J. Cole has hit back at Kendrick Lamar on his surprise new project Might Delete Later.
On the mixtape’s closing track, “7 Minute Drill,” Cole appears to reference K. Dot’s recent disses at him and Drake, and returns fire with some scathing bars of his own.
Taking aim at the perceived quality of his friend-turned-foe’s catalog, he raps: “Your first shit was classic, your last shit was tragic/ Your second shit put n-ggas to sleep, but they gassed it/ Your third shit was massive and that was your prime/ I was trailin’ right behind and I just now hit mine.”
He continues: “Now I’m front of the line with a comfortable lead/ How ironic, soon as I got it, now he want somethin’ with me/ Well, he caught me at the perfect time, jump up and see.”
The Dreamville boss also channels JAY-Z‘s “Takeover” diss at Nas: “He averagin’ one hard verse like every 30 months or somethin’/ If he wasn’t dissin’, then we wouldn’t be discussin’ him.”
He then compares his sparring match with Kendrick, who he once planned to record an album with, to the scene in New Jack City where Wesley Snipes’ character Nino Brown tearfully kills his brother.
“Lord, don’t make me have to smoke this n-gga ’cause I fuck with him/ But push come to shove, on this mic, I will humble him/ I’m Nino with this thing, this that ‘New Jack City’ meme/ Yeah, I’m aimin’ at Gee Money, cryin’ tears before I bust at him.”
This sentiment is repeated later in Cole’s verse when he raps: “My text flooded with the hunger for a toxic reply/ I’m hesitant, I love my brother, but I’m not gonna lie/ I’m powered up for real, that shit would feel like swattin’ a fly.”
He then repurposes another line from Hov’s “Takeover”: “Four albums in 12 years, n-gga, I can divide/ Shit, if this is what you want, I’m indulgin’ in violence.”
Cole ends the fiery song with a warning to the rest of the rap game while teasing his upcoming album The Fall Off.
“This is merely a warning shot to back n-ggas down/ Back in the town where they whippin’ work and traffickin’ pounds/ My jack jumpin’ ’bout a rapper makin’ blasphemous sounds/ Switchin’ sides like the tassel on the cap and the gown/ I’m fully loaded, n-gga, I can drop two classics right now,” he spits, before adding: “Let me chill out, man… The Fall Off on the way, n-gga.”
“7 Minute Drill” arrives just two weeks after Kendrick Lamar took aim at J. Cole and Drake in his guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That,” from their collaborative album We Don’t Trust You.
Referencing the pair’s chart-topping single “First Person Shooter,” he rapped: “Fuck sneak dissin’, first-person shooter, I hope they came with three switches/ I crash out like, ‘Fuck rap,’ diss Melle Mel if I had to.”
He added: “Think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD/ Motherfuck the big three, n-gga, it’s just big me.”
While Drake has yet to respond on wax, he seemingly addressed Kendrick’s lyrical darts during a show in Florida days later.
“A lot of people ask me how I’m feeling. I’ma let you know I’m feeling,” he told the crowd. “I got my fucking head up high, my back straight, I’m 10 fucking toes down in Florida and anywhere else I go.
“And I know that no matter what, there’s not a n-gga on this Earth that could ever fuck with me in my life!”
Take a bow. Hard to beat Cole atm, even Kendrick struggling.
Jermaine in a league of his own…he churns out music, and none of it’s trash, in addition to that dreamville label production….K-Dot should have stayed quiet…..
Honestly I do agree with Cole when he said Kendrick is getting gassed up. Music is subjective so I’m speaking for myself but I’ve never really got the hype around Kendrick, I just find him boring and pretentious. I think it’s because he blew during a quiet time for hip hop. Drop Kendrick into 1998 – 2002 and nobody would be calling him the GOAT of anything. But I do respect that he doesn’t do interviews and podcasts running his mouth, at least he keeps what he has to say for his music. I also think fans are reading too much into the situation like there’s some kind of deep reason for the battle. Kendrick is being competitive, that’s all it is and it’s a cornerstone of hip hop. It’s almost a sport in a lot of ways. But I think in a lyrical tussle it’s J Cole taking the win. Drake is just a non-entity, I wouldn’t even put him in the discussion.
None of them run their mouths in interviews. J. Cole is as low key as they come. Kendrick Lamar is talented but doesn’t make good music. I’ve heard everything he’s ever done even before he got mainstream love, and it’s like this dude has great ability but wastes it. He makes most of his music to help white people feel like they’re connected to what black people are going through, and that fake bully shit he’s always been on is hilarious. Like dude, quit it. J. Cole had to pull fruity booty Puffy off your midget ass.
In Kendrick’s defense he’s never aimed to be a traditional rapper. If you go back to his first album (GKMC was his 3rd) he’s always made artsy hood music. You may not be a fan but he blew up making the same music he makes now. Definitely isn’t hype.
