Cole has been delivering all of November and keeps the streak going into December. He has put classic mixtapes, including The Come Up, on streaming platforms. He launched his new podcast, Inevitable, which is the gift that keeps on giving. The rapper recently shared more unreleased music with the people’s champ, K. Dot, while also expressing his past feelings about K. Dot’s achievements.
Cole felt surpassed by Kendrick
The two songs played during the latest podcast episode are untitled (with one produced by Oddisee). However, they were apparently recorded in 2012 while Drake’s Club Paradise Tour was in North Carolina. A$AP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar were the opening acts for the show.
“[Lamar] came to Fayetteville and we worked on that studio bus for two or three days…Before, I had sent him joints, but this was the first time we actually got to lock in and work on shit. And that shit was so fun, dawg… It felt like when your cousin would come over to your house,” Cole said.
Despite the fun they had, Cole still felt that he was being left behind when he first listened to Lamar’s 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d. City.
“When Kendrick’s album dropped, the journey got harder, the mountain got steeper. Because similar to when [So Far Gone] dropped, where it was like, ‘Oh shit, there’s another person out there that has the same ambitions as me,’ it happened like that with Kendrick … “It was a feeling of surpassment. It was two indicators that told me. His first-week numbers were more than mine. The other thing was we had a show where we were both on the same lineup… and I went before him and he went after me,” Cole expressed.
A lot has gone down since between the two, from “First Person Shooter” to “The Big 3” controversy. Hopefully, though, the unreleased tracks can make their way to streaming services like J. Cole’s other previous projects recently have.
