Apr 23, 2015

 

Apr 21, 2015

took a lil break from FHD for a while there and then got back to it recently and it for sure still stands as best cole project imo ...

its just so varied, its the perfect blend of all coles talents, theres so many different kinds of songs ...

i definitely prefer FHD over to p---- a butterfly, theres a lot of great songs on there that i will b playing for a long time, you aint gotta lie is actually my favorite and i don't see a lot of people really talk about it, institutionalized, hood politics, alright, second part of u, but on the same token theres just too many moments that aren't up to par for the 2 years that it took him to make the album ...

and i have to say i think IYRTITL might b my drake's best album tbh, the run to open up from legend to star 67 is just, legendary ... and the fact this n----- went platinum off that s--- is just too much ... for sure buying a hard copy when i get the chance for the whip in the summer

unfortunately i have an exam today and have to finish up some studying so i picked the worst day to come back lol but i had to make that comment bout wet dreamz cause some of these n----s were wylin with their comments

 

Apr 7, 2015

Just bought my cap n gown

 

Apr 4, 2015

Now I'm in this train with a mill to my name Ain't s--- changed because I still feel the pain Like a gym or a rim dog, I'm built for the game, something like a p---- because I'm still with the 'caine Unh, a little d--- dealer reference what, I can't try?
These n----s out here lying why cant I?

 

Apr 3, 2015

for real though kdot/cole about to have a joint marriage and gonna drop the collab album that night
#JBTheories #CollabAlbumConfirmed

 

Apr 2, 2015

j. cole is the first rapper with a unibrow to have a platinum album, that's a huge accomplishment.

 

Mar 31, 2015

"I want some respect. I want to go to a party and not have Katy Perry tell her security to move me out of the ****in' way. We do the same thing. I know there's no union in the music industry, but have some respect. I want people to be like, "Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck." I work just as hard as them." - WaLe

 

Mar 24, 2015

I used to have this dog when I was younger. I remember i pretended to throw a stick across my yard and the fkn dog would try to go find it. This s--- was hilarious to me. I thought after a while he would learn i wasnt throwing s---. But I swear i did this s--- so much that it stopped being funny to me. He never learned! When i realized he wasnt gonna learned i got deppressed that i just had to accept my dog was stupid #ripbobby

 

Mar 23, 2015

 

Feb 25, 2015

my poster(s) @Criza

 

Feb 4, 2015

 

Feb 4, 2015

im in bed half sleep dreaming of @Rae Jean and i thought i was bugging when i seen that. he never tweeted a jcn post but sxn80 got a tweet in its 2nd week open. my name is attached to that post too.

 

Jan 26, 2015

 

Jan 20, 2015

Melissa and Cole getting married for sure.

Hope Cole eats that a--- on his wedding night

 

Jan 20, 2015

Been a minute. Finally made the transition over from JCN... better late than never lol

Found this on rapgenius, kinda long af (pause) but interesting take on the soulful Jan. 28th. Including mentions of Kendrick's control & the rap game:

"think Cole makes multiple references to Kendrick’s “Control” verse in this song. He’s already addressed it a few times directly and indirectly (TKO remix and May the Bitter Man Win), but since this is the first album-track Cole has put out since “Control” was released in August of last year, it makes sense that he would address it here. It was a moment that shook the rap game and led to both controversy and misconception. Cole first references this in the hook — “don’t let ‘em take control.” As it applies within the hook, this is to be interpreted as Cole looking back and warning himself not to let the fans control or influence his music. This is a theme Cole referenced throughout all of Born Sinner, and continues here. With regards to Kendrick, Cole not only refers directly to “Control” here, but he is also thinking back to when fans jumped ship and hopped on the K. Dot bandwagon after the release of GKMC and then “Control.” As Cole pointed out in “May the Bitter Man Win” this was something that led to much insecurity for him, and he was likely tempted to change his music in order to re-gain his seat as the king of the rap game. Of course, Cole makes clear throughout the album that he has reclaimed the seat and the crown, and proclaims that moving forward, there “ain’t gon’ be no more kings” in “Fire Squad.” This is applicable in the lines “the bigger we get the more likely egos collide/ it’s just physics, please, let’s put our egos aside/ you my nggas, and should our worst tendencies/ turn us into enemies/ I hope that we remember these/ nights fulla Hennessy.” He is saying, not only to Kendrick, but to all his contemporaries, that as much as their pride and lust for fame may cause them to turn on each other, he hopes in the end that they can come together as brothers. This plays right into the theme of the album — that everyone should drop their petty desires and embrace love as the only true way to find happiness. Of course, he throws in a subtle reminder to his fellow rappers that he is the one who re-opened the door for real and genuine lyricism — “I brought you nggas with me cuz I love you like my brothers.” (Similar to in “Apparently” when he says, “waiting on thanks from a few, cuz without me you wouldn’t exist) Later in the verse Cole makes another reference to "Control” when he calls himself “New York’s finest.” Just as Kendrick proclaimed he was “king of New York” and “king of the coast” Cole says in this song that he is both Carolina’s and New York’s finest — that his influence is not limited to only his hometown, but it stretches to the hip hop capital of the world. The next reference Cole makes is when he says “I climb it and set the bar so high that you gotta get Obama to force the air force to find it.” In “Control,” Kendrick initiates the extended metaphor at the end of his verse with, “what is competition? I’m tryna set the bar high/ who’s tryna jump and get it? you are better off tryna sky dive/ out the exit window of five G5s” Cole is saying that he is going to raise the bar from where Kendrick set it. Forget the “five G5s” in Kendrick’s verse, Cole will set the bar so high that Obama will need to get involved in order to find it. Similar to how Kendrick describes the difficulty of reaching that bar in his verse, Cole follow’s that line with a dismissal — “never mind it, you’ll never reach that.” The final reference Cole makes to Control is the most obvious one — “you might be Drizzy Drake, or Kendrick Lamar/ but check the birth date n*gga, you ain’t the God.” While Cole does speak in different perspectives throughout the album to illustrate the various desires he faced in his life — different things he thought would make him happy — he does make it clear that despite his realization that he should put those desires aside and appreciate what he has, he was and IS the greatest rapper alive. He claims that title while reflecting on his journey to where his is now, and quickly dismisses it. By the end of the album, Cole is saying that while in his mind he is most certainly the king of rap, he will no longer seek external validation for that claim. As he says in “Note to Self,” no matter what critics say about him from now on, he is content with the work he has put out, and he will continue to make music that spreads love and makes him happy. In his mind, that freedom from societal expectations is what makes him the greatest rapper alive."


*The inclusion of "shoutouts" of rappers in verse 3 shud leave little doubt that Cole had "control" in mind when recording this song*

Jan. 28 is just between that production and those verses mann (1st 2 easily in consideration for top 5 on album btw)

Song is definition of matured Cole

 

Aug 20, 2015

@Compton

idk if it was posted already, sorry

 

Jan 18, 2015

Salute to your new avy Rae Jean