Not really. First times I heard him, he was doing traditional West Coast rap. Seems like he went in the direction of the alien voices and all of that extra shit because it gave him a gimmick to run with. That’s why it’s annoying when white people are the main ones driving this narrative that he’s one of the greatest rappers of all time when he got on that weird shit he’s been on most of his mainstream career. He’s not. It’s just their interpretation of what they want it to be. Like this dude can really spit and doesn’t. It’s just as annoying as sing songy Drake for different reasons.
WHEN was the first time you heard him? What project? On Kendrick Lamar EP the first song was with a Scottish soul singer. Overly Dedicated had rock influence all over it so yes he’s always been artsy and avant garde hip-hop. Get your emotions together bro. I still have Kendrick early projects, Cole’s The Warm-up & Friday Night Lights and Drake’s So Far Gone saved on my phone so you can’t tell me shit. All original versions not the re-releases.
Not sure why race is even brought up, but that’s the lower vibration. Cole was brought into this world by a white women, so was drake, yet they claim black culture. Culture vultures is what it is. Kendrick wouldn’t even be a backpack rapper if it wasn’t for Dre. Each of them has talent and good in this generation. But GOAT.. lol funny to me. None of them belong in that conversation.
All kinds of mixed people identify as black, especially if their Pops is black. That’s how society views them no matter what if they can’t pass as white.
Btw, Dre has barely produced any music for Kendrick Lamar, so I don’t know why you think he’s responsible for his success. He clearly has talent, but he needs to make better music.
Shit was a light pack
He’s said it too many times that he doesn’t want to do the dissing for dissing sake shit. It’s corny as hell as much as you hear some of these dummies talking about it’s a sport where you go at somebody just to do it. You step to somebody if you have a real problem, and if you were going to do that, you do that in your 20s when all of you are at the beginning of your careers, not 15 years in. Like nothing prevented him from turning down features on both Drake and J. Cole’s albums ten years ago if he didn’t fuck with either of them, and J. Cole especially was not a star then so you can’t even say he did it for the career help. It makes me not respect any of that shit.
Calm down buddy. Go outside and catch some sunlight. Take a walk. You’re contradicting everything you say with the same essays defending Cole but clearly you’re acting the same way you’re alleging KDot is doing in this here rap game.
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It’s comments and I have the day off from work. Your bitch ass getting offended I’m discussing it is the problem. Anything else dumb fuck?
Fire track. Only thing I don’t like is Cole saying Kendrick is dissing for attention when they dissed him first on FPS. Let’s get back to bars baby!!!
Before this dropped i felt J cole needed not to reply coz Kendrick is clearly attention seeking and has lost his place since his last album turned out to be wack. But am enjoying the music. Guilty pleasure.
I love J Cole but what he said about Kendrick’s albums you could easily say about his –
‘your last sh*t was tragic’ Mr Morale but Vs Cole’s off season? Hmm… Most would side with Kendrick surely. I’m not a massive fan of either… Plus Cole’s has his own tragic album (Cole World), even he admits that!
‘your second sh*t put ****** to sleep but they gassed it’ Pimp a Butterfly? You could say that about Cole’s 4 Your Eyez or Off Season imo. And Pimp is way better than both of them let’s be honest.
And then ‘4 albums in 12 years I can divide’ but they both had 5 year gaps between their last albums lol. Yea I know J Cole has done Dreamville albums but still, solo-wise their output rate is similar.
All he’s critiques of Kendrick can be thrown right back at him, you could argue they better fit Cole’s catalogue 😄
Hopefully Kendrick blasts back and J Cole’s comes back A LOT stronger next time because this disappointing, easy Kendrick 1-0
I didn’t like it as much, but The Off-Season is one of his favorite albums for a lot of people. J. Cole has always made better music than Kendrick though. We need to stop letting white people make lists of who is good in hip hop. Billboard had dude as the second best rapper of all time, lol. Like nah dog. He ain’t even top 20, none of these new dudes are. Both J. Cole and Drake make better music than Kendrick though, which is sad because he has a lot of natural ability. He just doesn’t make good music.
Yeah I agree with you. Cole has no business dissing Kendrick’s catalog when A. His catalog is as bad if not worse and B. This mans drops a project once every 3 years.
Don’t know what you’re listening to. Must be with those white hipsters listening to the shit. Kendrick’s music is like Eminem’s, it gets no play in the hood. Melle Mel hit the nail on the head. People put his music in with their podcasts and audiobooks.
^^^^ I’ve only heard white people bring up kendrick in hip hop conversations. It makes them feel black for a few minutes. Meanwhile I saw mad black people blasting The Off-Season in their cars when that shit dropped.
Yep. He’s literally the black Eminem. Both of them can rap, but they don’t make good music and definitely don’t make shit anyone is sitting down bumping for the pleasure of listening to music.
This is called moving the goal posts. Just because it wasn’t solo albums, you can’t say their output rate is the same lol. And everything after GKMC was ass.
