Jermaine Dupri has reacted to J. Cole’s assist on Lil Durk’s“All My Life” and he paid the Dreamville honcho some high praise over the weekend.
The So So Def boss saluted Cole via Twitter on Sunday (May 21) and pledged to never listen to another off-beat rapper again.
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“Yo!!! J cole verse is so in the pocket on this All My Life , i can never listen to another offbeat rapper,bible,” Dupri wrote.
JD’s compliment comes as Billboard announced on Monday (May 22) that the Dr. Luke-produced “All My Life” debuted at No. 2 on the latest Hot 100 chart.
The lofty debut marks Durk’s highest-charting single as a lead artist (he reached No. 2 on Drake’s “Laugh Now, Cry Later”) and also ties Cole’s chart peak alongside “m y . l i f e.”
Yo!!! J cole verse is so in the pocket on this All My Life , i can never listen to another offbeat rapper,bible !!!
— Jermaine Dupri (@jermainedupri) May 22, 2023
The #Hot100 top 10 (chart dated May 27, 2023)
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) May 22, 2023
With his work on recent features like “All My Life,” Cole has been proving critics wrong and he collected an apology from 03 Greedo who criticized JC during an interview with VladTV in 2018, admitting he “hated” his music and called him “lame.”
But Greedo took to Twitter on Sunday (May 21) to address his comments from five years ago, sending a formal apology to J. Cole while praising him as a “top tier” rapper.
“Dear J.Cole i was 103% inaccurate about you being [trash],” he wrote. “You kill every fuccin feature. So id like to take my 2018 statements bacc @JColeNC is top tier. I was just trying to express myself believing n-ggas with street images don’t get counted as lyricist.”
Lil Durk even admitted that J. Cole got the best of him on their first collaboration — a rare feat.
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“He smoked my ass on that one, for one — barely,” Smurk said when asked about his experience working with the Dreamville don. “That barely happens. But shout out to J. Cole, shout out to [Dr.] Luke, we made it happen.”
“All My Life” is set to land on Durk’s Almost Healed album which is slated to arrive on Friday (May 26).
