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J. Cole Curves Artist Who Threw Demo Tape Onstage

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Last week, Drake and J. Cole finally kicked off their It’s All a Blur — Big As The What? tour with a performance in Tampa. Already, the duo is making headlines for their tour outfits, props, announcements, and more. Of course, their onstage antics have also gotten quite a bit of attention. In a new clip, for example, J. Cole reacts to an audience member throwing their demo tape at him, which crashed onto the stage and burst out of its case.

An audible gasp is then heard from the rest of the crowd, though J. Cole just calmly walked past the CD, later kicking it off the stage. “N***a threw his demo up here,” he said. “It’s 2024, n***a. USB is okay.” While some critical commenters think he should’ve given the demo a listen, others suspect that J. Cole just didn’t want to trip over it during the show.

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J. Cole Says “USB Is Okay”

Many also note that there are better ways to promote your music these days, even though J. Cole himself is no stranger to handing out demos. In a 2009 interview with ABC News, he recalled making beats that he brought to the Roc the Mic studio in NYC in hopes of landing on Jay-Z’s album, American Gangster. “Maybe we could just slide him the CD and if we slide him the CD, he’ll go upstairs and listen to it, and if he listens to it, he’s gonna love it and he’s gonna send down, you know, for me to come upstairs and he’s probably going to sign me — or whatever was in my head,” he explained.

Eventually, Jay-Z pulled up after J. Cole had waited in the rain for hours. He got the chance to hand his CD to Hov, who promptly told him, “Man, I don’t want that.” What do you think of a fan throwing their demo tape onstage during the It’s All a Blur — Big As The What? tour? What about J. Cole’s response? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.

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DJ Clue Reflects On Biggie Threatening To “Kill Him” On Live Radio

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During a recent roundtable discussion, DJ Clue recalled leaking one of the Notorious B.I.G.’s songs. He revealed that he had included the original version of “One More Chance” on a mixtape, and the Bad Boy Records crew wasn’t happy about it. DJ Clue explained that Biggie even took to live radio to threaten him for leaking the iconic track.

“I got my hands on a Biggie record, it was a demo,” he begins, “I didn’t really know everyone at Bad Boy yet … I put it on a mixtape, Biggie got mad. He went on Hot 97 and said, ‘Yo Clue, when I find you, I’m gonna kill you’ or whatever he said — on live radio.” “You wanna know what happened?” DJ Clue continues, “I got on the phone and said, ‘Yo, we gotta do a diss record, come on!’ I was young, we was rolling around on a different type of time. I didn’t know who they were and they didn’t know who I was.”

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DJ Clue Hid In Plain Sight

He goes on, describing how he was able to remain unscathed due to the team not recognizing him. “I remember one time when that beef was kinda on, we were in Virginia Beach … I went to the store and walked in by myself, and all I see is the whole Bad Boy street team. They got the picket signs, but they don’t know what I look like,” DJ Clue explains. “They know they got drama with me, they know they got beef with me, but they don’t know what I look like,” he reveals, “So I’m walking to 7/11 and I see like 30 of them coming down the street. I walked right through them! DJ Clue walked right by them.”

DJ Clue recalls squashing the beef with the help of Diddy, who claimed the leak actually helped Biggie’s career. “We met up, we talked it out,” he explained, “I think Puff realized having the vehicle and seeing the impact of what the song did on my mixtape, I feel like he felt like the relationship was more important than taking it to the wrong place.”

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