While on stage at Dreamville Festival on April 7, 39-year-old rapper and record producer Jermaine Lamarr Cole, known in the rap industry as J. Cole said his sorry toward Kendrick Lamar after throwing shade at him on his new album, ‘Might Delete Later.’
Earlier in October 2023, in Drake and J. Cole’s collaboration song named ‘First Person Shooter’ from Drake’s 8th album ‘For All The Dogs,’ their song had that one verse that gave the idea that they were the three biggest hotshots of today’s hip-hop:
“Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K. Dot [Kendrick]? Is it Aubrey [Drake]? Or me? / We the big three, like we started a league.”
Lamar did not take this lightly and in one of the tracks of his album ‘Like That,’ included a verse saying that there is no such thing as “big three – it’s just big me.”
The feud between the so-called ‘big three’ rappers in the industry took another level of escalation when J. Cole responded back, criticizing Lamar’s discography and recent albums in ‘7 Minute Drill’ which is J. Cole’s album’s last track.
Two days later, while at Dreamville Festival, he told the fans how terrible he had been feeling for the past 2 days.
“That sh*t don’t sit right with my spirit,” the rapper admitted.
J. Cole apologizes to Kendrick Lamar for dissing him on ‘7 Minute Drill’ at Dreamville Fest…
“How many of y’all think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest ever to pick up a mic”
“I haven’t been sleeping right the last few days… Ib, we taking that diss off streaming… pic.twitter.com/gafW1g6Hw9
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) April 8, 2024
He let the crowd know how problematic it was for him to respond to Lamar’s call out, yet felt ‘blessed’ to be with compared to Drake and Lamar whom he sees as amazing artists. Moreover, Lamar was especially mentioned when J. Cole expressed his sincere appreciation for his talent.
“How many people think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest motherf****r’s to ever touch a fuc***’ microphone? Dreamville, y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I,” he stated.
“I just want to come up here and publicly be like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest sh*t. I say all that to say it made me feel like 10 years ago when I was moving incorrectly. And I pray that god will line me back up on my purpose and on my path,” he continued.
“And I pray that y’all are like, forgive a ****a for the misstep and I can get back to my true path,” the rapper added.
After J. Cole’s apology, he proceeded to perform ‘Love Yourz’ as his reminder of getting back to his true purpose.
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