J. Cole Explains Why Kendrick Lamar Album Never Happened: ‘It Was A Real Conversation’

J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar may have predated tremendous collab albums equivalent to Drake and Future‘s ‘WATTBA’ and perhaps even Jay-Z and Kanye West‘s “Watch the Throne” — that’s, if the celebs, moons and schedules aligned for them.

Cole regarded again at a would-be Okay. Dot pairing that by no means materialized throughout his prolonged new podcast with Lil Yachty. — and he talked about why the rumored undertaking by no means got here to be.

Take a hear for your self on his breakdown right here — JC says the 2 shaped a friendship in 2010 simply as each of their future careers as hip hop legends had been starting to take off … and proper off the bat, it seems like there was chemistry between them in type and musical style.

Neither MC had launched an album simply but and Cole says he equipped Kendrick with a number of beats he made, with Dot even utilizing one among them for his 2011 album “Section.80” on album anchor “HiiiPower.”

The 2 teased followers even additional by freestyling on each other’s beats for Black Friday 2015 … but it surely’s been radio silence ever since.

Cole says he and Kendrick would want a full yr to make the undertaking of their and followers’ desires and factors out neither had the time to commit amid their rising careers — and household lives.

From the sounds of it, Cole and Kendrick put the thought to mattress … though, in the event that they had been capable of finding a handy schedule for each of them — maybe the likelihood to choose it again up once more may resurface. J. Cole actually does not appear against the thought of a collab.