J. Cole received plenty of harsh critiques from fans over his lackluster verse on Cash Cobain‘s new song “Grippy.”
The track from the Queens rapper arrived on Friday (May 24) and featured a special appearance from the Dreamville founder.
A day later, fans began offering up their thoughts on the track, with plenty of Hip Hop connoisseurs mercilessly clowning the Carolina rapper.
One user posted a video in which they said: “This message is for Jermaine Cole. Please take the ‘Grippy’ song back like you took ‘Seven Minute Drill’ back. It’s not too late.”
Another added: “Y’all know how J. Cole has been teasing ‘The Fall Off’ dropping? What if bro was talking about himself the whole time?”
Another user recorded themselves reacting to the verse and making disgusted faces.
Fans were particularly dismayed by Cole’s lyrics: “Now she in my phone with a nickname/ It’s, it’s, it’s, hmm/ Grippy.”
Check out the song and a number of reactions below.
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A reworking of Cobain’s track “Dunk Contest,” the song finds Cole and the rising New York rap star waxing poetic about getting between the sheets with a particularly dazzling woman.
Cole raps: “Grippy, I call her that ’cause it’s grippy/ She thinkin’ it hip, she a hippie/ And she thinkin’ of lips, she gon’ lick me/ And she sendin’ a flick when she hit me/ With a kissin’ emoji, she miss me/ When she see me, she say she gon’ strip me.”
Other fans were even more blunt about the song, which served as Cole’s second release since he backed out of his rap battle with Kendrick Lamar following his appearance on Future and Metro Boomin‘s We Still Don’t Trust You.
“J Cole’s verse on that Cash Cobain song was fucking atrocious,” they wrote.
Earlier this month, a TikTok user went viral for running into the Dreamville rap star at the beach amid the bitter feud between his close peers that gripped Hip Hop fans in recent weeks.
The user, @2kold.fr, posted a video of calming ocean waves before it cuts to a photo of her sat next to Cole on the sandy beach.
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The “Middle Child” hitmaker, who was seemingly alone, could be seen wearing a typically casual outfit along with headphones connected to a laptop.
After being bombarded with questions about the encounter in the comments section, the woman claimed that she had a 30-minute conversation with Cole and asked him about Kendrick and Drake’s beef.
“He said he doesn’t even like beef period. He’s really just chillin,” she wrote.
Many fans pointed out the amusing similarities between the real-life encounter and flood of memes poking fun at Cole for choosing a quiet and peaceful life over lyrical warfare.
