Chika once looked up to J. Cole — he was and still is one of her “favorite rappers.” In 2018, her viral freestyle over Cole’s “1985” put her on the map. But on Tuesday night (June 16), shortly after Cole surprise dropped the new single “Snow On Da Bluff,” the Warner Music Group artist had a change of heart.
The disappointment was palpable as Chika outlined why she felt Cole had let her down. In a series of tweets, she explained his perceived response to Noname in the form of a song was inappropriate and blasted him for checking a Black woman’s tone.
She started by quoting a line from “Snow On Da Bluff.”
“‘help us get up to speed,'” she wrote. “sir. all you niggas got wifi … if a man was saying half the shit our good sis was saying, nobody would be concerned with her tone. imagine telling someone to treat the ignorant like children while critiquing their tone… like a child? what did this do for us as a community but display a ‘leader’ telling a black woman to mind her tone when speaking on radical liberation?”
Chika was also confused as to why Cole would even respond to Noname this way.
In one of his verses, Cole spits, “Instead of conveying you holier, come help get us up to speed/Shit, it’s a reason it took like two hundred years for our ancestors just to get freed” and “If I could make one more suggestion respectfully/I would say it’s more effective to treat people like children/Understandin’ the time and love and patience that’s needed to grow,” which didn’t appear to sit well with the Alabama native.
J. Cole Responds To 'Snow On Tha Bluff' Backlash: 'Follow Noname'
“the song could’ve said anything else at this critical and heavy time,” she continued. “It was just a nigga in his feelings… imagine being so deluded that instead of hearing her, you think you have the authority to make ‘suggestions,’ boy, i’m hot. it’s condescending as fuck & tone deaf. like… is that really the problem right now? this is one of my favorite rappers… doing this… FOR. WHAT?”
When a fan mentioned Cole had the time to sit down with Lil Pump for a dialogue about the “cultural divide” but not Noname, Chika replied with several “THANK YOUs” and “cuz this is when i stopped publicly stanning.”
However, Chika made it clear this wasn’t a campaign to “cancel” Cole.
“nobody said cancel him & to support that narrative directly silences the voices of black women who are also doing shit for the community,” she added. “critique and cancellation are not the same. if that was the case, wouldn’t we be saying he’s tryna cancel her? I’m disappointed in this.”
After a few hours of rest, Chika was back at it on Wednesday morning (June 17) and commented on Cole’s response to all of the backlash.
“‘educate me pls,'” she wrote. “black women: *write paragraphs about why what you said when you said it was wildly out of line.* ‘i stand by it.’ lmfao. bet.”
You know it’s crazy these days how everyone is overtly sensitive and always on the lookout for what “offends” them. Noname was just out of line for making that statement. What’s wrong with these people always picking fights where there’s need for none.
Chika can also go deep on a d*ck. The last word you could ever associate Cole with is tone-deaf. Fwym! Attention seeking mfs!
So fucking accurate
the only people complaining about this song are white people and uncle/aunt toms. His true fanbase loves it.
I’m from Bama and a big fan of hers but she may be burning a couple of bridges. For someone really just starting to get recognized it would behoove one to tread lightly. Some battles you can’t win no matter how much you kick and scream. Exact reason why Cole said what he did after the song dropped in response.
It’s not anything to be won. She sounds ignorant as fuck trying to roast dudes who speak on social issues in their music when the industry is a cesspool right now. She think their pro black songs are getting them streams? GFOH. Ignorant shit like this is why people throw their hands up and don’t fuck with any of it. It’s exaclty what Lil Wayne has always said about why he doesn’t rap on social stuff. Everybody ain’t got the spirit of Pac or KRS One or Public Enemy or some shit.
She — nor any other woman — needs to “tread lightly.” Fuck that. Women are oppressed too!!! SPEAK UP! Be loud and be heard!
So we need to make sure black women can speak up by telling a black man to shut his fucking mouth? I’m lost on this one. Defend Noname for talking shit, attack any male for defending themselves. Equality at its finest!
Somebody is tone deaf in this exchange, but its’ not J. Cole. Dave Chapelle’s response to Don Lemon applies here as well.
Clout chasers taking shots at people not even knowing what the hell they are talking about. How she gone call J. Cole out in the first place when he is literally out in the streets over this shit. He beeeen active and protesting about these things. I don’t think noname was even talking about Cole, and if she was, she’s wrong, obviously and was cloutchasing. This shit is fake as fuck controversy.
