Drake was allegedly hesitant to continue performing with J. Cole after Kendrick Lamar dissed them both on Future and Metro Boominâs âLike That.â
On the latest episode of the New Rory & Mal podcast, Mal claimed that Drizzy told him he had doubts about joining Cole on stage at this past weekendâs Dreamville Festival, where the North Carolina rap star controversially apologized to Kendrick for firing back at him on â7 Minute Drill.â
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âHe might get mad at me for talking about but he knows heâs my n-gga. I asked Drake one question. I said, âYo, you going to Dream Fest this weekend?'â Mal said.
âAnd he gave me an answer that was kind of weird Friday night hearing it, but Sunday night it made all the sense in the world. He says, âI donât know, should I? âCause itâs weird right now. Are we performing the record? Can we ever perform âFirst Person Shooterâ?'â
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The podcaster continued to relay Drakeâs response, seemingly in his own words: âHe has to change the bar now. He has to shit on Kendrick now. So we gonna shit on Kendrick every time we do the record? Nobody wants to hear us together unless we dissing Kendrick.â
Listen to the segment below.
Mal asked Drake if he was going to Dreamville Fest this weekend to join J. Cole
Drake said:
"idk should I? cause it's weird right now⊠are we performing the record? (First Person Shooter)"
â via Rory & Mal podcast / Elliott's tweet pic.twitter.com/FviPav9L09
â SOUND (@itsavibe) April 9, 2024
Malâs comments had many fans thinking about âFirst Person Shooterâ differently given it features a lyric that praises Kendrick (âLove when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K. Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali,â Cole raps).
One person said on X: âI never even thought about this. Kendrickâs verse ruined âFirst Person Shooterâ for Cole and Drake because how can they perform it when they praised Kendrick in it? [crying face emoji] Kendrickâs playing chess.â
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Another called out Drake for abandoning Cole by not showing up at Dreamville Festival: âDrake left Jermaine out on his own. Thatâs your friend, sir.â
Someone else joked: âIf Drake was on stage while Cole apologized that wouldâve been the funniest thing ever,â while one user claimed that Drake was âscaredâ of Kendrick.
Neither Drake nor Kendrick have yet commented on J. Coleâs much talked about apology to the Compton rapper during his headlining set at Dreamville Festival.
Expressing regret for dissing Kendrick on â7 Minute Drill,â he said: âThat shit disrupts my fucking peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that, trying to find a little angle and downplay this n-ggaâs fucking catalog and his greatness, I want to say right now tonight, how many people think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest motherfuckers to ever touch a fucking microphone? Dreamville, yâall love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I.
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âI just want to come up here and publicly be like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest shit. I say all that to say it made me feel like 10 years ago when I was moving incorrectly. And I pray that God will line me back up on my purpose and on my path.
âI pray that my n-gga really didnât feel no way and if he did, my n-gga, I got my chin out. Take your best shot. Iâma take that shit on the chin, boy. Do what you do.â