Wale recently sat down for a Breakfast Club interview, chopping it up with DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God. While many topics are covered, one of the more interesting moments arrives when Wale speaks on being publicly addressed on J. Cole's "False Prophets." Strangely enough, after the song dropped, Wale and Cole were later spotted together at a basketball game. In that regard, Charlamagne is here for answers on the nature of the exchange, and Wale proceeds to paint a picture. "I woke up to like forty-five text messages," says Wale. "I went to the gym, sat in the sauna for a little bit, went in the studio, wrote what I had to write. The next day, I listened to it in the morning, mixed it, put it out, and then went to North Carolina and went to go see him." Charlamagne keeps pressing, saying "but ya'll really friends though!" Wale clarifies that there wasn't any dissing involved, but Charla wonders why the whole exchange couldn't simply be handled via phone call. Wale has his theories. "Maybe it was the shock," he speculates. "Maybe he wanted to give it to me another way. Cole always tell me I don't listen...That's what makes us so close, it's very raw and uncut." In the end, Wale has no regrets about how it all went down, saying "we showed a whole bunch of youngins you can be enemies, best friends, all that, but you can still settle it like gentlemen." Still, there was one thing that left Wale feeling disappointed. "Some of the stuff come from personal conversations, like one on one," says Wale. "But that's just a bit of ego, probably." No love lost, and where J. Cole and Wale are concerned, it's all love. Peep the entire conversation below, for much more.<doc-sep>When Jamie Foxx first announced that J. Cole was taking to the stage, you might have been taken by surprise to find Wale sitting in front of a television set as the intro to Cole’s album played on in the backdrop. Soon, Canadian crooner Daniel Caesar would be on television screens to deliver on the hook found on Cole’s “FRIENDS” before “Choose Wisely” would flash on a screen, thereby introducing Cole to the stage to deliver on a performance that included a host of young dancers clad in all-white as Cole delivered on his anti-drug message. The performance was a fitting introduction to DJ Khaled who would soon appear onstage to accept his award for Best Collaboration for “Wild Thoughts,” delivering on a speech aimed at the youth while accompanied by his son Asahd. “Big up the young world, all the young kids, the young geniuses. All of y’all are leaders. All of y’all are kings and queens, and we love you.” His sentiments would be echoed when SZA took home her first major award for Best New Artist, acknowledging the honor as such as reminding the viewers at home to believe in themselves. “Anybody that’s watching […] just in the world lost follow your passion, ignore everyone, try to stay in gratitude. It will make the wack stuff feel better.”<doc-sep>The Real is back. J. Cole made a surprise appearance at Sunday’s BET Awards. Following an introduction from host Jamie Foxx, the Fayetteville rapper delivered a powerful performance of “Friends” with some special guests. The set opened with Wale, who was seated on a chair watching television while a table with pill bottles was placed in front of him. Then Daniel Caesar delivered his soulful vocals before Cole emerged against a screen that read “Choose Wisely.” Wearing a T-shirt that read “You have the right to remain silent,” he delivered his song about addiction. “I wrote this shit to talk about the word addiction,” raps Cole. “To my ni**a, I hope you listening / This is for the whole fucking Ville, I hope you’re listening.” “Friends” is a cut off Cole’s latest album KOD, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.<doc-sep>
J. Cole famously called out both Wale and Kanye West on his 2016 non-album track "False Prophets," and it didn't take Wale all that long to respond. The two were, and still are, friends, so it was a difficult time. During a recent chat with DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne on The Breakfast Club, Wale opened up the experience for the first time in a long while, discussing how he felt and why he thought it was important to talk to Cole in person about the track. The day Cole dropped "False Prophets" was a hectic one for Wale, he explained. "I woke up to like 45 text messages," he said. "I went to the gym, sat in the sauna for a little bit, went in the studio, wrote what I had to write. The next day, I listened to it in the morning, mixed it, put it out, and then went to North Carolina and went to go see him." As for why he felt the need to go all that way to speak with Cole about the song, he said it's not anything he could put into words simply. "Maybe it was the shock," he explained. "Maybe he wanted to give it to me another way. Cole always tell me I don't listen. ... That's what makes us so close, it's very raw and uncut. We showed a whole bunch of youngins you can be enemies, best friends, all that, but you can still settle it like gentlemen." Wale does, however, wish that Cole had kept certain things to himself during the whole ordeal. "Some of the stuff come from personal conversations, like one-on-one," he added. "But that's just a bit of ego, probably."