2 J. Cole & Kendrick Lamar Tracks (1x partial, 1x full) | Updated Links (Credit: Leaked.cx)

[Mike18jj]

HiiiPower still their best collab

Classic, I was already a Cole fan at the time, but that was the first Kendrick song I ever heard

My boy let me listen to it and been a Kendrick fan since

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Chump shyt, Kenny's entire layout career wise has always been suspect to me

Cause he doesn't want these old trash ass songs to be released?.....there's no reason to release them anyway. shyt is weird to release songs from an unfinished album. This just makes Cole look even more pathetic. Like he's begging Kendrick to forgive him and be friends again. Move on already you fukkin simp. He don't want you. Got damn

 

[904]

Kendrick doesn’t have to collab with Cole if he doesn’t want to but i’d say Kendrick having ill feelings towards Cole at this juncture AFTER Cole literally bent the knee and kissed Kendrick’s ring would be more than little fukked up if they were ever friends to begin with. Cole speaks so highly of Kendrick and Drake in his podcast that you can’t help but feel a little bad for him because Cole really does come off as a genuinely nice guy who cherished his association with the both of them. Like he REALLY felt honored to be part of the “big three” and probably took the brotherhood associated with it more seriously than either of the other two did.

Hip Hop is a blood sport at the end of the day when your vying to be the undisputed best and Cole brought it upon himself for claiming GOAT status, hopping in the ring, and then having second thoughts. But a man publicly bowing to another man and literally giving him the crown should come with SOME grace from the victor. I completely get why Kendrick would be forever on sight with Drake. He’s a fraud, huckster, lame, and opportunist who used the pens, talents, and momentums of others to sail straight to the top of the genre and act as if he’s God gift when in reality he can’t write a complete 16 bars to save his own life. Not only that he put money in the streets of Compton to get info. So I get the eternal hatred for Aubrey. But I hope he and Cole can reconcile one day.

The diss track still happened.. What could've been interpreted as your true feelings came out on that track..

So yes Cole apologized but I can understand Kendrick not wanting to fukk with him afterwards.. The apology may have just stopped Kendrick from dissing him

 

[dakidbanks]

Hearing these it's pretty apparent why it didn't work. Kendrick doing all the heavy lifting ......These tracks feel more like Coles bag than Kendricks. Which tells me Kenny was probably holding back to let Cole keep pace. Dot prolly realized this would only hinder his growth long term. And he was right. Tracks are mid.

They all sound like tracks Cole was working on that he had an open verse on and just let Kendrick rock on them. All the beats and concepts are clearly Cole's

I like em tho.. wish a CDQ would leak but I think the reality is once they blew, neither had the time to really craft from scratch together. None of these snippets sound like Kendrick started the idea of the track but he does really good at expanding on the tempo already laid

 

[dakidbanks]

Cole is better right now from a pure rapping standpoint. Back then Kendrick was better but not like nikkas tryna make it in here.

I agree with this. Today, Cole is clearly better from a technical aspect. I think back then, Kendrick had the edge because he rode the beats better and had multiple flows. Cole has more multiple flows these days than he did early in his career

 

[Bigblackted4]

Is it the same Oddisee that produced this that y'all are mentioning

 

[GeeEffKay]

These ones are kinda eh and it’s clear why they never dropped but they should’ve at least dropped temptation in full back then when literally everyone was anticipating it.

 

[Izanami]

Chump shyt, Kenny's entire layout career wise has always been suspect to me

What do you mean by that specifically?

 

[NormanConnors]

What do you mean by that specifically?

Everything from the forced narrative of he how supposedly came up organically to start up until now where he's too full of himself (cloaked in this fake hermit/gandhi image) to give the fans what they want. Skills fell off and Bars are overrated too, real fans that checked for dude from the beginning know he was a MUCH better rapper compared to now, execution of concepts included. One reason his battle with Drake is/was so corny is because they both have the same type of plot armor these days.

 

[MINT]

Really not interested in a Kendrick/Cole collab...Kendrick is so much better that it just wouldn't make for an interesting listen.
Cole sounds like a fake humble dude but ultimately, his skills are pretty low, or should I say his skill ceiling is nowhere near as high as Kendrick, and he's a one dimensional artist.

Kendrick really ain't gonna waste his time with the dude.

 

[Revolutionary]

Would have been cool 15 years ago, but right now we can safely say Cole hasn't earned the right to work with an artist of Kendrick's caliber.

 

[derro13]

J.Cole being considered as the 3rd wheel was mostly because he lacked in skills compared to Kendrick and Drake. It's still the case today.
He did improve a bit, but he's still behind, and he stills lacks in most aspects of mceeing. Let's not talk about the poor execution of his albums either.

 

[Osmosis]

Who programmed these damn bots

 

[Not Crodie]

Like Busta Rhymes said, Cole is still not on Kendirck's level, why would Kendrick do charity work and help dude to elevate his game and music?

Hiphop is competition, you shouldn't do a collab album with another artist that is way too below your standards. shyt will either end up being kendrick's worst acclaimed album, or Cole's best (and really, there's no interest to help another rapper's improve his catalog thx to your talent)

 

[dakidbanks]

Damn.. I didn't know so many ppl thought Kendrick was on a higher level lyrically than Cole, especially in 2024 with the way Cole been spazzin the past few years

I can understand Kendrick's artistry being higher, but as far as pure rapping, I didn't know I was in the minority here and I'm a fan of both

Has this always been the case here or did ppl come to this conclusion after he bowed out of the Drake feud? I know that shyt rubbed a lot of ppl the wrong way but I'm talkin about pure rapping ability... a lot of ppl don't fukk with Em but they don't discredit is rhyming ability.. not sayin that's the case here just using it as an example