Is J. Cole taking aim at Kanye, Drake on new song 'False Prophets'?
J. Cole is ending 2016 with a bang.
After announcing the surprise release of his new album, 4 Your Eyez Only next Friday, Dec. 9, the rapper dropped a 40-minute documentary called Eyez on TIDAL, previewing some of the music from his new album.
One featured song in particular, False Prophets, caught the attention of fans for its shadowy disses potentially aimed at Drake and Kanye West.
"Ego in charge of every move, he’s a star/ And we can’t look away due to the days when he caught our hearts/He’s falling apart but we deny it/Justifying the half-(expletive) (expletive) he drop, we always buy it," he raps. Some listeners are connecting the dots between Cole's verses about a star's "fall from grace" and Kanye West, who cancelled the rest of his Saint Pablo tour after checking into the hospital for exhaustion.
Next, Cole takes aim at rappers who use ghostwriters, who "hear some new style bubbling up then they bite that (expletive)". This lyric's potential target is Drake; the rapper has been embroiled in similar controversies since last year, when Meek Mill accused him of using ghostwriters and D.R.A.M called him out for stealing his song Cha Cha to make Hotline Bling.
We'll find out what other rappers Cole is putting on blast come next Friday when his full album drops.
Watch Eyez via TIDAL here.