J.Cole Talks About Working With No ID-MTV

In a recently released interview J.Cole briefly talks about the overall production work his debut album will consist of. From working with No ID to mostly producing his debut album himself; J.Cole talks about that and more.

“I’m in with No ID right now. He’s incredible. It’s fun,” Cole told us recently about his album. “I realized this last night when we was in there. My favorite producer, after I started producing [and] paying attention to producers, was Kanye. He came along right at that time. That’s my heaviest influence on production. Being in with No ID last night and watching him work, it was like, ‘Duh.’ I been in with other producers, it don’t click. It don’t connect. It connects with him. I figure if I grew up looking up to Kanye, Kanye is cut from the No ID cloth.”

“I do want to do the majority of the project,” he explained. “The negative side of being a producer and rapper — ’cause I’m a rapper first — the negative side of being a producer on top of that is I got real picky with beats. I’m trying to break outta that zone and maybe get on some beats I might not have rapped on before. I think the key of some rap artists is sometime you can make a beat that’s not so hot, hot. But the production side of me is [saying], ‘You not gonna get on that. Listen to those drums.’ “

Props: JK