WEBVTT 00:00:00.270 --> 00:00:03.509 I honestly had a plan to talk about this later 00:00:03.509 --> 00:00:06.169 on, but given that J. Cole is about to drop a 00:00:06.169 --> 00:00:09.869 new album, I wanted to do at least my part in 00:00:09.869 --> 00:00:11.890 making sure we listened to J. Cole correctly 00:00:11.890 --> 00:00:14.630 without being fooled by any of his bullshit. 00:00:14.910 --> 00:00:19.589 So here I go. J. Cole is a bitch, but I think 00:00:19.589 --> 00:00:22.789 too many people, including his own fans, aren't 00:00:22.789 --> 00:00:26.870 seeing it. It wasn't about his diss to Kendrick 00:00:26.870 --> 00:00:30.760 or the apology. Based on everything that I've 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:34.079 seen in how he presents himself, it's pretty 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.679 clear to me that he's a bitch, one that is deeply 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.359 confused about himself because he's in denial 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.439 about his true feelings. But because so few seem 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:45.060 to really see that, I'm going to try to lay out 00:00:45.060 --> 00:00:47.219 my case for why he's a bitch. If you're a J. 00:00:47.259 --> 00:00:49.560 Cole fan and you're upset by anything that I 00:00:49.560 --> 00:01:27.719 say, come at me. I don't give a shit. Okay, so 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:31.140 the overarching thesis I have is that J. Cole 00:01:31.140 --> 00:01:34.659 is a bitch. But I'm not here to just slap charges 00:01:34.659 --> 00:01:36.939 on people without providing the evidence. So 00:01:36.939 --> 00:01:39.480 here's my plan. I'm going to first explain what 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:42.859 I think of J. Cole's music. This might seem off 00:01:42.859 --> 00:01:45.340 -topic, but it's honestly not. I think it's partly 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:47.799 because people like me don't connect to his music, 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.420 at least not in the same way that we connect 00:01:50.420 --> 00:01:54.609 to music by... people like Kendrick or DMX or 00:01:54.609 --> 00:01:57.590 Tupac or Biggie and so on, that I think J. Cole 00:01:57.590 --> 00:02:00.629 gets all insecure and that's when his bitch assness 00:02:00.629 --> 00:02:03.909 shows. So it's all connected. But I'll also lay 00:02:03.909 --> 00:02:06.790 out a thorough case for J. Cole being a bitch 00:02:06.790 --> 00:02:10.370 based on his own actions and words. Look, I personally, 00:02:10.530 --> 00:02:12.610 I don't know J. Cole personally. I don't know 00:02:12.610 --> 00:02:15.469 who he is. I have no way to contact him. I don't 00:02:15.469 --> 00:02:18.030 have conversations with him. So I honestly... 00:02:18.629 --> 00:02:20.810 You know, I'm not going to know a lot of details 00:02:20.810 --> 00:02:24.030 about his specific life. I don't listen to all 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:26.210 of his music anyways thoroughly enough to try 00:02:26.210 --> 00:02:29.449 to dissect what he's really about based off of 00:02:29.449 --> 00:02:31.650 the information he gives in the music. Plus, 00:02:31.849 --> 00:02:35.150 you know, when it comes to, you know, music industry, 00:02:35.250 --> 00:02:37.629 a lot of it, how much of it is true, I have no 00:02:37.629 --> 00:02:40.719 idea, right? I have no desire to get to know 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.020 him personally. I honestly could care less. I'm 00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:46.479 mainly using him as an example of someone who's 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:49.360 a bitch that others don't seem to see that that 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.319 person is a bitch. And I think he serves as a 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:57.020 good example of that. But because I don't know 00:02:57.020 --> 00:03:00.240 him personally, it wouldn't be fair to make accusations 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:02.800 based off of any speculation or impressions that 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.039 I have of him. I'm going to go strictly based 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.759 off of what he has made available in the public 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.080 eye, namely his music, specifically the lyrics, 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:15.879 sometimes his interviews. Does that mean that 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.780 I have J. Cole pegged correctly, like I know 00:03:19.780 --> 00:03:24.719 exactly who he really is? Hell no, right? I don't 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:26.340 know. Maybe he just presents himself in certain 00:03:26.340 --> 00:03:30.300 ways that I see as a pretty bitch thing to do. 00:03:30.939 --> 00:03:32.699 And maybe he's just a completely different person 00:03:32.699 --> 00:03:34.740 in real life. But I'll be honest with you. I 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:38.120 personally don't care. Because if that's what 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:40.300 he puts out into the public, whether or not he's 00:03:40.300 --> 00:03:44.560 really like that, that's still what a bitch would 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.120 do. Because only a bitch would present themselves 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:49.800 to the world as a bitch. And that's essentially 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.610 what I'm going to argue that he's doing. Okay, 00:03:52.789 --> 00:03:54.090 enough of talking about what I'm going to do. 00:03:54.129 --> 00:03:57.289 Let me just get on with it. All right. So if 00:03:57.289 --> 00:03:59.750 you're like me, you're not a fan of J. Cole. 00:04:00.129 --> 00:04:02.169 I mean, let's be honest. We're not all going 00:04:02.169 --> 00:04:04.389 to be fans of the same artist. We're different 00:04:04.389 --> 00:04:06.449 people and connect to music, different music 00:04:06.449 --> 00:04:09.150 and different artists. So this doesn't seem like 00:04:09.150 --> 00:04:12.030 a big deal, but I want to explain why I'm not 00:04:12.030 --> 00:04:14.699 a fan. Because here's the thing, as a genuine 00:04:14.699 --> 00:04:16.500 fan of hip -hop, as someone who kind of grew 00:04:16.500 --> 00:04:18.660 up listening and connecting to hip -hop deeply, 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:22.160 where it's very personal to me, I think I can 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.199 provide at least some insight as to why some 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:27.699 hip -hop fans, not all, but some, don't really 00:04:27.699 --> 00:04:31.379 hold J. Cole in high esteem, even though we might 00:04:31.379 --> 00:04:34.800 respect him to some degree. Look, here's what's 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:38.139 obvious to me. J. Cole is a good lyricist. No, 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:40.800 I think probably more accurately, he's a great 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.709 one. He's a great lyricist. He's up there and 00:04:43.709 --> 00:04:45.350 putting words together in clever, thoughtful 00:04:45.350 --> 00:04:50.209 ways in the same realm. Maybe not quite the same, 00:04:50.230 --> 00:04:53.550 but in the same realm as like an Eminem or a 00:04:53.550 --> 00:04:56.129 Lil Wayne. I'll come back to Lil Wayne in a bit. 00:04:56.910 --> 00:04:58.850 I don't think there should be any doubts about 00:04:58.850 --> 00:05:02.069 that in terms of his lyrical ability. So there's 00:05:02.069 --> 00:05:04.610 always some level of respect for J. Cole because 00:05:04.610 --> 00:05:08.129 of his pen. I don't have any reason also to doubt. 