Wiz Khalifa believes that J. Cole showed maturity for dropping out of a potential rap feud with Kendrick Lamar.
The Pittsburgh rapper was on the latest episode of podcast Club Shay Shay, and around the 29-minute mark of the video below, host Shannon Sharpe brought up Cole backing out of a lyrical war with Kendrick.
"I think there's two versions to it. In hip hop, like, according to the rules of hip-hop, nah, hell nah. You're not supposed to do that," Khalifa said of Cole backing out. "But in real life, you can take back some shit that you said. Like, 'Oh, I said that? I probably shouldn't have said that.'"
He continued, "It takes a bigger man to be like, 'I actually don't want no problems.' In real life, I fuck with it. ... I'll let other people do the hip-hop thing."
Kendrick famously shooting down Cole's "big three" line from his Drake collaboration "First Person Shooter" on the song "Like That". Cole followed up with the diss track "7 Minute Drill," before apologizing to Kendrick at the 2024 Dreamville Festival and removing the song from his Might Delete Later project.
On his single "Port Antonio," released in October, Cole defended dropping out of the Drake and Kendrick beef. "I pulled the plug because I seen where that was about to go, they wanted blood, they wanted clicks to make they pockets grow/Wouldn't have lost the battle, dog, I would've lost a bro, I would've gained a foe, and all for what?" he rapped.
Elsewhere in the interview, Wiz was asked about Drake's decision to sue Universal Music Group over Kendrick's chart-topper "Not Like Us," Khalifa called it a "Drake move.'
"It's just how the industry is and all of that's coming to an end now, and it's all spilling out, and you got you're getting to see it," he said about the beef between Kendrick and Drake. "But this is also like wrestling as well, so the same people who are arguing can be like cool instantly. So it's like, don't get too caught up on the animosity part. Not them, but, in general, but people will be hugging later."
