The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: People Are Disappointed That J. Cole Regrets His Diss To Kendrick

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I never heard of Donkey other day, what is it? I'm a Donkey! Say it again, Charlamagne! I'm a Donkey! Yes, you are a Donkey. I'll show you how to act a Donkey! Everything that Charlamagne's saying is true. Uh, Donkey of the Day for Monday, April 8th goes to all of you that are disappointed that J. Cole apologized to Kendrick Lamar.
Starting point is 00:00:19 If you haven't been paying attention because you've grown as hell, got a family, and don't give a damn what these rappers be talking about let me give you a quick refresher uh kendrick decided to give a few bars to j cole and drake on metro booming and future song like that do we have some clips is that red it's just big me okay now uh this past friday j cole decided to respond when he dropped a surprise project called might delete later and on his-minute drill, he threw some shots back at Kendrick. Let's listen. But fell off like the Simpsons. Your first wish was classic. Your last wish was tragic.
Starting point is 00:00:53 Let the record show, when I heard that last week, I immediately said to myself, J. Cole needs to delete that now. Don't wait until later. Okay, I told people J. Cole sounded like he didn't even believe what he was saying about Kendrick he said kendrick fell off like the simpsons the simpsons been on for 35 years all right still at the top of the game he sounded like he had a gun to his head and he was being forced to read a bunch of stupid ass rhetoric that he got from social media and youtube videos because if it's one thing you cannot go at kung fu kenny for it's his music that's all kendrick stands on that's his business the music
Starting point is 00:01:25 he is in the business of making classic timeless music that even if you don't get in the moment it will be there waiting for you when you catch up so not only did i think cole's response was weak i just knew he didn't believe anything he was saying and all that was confirmed for me last night at the dreamville festival when cole decided to apologize to kendrick labar let's listen in my spirit of trying to like get this music out i moved in a way that was that i feel spiritually feel bad on me like like i try to like jab my back and i try to keep it friendly when i listen to it and when it comes out and i see the talk that don't sit right with my spirit that make me feel that disrupts my peace so what i want to say right with my spirit. That shit make me feel. That shit disrupts my fucking peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that and in that
Starting point is 00:02:10 shit, trying to find a little angle and downplay this shit's fucking catalog and his greatness, I just want to come up here and be like, publicly be like, bro, that was the lamest, like, goofiest shit. And I say all that to say it made me feel like 10 years ago When I was moving incorrectly And I pray That God align me back up On my purpose And on my path
Starting point is 00:02:30 You know what I mean I pray that my nigga Really didn't feel no way And if he did My nigga got my chin out Take your best shot I'm gonna take that shit On the chin boy
Starting point is 00:02:37 Do what you do And I pray that You know I pray that y'all are like Forgiving the shit For like the misstep And then I can get back To my true path
Starting point is 00:02:44 Cause I ain't gonna lie to y'all Past two days felt terrible and let me know how good i've been sleeping for the past 10 years that's right i have feelings as a man feelings as a hip-hop fan the hip-hop fan in me isn't disappointed because in life you have to pick your battles and you have to pick your battles carefully because danger comes from trying to surpass your limits cole no he didn't really want it with kendrick so if you don't really want it with a person, then you are pushing yourself past the limit. You aren't willing to go. And that's usually when you end up getting hurt. Not to mention, Cole said something very important in that apology.
Starting point is 00:03:13 He said it didn't sit right with his spirit. You must always listen to your spirit. And Cole, the reason your Kendrick diss didn't sit right in your spirit was because you knew you was lying. Okay? You knew you didn't feel like that about kendrick's music you are an artist a true mc so there is not too many people who appreciate what kendrick lamar does as much as you do kendrick lamar don't need to be a part of every
Starting point is 00:03:35 algorithm on social media because kendrick isn't a surfer he's a wave there is a difference a lot of y'all are just surfers you get online every day looking for a new wave to ride. Kendrick, when he drops projects, creates those waves that people ride. Period. Good Kid, Mad City. Classic album. We know this. The Pimple Butterfly. My favorite Kendrick Lamar album. That album is Blackity Black Black. If you ask me, Kendrick re-ushered in a black renaissance in music with that album. But that's a discussion for another day. Damn is a great project. I don't know if I have it as classic status. But Cole, you said that's his prime. You said that was his peak. So if that's the case, then you think that's his best body of work.
Starting point is 00:04:10 So that's three classic albums we discussing. And then Mr. Morale and the Big Step was I told you how much to go in the future. We are going to look at that in Jay-Z's 444 as two of the most important hip hop albums of all time. And you know when that's going to come? When you unhealed heathens get some healing. When you men grow up. And that's what we are here to talk about today the rap fan in me understands the disappointment many of you feel and cole but the man in me who understands that i'm a spiritual being living a human existence has nothing but respect for what j cole did see so
Starting point is 00:04:39 many of us lead with pride and ego nowadays and we let these idiots on social media who we don't even know peer pressure us to say things and do things that we let these idiots on social media who we don't even know peer pressure us to say things and do things that we don't even want to do it takes a real human to check himself and say man what i'm what i'm doing i don't even believe i don't even believe in i don't believe what i said i don't even believe in what i did apologize and keep it moving y'all want a man to attack a man for your entertainment because we are a culture that feeds off conflict we just have to have some conflict to feast on. We like to see people at war with each other because so many of us are at war with ourselves.
