When Future and Metro Boomin dropped their latest collaborative album “We Don’t Trust You” final month, followers had been fast to latch onto Kendrick Lamar’s guest verse on “Like That,” the place he took pictures at Drake and J. Cole for together with him as half of the “big three” on their duet “First Person Shooter,” launched final yr.
While Drake has vaguely referenced Lamar’s diss on his present tour, J. Cole took a direct method with the shock release of his new undertaking “Might Delete Later,” responding to the diss on the concluding track “7 Minute Drill.”
On the monitor, the Fayetteville, NC native opened by addressing Lamar’s diss. “I got a phone call, they say that somebody dissing / You want some attention, it come with extensions,” he raps. “He still doing shows but fell off like ‘The Simpsons’ / Your first shit was classic, your last shit was tragic / Your second shit put n—s to sleep but they gassed it / Your third shit was massive and that was your prime / I was trailing right behind and I just now hit mine.”
He continues by referencing Lamar’s five-part “The Heart” collection that he’s rolled out in items all through his profession. “He averaging one ‘Heart’ verse like every 30 months or something / If he wasn’t dissing, then we wouldn’t be discussing nothin’ / Blood don’t make me have to smoke this n—a ’cause I fuck with him / But push come to shove on this mic I will humble him.”
Fans have been eagerly awaiting a response from the rappers after Lamar’s cameo on “Like That.” Lamar initially took difficulty with J. Cole’s bars that put them in the identical tier of success: “Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K. Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three, like we started a league.”
Lamar fired back with a pointed response: “Yeah get up with me, fuck sneak dissing / ‘First Person Shooter,’ I hope they came with three switches,” he sneered. “Motherfuck the big three, n—a, it’s just big me.”
While rigidity continues to simmer, J. Cole gifted listeners with 12 tracks included on “Might Delete Later.” The undertaking options visitor appearances from Ari Lennox, Gucci Mane, Bas, Central Cee and Cam’Ron. He final launched his sixth solo album, “The Off-Season,” in 2021.