Drake who is damn near done with his UMG deal and not Kendrick who just signed a deal with UMG less than 2 years ago?

ice and poop bars are the pinnacle of rapping 🔥

Cole adds himself to the long list of high profile rappers who have name dropped Lucian

Drake - As friend then foe
Ye - As a diss to Drake
Cole - As a diss to people signed to him (like Drake)

Kendrick has a distribution deal with UMG. Cole has a bar about his own distribution deal with UMG in the very next line. He's not talking about Kendrick

i dont think he dissed either drake nor kendrick tbh

If he isn't talking about Kendrick then he isn't talking about Drake either because Drake got his distribution deal with UMG BEFORE Kendrick and Cole got theirs and his deal with them is done once he drops Iceman lol.

think lucian is just a stand in for label ceos

if it was to joey, joey aint signed to lucian either

ye it aint to neither of em. Not every line is a shot at drake/kendrick.

Why would cole diss either of them? it dont even make sense

I don't think so either, but if one was to make a case for either, none of his bars read as disses towards Drake while some can be seen as disses towards Kendrick (if you make a little leap).

i mean the tough guy persona bar def fits drake

but dissing drake makes no sense

He floated on money power respect beat

king kong s***, long ding dong s***

First off, Cole and Drake have never had issues with each other. Them two have been friends since 2009 with little intermission moments when they weren't as close but it's always been love.

Cole and his team were spotted listening to $$$4U and on Port Antonio, Cole makes it clear he has no issues with Drake (like people have been suggesting he does or that Drake somehow did him foul — he called cap on both theories).

As for the bots and faking streams s***, Cole has been rapping about that since at least 2018 on 21 Savage's "alot" song. It's a thing that's been widely-known to happen in the music industry so I think those bars are him just continuing to call it out and none of the bars about tours can be aimed at Drake or Kendrick because they both now have the highest-grossing rap tours of all time.

Many of the "shots" on these songs are really just Cole making general statements based on his observations about how the game is now and him just talking his s***.

When has Drake ever tried to act like a tough guy? Drake doesn't get into altercations or try to get into altercations and all he does is talk s*** on songs like every other rapper or answer the call whenever he gets called out by another rapper. What part of any of that reads like he's a tough guy?

imma just pretend ur joking

If he acts like a tough guy so much, then tell me examples. Oh, and talking s*** on wax like every other rapper doesn't count as an example btw so give me other examples.

I always felt that the song from TPAB “For Sale?” was an allegory for Lucian in the pseudonym of Lucifer shortened as Lucy. Always thought it was interesting he specifically chose Lucy rather than the many other names he could’ve used to refer to satan/devil.

Hogwash mumbo jumbo

Probably. Idk it’s not some crazy hidden message or super deep…it’s obviously on face value about the devil of course but the song’s narrative is specifically about rappers signing contracts and I thought referring to the devil as Lucy was interesting.

The Lori Harvey line is VERY WEIRD

Yeah Cole had big Sean esque bars on here hopefully he got those out his system and they not on the album

That's interesting. Weeknd doesn't name drop him on All to Myself but he continues the "sign your life away" theme

Brutal

Hahaha y’all wanna make this about Cole dissing Drake so bad and it’s so obvious it ain’t…

Please get over the beef, man. That bar is a general shot, if the shoe fits, so be it.