{"id":660143,"date":"2026-10-29T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660143\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:24:09","slug":"j-cole-reflects-on-kendrick-lamar-feud-says-hes-not-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/660143\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Cole Reflects on Kendrick Lamar Feud, Says He’s Not Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJ. Cole <\/a>went into The Fall-Off with the intent that the 2026 album would be his last, but he\u2019s had a change of heart following the project and its subsequent sold-out arena tour.<\/p>\n

\n\tCole sat down with his longtime manager Mark Pitts and GQ\u2018s Frazier Tharpe in Las Vegas on Wednesday (Oct. 28), where he confirmed retirement isn\u2019t in the plans for him any longer, saying that word is gone from his vocabulary now.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNah, I\u2019m not gon\u2019 use that word. After this tour right here? Come on man, this is crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cNah, I\u2019m not using that word at all. I\u2019m not using that word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCole continued: \u201cWhen I was making that album, I was making it like, \u2018Damn, this is going to be my last s\u2013t.\u2019 Luckily, by the time I got to actually finishing the album, because of circumstances \u2014 it\u2019s like, \u2018Nah, I\u2019ll never say I\u2019m going to retire.\u2019 I don\u2019t know when the next thing is going to happen, but I\u2019m definitely not going to say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Fall-Off arrived as a double-disc album in February and notched Cole his seventh No. 1 atop the Billboard 200. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the interview, Cole reflected on his mindset during his consequential battle with Kendrick Lamar<\/a> in 2024. After hearing K. Dot diss him and Drake <\/a>on Future\u2019s<\/a> \u201cLike That,\u201d the Dreamville rapper was conflicted about feeling like he had to respond, but also having a verse from Lamar on his next album (Cole previously revealed<\/a> that there were two Lamar features on The Fall-Off that he ultimately scrapped due to leaks).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not giving him the real, which is like, \u2018N\u2013a, f\u2013k!\u2019 I probably told you I got this n\u2013a on the album, which puts me in a weird position,\u201d Cole said. \u201cI got to like respond without responding, but still try to save face. I was holding a lot. On top of that, I thought I was done with the album. I\u2019m retired, uninspired in my mind. I probably would\u2019ve did a little better getting it all off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJ. Cole ended up dissing Lamar on Might Delete Later\u2018s \u201c7 Minute Drill\u201d<\/a> in April 2024. Days later, he apologized to Lamar <\/a>and bowed out of the feud later that month while on stage at his Dreamville Festival. The diss track was then removed from streaming services.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat s\u2013t don\u2019t sit right with my spirit,\u201d he said at his festival. \u201cThat s\u2013t disrupts my f\u2014ing peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that and in that s\u2013t, trying to find a little angle and downplay this n\u2014a\u2019s f\u2014ing catalog and his greatness, I want to say right now tonight, how many people think\u00a0Kendrick Lamar\u00a0is one of the greatest motherf\u2013kers to ever touch a f\u2014ing microphone? Dreamville, y\u2019all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe decision to pull the plug on feuding with Lamar eventually cleared the way for Lamar to clash with Drake, which reached a head in May 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch J. Cole\u2019s full interview with GQ below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J. Cole went into The Fall-Off with the intent that the 2026 album would be his last, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,1934,85,46,409,1098],"class_list":["post-660143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}