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Carmelo Anthony continues to stay close to Hip-Hop culture. He recently gave his take on whether or not J. Cole is a top 10 MC of all time and his answer got a lot of people talking.

As per Complex the NBA legend is an avid listener of Rap music. On the latest episode of his 7PM in Brooklyn podcast he and his crew discussed who should be included in the top 10 greatest of all time rapper conversation. When J. Cole’s name came up, Carmelo had a very thoughtful take. “We never seen anybody bookend their career and be very serious and intentional about it,” Anthony said. “So to that point, where we’re bookending careers, then yeah, J. Cole is definitely a top 10 rapper.” He added, “Also, he’s smart. He realized that we’ve never seen the bookends of somebody’s career.”

Carmelo went on to theorize that J. Cole will most likely have his hand in sports once he does retire from Rap.  “I think we’ll see him back in sports — documenting sports, content wise, telling stories through his eyes. I think we’re gonna see a lot of that.” Carmelo also defended J. Cole’s decision to back out of the beef with Kendrick Lamar. “When you’re at peace, there’s nothing that can disturb your peace,” he explained. “I’m not willing to allow this bullshit ’cause that’s too much work, and if I got to put that much work in to deal with that, then I’m losing my balance.”

You can see Carmelo Anthony discuss J. Cole’s place in the top 10 of all time list below.