Starting point is 00:05:12 It's really that simple. Okay, unhealed people hurt people and love to see other people hurt. Healed people and people on a healing journey aren't in the hurt business. Often individuals who have experienced hurt haven't processed their pain or developed effective coping strategies. Their unprocessed emotions can manifest as aggressive behavior towards others. And additionally, they may replicate the damaging behaviors they have experienced. A phenomenon known as the cycle of abuse. Salute to Cole for breaking the cycle, especially if he simply doesn't want to. Okay, good for you, Cole, for not succumbing to the peer pressure of your homeboys, other artists, social media, whatever it is.
Starting point is 00:05:50 Okay, you as a man and rapper didn't feel comfortable with what you did. Bravo for apologizing. Bravo for doing what you feel in your spirit. So when y'all having these combos about Cole and being disappointed that he apologized, ask yourself what's that about? Make sure that's not your wounded ego talking. And I want to say something else. Why are y'all so controlled by other people?
Starting point is 00:06:11 Some of y'all had the nerve to ride with Cole when he told you to lie. He told you about Kendrick's albums. He was right there all weekend acting like Cole was right about Kendrick's projects. Whole time he was capping and you was right there co-signing the cap. Just Friday, y'all was saying Cole is number one y'all had Cole one Kendrick zero trending now that Cole has apologized for capping y'all saying he back to number three y'all calling him the middle child again not 48 hours after y'all was just saying he's number one this is exactly why you should always just do you and do what your spirit tells you to do.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Don't listen to none of these fools because they never know what they want. Please give all these unhealed heathens mad at Cole for apologizing. The biggest he, huh? All right. You are so dramatic. Well, let's discuss. 800-585-1051. I disagree with you, though. But let's discuss. You were unhealed heath 800-585-1051 I disagree with you though
Starting point is 00:07:06 But let's discuss 800-585-1051 No it's not even about that You are unhealed heathen We all know this Well I am but J. Cole When it came to J. Cole
Starting point is 00:07:15 People always in my opinion Slept on J. Cole They always had a problem with J. Cole He produced his own beats His beats don't knock the same In the last 3-4 years J. Cole has been getting on Other people's beats He's been getting on records with people embodying everything he put
Starting point is 00:07:29 out he get on first person shooter and people started comparing him he said he wants to be number one he said he's number one this is lyrical warfare this ain't nobody ever thought it was gonna be the south first the west nobody thought they were gonna kill each other this is lyrics so why are you mad at him for taking a step back i I'm not mad at him, but if you want to be number one, and you say you're number one, and when that person comes and tests you, you can't run away. You got to battle back. That's like me. Says who, though?
Starting point is 00:07:55 That's how the game is played. Who's playing the game? What if I don't want to play your game? Caitlin Clark. What if I take my ball and go home? Caitlin Clark wanted to be number one, right? And she lost. And the Gamecocks came and washed her.
Starting point is 00:08:05 And she lost. But she tried. And she lost. She had no choice. It's basketball. It's sports. But she didn't come back and apologize. She didn't come back and say, you know what?
Starting point is 00:08:11 That is a terrible analogy. I shot 35 points. It's not. That's the horror of that. There's still gaming. It's basketball. You don't turn around after you don't know. This is lyrics.
Starting point is 00:08:21 It's not a game. If you want to be number one, let's be number one. It's not a game. J. Colvin's spitting. He's not a game J. Cole been spitting He's been putting to work In the last couple of years I just don't like the fact that If his heart's not in it
Starting point is 00:08:30 Right And he decides to get in that booth And spit some weak lyrics Like he did last week His heart was in it Before? No it wasn't In first person shooter
Starting point is 00:08:39 His heart was in it bro But he wasn't battling That's what I'm saying I would have preferred Cole If he wanted to respond Just write some dope lyrics and say you the best. I'm a homie. He's talking about he's number one.
Starting point is 00:08:48 He's the best. He's saying all that song. He's the best. So keep proving you're the best by just being a dope rapper. You don't got to challenge somebody directly. That was a challenge. Have you ever done a real, I mean, a DJ battle? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Yes, I have. I'm asking. I have. Do you feel the need to do them now? I don't know. Yes, because you just go out there and you know what I'm saying? And prove you the best just by doing the work. I don't have to challenge anybody to say you the best.
Starting point is 00:09:10 You don't have to challenge somebody to say you the best. I know, I don't. And if he did and decides to take his ball and go home, he can do that too. But if you do challenge and the person gives you that work, you give them that work back. Not if you got your ass beat. He got his ass beat.
Starting point is 00:09:23 Apology after the comment. Like after him being in the comments. He sat in ass beat. Apology after the comments. Like, after him being in the comments. He sat in the comments and he saw the feedback and was like, oh man. Now it don't sit right with me. I think he wrote the record because he was in the comments. I do. I do believe that. I don't think what he said. Let's talk about it when we come back.
Starting point is 00:09:37 Let's talk about it when we come back. 800-585-1051. Let's discuss this at the Breakfast Club. Come on. Donkey of the Day is sponsored by renowned personal injury attorney Michael the Bull Laminsoft. Don't be a donkey when you need a fighter on your side. If you're ever injured, go to MichaelTheBull.com. That's MichaelTheBull.com. And when you mess with the bull, you get the horns. Wake that ass up.
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