This is called moving the goal posts. Just because it wasn’t solo albums, you can’t say their output rate is the same lol. And everything after GKMC was ass.
Not bad. But Cole made 4 your eyes only and KOD. Two of the most boring projects ever. And Im throwing Born Sinner in there too. Snoozefest
If you need workout music, there are plenty of people who make that shit. It’s kind of why the game is where it is right now.
I like Cole but his albums are pretty weak.
Thank you!!
You trippin… Born Sinner one of his best projects….
1. Friday Night Lights
2. 2014 Forrest Hills Dr
3. Born sinner
4. The Warm Up
5. The Off Season
Not bad. But Cole made 4 your eyes only and KOD. Two of the most boring projects ever. And Im throwing Born Sinner in there too. Snoozefest
Cole is on some Pac shit! This is how you fire shots in the rap game. Kendrick doesn’t have enough material to box with the God J Cole. 4 albums in 12 years…two of them was ahhh and the other was “Damn.” That is a one hot album every 12 year average lol. Oh shit lol. Cole is right! Kendrick ain’t ready for this war with Cole.
Son, never put pac and Cole in same sentence. Kendrick, drake and j Cole are most boring overhyped rappers….
He so really guy about his last album being tragic. That shit was the worst part n history.
Mediocre track. Cole and Kendrick never had their “illmatic” albums. All this white talk but their album sales if removed from all the white boys who bought them, would be impactful to say the least. Someone like roc Marciano has a much better discography than both of them but not in this so-called “top 3”. I like Cole and Kendrick can make good music. Just don’t buy their hype right now. Beat selection is trash from both of them as of recent.
Kendrick, future, metro, weeknd, and Ross all got buttfucked by diddy. Drake decline any advances and his former friends won’t speak up as they might have taken part in sex trafficking themselves
Cole is a dude with a ton of talent, who mostly wastes it on his albums. I’m a fan of his but nearly always end up underwhelmed by his releases. So if this brings out some better work from him then that would be great.
Finally someone admitted Mr. Morale is trash. If Kendrick responds its over for him
Eh. Truth is, both Kendrick and Cole have become massive disappointments. They were once reminiscent of old-school hiphop with a new twist. Kendrick doesn’t sound remotely west coast now… sounds like every other radio rapper with annoying and constant ad libs, high pitched whining voice. J Cole just can’t ever replicate his come up music. Both aren’t close to the music they were making 10 to 15 years ago.
Both J Cole and Kendrick are elite MCs. Anyone saying one of them is boring are full of shit. They’re the two best MCs right now.
Son, those cats are like listening to mono track record compare to stereo record. These cats will never be The Notorious, Big L, Big Pun, Mos def, Kool G Rapp, Kane, Rakim, Raekwon, Inspectah dech level…
J. Cole just sounds boring on track. some of the flows and melodies on this are straight up Drake sounding! Give me a rapper with charisma any day, J.I.D for example, thanks for him at least Cole.
J. Cole has never in a million years sounded like Drake. Fuck wrong with you? In my opinion, he should change his flow up more than he does, but he’s the best out of all of those dudes with his pen, and he makes better music than Kendrick on any level you look at it.
This is what hip hop need, just rap! I don’t care what people say this hot or not or comparing this and that.. just get these people to rap..idk maybe I’m just stuck in this mid 90s – early 2000’s rap era
Not sure why race is even brought up, but that’s the lower vibration. Cole was brought into this world by a white women, so was drake, yet they claim black culture. Culture vultures is what it is. Kendrick wouldn’t even be a backpack rapper if it wasn’t for Dre. Each of them has talent and good in this generation. But GOAT.. lol funny to me. None of them belong in that conversation.
Light work, seemed like a warning shot. I wonder if Kendrick is gonna address the Cole/Diddy fight years ago…..
Cole is a feature artist. Drake…most gassed up entertainer. Can’t call him rapper. Probably last time he was relevant was the first two albums then really, just gas. Either way, between Drake and Cole, Drake is closer to a classic album but has, 0. Please tell me one album Cole has released that’s widely acknowledged by the rap game as classic, 0. Talking about u got two classics tucked in. Please come up with one before you say you got two. Forrest was close but nope.
Both of these men need to reconcile and patch things up. They are my favorite rappers. I listen to them over avocado toast and cold brew, overlooking the mountains.
Fires back with a water gun
This is the best thing that has happened in hip-hop for a long time. I don’t smoke crack mother f*****r I sell it. Cole said it was a ‘light work’ warning and he has two in the vault. I can’t wait for a K-Dot response and a Cole World retaliation!! Love this ISH x
This is the best thing that has happened in hip-hop for a long time. I don’t smoke crack mother f*****r I sell it. Cole said it was a ‘light work’ warning and he has two in the vault. I can’t wait for a K-Dot response and a Cole World retaliation!! Love this ISH x
Drake not even in the conversation, but K-Dot and Cole firing fire at each other is a hip-hop head dream. Bring it on my mans