J. Cole addresses altercation with Diddy at 2013 MTV Awards on new song ‘Let Go My Hand’

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J. Cole has publicly addressed the previously rumoured altercation he had with Diddy at an after-party following the MTV Video Music Awards in 2013.Cole has recalled the incident in his song ‘Let Go My Hand’, which features on his new album ‘The Off-Season’ – his first LP since 2018’s ‘KOD’.On the track, Cole raps that he “kept a tough demeanour on the surface but was mostly just pretendin’ / Luckily my bluff was workin’ way more often than not.“But sometimes a n***a pulled my card, tryna expose me for a fraud / And with my reputation at stake / I was scufflin’ just to save face / Couple wins, couple losses, some broken up too quick to call it.”Cole then says that his “last scrap was with Puff Daddy, who would’ve thought it?”“I bought that.