J. Cole has new wheels to ride around the city with after being gifted a custom bike by Trae The Truth during the 2024 Trae Day Weekend.
Video shared on Thursday (July 18) shows Cole reacting to the black and creme bike that features the ‘Dreamville’ logo on the frame.
“Wow, HARD! This shit hard,” an incredulous Cole said.
Skilla Baby was also on hand and met the North Carolina native for the first time ahead of a city-wide bike ride with all of the Trae Day attendees.
J. Cole has been called out by some in recent months for what they feel was “ducking” the beef with Kendrick Lamar, but Trae Tha Truth has disagreed with the narrative.
Talking to AllHipHop at the 2024 BET Awards, Trae spoke about Cole’s choice to bow out of the ‘Big 3’ beef with K.Dot after initially dropping (then retracting) a diss – and he felt it was a necessary move.
“One thing, man, I know he probably wouldn’t want me to say, but I’m going to clarify: I watch blogs and I watch headlines make it as if he [Cole] was just trying to get away or duck any type of situation,” Trae said. “And that wasn’t the case. What people have to realize is that’s just not the type of energy bro got. You know what I’m saying? He focused on him, he focused on his kids and just always stayed in his lane.”
He continued: “So everybody wanted to see him rumble and not knowing a lot of us came up together. We partners. So for me, being a real brother to him, you got to respect if somebody like, ‘Man, you know what, bro? I know I’m dope. I’m not questioning myself. I just feel like that’s just not the energy that I’m on.’”
T.I. had a similar sentiment about J. Cole’s decision to apologize to Kendrick Lamar after dissing him on “7 Minute Drill,” as did Black Thought – who praised Cole for apologizing.
