Diggy rekindled old beef with J. Cole this morning on New York radio station Power 105.1’s “The Breakfast Club”. Diggy spat a freestyle taking shots at Cole; most of his rhymes called him out on rapping about having sex with his older sister, Vanessa Simmons, who Cole rapped about in his 2010 song “Purple Rain”. This past April, Diggy came back with the song “What You Say To Me”, which called into question Cole’s history with Vanessa, his sexual preferences, and the man who brought him to Roc Nation, Jay-Z.
Over time the beef seemed to have cooled, with neither rapper mentioning the other throughout the summer. Yet while performing with Kendrick Lamar in North Carolina last week, Cole said, “Picture me hatin’ on a young n***a with talent… Caked out on his allowance.” Diggy came back on “The Breakfast Club” to premiere the track, which used the same arsenal of material as “What You Say To Me”. The most notable line is, “Maybe you shoulda signed with me instead of Mr. Carter / How you mad at me? I got a relationship with my father.”
While it remains to be seen whether or not J. Cole was actually romantically involved with Vanessa, Diggy has used the exact same ideas every time he has insulted Cole, and it seems he has nothing new to say about his dislike of the North Carolina MC. More importantly, he calls J. Cole out on both not being signed by Def Jam as well as not having a father. As much as the talking heads on Power 105.1 love Diggy’s boldness, he is a seventeen year-old boy whose most impressive accomplishment is his last name. In mocking J. Cole for his relationship or lack thereof with his father, something completely out of his control, Diggy comes across as the spoiled, privileged brat, just as Cole has depicted him. Listen to the clip containing the diss and the following 105.1 commentary below and let us know what you think.
This article is a guest blog by Jack Zurier