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J. Cole was the catalyst of the 2024 rap feud between himself, Drake, and Kendrick Lamar.
J. Cole’s Wife Cried When He Told Her About Apology to Kendrick
After Kendrick insisted he stood apart from Drizzy and Cole on Like That, the Forest Hills Drive creator hit back with his own diss track, Seven Minute Drill. But shortly after debuting the song, Cole removed the song from his YouTube channel. And the next night, he issued an apology during his Dreamville Fest.
During a recent sit-down interview with Nadeska of Apple Music, Cole said that he chose to do so because he felt “miserable” about the situation. So miserable that his wife was able to see that he was wearing that emotion.
“In a moment where I wasn’t clear, I chose to go this way,” he said. “I felt miserable about it. My whole demeanor, my wife can tell. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God. I got to go on this stage and come out here and pretend almost.’ […] The drama of all of this is the biggest news happening, and I’m coming out as a representative of what the f**k they just heard.”
J. Cole speaks on his involvement in the beef with Kendrick Lamar and Drake, opening up about why he chose to apologize at Dreamville Fest in 2024:
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"It hit me an hour before. But before that, I was stressing the f*ck out… Two or three days before that, it was like, 'Nah, this… pic.twitter.com/DUwLuuRSrh
He goes on to reveal that it was an hour before he went on stage that he decided to put together the apology. He also says his wife started crying when he told her what he planned to do.
“An hour before, it was like, ‘Aha! In a very public forum on your album, you said some s**t you didn’t believe in. Now you have an opportunity to go on a bigger forum and say something that you believe in,” he continued.
“In that moment, I’m like, ‘Thank you, God.’ I told my wife. She’s the only one I told, I ain’t tell anybody else. She started crying. ‘Cause she knows how I feel about him… And she knows. She saw how it was weighing on me two, three days before that. She could see my whole energy… So when I go and do it, I feel even better.”
