According to reports, J. Cole may have had some words for some of his peers in his new track, “False Prophets.”
One verse was about a rapper Cole looked up to that hasn’t been able to make good music in a minute and it’s all because of his ego.
To many, it just seems like the verse in question is about Kanye West.
Check out the lyrics below:
Life is a balance/You lose your grip you could slip into an abyss/No doubt, you see these n*ggas trippin’/Ego in charge of every move, he’s a star/ And we can’t look away due to the days when he caught our hearts/He’s falling apart but we deny it/ Justifying the half-a*sed sh*t he drop, we always buy it
When he tell us he a genius but it’s clearer lately/ It’s been hard for him to look into the mirror lately/There was a time when this n*gga was my hero maybe/That’s the reason why his fall from grace is hard to take/’Cause I believed him when he said his sh*t was purer and he the type of n*gga swear he real but all around is fake
The women, the d*ckriders, you know, the yes men/ Nobody with the balls to say something to contest him/So it grows out of control/ Until the person that he truly was all along is starting to show
J. Cole also addressed ghostwriting, so many are assuming her may be referencing Drake:
Wonder what happened/Maybe it’s my fault for idolizing n*ggas based off the words that they be rappin’/But come to find out these n*ggas don’t even write they own sh*t/Hear some new style bubbling up then they bite that sh*t
Wale may have been a subject in the track as well:
I got a homie, he a rapper and he wanna win bad/He want the fame, the acclaim, the respect that’s been had/
By all the legends, so every time I see him, he stressin’/Talkin’ ’bout, ni*ggas don’t f*ck with him, the sh*t is depressinAnd I know he so bitter he can’t see his own blessings/Goddamn, n*gga, you too blind to see you got fans, n*gga
Check out the track below:
I can’t listen to it now but he pretty much said the truth about all of them. But I don’t know how this will turn out. Nowadays even rap is dominated by stan culture. So many people worship these people and they are going to try to take Cole down for saying the truth. Especially Drake’s stans.
Umm Cole ain’t Meek. He sells a lot of albums and has a lot of respect. Drake ain’t taking down a damn thing! Drake’s delusional stans thought they could take down Kendrick too but how did that work out? Meek is the only career Drake could hurt because he wasn’t doing that well before anyway!
Meek would have been ok if he actually had a decent response. But he’s not a good rapper so there’s that. It was an easy victory for Drake. A rap battle against Kendrick or Cole would not end well for Drake and he’s knows that. Lyrically and talent wise, he would lose.
All of this. It was easy to make an example out of Meek. But trying that with a better rapper who has big fan base too? Nope.
Yas bae I agree.
Kanye’s naive fans really believe the lies the Kardashian machine put out about Kanye’s fake mental illness. Kris Jenner even had no shame with it and threw his mom into it. So now they are trying to shame J Cole for a song he recorded before the publicity stunt. People are really defending a rapper who is most likely committing insurance fraud and getting mad at J Cole for calling a spade a spade. Kanye is not mentally ill. He’s just a egomaniac and douche bag.
I’m going to go ahead and get my preorder on iTunes.
I didn’t even know we could preorder it now. Let me get on that. Thanks girl.
I don’t think he’s talking specifics, I think he’s talking about the entire rap game. I appreciate his music- he’s a real hip hop artist…. he has a real love for the art, sometimes you have to take the lead & call out those who have gotten too comfortable.
I think he’s talking about Wale and Kanye for sure because those lyrics fit them to a T. I think the verse about ghostwriting applies to Drake as well as others.
He also went in on all the “Lil” rappers. I love J Cole.
The fact that everyone always assumes someone is referring to Drake when ghostwriting comes up now makes you wonder if Meek really lost the war. I don’t think he did. Drake’s credibility will forever be questioned. And that does matter in Hip Hop.
I’m so here for this. And people shouldn’t be crying about this because J Cole drags himself in his music all the time. He’s just real. We need that right now in a business full of fakes.
You cannot be mad at the truth. And every lyric in his song was the truth and things people have complained about when it comes to every artists referenced. I’m glad J. Cole is back. I didn’t think he would release an album this year. Especially with a new wife and baby on the way.
Some people are really MADT about this! LMAOOOOO good job Jermaine!
This is what Hip Hop needs right now.