CyHi The Prynce has taken aim at J. Cole on his latest track “B.R.A Lost Control.”
Produced by Brian AllDay and Mark Byrd, the bars-heavy song finds the longtime Kanye West affiliate attempting to strip Cole of his self-proclaimed Best Rapper Alive status — a crown he has frequently laid claim to himself.
Aside from the competitive nature of hip-hop, it seems CyHi still has a bone to pick with the Dreamville star over his 2016 track “False Prophets,” which was widely interpreted as a diss against his former G.O.O.D. Music label boss Ye.
“I been hearing a lot of n*ggas claim the best rapper alive / Two things can be true, that’s a factual lie,” he opens “B.R.A Lost Control” before referencing Cole’s brief rap battle with Kendrick Lamar: “You was scared of our good brother in that Grand National, why? / Shoulda knew you and that lil’ Honda was gonna have to collide.”
CyHi later spits: “But tell St. John that them raps just ain’t that jaw-dropping / You forgot I still owe you for ‘False Prophets’? / I rap punches that’s hard as Bernard Hopkins / And ain’t no yes men over here, my dawg, stop it.
“We like the band on the Titanic / We goin’ down with the ship before we go jumpin’ off it / So watch your mouth before you go overtalking / It’s cool ’til you run into one of his underbosses.”
“B.R.A. Lost Control” also doubles up as a display of CyHi’s own lyrical prowess, littered with the caliber of clever punchlines and slick wordplay the Atlanta native is famed for.
“I came back just to crash the summer / I put more fire on wax than Kwanzaa / ‘Cause whatever he brew [Hebrew] can be used by the bartender / Mazel tov! Shots to the glass or the car windshield / That might’ve went over your yarmulke / ‘Cause Hannukah might be the only event my bars miss for [bar mitzvah],” he raps in the first verse.
He also flips The Pharcyde‘s classic song “Passin’ Me By” into a bar, spitting: “Gun powder, the gunfire, the harmonics / Of multiple shots going off it’s called violence / Bullets keep passin’ me by, I’m far-sided.”
CyHi is far from the only G.O.O.D. Music alumnus to have fired back at J. Cole over “False Prophets.”
During an explosive interview with Justin Laboy last year, Kanye West made a number of disparaging comments about North Carolina native, even claiming that he doesn’t like Cole’s music.
“I don’t listen to J. Cole … I just heard he had a song called ‘False [Prophets]’ and somebody told me it’s halfway about me,” he said while also calling Cole “pussy” for apologizing to Kendrick Lamar.