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:10.550 that he's writing his own stuff. Like, there's 00:05:10.550 --> 00:05:13.930 never been, like, accusations or, you know, rumors 00:05:13.930 --> 00:05:16.149 floating around about, you know, his having ghostwriters 00:05:16.149 --> 00:05:18.889 and so on. So I genuinely respect him for what 00:05:18.889 --> 00:05:22.310 he's able to do in this regard, okay? But there 00:05:22.310 --> 00:05:24.470 are two primary reasons that I don't really like 00:05:24.470 --> 00:05:27.050 J. Cole's music, and it will actually blend into 00:05:27.050 --> 00:05:30.709 why I don't like J. Cole as a person, at least 00:05:30.709 --> 00:05:33.370 the kind of person that he presents himself to 00:05:33.370 --> 00:05:37.899 be. For one... It's just a sonic thing. In terms 00:05:37.899 --> 00:05:41.100 of sonically, I just don't find him to be particularly 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:44.379 interesting. His flows are fairly similar from 00:05:44.379 --> 00:05:47.459 one song to another. There's very little variance 00:05:47.459 --> 00:05:50.379 in the way that he raps. And I also don't like 00:05:50.379 --> 00:05:53.319 most of the beats that he raps over. I mean, 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:56.360 they're not bad, but they're also not particularly 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:00.839 interesting or something innovative. Look, everyone 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:03.660 is entitled to what they enjoy when they're listening 00:06:03.660 --> 00:06:07.899 to music. and J. Cole just isn't that for me, 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:10.319 right? And that's fine. I like a lot of music 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:12.120 that other people don't like sonically. Like, 00:06:12.139 --> 00:06:14.800 I've had conversations with friends about our 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.360 differences, and, you know, sometimes we just 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:18.800 don't see eye to eye on these things, and that's 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.959 perfectly fine. But it's also fine acknowledging 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.839 that some sounds that I like just might not hit 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:26.720 the same way for others, and that's not a biggie. 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:30.620 No big deal, okay? So one is just a personal 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:33.540 preference thing. Not a huge fan of sound. Don't 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:37.980 find it to be particularly interesting. Just 00:06:37.980 --> 00:06:40.439 it is what it is. The other reason, though, and 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.259 I think this one might hurt J. Cole's feelings 00:06:42.259 --> 00:06:45.699 if I spoke to him directly, I personally don't 00:06:45.699 --> 00:06:48.160 find anything compelling about the content of 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:50.740 his raps, about what he actually has to say. 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.500 And as somebody who prides himself as being a 00:06:55.500 --> 00:06:57.439 lyricist, I'm guessing this probably matters 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.980 to him. and how people take in what he has to 00:06:59.980 --> 00:07:03.600 actually say, whether they listen to or are impacted 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.600 by what he has to say. There's a reason I don't 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.540 connect to his music. He raps about more or less 00:07:09.540 --> 00:07:11.139 the same shit that everyone else raps about, 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:15.300 sprinkled in with a few raps that I think are 00:07:15.300 --> 00:07:17.939 meant to be profound, but they really aren't 00:07:17.939 --> 00:07:21.180 all that profound. There's no real depth to his 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:25.360 music. It's surface -level shit in the stuff 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:30.160 he talks about. It just shows that he doesn't 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:33.040 have much depth, I think, himself in understanding 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.300 himself, his life, and what he has to share about 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:39.199 any of the topics, honestly, that he raps about. 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.779 Let me try to explain my lack of enthusiasm for 00:07:42.779 --> 00:07:46.259 J. Cole by comparing him to other rappers who 00:07:46.259 --> 00:07:48.920 can put lyrics together well but lack depth in 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:51.680 the way that I'm describing J. Cole. I personally 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.339 think a good comparison for J. Cole is Big Sean, 00:07:54.500 --> 00:07:58.360 right? Look, I like Big Sean's rapping, right? 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.699 He can rap, right? He can string together rhymes 00:08:00.699 --> 00:08:03.860 and so on. He can be clever at times, catchy. 00:08:04.180 --> 00:08:07.300 But he doesn't rap about anything that really 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:10.740 moves me in any way. It's not that I don't connect 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:13.740 with his specific experience. It's that his raps 00:08:13.740 --> 00:08:16.319 don't give me much to connect to, right? My feelings 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:20.019 are not moved in that way by people rapping about 00:08:20.019 --> 00:08:24.060 stuff. I connect to feelings that are expressed 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:28.949 through... Right. Another good example of this 00:08:28.949 --> 00:08:30.629 in the same realm, I think, would be Lil Wayne. 