Consequence has addressed the complicated history between J. Cole and Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music family following the Dreamville leader’s 2016 “False Prophets” diss track.
On an episode of The Art Of Dialogue podcast, the Queens native recalled giving J. Cole a cameo in his 2007 music video for “Callin Me” off his debut album Don’t Quit Your Day Job!
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Cons also explained how Cole wasn’t doing any dissing around Ye when he was trying to get his rap career to take off in the late 2000s.
“Whatever prompted J. Cole to write [“False Prophets”] … and it touched him spirit wise in that way… When he was trying to get on, it wasn’t no “False Prophets” then. It was how do I get to the profit margin?
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“I could’ve signed J. Cole but we was transitioning from out of Sony. J. Cole used to go to St. John’s. Myself, B. Dot from Rap Radar, we all went to the same barber shop. They played me [his music] and I met him, he was cool. I just wasn’t in the frame of mind to do it.”
J. Cole pulled no punches on December 2016’s “False Prophets” when subliminally targeting Kanye months after his hospitalization leading into his 4 Your Eyez Only album a week later.
“Ego in charge of every move, he’s a star/ And we can’t look away due to the days when he caught our hearts. He’s falling apart but we deny it/ Just to find the half-assed shit he drop, we always buy it,” Cole raps.
“He tell us he a genius but it’s clearer lately/ It’s been hard for him to look into the mirror lately. There was a time when this n-gga was my hero maybe/ That’s why his fall from grace is hard to take. Cause I believed him when he said his shit was purer and he the type of nigga swear he real but all around is fake.”
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Either way, it’s water under the bridge for both parties as Consequence said he smoothed things over after talking to Dreamville co-founder Ibrahim “Ib” Hamad.
“I actually spoke to Ibrahim when there was the situation with J. Cole and Ye,” he said. “And we pretty much put that to bed. Me and Ibrahim had a man-to-man talk about pretty much what I’m discussing. Drake and J. Cole always come at it like, ‘Y’all OGs.’ And in fairness to them, we gotta behave like that.”
Listen to “False Prophets” below.
