Aug 13, 2015

This is dope/weird

 

Aug 12, 2015

dope pic

type of legendary pic that lives on for generations like that bob marley one

 

Aug 11, 2015

That IB interview was very insightful and a dope overall listen, he comes across as a genuinely cool and stand-up guy.


Here are some of the main points he discussed for the people who don’t want to listen to the full interview. I wrote them down mostly in the order of when IB spoke, from beginning to end, and not necessarily in chorological order relating to Cole’s career, so apologies for it being scattered. Also apologies for the long a--- post lmao.


- The first song he heard of Cole’s was the Grammy Family freestyle from The Come Up, Cole accidently played it to him as his CD was still in his car. From there they started to grind and sold Come Up CD’s for $1 in the streets of NY. Which is where the whole Dollar & Dream idea started.


- Janet Jackson reached out to Cole and wanted for him to feature on No Sleeep, as she was a fan of the music.


- He says that Sideline Story was 2-4 songs away from being a much better album than it was, and mentions that Cole World and Mr Nice Watch in particular as songs they should have replaced on the album. Also looking back they wouldn’t have put already released songs onto Sideline Story.


- However they feel no regrets on putting Work Out on the album as it opened so many doors for Cole and broke him out of the box of just being an “underground” rapper who could not make hit songs.


- He says this is the first time Cole has felt full creative control and freedom since making the mixtapes, which is why FHD is getting such a positive response from the fans.


- They could have did an extra show at MSG due to the demand but they wanted it to be a special one off moment for the fans, and for the next major tour they will do consecutive shows at the big venues.


- Also Cole took a financial loss to perform there as it costs $100k more to do a show at MSG compared to The Barclays Centre, which is why a lot of major artists choose to tour at the Barclays. However Cole only wanted to do MSG for this tour.


- Sometimes the label has trouble finding people to clear a sample, so Cole is very proactive and tracks them down himself. For example on Work Out, the original Kanye sample had a section sang by Kanye’s ex girl and nobody could locate her, so Cole tracked her down himself by searching for her details online, and then found an office work email of hers and emailed her through there to ask to clear the sample, lmao.


- Now that Cole is a bigger artist some of the people who he sampled on FNL are coming back and trying to sue for samples, and they use the example of Cole performing those songs on tour to try and get a check.




- Sideline Story changed the game due to the numbers it did and he mentions artists like Kendrick in particular who benefited from it, as it gave him an opportunity to drop GKMC with no smash singles prior to release and still be successful, due to the large online fan base supporting the music.


- When making Born Sinner Cole hit a creative block and went back to his crib for a small break and came back a week later with Power Trip made, he had already fully finished the beat, the verses, ad libs, and even sang Miguel’s hook and played it for IB and Mez who told him that should be the lead single. However 75% of the Dreamville camp wanted to go with Crooked Smile as the lead single ahead of Power Trip.


- IB came up with the idea for the Elephant Eyes Parody video as a marketing tool for Omen’s album, and it was his idea to throw the CD in the pool lmao. He also gives all the artists signed to Dreamville full creative freedom to do what they want. Omen also isn’t signed to Interscope, only Cozz and Bas is.


- Cole and IB decided to sign Cozz after only hearing the first ten seconds of Dreams. IB says Cozz will be huge, and people connect with him like they connected with Cole when he first started.


- He speaks on his theory on why Cole does not get celebrated at the major award shows, he states the point that the people beat the media into co-signing Cole, and Cole got to where he is through the organic support of the people, instead of a big push from major media, something which the media does not like. The fact that Cole does not attend most award shows also plays a part. He also mentions a point how a major magazine wouldn’t do a cover story for Bas and Cozz as Cole refused to do an interview for them at an earlier time. Also says a lot of high profile people in media positions are not qualified to discuss rap.


- He says on Born Sinner you can tell Cole was still looking for recognition and points out Villuminati as an example, and says if you compare it to his other openers such as Welcome, Too Deep For The Intro & January 28th it does not connect with people the same as the those other three, as on Villuminati Cole was trying to spit as many fire bars as possible to prove to people he still got it, instead of focusing on just making an organically good song.