00:08:30.769 --> 00:08:32.730 I told you I was going to come back to him. I 00:08:32.730 --> 00:08:35.269 never liked Lil Wayne. I know that when I was 00:08:35.269 --> 00:08:37.389 when Lil Wayne was getting big, a lot of the 00:08:37.389 --> 00:08:40.450 people were really big on Lil Wayne. These were 00:08:40.450 --> 00:08:43.909 my formative, fairly formative years. So you 00:08:43.909 --> 00:08:45.750 would think that if I liked hip hop, I might 00:08:45.750 --> 00:08:48.970 be inclined to like Lil Wayne. But I didn't. 00:08:48.970 --> 00:08:51.750 And I didn't because of mostly because of the 00:08:51.750 --> 00:08:54.350 stuff he rapped about. Right. Most of the stuff 00:08:54.350 --> 00:08:56.570 he rapped about, just I didn't connect to. I 00:08:56.570 --> 00:08:59.169 mean, honestly, like, you know, 80 percent of 00:08:59.169 --> 00:09:01.529 his raps were about, I think, you know, pussy 00:09:01.529 --> 00:09:04.330 and money and not much else. Right. Like the 00:09:04.330 --> 00:09:06.769 concepts of his raps didn't really move too far 00:09:06.769 --> 00:09:11.450 beyond that. Right. Now, is J. Cole like Lil 00:09:11.450 --> 00:09:14.090 Wayne in this respect? No. Like he tries to move 00:09:14.090 --> 00:09:16.190 into like J. Cole tries to move into more thoughtful 00:09:16.190 --> 00:09:18.769 spaces, I think. I just think he sucks at it. 00:09:18.789 --> 00:09:22.279 Right. Not because he's not a good rapper. But 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:26.379 I sense that he hasn't done any deep introspection 00:09:26.379 --> 00:09:30.100 on his own feelings. And here's the thing, when 00:09:30.100 --> 00:09:32.559 you don't connect with your own feelings and 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.879 put that into the music, right, that sort of 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:38.500 authenticity of what it is that you've experienced, 00:09:38.740 --> 00:09:41.440 not just in describing it, but like how it actually 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.600 mattered to you, right, the way that it moved 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:46.100 and impacted you, then the audience won't connect 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:49.419 with it either. If you listened at all to my 00:09:49.419 --> 00:09:52.220 series on vulnerability, You know, this is a 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:53.659 series that I had where I was trying to kind 00:09:53.659 --> 00:09:56.419 of give an example to students because I've worked 00:09:56.419 --> 00:09:58.399 with students a lot on their personal statements 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.100 for their college applications. You know, one 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:02.580 of the things I've really struggled with them 00:10:02.580 --> 00:10:05.759 on is trying to get them to put not just their 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.440 experience describing it, reporting what they 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.679 experienced, but rather talking more deeply about 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:15.360 how it actually impacted them. Right. What it 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:18.549 actually meant for them. expressing the depth 00:10:18.549 --> 00:10:21.710 of those experience by talking more personally 00:10:21.710 --> 00:10:24.570 about what it really meant for them right and 00:10:24.570 --> 00:10:28.450 you know i think that's essentially what j cole 00:10:28.450 --> 00:10:31.009 lacks right he lacks the ability to talk about 00:10:31.009 --> 00:10:34.129 himself deeply something you can only do well 00:10:34.129 --> 00:10:38.470 i think if you've really grappled with what it 00:10:38.470 --> 00:10:40.789 is that these experience meant to you, right? 00:10:40.870 --> 00:10:43.350 How it really impacted you even to this day, 00:10:43.450 --> 00:10:47.750 right? Dealing with the emotional aftermath of 00:10:47.750 --> 00:10:50.210 having these sorts of experience. Look, I'll 00:10:50.210 --> 00:10:52.470 give you an example from J. Cole's own song, 00:10:52.649 --> 00:10:55.269 Role Models. You know, this is one of his bigger 00:10:55.269 --> 00:10:58.009 songs. This song could have been a deep song 00:10:58.009 --> 00:11:01.330 about not having role models and how that impacted 00:11:01.330 --> 00:11:05.240 him. But instead, I think you get a lot of this 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.379 self -report. Like, I'm trying to make this distinction 00:11:07.379 --> 00:11:09.860 so that you can see clearly what's actually happening, 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.379 right? He talks in the beginning about, again, 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.600 self -report of not having role model except 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:17.539 maybe like Uncle Phil on TV. This is from Fresh 00:11:17.539 --> 00:11:19.679 Prince of Bel -Air. I loved that show growing 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.960 up. Then he speaks of having sex, then talks 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.240 about how he got defensive when the girl he was 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.179 having sex with or something said he was spoiled 00:11:28.179 --> 00:11:31.049 and rich. And then he ends with how he wants 00:11:31.049 --> 00:11:34.450 real love, but how he's all promiscuous and doesn't 00:11:34.450 --> 00:11:36.769 think twice about it because the women deserve 00:11:36.769 --> 00:11:41.070 it. None of this reflects real introspection 00:11:41.070 --> 00:11:45.970 to me. Maybe you might think this is deep, but 00:11:45.970 --> 00:11:47.750 if you think that, then I think that you probably 00:11:47.750 --> 00:11:50.909 need to do some real introspection because there's 00:11:50.909 --> 00:11:53.429 no depth here, right? Real introspection for 00:11:53.429 --> 00:11:56.360 me might involve something about how... you know, 00:11:56.360 --> 00:11:58.779 not having a role model impacted his relationship 00:11:58.779 --> 00:12:02.200 with women. You know, J. Cole, I don't know, 00:12:02.220 --> 00:12:04.379 maybe you think that he inferred it, but he never 00:12:04.379 --> 00:12:07.279 actually makes any real connection there. If 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.059 there is even any, I don't even know if he sees 00:12:09.059 --> 00:12:12.460 a connection there. Or maybe he could talk about 00:12:12.460 --> 00:12:14.600 why he got so defensive, you know, when this 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.840 girl said you were rich and spoiled. But again, 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.019 he doesn't. He just reports that he did get defensive 00:12:20.019 --> 00:12:24.090 without any real introspection as to why. He 00:12:24.090 --> 00:12:27.870 got defensive when she said that, right? Even 00:12:27.870 --> 00:12:30.330 when he talks about how he wants real love, like 00:12:30.330 --> 00:12:33.289 the one he saw on TV with on Viv, he doesn't 00:12:33.289 --> 00:12:36.190 speak on why then he is having all these one 00:12:36.190 --> 00:12:39.470 night stands instead, right? Seems like a pretty 00:12:39.470 --> 00:12:41.970 obvious place to talk more deeply about the topic, 00:12:42.029 --> 00:12:45.009 but this is kind of what you get regularly from 00:12:45.009 --> 00:12:48.509 J. Cole. You get topics that could be deep if 00:12:48.509 --> 00:12:51.230 you were to kind of expand upon it, dive a little 00:12:51.230 --> 00:12:55.690 deeper. The topics are generally things that 00:12:55.690 --> 00:12:59.710 people consider to be thoughtful, introspective 00:12:59.710 --> 00:13:03.809 kind of stuff. But he doesn't actually speak 00:13:03.809 --> 00:13:09.929 on it with any depth. At least not for me. I 00:13:09.929 --> 00:13:13.169 don't see it. He does a lot of self -reporting. 00:13:13.169 --> 00:13:14.409 That's really what he does. He does a lot of 00:13:14.409 --> 00:13:16.149 self -reporting on how he feels without ever 00:13:16.149 --> 00:13:19.480 exploring why he feels that way. like, you know, 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.919 what experience really led to his reacting the 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.000 way that he does in certain situations. It's, 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.679 for me, fake introspection. It's faux depth, 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:30.519 right? Which is why I'm not surprised that his 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.139 music doesn't connect with me. Like, I have a 00:13:32.139 --> 00:13:34.840 good sense of why I don't connect with his music. 