J. Cole Reveals Kendrick Lamar's Scrapped Verses

0:00It's March 25th, music news today starts now, AI powered and always on beat. Jay Cole dropped the big reveal on Cameron's podcast this week. He said in early version of his album, The Fall Off was basically done, with Kendrick Lamar featured on two tracks. But then, someone leaked it, so Cole scrapped those parts and reworked the project. The album finally came out in February as a double disc, with no sign of Kendrick anywhere. This comes after their short-lived beef in April 2024, when Cole took a shot at Kendrick on a track called Seven Minute Drill, then pulled it and said sorry publicly. Cole opened up about hearing Kendrick's verse on, like that by Future and Metro Bowman back in March 2024. His first thought was that it was straight fire, with a killer beat. But then, reality hit. It was bad timing since he just toured with Drake and had his own project ready. After stepping back from the feud, Cole got a creative boost that turned the album into that double disc setup.

1:02He even designed a second cover to capture where his head was at. The two have history together, like on Forbidden Fruit and some old, unreleased stuff from around 2010. Fans are buzzing ahead of the full interview, dropping on YouTube Wednesday at 5 p.m. Eastern, where Cole might share even more on those scrapped. Versus, and what changed everything.