The rapper’s apology for his Kendrick diss wasn’t “emotionally attuned.” It was wack.
metastasized into an all-out hip-hop Infinity War—with Drake playing a Thanos who has yet to throw down his gauntlet. Slate’s Chris Molanphy made a valiant effort to summarize the multipronged origins of Kendrick Lamar’s decision to bludgeon Drake last month, but Future and Metro Boomin’s release last night of, further ensconced them as willing instigators for anyone who doesn’t like Aubrey Graham.
This leaves J. Cole as the only person to respond to Kendrick in any substance, though even he tried to retroactively pull his punch. Hislast week’s midnight surprise, is punctuated by the clearest answer to Lamar’s “Like That”: “7 Minute Drill,” a diss track that is mercifully not seven minutes.
These takes curdled faster than Cole’s fortitude. Not a week removed from his Dreamville Fest mea culpa, Cole, in his own J. Cole way, rejoined the fray by continuing to apologize … on—an album that, I will remind you, appears specifically constructed to topple Drake, a man he not months ago celebrated on the hit single “But there’s a deeper problem with this line of argument.
Maybe a more enlightened person would have done the inner work to uproot their own misogyny and come to that realization, but that’s for Cole and his therapist to work out. There’s no reason to drag trans people into this game, but there’s nothing wrong with playing
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