She had one viral freestyle going at Kanye and now she trying to get at everybody. Im starting to dislike her internet persona. No disrespect to her as a person, I don’t know her. But she’s kind of like an overbearing loudmouth fat girl. And no, I’m no body shaming. But she’s falling into a lot of stereotypes that plague black women. Not just opinionated, but like overly opinionated in a wannabe domineering way. Oh well.
HER BODY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. Sit down.
No, I’ll continue standing because I’ve fucked several fat chicks and as I previously stated, I’m not body shaming her. She’s shaming herself by adhering to modern stereotypes of black women. And if you are noname really– guess what? I’ve never heard of you until today. I don’t care how educated or researched you are. I am, too. So, you sit down. Please. And thanks.
Gross. Nobody asked about your sexual exploits. Just the way you speak about women speaks volumes on your character and proves somebody didn’t raise you right. Learn how to respect women. Period.
I was raised by a woman who told me if a woman hits you, hit her ass back. I have Twitter and IG, seldom use them. I sent mu first serious girlfriend to jail for putting hands on me, called the cops on her. They locked her rich black ass up! My point is this: I don’t care who you are. Fuck you. Oh, by the way: I’m a better rapper than Chika. Sue me.
Your mama sounds crazy. And so do you. Boy bye.
She’s a black military vet, born in Mississippi. Her two cousins were murdered by the KKK. Say what you wanna say, but I’ve been to the protests for years. Call me a sellout, or crazy, or a bitter old man. You’re entitled to your opinion, I’m entitled to mine. I know about the black feminist plight, and Im down with it to a degree. But because I dissed ya girl Chika you have all these judgmental statements. I don’t give a fuck. Im black as hell and been through enough jail, cops, black woman bullshit than Chika and Cole combined. 15 cops, nigga. Automatics pointed square in my face. Woosah.
And every black person in this country got stories like that. Sound just as ignorant as those “my granddady was a vet,” so you better stand for the flag folks. Every black person got personal stories of somebody they know getting smoked by the police, sent to prison with offensive lineman number bids over some bullshit, or some other black American tragedy. Miss people with that bullshit. She ain’t special. She needs to be getting at the actual people who are against her, not the people who have been enlightening the masses to it when they could be like Lil whoever and talking about popping pills and shit.
Look, man. Or, woman. I’m not here for the back and forth. Whether you believe it or not, I’ve been hunted by the CIA and all types of crazy shit, b. Do not ask why. Peace.
You might not know it. J Cole might not know it. But Cole and I used to post on the Canibus Central message board when he went by the name Therapist. We critiqued each other’s work. So I don’t really care what the latest uproar on Twitter is. He’s not my favorite MC, not even top 20. But we were peers, and I’ll vouch for him. Anyway, good luck with your Twitter activism and cancel culture. Peace.
What is this the Woke Olympics?! Ugh.
Why is chika calling people out? She ain’t no star yet. Why put your energy into negative. Why doesn’t she put energy into getting her career off the ground.
Because she’s an ignorant dumbass.
El. You are complete trash. Hop off Cole’s dick and sit the fuck down.
El, Did you and Cole give each other massages and happy endings as well? You sound dumb as fuck.
Nah your all doing exactly what they want ya too
Chika, shut the fuck up. just because you listened to 2-3 J.Cole tunes doesn’t mean he’s forced to speak out on anything. Dude been out in the streets protesting. He’s been rapping about this shit for a long time. Go bother another nigga.
Mannn… these Twitter mufucks tryna cancel everybody nowadays. Sensitive ass niggas. And I’m a Pisces. Peep “The Sickest Blues” by The El on Soundcloud. Peace.
They already canceled Aunt Jemima syrup. Guess Cole and Kendrick are next. If Twitter ain’t happy, nobody is
There are so many things with this Chikas response. 1) Y is it necessary for Cole to talk to Noname 1on1 when she didn’t give home the same courtesy? 2) Y is it that equality for black women includes letting them speak and shitting tf up, but for black men it includes checking them for speaking their same truths? 3) I thought the true meaning of equality was treating somebody as an equal? Cole talked to her the same way he’s talked to anybody else who has came at him in his career. If it’s only the females that he needs to respond to differently, thats not equality at all. He talked to her just like he would talk to his male peers. You can demand equality while demanding to be treated differently! ??♂️