J. Cole finally cleared the air regarding his long-rumored collaborative project Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n
In a recent appearance on Lil Yachty and MitchGoneMad’s A Safe Place<\/em> podcast, Cole revealed that he and Lamar did have plans to create a joint album a very long time ago \u2014 even before the pair released their own debut projects. \u201cIn a nutshell, he had pulled up on me at No ID\u2019s spot, after we was already building this relationship, and I had these beats at the time and I was playing them for him,” he explained. Was that our first time linking? \u2018HiiiPoWeR,\u2019 one of them beats? There\u2019s a few beats, a gang of beats that I did, I gave him. Some of them like, maybe had a hook on them, a verse \u2014 this, that, and the third. So he took them and, you know, in that moment, we talked about, \u2018Yo, bro, we should do a project.\u2019 At that time he\u2019s not on like that, but I\u2019m f*ckin\u2019 with him.\u201d<\/p>\n They went on and managed to work on a few songs, after K-Dot hopped on social media to tease that he and Cole were working on something. Their fan base got excited with the news, and prior to the release of section.80, the pair worked on a bus in Fayetteville and created a few more songs.<\/p>\n Eventually, both of their careers blew up and they could just never find the time. \u201cAt one point, it was a real thing. But bro, time and life… We ain’t ever got the chance to go in and do it correctly, because that would take time,” Cole added. “For us to do something that\u2019s full of our potential, that meets our real potential, you’re gonna need time.\u00a0At least a year. When you got two successful artists with lives and families, that\u2019s hard to do\u2026 We put it to bed years ago. But at one point in time, it was a real conversation, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not, like, it\u2019s a ton of songs,\u201d Cole further clarified. \u201cIt\u2019s not like it\u2019s some album sitting on the shelf somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n