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:36.960 It's because of this, right? People connect with 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.000 music in a deeper way when the artist shares 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.080 a real piece of their soul in their music. When 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:44.940 they could be real raw and vulnerable. I have 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:47.000 a sense that to some degree this is why people 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.220 are drawn to figures like Billie Eilish. Her 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:52.100 music tends to move in that direction quite a 00:13:52.100 --> 00:13:55.200 bit. Not so much Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift doesn't 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:59.899 seem to have much of that depth. You can't do 00:13:59.899 --> 00:14:04.240 this sort of work in rap songs just by merely 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.000 self -reporting. You can't connect to people 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.240 in a deeper way. just by merely self -reporting. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:12.940 Just sharing what happened or what you experienced 00:14:12.940 --> 00:14:15.419 is not necessarily going to be in and of itself 00:14:15.419 --> 00:14:18.559 enough, I think. You need to actually be vulnerable 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.600 if you really want to connect in some deeper 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:23.360 way, right? Or if you're not going to do that, 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.559 that's fine. I mean, there's a large space in 00:14:25.559 --> 00:14:28.259 hip -hop for things that are not that. So if 00:14:28.259 --> 00:14:29.460 you're not going to do that, then that's fine. 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.240 But just make sure then that at least your beats 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:34.620 slap, right? That they could go hard in a club. 00:14:35.100 --> 00:14:38.120 Like, you know. go in one direction or the other 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:40.159 or maybe you could find a way to you know bring 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:42.100 the two together but you got to have one or the 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:44.460 other for me to like actually care about your 00:14:44.460 --> 00:14:48.019 music now i don't know all of j cole's catalog 00:14:48.019 --> 00:14:50.720 in depth like i'm not again i'm not a j cole 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.840 fan so i don't go around listening to like all 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.840 of his albums and try to decipher exactly what 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.500 he's saying in every single one of them um so 00:14:58.500 --> 00:15:00.399 maybe there's moments where he does show some 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:04.580 real depth uh you know Maybe there's some songs 00:15:04.580 --> 00:15:06.580 that I'm not familiar with, but I've heard a 00:15:06.580 --> 00:15:09.240 lot of J. Cole. So, you know, it's not as if 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.720 I don't listen to any J. Cole. I've tried to 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:13.799 listen and understand where J. Cole fans are 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:16.279 coming from. And from what I've heard, most of 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:18.200 it is just what I've described, right? It's a 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.200 bunch of bars about how he's gone through some 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:24.799 stuff or ideas that he has or things that he 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:29.740 believes without really the deeper personal connection 00:15:29.740 --> 00:15:34.879 that makes... want to connect with him in some 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:38.259 deeper way. And then, of course, there's a lot 00:15:38.259 --> 00:15:40.279 of bars that he throws around about how he wants 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:41.940 to be the best or that he should be seen as the 00:15:41.940 --> 00:15:44.059 best or how he's going to smoke all these other 00:15:44.059 --> 00:15:46.639 MCs. He does a lot of that. We're going to come 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.480 back to this because I think J. Cole's very confused. 00:15:50.779 --> 00:15:54.460 Look, I'm not saying all this to shit on J. Cole. 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.159 I'm saying this to explain exactly why I don't 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.350 connect with his music, even though... I respect 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:04.870 his lyricism. I think a lot of people feel how 00:16:04.870 --> 00:16:07.629 I feel, but might not have been able to put their 00:16:07.629 --> 00:16:09.850 finger on it. And this is part of what's so confusing, 00:16:09.889 --> 00:16:12.110 right? It's like, because of his lyricism, you 00:16:12.110 --> 00:16:14.450 think like, oh yeah, so he's very, very good. 00:16:14.970 --> 00:16:17.379 But then... when you listen to his music, you 00:16:17.379 --> 00:16:19.259 might find yourself not really connecting with 00:16:19.259 --> 00:16:20.600 his music and you're like, what the fuck is going 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.899 on? I'm trying to give you an explanation, at 00:16:22.899 --> 00:16:25.840 least for me, why I see myself not connecting 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.620 with his music. Maybe this explanation might 00:16:28.620 --> 00:16:30.220 help you better understand why you don't vibe 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:34.639 with Cole. Okay. What does all this have to do 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:37.720 with J. Cole being a bitch? I'm going to need 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.360 to take one step back before we get into this 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:43.980 because I think maybe there might be some areas 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:46.480 of misunderstanding. specifically on how I'm 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.539 using the term bitch. Look, if you've been following 00:16:48.539 --> 00:16:51.799 this series up to now, you'll know what I'm talking 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.600 about, right? I might not be using the word bitch 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:56.620 in the same way that you are. I'm using this 00:16:56.620 --> 00:16:59.220 term to say that J. Cole is a child in a grown 00:16:59.220 --> 00:17:02.659 man's body. That, for me, is a bitch. It's someone 00:17:02.659 --> 00:17:05.819 who hasn't matured, someone who hasn't faced 00:17:05.819 --> 00:17:08.380 their demons and now has a deeper understanding 00:17:08.380 --> 00:17:12.609 and acceptance of themselves. It's actually a 00:17:12.609 --> 00:17:14.809 bitch