Baby says he declined due to his respect for the rapper
DaBaby claims that just days after J. Cole apologized for dissing back Kendrick Lamar, a “lyricist” rapper approached him with an offer to stage a feud that’ll help them grab the internet’s attention.
“Two days after the situation took place, I got a call — I won’t say from who. I got a call from a certain rapper. It’s like a lyricist, I’m sure y’all know him if I said his name. 1000 percent y’all know him,” Baby said during an interview on Shaquille O’Neal’s The Big Podcast.
“He shot me a text, he was like, ‘Hit me, you gon’ like this.’ I called him and was like, ‘What up?’ […] He like, ‘You wanna go up? How you feeling?’ I’m like, ‘What’s up? Talk to me.’
“He said, ‘All the back-and-forth between J. Cole and Kendrick got me fired up! Bruh, I feel like we should diss each other. We cool behind closed doors [but] we should diss each other. I feel like it would just go crazy.'”
“I know for a fact what that would do,” he added. “But at the same time, it’s a little more personal with me. I’m not about to say certain things about you if I don’t really feel a certain way about you.
“I told him, ‘And that’s out of respect for you.’ ‘Cause it can go either which way with me.”