, who's most important. When Kendrick, Drake, and Cole, that was still a time where people were saying 'Nah everyone needs to know these are the most important people.' Now everyone gets to choose what's important to them. Everyone is living a fragmented version of culture."
And though he points out the harms nostalgia can cause to artistic growth, Harlow is at least consistent with his views on his favourite Drake album. Back in 2019, he told Hot 97 that Scorpion was his top Drake project.
Last year, Drake and Harlow teamed up for the track "Churchill Downs."