is someone who just hides behind a facade 00:17:14.809 --> 00:17:17.289 because they haven't bothered to truly get to 00:17:17.289 --> 00:17:19.289 know themselves or to acknowledge who they truly 00:17:19.289 --> 00:17:23.190 are, right? It has to do with growth. That's 00:17:23.190 --> 00:17:26.890 really what it has to do with, right? A boy that's 00:17:26.890 --> 00:17:29.609 still a boy is not a bitch. It's just a boy, 00:17:29.710 --> 00:17:34.250 right? A grown adult that is really a boy inside 00:17:34.250 --> 00:17:37.690 that hasn't actually grown up, that's a bitch 00:17:37.690 --> 00:17:39.930 to me, right? That's what a bitch is to me. And 00:17:39.930 --> 00:17:43.450 J. Cole fits that. mold i think uh very well 00:17:43.450 --> 00:17:47.470 and i want to talk about it um because for some 00:17:47.470 --> 00:17:49.970 reason others don't seem to see that j cole fits 00:17:49.970 --> 00:17:56.549 this description um look there'll be there's 00:17:56.549 --> 00:17:58.650 honestly a lot of evidence i could point to that 00:17:58.650 --> 00:18:01.690 uh i can give of j cole's bitch assness um you 00:18:01.690 --> 00:18:03.329 know if you actually listen to some of his interviews 00:18:03.329 --> 00:18:06.069 after having heard some of the things that he's 00:18:06.069 --> 00:18:08.640 referencing in those interviews where he sneak 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.740 disses or insults or references some other rapper, 00:18:11.819 --> 00:18:14.299 but then in an interview says like, Oh no, I 00:18:14.299 --> 00:18:16.599 actually wasn't like dissing them. I wasn't talking 00:18:16.599 --> 00:18:20.240 down on them. It's like all that bullshit gaslighting. 00:18:20.460 --> 00:18:24.039 That's some bitch shit. And you know, like I 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.259 could talk about, I could talk, you know, for 00:18:26.259 --> 00:18:29.650 hours about that. And I could also go through 00:18:29.650 --> 00:18:32.690 a range of his lyrics from multiple songs to 00:18:32.690 --> 00:18:37.369 try to uncover exactly where I see him being 00:18:37.369 --> 00:18:40.930 a bitch. But I want to use Port Antonio because 00:18:40.930 --> 00:18:43.869 I think that was kind of a prime example of his 00:18:43.869 --> 00:18:48.470 bitch assness. Let me first say this, right? 00:18:48.529 --> 00:18:51.490 I personally have no issue with J. Cole dropping 00:18:51.490 --> 00:18:54.500 out of the rap battle with Kendrick. When he 00:18:54.500 --> 00:18:56.640 apologized, I actually had no problem with that 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.380 either. Would it have been better if he didn't 00:18:59.380 --> 00:19:01.160 put out a diss track that he later recanted? 00:19:01.319 --> 00:19:04.259 Yes. But given that he already put it out there, 00:19:04.500 --> 00:19:08.000 I didn't give him any shit for dropping out of 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.900 the rap battle. Because acknowledging who you 00:19:10.900 --> 00:19:12.519 are, knowing that that wasn't right with your 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.680 spirit, none of this is bitch shit. That's grown 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.279 man shit. Taking responsibility for your actions. 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:22.690 That's what grown men do. it shows a willingness 00:19:22.690 --> 00:19:24.609 to acknowledge mistakes and to grow from them. 00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:28.950 I also didn't think of him as a bitch at all 00:19:28.950 --> 00:19:34.769 for that moment because I honestly don't... Maybe 00:19:34.769 --> 00:19:36.769 it's because I just didn't pay all that much 00:19:36.769 --> 00:19:39.289 attention to Cole. Like I said, I wasn't really 00:19:39.289 --> 00:19:41.569 a fan of his music. I tried listening to some 00:19:41.569 --> 00:19:43.289 of the stuff because people have held some of 00:19:43.289 --> 00:19:45.990 his albums in high regard. I listened to it, 00:19:46.009 --> 00:19:49.819 so I listened to his features. Didn't really 00:19:49.819 --> 00:19:52.220 pay much mind. So why would I waste mental energy 00:19:52.220 --> 00:19:55.299 on him, right? So I didn't really think of him 00:19:55.299 --> 00:19:57.799 as a bitch all that much mainly because I didn't 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:01.640 really think of him at all, right? But I'm turning 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:03.720 to Port Antonio because I think it wasn't until 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:05.720 Port Antonio that I realized I need to actually 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:09.500 pay attention because it became very, very evident 00:20:09.500 --> 00:20:14.859 for me in his song, in that track, that he was 00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:18.359 a bitch. And anybody who thought otherwise... 00:20:18.829 --> 00:20:21.210 I thought was just plain wrong. I think they 00:20:21.210 --> 00:20:25.569 just got J. Cole wrong. But it actually was really 00:20:25.569 --> 00:20:27.490 helpful because it helped me to make better sense 00:20:27.490 --> 00:20:30.029 of everything else in his past work that helped 00:20:30.029 --> 00:20:32.049 me to also better understand why it is that I 00:20:32.049 --> 00:20:36.630 wasn't particularly a fan of his work in the 00:20:36.630 --> 00:20:40.049 past. So what exactly did Port Antonio reveal 00:20:40.049 --> 00:20:44.069 to me? I'm going to just skip over the first 00:20:44.069 --> 00:20:45.849 verse because it's more of the same old J. Cole. 00:20:46.539 --> 00:20:50.859 So you can just rewind this podcast a few minutes 00:20:50.859 --> 00:20:53.420 to figure out how I felt about it because it's 00:20:53.420 --> 00:20:56.559 just more of the same J. Cole stuff. It's really 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:58.559 on the second verse that you see the bitch come 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:03.740 out. He begins as he did in so much of Middle 00:21:03.740 --> 00:21:10.859 Child, if you remember that popular track. That 00:21:10.859 --> 00:21:17.039 popular track that he... claims to be great, 00:21:17.180 --> 00:21:20.900 okay? I want to be clear about something, okay? 00:21:22.180 --> 00:21:26.440 Once you walk away from the rap battle, you can't 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:31.099 claim to be great. Look, part of growing the 00:21:31.099 --> 00:21:35.019 fuck up is acknowledging your place, being honest 00:21:35.019 --> 00:21:38.559 with yourself. And you, J. Cole, no one else, 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:42.480 you stepped away from any debates about being 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.700 great or the greatest. When you dropped out of 00:21:45.700 --> 00:21:49.779 the battle, you, you need to own that shit, okay? 