J. Cole previews old unreleased songs with Kendrick Lamar during podcast appearance

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J. Cole has previewed two unreleased songs with Kendrick Lamar dating back to 2010 – find out more below.Cole, who recently launched the Inevitable “limited audio series” podcast to chronicle his career and artistic evolution, has appeared on a recent episode where he previewed unreleased music featuring Kendrick Lamar dating back over a decade.The two songs, ‘Temptations’ and ‘Shock The World’, were according to J.

Cole recorded by both artists sometime in 2010 after the two had met at a cover shoot for that year’s XXL Freshman list that Cole and Kendrick’s label mate TDE’s Jay Rock were featured on.During one of their meetings after said shoot, Cole played the two tracks for Kendrick and had offered him those songs.

Cole recounted: “I played him ‘Temptation’ with my verse on it, I played him a couple of other joints that had one verse on it.

When I played them for him, I was like, ‘Bro, you can have these if you want.’”J. Cole continued: “I remember he said — and it always stuck with me ’cause I had never heard nobody say this to me before — he was like, ‘N***a, are you sure you want to give me these?!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, go ahead, take them.’ He was like, ‘Bro, you sleeping on yourself.’ It struck me because it was actually the stone cold truth of my reality at that time.