J. Cole displays on Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud on shock single ‘Port Antonio’
J. Cole has weighed in on the high-profile Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud on his shock new single, ‘Port Antonio’.
Again in April, Lamar and Drake went face to face in a scathing rap battle after the previous known as out the Canadian rapper and Cole on Future and Metro Boomin’ ‘Like That’. The ‘No Function Modelz’ star did initially reply with ‘7 Minute Drill’ on the mixtape ‘Would possibly Delete Later’, however retracted the diss monitor and apologised swiftly after.
On Wednesday (October 9), the LaFayette native stunned followers by dropping ‘Port Antonio’, which samples Lonnie Liston Smith’s ‘A Backyard of Peace’ and Cleo Sol‘s ‘Know That You Are Liked’. Cole defended his choice to step again from the battle on the five-minute monitor.
He rapped: “I pulled the plug as a result of I seen the place that was ’bout to go / They wished blood, they wished clicks to make they pockets develop / They see this hearth in my pen and suppose I’m dodgin’ smoke / I wouldn’t have misplaced a battle, dawg, I woulda misplaced a bro / I woulda gained a foe.”
He then commented on the savage allegations Drake and Lamar exchanged on their respective diss songs: “Jermaine is not any king if which means I gotta dig up grime and pay the entire staff / Of algorithm bot n****s simply to sway the entire thing / On social media, competing on your beneficial memes to be thought of greatest.”
“I perceive the thirst of being first that made ’em each swing / Defending legacies, so traces obtained crossed, maybe regrettably / My associates went to struggle, I walked away with all they blood on me,” Cole continued, suggesting each rappers went too far within the feud.
‘Port Antonio’ arrived on the one-year anniversary of ‘First Particular person Shooter’ – the Drake and Cole collaboration Lamar replied to on ‘Like That’. Cole immediately addressed the track: “They are saying I’m pickin’ sides, aye, don’t you lie on me, my n***a / To begin one other struggle / Aye, Drake, you’ll all the time be my n***a / I ain’t ashamed to say you probably did rather a lot for me, my n***a / Fuck all of the narratives / Tapping again into your magic pen is what’s crucial.”
“Reminding these people why we do it / It’s not for beefing, it’s for talking our ideas,” Cole stated, explaining why hip-hop is necessary and never only a system to fire up hatred. He added: “Pushing ourselves, reaching the charts / Reaching your minds, deep in your coronary heart / Screaming to search out feelings to the touch / Somethin’ inside to open you up / Show you how to deal with the tough occasions and shit / I’m sending love, ’trigger we ain’t promised shit.”
The Drake-Lamar battle got here to a halt this Could after the Toronto star dropped ‘The Coronary heart Half 6’, on which he stated his staff fed Lamar false data and denied allegations of paedophilia lobbied in opposition to him on ‘Meet The Grahams’ and ‘Not Like Us’.
‘Not Like Us’ has since turn out to be one among Lamar’s most profitable songs, touchdown as his fourth Billboard Quantity One and breaking the Spotify file for essentially the most streams in sooner or later for a hip-hop track. At his sold-out Juneteenth ‘Pop Out’ live performance, Lamar performed the track six occasions – Dr. Dre launched the track the primary time, whispering the opening lyrics, “I see lifeless folks.”
Lamar will headline subsequent yr’s Tremendous Bowl Halftime efficiency. There was a hearsay that Drake served Lamar a “cease-and-desist” letter so he couldn’t carry out ‘Not Like Us’ on the career-defying gig however the ‘Headlines’ rapper denied the declare.
Lately, a brand new documentary known as Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake was green-lit by the UK broadcaster, Channel 4, and will likely be a “cultural exploration of two of essentially the most influential voices in fashionable music.” A launch date has not been introduced, nor has a broadcast plan for the US.
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