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:52.920 That's what a real man does, right? Grown men 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.059 own their shit. They hold themselves accountable, 00:21:55.339 --> 00:22:00.259 okay? Own the choices you make. And when you 00:22:00.259 --> 00:22:06.759 don't, then you're a bitch. And that's exactly 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:11.160 what you did here. You claim to be great, and 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:14.700 you didn't want to compete with the great. Like, 00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:16.339 you don't want to go ahead and go toe -to -toe 00:22:16.339 --> 00:22:19.400 with the best of them. And so, at the end of 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.160 the day, then, that's it. Your claims of being 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:24.799 great are over. Done. Finito. The end. Like, 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:29.079 this wasn't anyone making any decisions for you 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:32.680 or projecting anything on you. You chose to step 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:36.420 out of the ring after years of claiming you were 00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:39.839 the greatest. About how solid your pen was. How 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:41.339 you could go toe -to -toe with everybody else. 00:22:41.859 --> 00:22:44.950 How you'd be killing it. And when you had your 00:22:44.950 --> 00:22:47.569 chance to show it, you stepped away. That was 00:22:47.569 --> 00:22:51.190 your choice. You need to own that decision. Which 00:22:51.190 --> 00:22:55.029 means, in the least, you cannot rap about being 00:22:55.029 --> 00:22:59.630 the best ever again. Period. You seem to be confused 00:22:59.630 --> 00:23:02.210 about what happened. Everyone else sees it clearly. 00:23:02.750 --> 00:23:05.349 You were talking the big talk, which you're allowed 00:23:05.349 --> 00:23:08.890 to do. But then when it came time to back up 00:23:08.890 --> 00:23:12.210 all that big talk, you stepped away, which you're 00:23:12.210 --> 00:23:14.279 allowed to do. Again, I have no problem with 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:16.539 your doing it. But if you're going to do that, 00:23:16.660 --> 00:23:20.359 you need to see what comes with that choice. 00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:24.799 All these bars about being the best needed to 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:27.460 have stopped yesterday, right? You bitch! You 00:23:27.460 --> 00:23:30.119 did this to yourself. Hold yourself accountable 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:36.900 like a fucking man. Later on in the song, you 00:23:36.900 --> 00:23:39.279 start pointing the finger everywhere else but 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.980 yourself. Again, this is like a... A kid who's 00:23:42.980 --> 00:23:44.720 not wanting to take accountability for their 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:48.220 decisions. That's what it looks like to me. That's 00:23:48.220 --> 00:23:53.200 bitch shit, okay? Look, I'm quoting here, right? 00:23:53.299 --> 00:23:55.859 This is what J. Cole says, right? They instigate 00:23:55.859 --> 00:23:59.579 the fuckery because it's profitable. No, motherfucker. 00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:04.140 No one instigated shit except maybe you. You're 00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:06.240 the one that said I'm first -person shooter. 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:09.789 And I quote here. We the big three, like we started 00:24:09.789 --> 00:24:11.509 a league, but right now I feel like Muhammad 00:24:11.509 --> 00:24:14.970 Ali. And then when Kendrick came back with, fuck 00:24:14.970 --> 00:24:18.009 the big three, it's just big me, you didn't have 00:24:18.009 --> 00:24:21.210 to drop a diss track. You could have just kept 00:24:21.210 --> 00:24:25.670 your mouth shut and kept it moving. No one was 00:24:25.670 --> 00:24:30.410 instigating shit. You jumped out on your own 00:24:30.410 --> 00:24:33.410 accord. Oh, what, you were pressured by people 00:24:33.410 --> 00:24:35.829 around you to respond? Well, then don't be a 00:24:35.829 --> 00:24:37.430 bitch and stand on your own feet like a man. 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:39.859 Do what's right for you from the very beginning. 00:24:40.539 --> 00:24:43.059 But here's the thing. Once you make the decision 00:24:43.059 --> 00:24:47.779 to pop out like that, you own it, right? Don't 00:24:47.779 --> 00:24:50.019 blame other people for pressuring you or for 00:24:50.019 --> 00:24:54.500 wanting this or for gassing you up. Look, no, 00:24:54.619 --> 00:24:58.359 own your own decisions. Only bitches make excuses 00:24:58.359 --> 00:25:07.599 for the decisions they make. You bitch. Oh, here's 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:11.740 some more lyrics later on in that song. J. Cole 00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:13.839 speaking here, right? I pulled the plug because 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:16.180 I've seen where this was about to go. They wanted 00:25:16.180 --> 00:25:18.099 blood. They wanted clicks to make their pockets 00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:22.220 grow. Motherfucker keeps pointing the finger 00:25:22.220 --> 00:25:25.740 at others and making excuses for himself. Like, 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:27.980 what the hell is this? This is bitch shit. You 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:31.359 bitch. Who the fuck cares what others wanted? 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:34.990 You make your own decisions. Are you not your 00:25:34.990 --> 00:25:37.009 own man? Like, I don't understand this, right? 00:25:37.650 --> 00:25:39.750 Other people could pressure you. Other people 00:25:39.750 --> 00:25:42.029 could want certain things from you. Other people 00:25:42.029 --> 00:25:44.950 can demand things from you. But your decisions 00:25:44.950 --> 00:25:47.670 are your own. Why aren't you owning up to your 00:25:47.670 --> 00:25:51.210 own shit? Like, I just don't get it. That's bitch 00:25:51.210 --> 00:25:55.490 shit to me. Some more lyrics for you, right? 00:25:55.970 --> 00:25:58.490 I wouldn't have lost a battle dog. I would have 00:25:58.490 --> 00:26:00.730 lost a bro. What the fuck are you talking about? 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:04.319 You can try to spin this shit however you want. 00:26:04.380 --> 00:26:06.180 Maybe your fans could try to spin this shit however 00:26:06.180 --> 00:26:08.500 they want, but you know exactly what the fuck 00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:10.299 you're trying to say. You're trying to say that 00:26:10.299 --> 00:26:11.920 you wouldn't have lost a battle if you stayed 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.559 in it, and you just bowed out because you didn't 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:18.359 want to lose a friendship. Okay? What the fuck 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:21.880 kind of gaslighting shit is this? Look, your 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.400 diss sucked. Period. Seven -minute drill, mid 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.769 at best. You want to argue with me about this? 00:26:27.869 --> 00:26:30.250 We can have a whole long conversation about analyzing 00:26:30.250 --> 00:26:36.869 diss tracks. This was not it. Everything you 00:26:36.869 --> 00:26:42.150 showed me, you were going to get your ass whooped. 00:26:42.589 --> 00:26:44.670 That's what you showed me based off of this track. 00:26:45.549 --> 00:26:48.269 Maybe you did Bow Wow because you didn't want 00:26:48.269 --> 00:26:50.089 to get involved in something ugly. That's fine. 00:26:50.529 --> 00:26:53.890 But again, you own your decisions, you bitch. 