Kanye West Opens Up About Hating J. Cole’s Music

Ye has had multiple targets in his rants on X (formerly Twitter), but there is always room for more. The 47-year-old opened up about hating J. Cole‘s music and the specific audience he believes that it is for.

A music page on X shared a clip of the Dreamville rapper’s verse on Benny The Butcher’s “Johnny P’s Caddy” and claimed that he spared Kendrick Lamar last year when he backed out of their developing rap battle. The Chicago producer, however, was focused more on the music itself. “I hate J Cole music so much,” he wrote in a quote tweet. “It’s like between Kendrick and J Cole I bet you industry plants asked J Cole to diss Drake then we would have been accosted with a J Cole Super Bowl commercial with no SZA song to save it.”

He wasn’t done there. “No one listens to J Cole after [losing] their virginity,” the artist formerly known as Kanye West wrote in another tweet. For the final nail in the coffin, he revealed that he had a conversation with Drake about Cole. “When I met up with Drake during Donda most of the convo was me telling him he was hurting hip hop by giving J Cole a platform and I was saying how much I loved Future,” Ye wrote.

Ye and J. Cole have an interesting history. The “Port Antonio” rapper credited the father of four for facilitating his ability to rap about his regular life without needing to lean into common rap tropes of street life, drugs, or other popular themes. He freestyled over several beats produced by the multi-time Grammy winner on his early mixtapes and joined JAY-Z on “A Star Is Born,” which Ye also produced. They also both rapped on “Looking For Trouble,” one of the fan-favorite releases from the West’s GOOD Friday series.

Years later, Cole made it clear that he wanted to compete with all of the greats by changing the release date of his 2013 album Born Sinner to coincide with the day Yeezus came out. From there, it went from competition to disdain. The 40-year-old rapper dissed the fashion designer on “False Prophets” in 2016 and followed up three years later on “Middle Child.”

It is safe to say that, given Ye’s constant hate speech, public image, and vitriol toward the Might Delete Later artist, they likely will not collaborate again. But thankfully, all of their past work is easily accessible via streaming.