If the latest forecasts are to be believed, J. Cole’s “Might Delete Later” will reportedly be the week’s biggest seller.
According to Hits Daily Double, Coleworld/Interscope’s latest release is expected to sell 140-160 copies in its first week, making it a strong contender for the top spot on the charts.
However, Cole still had to go up against Beyoncé’s cowboy Carter, who proved to be quite formidable.
Might Delete Later dropped on Friday (April 5) and immediately made headlines with its closing track, “7 Minute Drill,” in which J. Cole seemingly referenced Kendrick Lamar’s recent taunts about him and Drake with some harsh words The bar fired back. himself.
Addressing the perceived quality of his friend-turned-foe catalog, he raps: “Your first shit is a classic, your last shit is a tragedy/Your second shit puts n-ggas to sleep, but they use Gassed it/Your third shit was huge, that was your peak/I followed it, I just hit mine.”
He continues: “Now I’m in front of the pack, with a comfortable lead/How ironic, as soon as I got the lead, now he wants to do something with me/Well, he caught me at the perfect time , jump up and take a look.”
The Dreamville boss also addressed Nas on JAY-Z’s “Takeover” diss: “He writes a hard verse or something like that every 30 months/If he didn’t have a diss, then we wouldn’t be talking about him .”
He then staged his boxing match with Kendrick (with whom he had planned to record an album) to tearfully kill Wesley Snipes’ Nino Brown in New Jack City The scene with his brother is compared.
“Lord, don’t let me have to smoke ’cause I slept with him/But when push comes to shove, on this mic, I’ll humble him/I’m Nino, this thing, this ‘New Jack’ urban meme/ Yeah, my target was Gee Money and I cried before I exploded at him.”
Cole would later repeat the sentiment in a verse when he rapped: “My words are full of desire for a toxic reply/I’m hesitant, I love my brother, but I ain’t gonna lie/I’m really driven, It felt like swatting flies.”
He then repurposes another line from Hov’s “Takeover”: “Four albums in 12 years, n-gga, I can split/Shit, if that’s what you want, I’ll be obsessed Violence.”
Cole ends the fiery song with a warning to the rest of the rap game while also teasing his upcoming album, The Fall Off.
“It’s just a warning meant to support black people/Go back to the towns where they whipped jobs and sold pounds/My jack jumped to a rapper making profane noises/Switching the sides of a dress like a tassel on a hat/I’ve Loaded, n-gga, I can drop two classics now,” he spat, before adding: “Cut me some slack, man… about to fall, n-gga.”
