J. Cole has teamed up with Daylyt on the Watts rapper’s latest track, “A Plate of Collard Greens.”
The song, which was released on Monday (September 23), finds the two MCs trading verses over a soulful vocal chop, stirring strings and drumless instrumental.
After Daylyt sets things up with a triumphant opening verse, Cole comes through with some fire, spitting: “The reign is obsolete / Jermaine is out the beast, celebrated / Paraded out in the streets for days, if not for weeks / For bringing us out the bleakest, burning pit / My words is slick when it’s my turn to kick.”
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“A Plate of Collard Greens” serves as the pair’s second collaboration this year following “Pi,” which also features fellow lyrical heavyweight Ab-Soul.
That track was taken from J. Cole’s surprise mixtape Might Delete Later, which dropped in April.
It appears Daylyt has also been treated to an early listen of Cole’s next project, the eagerly anticipated The Fall Off, as the TDE affiliate recently heaped lofty praise on the album.
Speaking on Instagram Live, the battle rapper shed light on the project and said the Dreamville boss is giving fans straight-up bars, calling it “the most amazingest” rapping he’s heard.
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“Cole is going out with a nuclear missile, I’m telling y’all that,” he said. “It’s his last go-around and he literally was like, ‘I don’t give a fuck about radio; I just wanna show the world my pen before I die.’ I heard it, all of it. It is the most amazingest rapping I have seen and heard thus far.”
Fueling excitement even further, Daylyt claimed that The Fall Off is the exact direction that Hip Hop needs to go in right now due to the genre being full of “trolls.”
“I feel like that’s what Hip Hop needs right now,” he said. “I think Hip Hop needs to just be like, ‘Man, let’s take it back to the pure art form of this shit.’ Because this shit we doing right now, it ain’t what we got in it for.
“I’m not gon’ lie, we let the trolls take over the building, man. It’s a lot of trolls. I ain’t gon’ lie, I tried to do the trolling shit earlier, but I’m still an amazing lyricist. But they ain’t never fully let me in because they knew I was trolling.
“But the buildings now, they ran by trolls. These n-ggas ain’t really cut from the cloth. It’s technically physical AI n-ggas in the positions right now. And that’s the spicy flip. These people AI. So again, Hip Hop needs to go back to the pure essence of what we been doing it for.”
