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CyHi The Prynce has taken goal at J. Cole on his newest observe “B.R.A Lost Control.”
Produced by Brian AllDay and Mark Byrd, the bars-heavy tune finds the longtime Kanye West affiliate trying to strip Cole of his self-proclaimed Best Rapper Alive standing — a crown he has continuously laid declare to himself.
Aside from the aggressive nature of hip-hop, it appears CyHi nonetheless has a bone to select with the Dreamville star over his 2016 observe “False Prophets,” which was broadly interpreted as a diss towards his former G.O.O.D. Music label boss Ye.
“I been listening to a whole lot of n*ggas declare one of the best rapper alive / Two issues could be true, that’s a factual lie,” he opens “B.R.A Lost Control” earlier than referencing Cole’s transient rap battle with Kendrick Lamar: “You was fearful of our good brother in that Grand National, why? / Shoulda knew you and that lil’ Honda was gonna should collide.”
CyHi later spits: “But inform St. John that them raps simply ain’t that jaw-dropping / You forgot I nonetheless owe you for ‘False Prophets’? / I rap punches that’s exhausting as Bernard Hopkins / And ain’t no sure males over right here, my dawg, cease it.
“We just like the band on the Titanic / We goin’ down with the ship earlier than we go jumpin’ off it / So watch your mouth earlier than you go overtalking / It’s cool ’til you run into certainly one of his underbosses.”
“B.R.A. Lost Control” additionally doubles up as a show of CyHi’s personal lyrical prowess, plagued by the caliber of intelligent punchlines and slick wordplay the Atlanta native is famed for.
“I got here again simply to crash the summer time / I put extra fireplace on wax than Kwanzaa / ‘Cause no matter he brew [Hebrew] can be utilized by the bartender / Mazel tov! Shots to the glass or the automobile windshield / That may’ve went over your yarmulke / ‘Cause Hannukah is perhaps the one occasion my bars miss for [bar mitzvah],” he raps within the first verse.
He additionally flips The Pharcyde‘s traditional tune “Passin’ Me By” right into a bar, spitting: “Gun powder, the gunfire, the harmonics / Of a number of pictures going off it’s known as violence / Bullets maintain passin’ me by, I’m far-sided.”
CyHi is way from the one G.O.O.D. Music alumnus to have fired again at J. Cole over “False Prophets.”
During an explosive interview with Justin Laboy final 12 months, Kanye West made a number of disparaging comments about North Carolina native, even claiming that he doesn’t like Cole’s music.
“I don’t take heed to J. Cole … I simply heard he had a tune known as ‘False [Prophets]’ and any individual instructed me it’s midway about me,” he mentioned whereas additionally calling Cole “pussy” for apologizing to Kendrick Lamar.
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