J. Cole has moved Summer Walker to tears in a new song, according to the Atlanta singer in a recent interview.
During a conversation with Young Miami on her REVOLT TV talk show Caresha Please on Thursday (May 25), Walker gave some insight to viewers behind her new track, “To Summer, From Cole” featuring the Grammy Award-winning rapper.
“So we have a song called ‘Audio Hug,’ ” Summer Walker began. “I had asked him to do a song, he really didn’t get time to do it. He wanted to meet and I was so fucking pregnant, oh my God, I can’t. I don’t know if you seen them pictures, I was like 200 pounds. My ankles were huge. It was crazy. So we didn’t meet. But, he did end up sending me something called ‘Audio Hug.’
“It’s so sweet. I cried when I heard it. He was just like, being hella sweet and saying that he sees all the shit that I went through and if I ever need to call him for anything, it was just cool.”
She continued: “We didn’t meet in the studio, ’cause I don’t even like working like that, but we met at Dreamville, which that festival was awesome. That shit was cool. But then we went to Dave and Buster’s afterwards and that’s when we got to chop it up.
“We had a good time. He got his ass whooped in basketball. Everybody got they ass whooped in there. It was crazy.”
Check out the full interview below:
Recently, J. Cole confirmed that his next album will be the long-awaited The Fall Off on the opening song from Summer Walker’s new Clear 2: Soft Life EP.
Featuring a heartfelt verse from Cole sandwiched by a tender hook from Walker, the song serves as an “audio hug” from the North Carolina rapper to the “Girls Need Love” artist — reminiscent of his uplifting poem about self-acceptance at the end of Logic’s “AfricAryaN.”
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