This is what I mean... he had a real plan to stage a bloodless coup and run off into the sunset without having to get active, while steering the narrative with a soft punch in 7MD and ended up escalating the battle and hurting his image
J. Cole says he wanted to diss Kendrick Lamar "just enough" on "7 Minute Drill" to get past the public pressure of not responding so he could move on and drop 'The Fall-Off':
"Everything I'm saying to him, I know, and he know, it's all survivable."
(via Talk With Flee)
I can honestly see JayZ seeing himself in Drake as they both were in compromising positions last year concerning "misconduct". In defending Drake, he is also defending his own name from scrutiny.
There is a world where we acknowledged the conflicting messaging in J Cole's retelling of events in these interviews. He's at war with 3 different personas in his head at the same time.
@tittyboy69420@Steez_47 he's illustrating his childhood and using power rangers and a martial arts flip and a reference point for when he was innocent, and the verse continues to discuss how he loses that innocent through what he sees
and directly comparing TFO (without prompts) to all of Kendrick's albums particularly MMATBS. I thought the comparisons and knocking other artists in place of pure support was stan'ing lol As soon as they got the chance... here we are. Sounds familiar
Now that The Fall Off has dropped and Cole fans have an album to uphold for their guy, I wonder will they admit that stan culture was only bad because they didn't have a dog in the race yet. lol now they're saying he dropped album of the decade lol