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:56.839 Stop trying to make excuses for them or wiggle 00:26:56.839 --> 00:26:58.819 your way out of accepting responsibility for 00:26:58.819 --> 00:27:01.200 your decisions. Part of what comes with your 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:04.819 decision is that you can't be seen as the better 00:27:04.819 --> 00:27:09.960 MC. It's the way I feel about Mayweather. I don't 00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:11.920 know if anybody else feels this way, right? But 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.400 I always felt like Floyd Mayweather always tried 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:16.640 to duck fights for as long as he can until he 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:18.039 got the upper hand. I think this is what he did 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:20.319 with Pacquiao, to be honest, right? That's some 00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:24.809 bitch shit, okay? Jeez Louise. It didn't have 00:27:24.809 --> 00:27:26.769 to be ugly, and you didn't have to lose a friend. 00:27:27.170 --> 00:27:30.369 Like, let's be honest. That battle, it didn't 00:27:30.369 --> 00:27:31.970 have to go that way. I'll talk more about this 00:27:31.970 --> 00:27:34.470 in a little bit, okay? If that means I got to 00:27:34.470 --> 00:27:37.089 dig up dirt and pay the whole team of algorithm 00:27:37.089 --> 00:27:39.430 bot ninjas to sway the whole thing on social 00:27:39.430 --> 00:27:43.930 media, competing for your favorable means, like, 00:27:43.990 --> 00:27:48.170 this is you, J. Cole, talking all kinds of crazy 00:27:48.170 --> 00:27:51.710 nonsense, okay? You bitch. Let me explain something 00:27:51.710 --> 00:27:53.930 to you that your immature ass doesn't seem to 00:27:53.930 --> 00:27:57.750 get. You seem to think that you need all these 00:27:57.750 --> 00:28:00.950 things to win a rap battle. You! You're the one 00:28:00.950 --> 00:28:03.750 saying it, so is you. Don't be throwing mud on 00:28:03.750 --> 00:28:07.069 others when you weren't willing to fight. Look, 00:28:07.130 --> 00:28:09.170 here's the analogy. That's like someone who ducks 00:28:09.170 --> 00:28:11.150 out of a fight and then talks shit about the 00:28:11.150 --> 00:28:13.630 ones who are fighting in front of them and how 00:28:13.630 --> 00:28:17.329 dirty they fight. You, you bitch! Don't have 00:28:17.329 --> 00:28:20.109 any grounds to speak on this shit when you couldn't 00:28:20.109 --> 00:28:21.829 put your money where your mouth was, you bitch. 00:28:21.970 --> 00:28:24.670 Like, you didn't even get in the ring. You don't 00:28:24.670 --> 00:28:27.789 have a say in this stuff. Okay? You can't talk 00:28:27.789 --> 00:28:29.710 about the fight or how dirty it is or, like, 00:28:29.710 --> 00:28:31.930 whether or not what people are doing. Like, don't 00:28:31.930 --> 00:28:34.630 comment on this shit if you had the opportunity 00:28:34.630 --> 00:28:36.650 to be in the fight but then chose not to be in 00:28:36.650 --> 00:28:45.160 it. Okay? Ah. J. Cole again. Now, some will discredit 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:48.039 me, try white boy my pedigree, but please find 00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:52.859 a ninja out that's rapping this incredibly. Again, 00:28:53.140 --> 00:28:56.200 you dumb bitch. You discredited yourself. That's 00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:58.099 what you did. Take some fucking responsibility 00:28:58.099 --> 00:29:00.940 for your decisions. I didn't fault you for stepping 00:29:00.940 --> 00:29:03.319 out of the rap battle, but your inability to 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:06.359 accept responsibility for that decision, right? 00:29:06.539 --> 00:29:08.980 That's what makes you a bitch. Plain and simple. 00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.339 Okay? You don't get to say you're the best when 00:29:12.339 --> 00:29:15.769 you won't fight the best. That's a coward, right? 00:29:16.029 --> 00:29:17.829 That's a coward that doesn't believe all the 00:29:17.829 --> 00:29:21.349 hype that he himself spews. You can't talk tough 00:29:21.349 --> 00:29:23.950 shit about being the best and not be willing 00:29:23.950 --> 00:29:26.009 to go toe -to -toe with the best. Rap battles 00:29:26.009 --> 00:29:29.069 don't have to be ugly mudslinging, so stop using 00:29:29.069 --> 00:29:32.470 that shit as an excuse. Look, after the whole 00:29:32.470 --> 00:29:34.769 thing with Drake and Kendrick, rap, you know, 00:29:34.769 --> 00:29:37.250 we saw from like Joey Badass and Ray Vaughn and 00:29:37.250 --> 00:29:39.509 Daylight and all these others that you can have 00:29:39.509 --> 00:29:43.160 a friendly spar to see who's the best. And it 00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:46.039 doesn't have to go down that route of going ugly, 00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:48.819 right? It went sideways with Drake and Kendrick, 00:29:48.859 --> 00:29:51.180 but that was only because Drake tapped into his 00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:53.660 true bitch form and started launching accusations 00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:56.819 about Kendrick and his family. But you didn't 00:29:56.819 --> 00:30:00.400 have to do any of that. You did not have to engage 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:03.619 in any mudslinging. You just decided not to engage 00:30:03.619 --> 00:30:07.640 at all. Again, that's fine. Like, look, nobody 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:10.359 is faulting you for stepping out of the battle, 00:30:10.420 --> 00:30:12.599 but... But then you need to own the consequences 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:16.220 of that, which is that you now no longer get 00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:19.319 to make any claims about being the best. You 00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:21.720 put yourself in that spot. No one else. If anybody 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:24.200 tries to argue with me on this point, you don't 00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:26.759 know anything about hip -hop. Like, I'm going 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:29.660 to stand on that shit, okay? Rap battles don't 00:30:29.660 --> 00:30:31.920 have to be nasty and ugly. It could get that 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.440 way. We've had history of some of it going sideways 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.099 in that way. But there's a lot of rap battles 00:30:37.099 --> 00:30:39.200 where people are able to be fine afterwards, 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:44.170 okay? But here's the thing, like, you cannot, 00:30:44.309 --> 00:30:47.890 you cannot say I'm going to bow out of it and 00:30:47.890 --> 00:30:51.990 then still continue to talk the big talk. That's 00:30:51.990 --> 00:30:55.789 double speak. That's what it feels like, right? 00:30:56.990 --> 00:31:00.170 Look, because you did this to yourself and continue 00:31:00.170 --> 00:31:02.670 to refuse to take responsibility for it, like 00:31:02.670 --> 00:31:07.450 you did again in Bronx Zoo later on, okay? Your 00:31:07.450 --> 00:31:10.480 words ring hollow when you say shit like... reminding 00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:13.440 these folks why we did it. It's not for beefing. 