Rappers also regret it, especially those who dissed Kendrick Lamar and understood the mistake they made. It happened to J Cole, not the latest arrival on the scene, who last Friday surprisingly released his new album Might Delete Later which contained a response to Lamar’s verses contained in Like That, his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin. Lamar had in fact dissed Drake and J Cole and theirs First Person Shooter – in which J Cole proclaimed the three as the three greatest in rap today, “We the big three, like we started a league” – putting a nice distance between him and his colleagues: “Motherfuck the big three, n*gga, i’ts just big me” (“There’s no such thing as the big three, there’s only me”).
In Migh Delete Laterin the track 7 Minute DrillJ Cole responded with a series of bars like “I got a phone call, they say that somebody dissing / You want some attention, it come with extension” dissed / do you want some attention? This will have consequences” and “He still doing shows but fell off like The Simpsons” (“he also does concerts but has fallen off like the Simpsons”).
Now, a few days later, J Cole returned to talk about his album from the stage: «I’m proud of it, except for one part, a part that makes me feel like I’ve done the weakest thing in my life. And I know that wasn’t what people wanted to hear. J Cole thus explained that he made the diss because of a certain external pressure from those who asked him to respond: «I was undecided because inside me I know well what I think of these two rappers and I feel blessed to even be at their side in this game . This is why I was undecided, I didn’t feel like it, but the world wants to see blood.”
And again: «The last two days have been terrible, I feel like I haven’t slept for ten nights. Spiritually she hurt me, that shit doesn’t feel right inside me, she screwed up my inner peace.” To conclude, first an invitation to Kendrick to respond (“Hit me, I’m ready to take this blow. It’s right, I pray that you can forgive me”) and then a public declaration of love: “Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest to Having ever touched the microphone, we all love Kendrick Lamar, right? Me too”.
