They cleared up the misconception surrounding the lawsuit issue nicely.
Seems like they were both wrong in the situation but Cole definitely
Cole clearly fukks with Drake more (this is fine). But he doesn’t want to really criticize Kendrick(which makes him a bytch)
He fukks with Drake more personally because they have similar backgrounds. Both came from broken homes raised by a white mother and rarely seeing their black father. Both dropped acclaimed mixtapes that put them on the map. Both came up through co-signs from legendary rappers. Both had to fight the studio system on their major label debuts. They’ve got a lot in common.
Cole fukks with Kendrick as an artist because Kendrick is easily and handily the best of his generation, and everyone can see it and agree to it. Its like how Jay-Z personally fukked with Biggie as a person while admiring Nas’s prodigious talent.
At the end of the day, Cole knows battling Kendrick would have been the fight of his life and he would have lost, so he apologized and moved on, but he didn’t want to see Drake get slaughtered, because thats the guy he has the affinity for.