Houston Hip Hop pioneer and longtime Kanye West collaborator Mike Dean took to Twitter today (December 6) to question the motives behind rappers releasing diss tracks right before they get ready to drop their album.
A reasonable question to ask in 2016 when so many rap beefs have dominated headlines this year, including the long drawn out beef between The Game and Meek Mill before the Compton, California rapper released his 1992 project and more recently with J. Cole’s diss record “False Prophets” being unleashed ahead of his forthcoming album, 4 Your Eyez Only.
Although Cole doesn’t name names in the rap, it’s alleged he was talking about ‘Ye, noting that the particular rapper he’s referring to was once his idol and his fall from grace is hard to watch.
“Ego in charge of every move, he’s a star,” the 31-year-old Dreamville artist raps. “And we can’t look away due to the days when he caught our hearts/He’s falling apart but we deny it/ Just to find the half-assed shit he drop, we always buy it.”
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Combine the timing of the diss track and the fact that 4 Your Eyez Only is only days away from hitting the streets, fans immediately began to light up Dean’s Twitter mentions to take up for J. Cole, even though Dean didn’t name names either.
“COLE AINT LACKING HE WENT DOUBLE PLATINUM WITH NO FEATURES AND KANYE NEEDED 27 FEATURES & 42 GHOSTWRITERS FOR TLOP,” Twitter user @HoodrichMenace replied, referring to the long list of credits on The Life of Pablo.
J. Cole is not the only artist to seemingly come after Kanye West while he’s been going through his mental health issue crisis. Ray J released his answer to West’s “Famous” visual with his own song of the same title. Drumma Boy, the producer of the Ray J track “Famous” featuring Chris Brown, assured that the timing of the release was not on purpose as the song had already been recorded before ‘Ye was hospitalized. Ray even wished Yeezy well.
Yesterday (December 5), Cole unveiled the tracklist for 4 Your Eyez Onlyand “False Prophets” is conveniently missing.
