J. Cole reveals the real reason he quit the Kendrick Lamar rap battle and addresses Drake on new song “Port Antonio.”
J. Cole releases new song
The Dreamville frontman surprised fans by releasing a new song on YouTube on Wednesday (October 9). Titled “Port Antonio,” the song is a slow burn that finds the North Carolina rapper addressing April’s Kendrick Lamar beef, as well as Kendrick Lamar and Drake The aftermath of the rap wars.
“Protecting heritage, so lines are crossed, maybe sadly/My friends went to war and I left with their blood,” he raps on the track below, produced by DZL and Cole. “Now some people are going to discredit me, try to erase my lineage/But please find someone who can rap so unbelievably.”
Cole later addressed the real reason for waving the white flag after initially responding to Kendrick’s “Like That” verse on “7 Minute Training.”
“I pulled the plug ’cause I saw what was going to happen / They want the blood, they want the click to make their pockets bigger,” Cole rhymes. “They see the fire in my pen, they think I’m hiding from the smoke/I’m not going to lose a battle, my God, I’m going to lose a brother/And all this for?/Just to get from strangers Some props for not knowing what my goals have been since I was 14 / Jermaine ain’t the king if it means I have to dig in the dirt and pay an entire team of algorithmic robots just to influence the whole thing on social media / Fight for your likes Memes.
Cole also called Drake by his first name. “Hey Derek, you’ll always be my n**a/I’m not ashamed to say you’ve done so much for me, my n**a/F**k all the narrative/Re-hit you Magic Pen This is a priority,” Cole instructed.
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Check out J. Cole’s new song “Port Antonio” below.
