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21 Savage Explains Why He Doesn’t Feel He’s on Drake or J. Cole’s Level…Yet · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Savage was recently named
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Speaker 1: Complex Magazine's Best Rapper Alive, a title he's humbled by.
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Speaker 1: He also regularly works with two A list rappers in
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Speaker 1: their own right, J Cole and Drake, who he recorded
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Speaker 1: an entire album with last year's Smash Her Loss, and
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Speaker 1: while he's proud of me called the best rapper alive,
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Speaker 1: he also tells the magazine he doesn't feel he can
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Speaker 1: compare himself to Drake or J Cole. Yeah, he says,
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Speaker 1: there's just a difference. That's years of work building a
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Speaker 1: fan base that's gonna be there until they die. I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm working to be on that level there on.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the same. If I do something corny,
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Speaker 1: I would lose a lot of what I got. That
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Speaker 1: would not happen with them. They could do whatever, and
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Speaker 1: their fans are not going anywhere. I'm working towards that level,
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Speaker 1: for sure, but I'm not there yet. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: I'm light years behind. They're more solidified and I'm still
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Speaker 1: building metro booms creeping which one Savage of the Weekends
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Speaker 1: out now that's direct from Hollywood