J. Cole removing his Kendrick Lamar diss song "7 Minute Drill" and apologizing to the pgLang rapper, will probably go down in Hip Hop history.
Daylyt, who's on Cole's Might Delete Later project, detailed what Cole told him about deleting the song from streaming services right before he did it.
He said the Dreamville rapper didn't want to ruin his friendship with Kendrick and it wasn't bigger than that. [Jump to the 4:19:30 mark]
"So right before, I went to talk to Cole and we was chopping it up about everything," Daylyt said on The Apollo Podcast. "He was telling me personally, 'It ain’t sitting right with me. Me and Dot cool, we way cool outside of this music.' It’s like slap boxing. We slap box and you hit me too hard and when the fists start flying, it’s a fade. So that’s kind of how he looked at it."
"He’s like, 'I don’t want it to end up something that I don’t want it to be,'" he continued. "I just feel like I shouldn’t have jumped out there like that. All he said was, 'Big three is just me.' I ain’t have to do a whole song. It could have just kind of been a little subliminal right back.'"
Daylyt said Cole removed "7 Minute Drill" one day after that conversation.