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

 

Nov 20, 2017

@ThuggerSXN


Thugger made it

 

Jan 6, 2015

@Hasman @CarolinaFiend
my first crack at photoshop .

 

Jan 3, 2015

Go through all 118 pages and find out.

Hint: there are some nudes, it's worth it.

 

Jan 12, 2016

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- DP from 2.5

 

Dec 26, 2014

 

May 1, 2015

no not tired at all, although with the new repost button i have to be more carefull, its takes me one more second to aim for the like button, my accuracy at hitting like button improves with Every like tho:chwink:

 

May 1, 2015

Keep em thinking its a f---ing gimmick when it ain't. I'm clinically insane

 

Sep 7, 2018

Days like these are when being a big hip-hop fan is tough. You get so invested in these artists music, you feel a connection with them. Their music become soundtracks to certain parts of your life. It just really sucks...

 

Jan 17, 2016

 

Jul 20, 2018

Was wondering why this got bumped. Didn't think he could do it again

 

Sep 9, 2016

At 18 tracks deep, the album is well over an 1hr 30mins long, so the physical will be a double disc set."

 

Jun 6, 2017

Confirmed 2 Pac gunning for Blue Ivy