- Everyone in Dreamville camp is still level headed and grounded and they never let the fame get fully on top of them since it was a gradual climb to the top and not instant success, says they still ain’t scared to make fun of or crack a joke at Cole as everyone is like family and they ain’t gassed off of Cole’s success. They don’t take anything for granted and appreciate every moment.


- Cole texted IB when he went on his twitter rant about Future not organising his free shows correctly and told him he looked stupid, which is why IB doesn’t tweet as much now lmao. But he says he spoke with Future’s people and everyone’s cool now.


- He says Cole has gotten too big to do the normal Dollar & Dream show and next time they will switch it up and do something different. Eventually IB wants people like Drake & Kendrick to have their own similar shows and perform Section 80 & So Far Gone.


- Closing comments, Cole planning to do a Australia tour by the end of the year, Bas and Cozz are finishing up their own new projects to drop this later year, also Dreamville are signing a new female singer very soon to the label, to be announced by the end of the year. IB also moved out from NY to live in the outskirts of LA now.


- Finally IB said Cole is gonna finish the tour and disappear again and come back doing what he does best , so expect a new album Summer 2017

 

Aug 11, 2015

100% agree on the first one. I've listened to BS more recently than FHD and I think I'm coming around to agreeing the 2nd one
I believe no doubt the rapping was better on BS. I was reminded today how ill this verse is.

I'm prince of the city, I studied Machiavelli
You n----s couldn't blow with C4 strapped to your belly
I snuck up out the parks where n----s be living heartless
And cannot tell the difference between Iraqi, Israeli
So I'm on the really, what could you actually tell me?
I'm tryna keep my homie from throwing crack in the skully
So, back with this pen to give back for my sins
Took a black president to tell the Japanese "Sorry"

 

Aug 9, 2015

I was just gonna post this and criticise her AGAIN with her previous comments about thirsty guys for her chest when she posts this that is suppose to be for the gym lmaoooo.



Im still gonna fap tho

 

Aug 5, 2015

 

Jul 31, 2015

thing about that diss is that meek had so much material to work with and he for the most part used none of it. it's f---in drake. drake's grandmoms could come up with some cold, funny, witty s--- to say about his maple syrup, thick eyebrowed, lightskinned a---. he had one or two nice lines in there that made you think he was about to go in, then he cut the track as if giving us time to digest the mind blowing s--- he just bodied drake with . part of me thought this whole beef was all industry fabricated bs seeing as meek has an album out and drake has an album coming up, but there's no way anybody's ego would let them actually agree to take the Ls meek took. with this one he shoulda known better. listening to that s--- meek put out actually kinda makes me upset, im bout to go get some ciroc, needa clear my mind.

Spoiler

also needa celebrate this job offer i just got, n----- WE MADE IT! be safe out there homies

 

Jul 31, 2015

 

Jul 30, 2015

I'm pissed af. Wish someone would come at Cole or Kendrick and give them this much of an alley oop.

Meek just gave drake a Mario kart boost by starting this beef and now the hype for views will be through the roof.

Drake won.

 

Jul 29, 2015

28,276 ppl d---!! The Chi really does love Cole like MJ and Oprah

 

Jul 29, 2015

NOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Jul 29, 2015

If Meek is a "real one" as he claims it, he wouldn't have went on twitter rant and accuse Drizzy who wore "Free Meek" t shirts and gave him a hit record named RICO and Amen for not writing his s---, he would've called him instead and talk to him like a 28 year old grown a--- man should do. I like Meek's music, I'm probably the only one here who really liked his album and I've said that, but this type of fuckboy s--- is too much to deal with. Dude got lost.

 

Jul 25, 2015

Fam, yesterday in the club they played Rihanna's S&M with Cole verse. I f---ing went in on that like crazy, all the girls automatically ran to the other side

Back to curing this hangover

 

Jul 24, 2015

No Sleeep Music Video

 

Jul 23, 2015

When is drake gonna ether meek mill

 

Jul 22, 2015

To be clear Drake is my second favorite artist before this fiasco and afterwards.

And Cole's pen game was and still is better than drakes ghostwriter or no ghostwriter

 

Jul 14, 2015

YO..... today is the day y'all...

2014 Forest Hills Drive ... Mountian View Ca

I'm in that b----... well I'm in my apartment right now... but in 6 hours ill be in that b----...

 

Jul 14, 2015