{"id":434515,"date":"2026-01-28T09:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434515\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:38:06","slug":"j-cole-addresses-apology-to-kendrick-lamar-in-new-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434515\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Cole Addresses Apology To Kendrick Lamar In New Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After dissing Kendrick Lamar<\/a> on “7 Minute Drill,” J. Cole<\/a> offered an apology on stage at Dreamville Festival. At the time, some fans discussed this as the weakest move in the history of hip-hop. Fans could not believe what they were hearing and voiced their displeasure immediately.<\/p>\n

Drake<\/a> followed this up by entering the beef on his own terms, only to get wiped out by Kendrick Lamar in a dog fight. Since that time, Cole has been preparing The Fall-Off, and there have been some doubts about his standing in “The Big Three.”<\/p>\n

As it turns out, one of the songs even features some bars about the now-infamous apology. Cole gets very real about the situation, acknowledging he was kicked from the top three. However, he is also saying that his latest body of work will put him right back on top, where he belongs.<\/p>\n

J. Cole On The Infamous Apology<\/p>\n

“I used to be top, see, the apology dropped me way out of the top 3, no problem, I\u2019m probably my best when they doubt me,” he raps. “The top ain\u2019t really what I thought it would be, so I jumped off and landed back at the bottom and restarted at a level where I wasn\u2019t regarded as much, just to climb past them again and tell them all to keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n

For fans, this is fantastic. Cole is back dropping freestyles and showing people that he’s still got it. If “Disc 2 Track 2” is any indication of what’s next,<\/a> perhaps a classic really is on the horizon. At this moment, we are still parsing through these freestyles, and once again, we’re sure there is a lot more to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dissing Kendrick Lamar on “7 Minute Drill,” J. Cole offered an apology on stage at Dreamville Festival.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[205714,88,23198,205715,2775,216,3,205716],"class_list":{"0":"post-434515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-birthday-blizzard-26","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-j-cole","11":"tag-j-cole-apology","12":"tag-kendrick-lamar","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-the-fall-off"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}