Jadakiss shouts out J. Cole ahead of the North Carolina rapper’s upcoming album ‘The Fall-Off,’ and Jada lets it slip that Cole has a DIFFERENT mixtape planned before the album.
On February 6, the two-time Grammy winner will release his long-awaited seventh album, The Fall-Off, which has had hip-hop fans buzzing online since its announcement earlier this month. But during the latest episode of Joe and Jada, Joey Crack questioned whether Cole World will have a strong reception in comparison to his previous albums. The Bronx native challenged whether J. Cole was still a part of rap’s “Big Three” along with Drake and Kendrick Lamar, after Cole apologized for and removed from streaming his Kendrick diss “7 Minute Drill.” Cole’s song was a response to Kendrick’s “Like That,” which took aim at both the N.C. rapper and Drake.
Around the four-minute mark of the podcast, co-host Jadakiss said that Cole has a project on the way — separate from his upcoming LP — where he raps over several beats from Kiss’ group The L.O.X. Jada said that Cole is “coming back in a major way.” After Jadakiss added that he didn’t “like the terminology,” Fat Joe denied that he was basing his assessment of Cole on social media. Rather, Joe said, it’s true to the spirit of hip-hop to battle, no matter the odds. As an example, he pointed to his co-host’s own vicious broadsides against an at-his-commercial-peak 50 Cent in the mid-aughts.