Cassidy has fired off a new freestyle over Drake and J. Cole‘s No. 1 single “First Person Shooter” – reminding the world he still has bars for days.
Taking to Instagram on Wednesday (November 8), the Philly native shared his take on the For All the Dogs cut, echoing some of Drizzy’s bars by starting it off with: “Who the G.O.A.T.? Who the G.O.A.T.?”
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“I’m not them clown n-ggas/ They still want 360 deals and I’m running circles around n-ggas,” he raps. “It’s own business until I’m finished/ I ain’t never hang ’round quitters!/ My gun big but if I take the suppressor off, it’ll sound bigger!”
Listen to Cassidy’s “First Person Shooter” freestyle in full below:
“First Person Shooter” helped J. Cole secure the first No. 1 single of his career last month, which beat out another song from the same album: the Yeat-assisted “IDGAF.”
During a rare appearance on Lil Yachty‘s A Safe Place podcast, Cole admitted that he sort of didn’t want his first No. 1 to be an “alley-oop” from his good friend Drake. “If it would’ve went No. 2 it wouldn’t have mattered,” he said. “I wouldn’t have felt no way. If the other song would’ve went No. 1, it’s like, bruh, I’m cool.
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“I’d almost feel better not having my first No. 1 being off a Drake alley-oop, you know what I mean? I love Drake and I love that I’m a part of that moment with him, with Michael Jackson. But it’s like, bruh, I’m grateful I’m a part of it, but if that other song would’ve went No. 1, n-gga, I’m still grateful I’m a part of it.”
He added: “I wasn’t at home like, ‘Come on y’all! Pick up the streams, man! We gotta beat this muthafuckin’ Yeat! Come on!’ Nah, I wasn’t doing that.”
Cole also credited the fact that his and Drake’s fans still “buy singles” with pushing “First Person Shooter” to the top of the Hot 100. According to Luminate, the song sold 4,000 digital copies in its first week, in addition to earning 42.2 million streams and 4.3 million radio airplay audience impressions.
Aside from handing J. Cole his first No. 1 single, “First Person Shooter” also wrote Drake further into the history books as he equaled Michael Jackson’s tally of No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The song secured Drizzy his 13th chart-topper, leaving only The Beatles (20), Mariah Carey (19) and Rihanna (14) ahead of him.
J. Cole, meanwhile, previously came close to topping the Hot 100 with “My Life” in 2021 and “All My Life,” his collaboration with Lil Durk from earlier this year, both of which peaked at No. 2.
