In December, Ab-Soul more or less confirmed that the much discussed Kendrick Lamar-J. Cole album was a real thing.

“I don’t know much about it. I just hope they use my verse … There is a Kendrick Cole album,” he said on the Breakfast Club. “They got it.”

Two words from Top Dawg Entertainment co-president Terrence “Punch” Henderson have dashed a lot of hope for fans of the two young kings.

Probably never

— Punch TDE (@iamstillpunch) August 19, 2017

[Related: Drake wants to jump on the J. Cole-Kendrick Lamar bandwagon.]

Who do you trust here, Ab or Punch?