Drake’s Care Package arrived on Friday (August 2) and came with a slightly reworked version of the “Jodeci Freestyle.”
At the time of its original 2013 release, a line in J. Cole’s verse offended a few folks who deemed it insensitive to the autistic community.
“Go check the numbers dummy, that’s just me gettin’ started/I’m artistic, you niggas is autistic, retarded,” he rapped. Now, that line has been scrubbed from the newly released version.
Shortly after the song dropped, Cole responded to the backlash.
“In a recent verse on the song ‘Jodeci Freestyle,’ I said something highly offensive to people with Autism,” Cole said then. “Last week, when I first saw a comment from someone outraged about the lyric, I realized right away that what I said was wrong.
“I was instantly embarrassed that I would be ignorant enough say something so hurtful. What makes the crime worse is that I should have known better.”
Drake echoed Cole’s sentiments on his OVO blog, writing, “I share responsibility and offer my sincerest apologies for the pain this has caused. Individuals with autism have brilliant and creative minds, and their gifts should not be disparaged or discounted.
“This was a learning lesson for both of us, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to try to right this wrong.”
Check out the new version below.
I miss the days when rappers didn’t sell out their own lyrics for every random whingebag on the internet.
Facts.
I miss the days before pc and sjw’s…
Shut yo bitch ass up
Wtf man…IT’S RAP! It’s supposed to rub some people the wrong way. That’s like going to a bar and being mad because people are drunk. Don’t go! In this case, don’t listen! Man oh man…I never thought I’d miss the days when rappers rapped about good old fashion guns, girls, and drug dealing. Bring back hardcore rap. REAL hardcore rap, not drugged out autotune syrup zombies.
benny the butcher – the plugs I met. Griesedla beats are hard AF on most their albums. If you haven’t gave them a try….
The Niagara Falls Mafia? Nah, I’m good.
Shit there’s too many “communities”… Rap and comedy will suck in 10 years cuz of this hypersensitivity.
I have autism… fuck you
I wouldn’t even put the song out censored tbh. Either put it out or don’t
Haha. ‘Controversial’. So sensitive. Give it 5 years and all lyrics will be like Pharrell’s Happy.
I’ll just keep the version with the lyric included…this sensitive new era is ridiculous
I hear that. I’m mean what would theses sensitive pum pums do In the 90’s. Go listen to dmx 1st album skip to x is coming dissect the lyrics! Now that would be some real controversial lyrics now. No one made a big deal when that came out. This generation soft.
Exactly! I hate my own generation and how my generation reacts to things.
Fucking snowflakes… don’t listen to it then, that simple
Score one for the Drake boys…cant stop the gang #albumofthecentury #platinumfirstweek #yallbroke
WTF!!!This is HIP-HOP it mentions killing/b1tches/f4g5/etc etc this aint no pretty scene n never has been, it serves a message/purpose… anyway This serves J.cole right ( an artist i totally respect) to do music with weak a55 rappers who are more popstars than rappers… C`mon j.cole keep it real bruh!
yo this shit is a fucken classic to me….
Imagine if old-school Eminem censored his lyrics every time he offended someone? Newsflash… Don’t bow down to the offended pussies. There’s a reason Trump is president, and it is mainly because SJW PC culture has been pushed on us so hard, that we needed a dick head to come in and take everything down a notch.
Hate him or love him, I’m sure you at least like him destroying tthe PC BS.
yo this shit is a fucken classic to me>>>
How do you change a lyric on a freestyle? Freestyles are off the top of the head, not written.
A freeverse is off the top a freestyle is a written song that can be recited over any beat
You have that backwards fam
This story is how you say……RETARDED
Which is also an offensive term which is odd no one is bothered about that.. My debbys furious
That was pretty clever to me honeslty I laughed at that. These sesnetive SJW groups need to chill not everything is a offense.
Raise a kid with autism and then come say that dumb shit. FOH
That’s retarded.
That’s shit was fire I don’t think he should have scrubbed it
IM OFFENDED &I DONT FIND THIS AUTUSTUC
Line was wack, not offensive, just lazy for Cole.
I think it’s a brutal precedent to set when you’re lcensoring rap music the last pillar of free speech.
That moment you remember Redman’s old verse on Tha Headbanga “…Redman’s what they call me. Wicked with style you’d think I have Cerebral Palsy…”