close
close

J. Cole talks about Kendrick Lamar and Drake Beef dropping out

J. Cole discusses quitting Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef.

The rapper surprised fans and dropped a new single titled “Port Antonio.”

On the song, Cole seemingly addresses the fallout of Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s beef. “I pulled the plug because I saw where that was going, they wanted blood, they wanted to click to grow their pockets” he knocked.

The verse continued: “I would not have lost the battle, dog, I would have lost a brother, I would have won an enemy, and all for what? / Jermaine ain’t king, if that means I have to dig up dirt and pay the entire team of algorithm bot n*****s just to influence things on social media, competing for your favorable memes”

Elsewhere in the song, Drake was addressed directly. “Hey Drake, you’ll always be my n***a. I’m not ashamed to say you’ve done a lot for me, my n***a.” Listen below.

J. Cole previously sent warning shots to Kendrick Lamar on his track “7 Minute Drill.” “Your first s**t was classic, your last s**t was tragic / Your second s**t put n***as to sleep but they gassed it, your third s**t was huge, that was your prime / I was right behind, now I just hit mine.

At the time, Cole responded to Lamar calling him out on the song “Like That.” Lamar rapped:

“Yeah, stand up, f*ck sneak dissing/’First Person Shooter’, I hope they came with three switches. You think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD/Motherf*ck the Big 3, n***a, it’s just a big me.”

J. COle apologizes:

Cole has since apologized for dissing Lamar.

“…Man, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. In my damn life, right?” said Cole about the making of the track. “And I know, this isn’t what a lot of people want to hear… I can hear my n***as up there right now like… ‘No, don’t do that.’ But I have to keep it at 100 for all of you. I almost had a relapse, right? Because you all heard things that happened two to three weeks ago, however long it took… you all heard that the bazooka dropped.”

He continued: “I felt conflicted because I thought, I know I don’t really feel about it. But the world wants to see blood… so I say all that to say that in trying to get this music out there, I moved in a way that feels bad to me mentally. I tried to poke my nigga back and I tried to keep it friendly. But at the end of the day, when I listen to it and when it comes out and I see the lecture, it doesn’t sit well with my spirit.