I don’t expect too many people here to care at all about this, but I’m posting this anyway in case there’s anyone else who this is relevant for.
I’m also posting because now J. Cole allegedly wants to take 7 Minute Drill off of Spotify, claiming he only made it out of “peer pressure”. (Garbage!!)
So if you know what’s going on…what do you think about Cole’s apology? What do you think about him for apologizing? What do you think about Drake for trying to downplay the whole thing without responding? Who’s side are you on, and why?
However, I assume most of the people reading this have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about…much less care. If you do care to find out…here’s an overview.
Drake, J. Cole, and Kendrick Lamar have long been considered to be on a tier of their own at the top of the 2010s/2020s in rap. The order within that tier has been debated for a while, but not many people debate that the top tier exists, and not many people debate that those are the three guys in it.
In Drake’s album last October, he got a song with J. Cole on it, which he envisioned was going to break the internet. “First Person Shooter” wasn’t the first time these two collaborated, but it was the first time they went big together. It was the first time any of the three of them teamed up to go big in ten years. Here’s the track…
I’m not “Genius”, so I’m not going to break it down here for probably only a few people to care about. You can look it up to see all of the references in here.
About a month ago, Future (number 4-5 of the past decade and a half) dropped an album with Metro Boomin, who’s the best producer in rap right now. I don’t think really anyone is disputing that. Anyway, Metro and Drake worked together on several tracks throughout the years. They had a bit of a falling out over a couple of things around 2022, but the biggest thing was Drake trying to invite himself on Metro’s album “Heroes and Villains” when Metro didn’t think there was any room for him (there wasn’t). Basically, Metro and Drake don’t like each other. Future and Drake did an album together back in 2015, and they hadn’t had any public drama, so nothing noted between the two of them.
Their album drops, and Kendrick Lamar has a surprise feature on “Like That”. Having not appeared on a song all of 2023 (if I recall correctly), he comes out hot…dissing both Drake and J. Cole multiple times. This track is when the war officially started.
Especially when Metro tweeted this…
https://x.com/MetroBoomin/status/1771019711209517336
Here’s the song…
Then…J. Cole drops a surprise album titled “Might Delete Later” a week or so ago. The last track, titled “7 Minute Drill”, was his much anticipated response to Kendrick…who he has praised publicly several times before.
Now…Cole wants Spotify to take the song down, claiming he was peer pressured into making a diss track. I personally think that’s a load of garbage, because he’s big enough to not care what anyone tells him to do.
Not only was this friendly competition between Cole and Kendrick, but it was also going to bring out the best skill in the best rappers. Especially as the genre has seen a downturn in the past couple of years. I’d hate to see it end as it just started.
But we can’t forgive Drake for trying to respond with an instagram post. That was pathetic.
Future and Metro drop their sequel album “We Still Don’t Trust You” tonight. It’ll be interesting to see if there’s anything relevant on that.
