J. Cole‘s Might Delete Later was really more than an album title as he has officially pulled the album’s Kendrick Lamar diss, “7 Minute Drill,” from all streaming platforms.
HipHopDX verified the song had been pulled from all platforms after the internet caught wind late on Friday afternoon (April 12).
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The move comes after Cole publicly apologized to Kendrick for the song while performing at Dreamville Festival over the weekend – where he promised to scrub the song.
“I’m so proud of [Might Delete Later], except for one part. It’s one part of that shit that makes me feel like, man that’s the lamest shit I did in my fuckin’ life, right? And I know this is not what a lot of people want to hear,” he said to the crowd during his headlining set on Sunday night (April 7).
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“I was conflicted because: one, I know my heart and I know how I feel about my peers. These two n-ggas that I just been blessed to even stand beside in this game, let alone chase they greatness. So I felt conflicted ’cause I’m like, bruh, I don’t even feel no way. But the world wanna see blood. I don’t know if y’all can feel that, but the world wanna see blood.”
Cole went on to praise Kendrick: “That shit disrupts my fucking peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that, trying to find a little angle and downplay this n-gga’s fucking catalog and his greatness, I want to say right now tonight, how many people think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest motherfuckers to ever touch a fucking microphone? Dreamville, y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I.”
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He continued: “I just want to come up here and publicly be like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest shit. I say all that to say it made me feel like 10 years ago when I was moving incorrectly. And I pray that God will line me back up on my purpose and on my path. I pray that my n-gga really didn’t feel no way and if he did, my n-gga, I got my chin out. Take your best shot. I’ma take that shit on the chin, boy. Do what you do.
“All good. It’s love. And I pray that y’all forgive a n-gga for the misstep and I can get back to my true path. Because I ain’t gonna lie to y’all, the past two days felt terrible. It let me know how good I’ve been sleeping for the past 10 years.”
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“7 Minute Drill,” the closing song on J. Cole’s Might Delete Later, came in response to Kendrick Lamar’s blistering verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”
That track, released two weeks earlier on Future and Metro‘s joint album We Don’t Trust You, found K. Dot taking thinly-veiled shots at both Cole and his “First Person Shooter” collaborator Drake.
“Fuck sneak dissin’, first-person shooter, I hope they came with three switches,” he rapped over the Three 6 Mafia and Eazy-E-sampling production.
He also declared: “Motherfuck the big three, n-gga, it’s just big me” before issuing a menacing threat to Drizzy, who he has long been at odds with: “‘Fore all your dogs gettin’ buried/ That’s a K with all these nines, he gon’ see Pet Sematary.”
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Drake, for his part, has yet to directly respond to Kendrick’s verse, but he has made a number of comments that appear to address it.
