J Cole says he “felt terrible” after releasing a song aimed at fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar last week, and vowed to pull the track off streaming services.

Titled 7 Minute Drill, Cole’s song was a reply to Lamar’s verse on the hit single Like That, in which the star asserted his dominance of the rap game.

Cole hit back by saying Lamar had “fallen off like the Simpsons” and called his latest album “tragic”.

But speaking on Sunday, Cole apologised for his “lame” and “goofy” response.

“I ain’t gonna lie to y’all the past two days felt terrible,” he told an audience at the Dreamville Festival in North Carolina. “I damn near had a relapse”.

He asked for forgiveness from Lamar, calling the song a “mis-step” and said he hoped to “get back to my true path”.

The war of words started last year on the song First Person Shooter, where Cole suggested that he, Drake and Lamar were the current “big three” names in hip-hop.

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