After it was announced that J. Cole’s fourth studio album, 4 Your Eyez Only, will be released on December 9, the Dreamville head honcho dropped a 40-minute documentary titled “Eyez” via TIDAL.
The doc’ features previews of two new J. Cole songs, one of which, titled “False Prophets,” sees Cole rap over the same beat that Joey Bada$$ used for his 1999 track “Waves.”
After the song began to circulate online, Bada$$ took to Twitter to react to the news, revealing that J. Cole played him the song “months” prior to its recent preview.
“Imma tell Cole like I told Kanye earlier this year. … I still got the best Waves of all time! Haha” Joey Bada$$ tweeted, referencing Yeezy’s The Life of Pablo cut, before continuing in a subsequent post. “Nah but nothing but love for my big brother @JColeNC. He played the song for me & asked for my blessing on the beat months ago. Real one #4”
Joey Bada$$’ tweets can be viewed below:
Since its recent preview, J. Cole’s “False Prophets” has sent fans and commentators into a frenzy, most notably for the cut’s string of subliminal shots at what could be interpreted as Kanye West, Drake and Wale.
Y’all reaching
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I remember I used to look on hhdx to find new people to listen to because they used to post so much good underground rappers that nobody heard of… now it’s all lil yachty rip offs and mumble rap. I always wandered how they can keep getting comments like yours and mine and not change but it’s because they don’t care about the hip hop circles anymore, sorry bud we are a minorities in the music world now and hiphopdx seems to not care about real hip hop fans
Because we are the Vocal minority. Those that dont complain keep quite and bring click, which is what HHDX lives of off.
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Can’t blame HHDX. It’s gotta be rough out here tryna report on these simple bunch of n!&&@$. After u knock em once then what? If they not interesting then how can the stories be?