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\n\tJ. Cole<\/a> played a couple unreleased songs he recorded with Kendrick Lamar<\/a> on episode four of his \u201caudio series\u201d podcast Inevitable<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n \n\tThe songs, \u201cShock the World\u201d and \u201cTemptation\u201d<\/a> are from 2010 around the time both flirted with recording a joint album together. Cole went into detail about those early collaborations. According to Cole, the two previously met during a XXL<\/em> Freshman cover shoot that featured both the North Carolina rapper and TDE\u2019s Jay Rock<\/a>. The two stayed in touch and J. Cole eventually sent him some beats. \u201cWhen I dropped \u2018Blow Up,\u2019 I remember him hitting me like, \u2018N\u2014a, I need one of those!\u2019 He was talking about how crazy the beat was,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I was out in L.A., he came by\u00a0No I.D.<\/a>\u2018s studio and I linked with him\u2026 I played him the beat for \u2018HiiiPoWeR,\u2019 I played him \u2018Temptation\u2019 with my verse on it, I played him a couple of other joints that had one verse on it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAdding, \u201cWhen I played them for him, I was like, \u2018Bro, you can have these if you want.\u2019 I remember he said \u2014 and it always stuck with me \u2019cause I had never heard nobody say this to me before \u2014 he was looking at me like, \u2018N\u2014a, are you sure you want to give me\u00a0these<\/em>?!\u2019 \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, go ahead, take them.\u2019 He was like, \u2018Bro, you\u00a0sleeping<\/em>\u00a0on yourself.\u2019 It struck me because it was actually the stone cold truth of my reality at that time. I was so focused on getting this unicorn hit for my album that I was actually sleeping on the shit that I did well.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tKendrick once played the songs for fans during a meet and greet back in the day.<\/p>\n