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:15.240 It's for speaking out thoughts, pushing ourselves, 00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:17.220 reaching the charts, reaching our minds, deep 00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:20.079 in our hearts, screaming to find emotions to, 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:24.779 what is it? Something that's to open you up, 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.819 help you cope with the rough times and shit. 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:29.440 Like, look, you ain't done shit to touch any 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:33.059 hearts, open shit up, okay? If you were really 00:31:33.059 --> 00:31:35.619 about that, you'd shut the fuck up about being 00:31:35.619 --> 00:31:37.720 the best and just focus on impacting people in 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:40.890 this meaningful way. I get the sense that you're 00:31:40.890 --> 00:31:43.430 a confused little child. You're trying to present 00:31:43.430 --> 00:31:45.630 yourself as someone that is about love and peace 00:31:45.630 --> 00:31:48.710 and becoming a better version of yourself, but 00:31:48.710 --> 00:31:50.849 your words and actions honestly say otherwise. 00:31:51.390 --> 00:31:53.930 If you're really about what you say, then stand 00:31:53.930 --> 00:31:56.309 on it and focus on spreading that love and peace. 00:31:57.130 --> 00:32:00.069 Stop opening up your bitch -ass mouth about being 00:32:00.069 --> 00:32:03.690 the best. I have no problem with you doing one 00:32:03.690 --> 00:32:07.069 or the other. It's you who seems to want to have 00:32:07.069 --> 00:32:10.259 it both ways. You seem to want to puff out your 00:32:10.259 --> 00:32:14.680 chest, be all braggadocious, and then claim that 00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:16.519 you're not really about that, but rather about 00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:20.279 inspiring others. It's your raps. It's not mine. 00:32:20.299 --> 00:32:22.759 It's your raps. It's your words. You can't have 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.299 it both ways. You're fucking confused yourself, 00:32:25.619 --> 00:32:28.960 right? Which one are you really about? Because 00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.960 from what I see in your music, I see someone 00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:35.640 who just doesn't know himself or hasn't accepted 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:39.759 that. They are who they are, right? Like, look, 00:32:39.900 --> 00:32:43.640 you could go ahead and brag all you want. Just 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:47.160 stand on it. Or you could say like, hey, I don't 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:49.119 really care about that kind of stuff. I care 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.400 more about, you know, uplifting people or bringing 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.240 peace and, you know, opening up minds and hearts. 00:32:55.339 --> 00:32:59.380 Then focus on that, okay? You want to try to 00:32:59.380 --> 00:33:02.759 do both? You can try, but right now, it honestly 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:05.799 feels like you're a confused child that are... 00:33:06.009 --> 00:33:07.630 It's being pulled in two different directions 00:33:07.630 --> 00:33:09.029 and don't know which way they want to go. They 00:33:09.029 --> 00:33:13.910 want to have it both ways. Okay? And these things 00:33:13.910 --> 00:33:16.630 don't fit together. More than anything, instead 00:33:16.630 --> 00:33:18.569 of figuring yourself out, you're out here pointing 00:33:18.569 --> 00:33:21.369 fingers at other people and then accusing, in 00:33:21.369 --> 00:33:24.150 a sly, bitch -ass way, that other people are 00:33:24.150 --> 00:33:26.470 engaging in some shady, mud -slinging type shit. 00:33:28.349 --> 00:33:32.049 Bitch, take some responsibility. Do some real 00:33:32.049 --> 00:33:35.019 introspection. Here's some suggestions. Based 00:33:35.019 --> 00:33:37.140 on what I've seen from you, J. Cole, here's some 00:33:37.140 --> 00:33:39.819 suggestions. Because this is what I see. You're 00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:42.700 inauthentic. So let's start there and find out 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:46.640 why. You seem to be very focused on how others 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:49.940 see you instead of who you truly are, which would 00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:52.799 explain why you're inauthentic. So I think this 00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:55.460 is a good place to start. You seem to still crave 00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:58.460 validation from others to be seen as a best instead 00:33:58.460 --> 00:34:02.089 of just doing and actually being your best. That's 00:34:02.089 --> 00:34:04.470 some bitch shit to be so overly focused on what 00:34:04.470 --> 00:34:08.389 other people think of you. Figure out why the 00:34:08.389 --> 00:34:10.929 fuck you crave that validation, right? Are you 00:34:10.929 --> 00:34:13.349 insecure? Were you not loved enough as a kid? 00:34:13.769 --> 00:34:15.869 I don't know your life. You need to figure that 00:34:15.869 --> 00:34:18.150 shit out for yourself. What I can tell you is 00:34:18.150 --> 00:34:20.590 I see all that insecurity just oozing out of 00:34:20.590 --> 00:34:23.420 you. What I can tell you is this. As long as 00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:25.300 you keep avoiding looking in the fucking mirror 00:34:25.300 --> 00:34:27.639 and asking yourself why you're saying and doing 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.679 the shit that you're doing, you're going to continue 00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:32.639 avoiding responsibility, trying to present yourself 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:34.739 as something you're not, and just continue being 00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:38.019 a bitch the way that you've been acting the last 00:34:38.019 --> 00:34:42.280 couple years. And honestly, longer. It's time 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:44.500 to grow the fuck up. And I know that doesn't 00:34:44.500 --> 00:34:46.719 happen overnight. It takes years of working on 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:48.559 yourself. Trust me, I'm speaking from personal 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:51.860 experience. But it seems, based off of what I've 00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:53.619 seen, that this is not what you're doing. At 00:34:53.619 --> 00:34:55.639 least it's not showing in your music. So I'm 00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:58.320 going to make a prediction. The fall off your 00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:00.519 next album is going to be more of this bitch 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:03.059 assness spewing out of your mouth. I have no 00:35:03.059 --> 00:35:04.920 interest in listening to any more of this bitch 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:08.139 assetry. So fuck your album. Until you show up 00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:10.639 as a grown man, I won't be listening to any more 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:11.539 of your bitch music.