J. Cole expressed remorse for dissing Kendrick Lamar on his track 7 Minute Drill at Dreamville festival in North Carolina on Sunday night.
The rapper admitted to the crowd at the festival that he has felt “terrible” ever since the diss track was released on Friday as part of his surprise project Might Delete Later.
“I’m so proud of (Might Delete Later), except for one part,” said Cole. “It’s one part of that s**t that makes me feel like, man that’s the lamest s**t I did in my f**kin’ life, right? And I know this is not what a lot of people want to hear… But I gotta keep it 100 with y’all, I damn near had a relapse, right?”
The musician explained that he felt pressured to respond to Lamar’s guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s Like That, in which he claimed he was a better rapper than Drake and Cole.
“I tried to jab my n**** back and I tried to keep it friendly but at the end of the day, when I listen to it and it comes out and I see the talk, that s**t don’t sit right with my spirit. That s**t disrupts my f**kin’ peace,” he confessed.
Cole expressed remorse for downplaying Lamar’s back catalogue and asked the crowd to cheer if they thought he was “one of the greatest” to ever do it.
“Dreamville, y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I,” he continued. “I just want to come up here and publicly be like, bruh, that was the lamest, goofiest s**t.
“I pray that my n**** really didn’t feel no way and if he did, my n****, I got my chin out. Take your best shot, I’ma take that s**t on the chin boy, do what you do. All good. It’s love.”
The feud between the rappers began when Cole claimed on First Person Shooter that he, Drake and Lamar were “the big three”. Lamar responded on Like That, rapping that there isn’t a “big three… just big me”.
In 7 Minute Drill, Cole sang that Lamar’s music “fell off like the Simpsons” and his last album was “tragic”.
