Whereas Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud continues to warmth up, J. Cole, who’s collaborated with each, has fond reminiscences of his work with the Compton rapper.
On the fourth episode of his restricted audio collection podcast Inevitable, Cole performed two songs that he recorded with Kendrick in 2010, titled “Shock the World,” which options BJ the Chicago Child, and “Temptation.” On the Tuesday, November twenty sixth present, per Billboard, Cole recounted assembly Kendrick on the 2010 XXL Journal cowl shoot, the place the Dreamville Data co-founder was photographed alongside different rappers, together with High Dawg Leisure artist Jay Rock. Cole and Kendrick, who reconnected at a celebration for rap group U-N-I, stayed in touch, and Cole would quickly ship him beats.
“Once I dropped ‘Blow Up,’ I keep in mind him hitting me like, ‘N***a, I would like a kind of!’” Cole mentioned about his dialog with Kendrick. “He was speaking about how loopy the beat was. Once I was out in L.A., he got here by No I.D.‘s studio and I linked with him…I performed him the beat for ‘HiiiPoWeR,’ I performed him ‘Temptation’ with my verse on it, I performed him a few different joints that had one verse on it.”
He continued, “Once I performed them for him, I used to be like, ‘Bro, you possibly can have these if you need.’ I keep in mind he mentioned—and it at all times caught with me ’trigger I had by no means heard no person say this to me earlier than—he was taking a look at me like, ‘N***a, are you certain you need to give me these?!’ “I’m like, ‘Yeah, go forward, take them.’ He was like, ‘Bro, you sleeping on your self.’
“It struck me as a result of it was really the stone-cold reality of my actuality at the moment. I used to be so centered on getting this unicorn hit for my album that I used to be really sleeping on the shit that I did effectively.”
Each songs had been performed throughout an in-store look, as seen above. Kendrick would launch “HiiiPoWeR” as a single from his 2011 venture, Part.80. Additionally, on Tuesday, it was introduced that the following installment of Dreamville Pageant will likely be held from April 5-6, 2025, at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.