The one-sided fandom that preceded Cole’s “False Prophets (Be Like This).”

J. Cole’s admiration of Kanye West’s music is easy to perceive: Both began their careers with everyman raps that balance socially conscious bars with a passion for flashing. Yeezy’s early work criticizes higher education as a societal norm; Cole rhymes about dodging Sallie Mae college loan payments. Both are Jay Z’s protégés.

“I’m such a Kanye West fan,” Cole told Vulture back in 2010. “I would love to work with him on a major scale. Not just a song here or a song there I would love to do something extraordinary with him, but I feel like I gotta step my game up and kind of earn my spot before I can worry about that.”

The cold truth, though, is that your idols will inevitably let you down. And Cole’s scathing track “False Prophets (Be Like This),” which he premiered last night via his Eyez mini-documentary, seems to be confirmation that he’s done praising Yeezus.

Genius backtracked to the careers of J. Cole and Kanye West to find out where the two rap stars intersect. Spoiler: It’s pretty one-sided.

May 2007: J. Cole leaned heavily on industry beats for his maiden mixtape, The Come Up. Of the project’s 21 tracks, four featured Kanye West instrumentals (“School Daze,” “College Boy,” “The Come Up,” and “Homecoming,” respectively).

June 2009: By the time his follow-up project The Warm Up dropped, Cole was handling more of his own production. He still hijacked the beat from Kanye’s College Dropout closer “Last Call,” even using a similar spoken outro. Likewise, he rhymes over Talib Kweli’s “Get By” and Monica’s “Knock Knock"—two more Yeezy productions—and interpolates the ”Can’t Tell Me Nothing“ hook on ”Dolla And A Dream II“ via his pitched-up alter ego Lil' Cole ("Wait til i get my money right…”).

March 2010: Young Chris releases his J. Cole-featured “Still The Hottest,” which finds the N.C. MC flipping lyrics from Kanye’s first major single, “Through the Wire” before declaring, “This is the new Roc, bitch”:

Uhh, what if somebody from the ville that was ill

Got a deal on the hottest rap label around

But he wasn’t talkin bout coke and birds

It was more like spoken word

Can’t you see I’m putting it down

May 2010: On “I Really Mean It (Freestyle),” a Warm Up leftover that lifts the beat to Cam'ron’s song of the same name, Cole rattles off his rap influences:

They say I’m the down south Nas

The east coast Pac

The Carolina André

The Fayettenam Kanye

September 2010: Cole hijacks Kanye’s “Devil in a New Dress” (produced by Bink!) instrumental for his own “Villematic.”

October 2010: J. Cole references Kanye’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” once again, interpolating Yeezy’s lines about fancy cars on his loosie “I’m On It”:

I want the whip with the suicide doors

This is my life homie, you decide yours

November 2010: The two Jay Z understudies finally link up on “Looking for Trouble,” a G.O.O.D. Friday release that also includes Pusha T, CyHi The Prynce and Big Sean. Cole closes the track out with a blistering verse:

Hey, Cole World, make way for the chosen one

What you now hear is puttin’ fear in all the older ones

Downplayed me to downgrade me like they don’t notice son

Your shoes too big too fill? I can barely squeeze my toes in ‘em

“Looking For Trouble” also serves as a bonus track on Cole’s Friday Night Lights mixtape, which dropped one week later.

Feburary 2011: Cole drops a rhyme over Beanie Sigel’s Kanye-produced 2001 single “Nothing Like It.”

June 2011: The first single from Cole’s debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story drops, featuring a prominent sample of Kanye’s “The New Workout Plan.”

July 2011: J. Cole announces a weekly freebie release series called Any Given Sunday—it’s loosely modeled after Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Friday. The first five-song vault dump includes “Knock On Wood,” a freestyle over Common’s Kanye-laced “Go!” The following week, he rocks Com’s “Be (Intro)"—yet another Yeezy instrumental.

September 2011: Cole World hits the masses. The deep cut “Rise and Shine” finds Cole nodding to Kanye’s “Good Life,” as he opens up with, “Like we always do at this time…”

July 2012: As Cole ramps up for his sophomore album, he tosses out “The Cure,” a lyrical exercise over Jay, Kanye and Beyoncé’s Watch The Throne track “Lift Off.” At least he’s self-aware:

How many Kanye beats do a nigga gotta murder

To prove my mind’s further, hater nigga converter

June 2013: Kanye West’s Yeezus and J. Cole’s Born Sinner are released on the same day, a measuring-stick move orchestrated by the neophyte. He immortalizes the release date duel (June 18) on his Kendrick Lamar-guested album cut “Forbidden Fruit”:

When I say that I’m the greatest I ain’t talking about later

I'mma drop the album same day as Kanye

Just to show the boy’s the man now like Wanyá

And I don’t mean no disrespect, I praise legends

But this what’s next

Cole means it. On that same album, he borrows a line from Kanye’s “Big Brother” for “Let Nas Down,” rapping, “No I.D. my mentor now let the story begin.”

December 2015: J. Cole and Kanye West share co-producer credits on Pusha T’s King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude track “M.P.A.”

January 2016: Yasiin Bey announces the upcoming release of his final solo album via Instagram, listing one song called “Assalamualaikum, Danya” that’s slated to feature Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West and J. Cole. The song has yet to be released.

December 2016: Cole releases the mini-doc Eyez, which features the video for a scathing song called “False Prophets (Be Like This),” addressing the falloff of an unnamed artist—one of his former rap heroes—due to an “out-of-control” ego and “half-assed” music. The overwhelming interpretation is perhaps best summed up by this George Condo painting:

Maybe Yeezy will respond with a track called “Let Cole Down”?