J. Cole talks rumoured Kendrick Lamar collab album: “It was a real thing”
nme.comJ. Cole has revealed that his rumoured Kendrick Lamar collab album was in fact “real”.A joint album between the pair had been reported since 2010, and managed to join forces on 2013 track ‘Forbidden Fruit’.
However, in 2018, J. Cole gave an interview denying the rumours.“It’s not like it’s something that’s actively happening,” he said at the time. “Not because it’s never gonna happen.
Just because, like… it’s not right now, and I don’t like teasing or playing the game ’cause this has been going on for a minute.”Now, the Fayetteville rapper has clarified the whole story with Lil Yachty on his podcast A Safe Place, telling him “at one point, it was a real thing.”“In a nutshell, [Kendrick Lamar] had pulled up on me at No I.D.’s spot after we was already building this relationship, and I had these beats at the time and I was playing them for him,” he began.
One of these beats would eventually become ‘HiiiPoWeR’, which Cole produced for Lamar on his acclaimed 2011 debut album ‘Section.80’.
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