Daylyt had a conversation with J. Cole after Cole dropped his Kendrick Lamar diss “7 Minute Drill,” and has revealed what led to his retraction.
Appearing on TDE affiliate Mackwop’s live stream last week, Daylyt reflected on the convo he had with his collaborator and the thought process behind Cole deleting the song from streamers and apologizing to K. Dot for dropping it.
“So right before, I went to talk to Cole and we was chopping it up about everything,” he began. “He was telling me personally, ‘It ain’t sitting right with me. Me and Dot cool, we way cool outside of this music.’ It’s like slap boxing – we slap box and you hit me to hard and when the fits start flying, it’s a fade. So that’s kind of how he looked at it.
“He’s like, ‘I don’t want it to end up something that I don’t want it to be. I just feel like I shouldn’t have jumped out there like that. All he said was, ‘Big three is just me.’ I ain’t have to do a whole song. I could have just kind of been a little subliminal right back.’”
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He continued: “So I told him, ‘If it’s not sitting right, then it’s up for it. Get that energy out of here.’ I told him that on some man to man shit. And I ain’t gon’ lie, it was bothering him. And people like to twist shit so I’ma clear it – it ain’t like he was scared to rap. […] But the next day [he retracted it]. I ain’t think he was gonna take it to the stage like that, though. [But I commend him] for that.”
J. Cole recently addressed the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake on his new song “Port Antonio,” marking his first statement since he bowed out of his brief battle with Kendrick earlier this year.
Released by surprise, the song saw Cole defending his decision not to go to war with Kendrick: “I pulled the plug because I seen where that was ’bout to go / They wanted blood, they wanted clicks to make they pockets grow / They see this fire in my pen and think I’m dodgin’ smoke / I wouldn’t have lost a battle, dawg, I woulda lost a bro / I woulda gained a foe.”
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The Dreamville leader then referenced the salacious accusations made by both Drake and K. Dot on their respective diss songs: “Jermaine is no king if that means I gotta dig up dirt and pay the whole team / Of algorithm bot n-ggas just to sway the whole thing / On social media, competing for your favorable memes to be considered best.”
He also suggested that both rappers went too far in their feud: “I understand the thirst of being first that made ’em both swing / Protecting legacies, so lines got crossed, perhaps regrettably / My friends went to war, I walked away with all they blood on me.”
The song samples Lonnie Liston Smith’s “A Garden of Peace,” made famous among rap fans thanks to Hov’s “Dead Presidents,” as well as Cleo Sol‘s “Know That You Are Loved,” which was also recently sampled by Big Sean on “Boundaries.”
