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Originally Posted by ArmenExchange

vcw-is it true dpryde, the lil filipino kid rapper is his opener? :/ how longs the show/coles set run?
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Ya Dpryde is the opener, and there was some other filipino crew that did a couple songs before him too. The show started around 8, Cole got on at like 9:15. They made us wait tho after Dpryde was done, like a good 25 mins. I was getting
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, but maan did cole make up for it. Cole did his set and left after Blow Up, we thought it was over... and everyone started yelling "Cole, Cole, Cole". Then he came back out and did a few more songs before ending with farewell, show was over at 10:30.

Sidenote- Some chick threw her bra on stage with some note attatched to it
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yea i feel it is missy as well.. i read an article and was like wanted to get some sort of aaliyah feel
 
lol HOW does dpryde make any sense as an opener. still blown away.

ive seen cole a few times in the past and he's dope live but not sure if 50$ for a 1 hr set, with dpryde opening is worth it now lol
 
[color= rgb(255, 255, 255)]Got my tix for the Sept 10th show in Orlando.. from what I'm hearing its bound to be[/color] 
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Cole took over Vibe
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Pretty straight read

there are like 3,4 segments of diff isssh

heres one part

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Dr. Dre said ‘Sequence the album, while you’re making it.’ I should’ve listened to that, but I didn’t. I waited till the end to sequence [Cole World: The Sideline Story and then it was hard as *@%%.

I think I was trying to explain to Jay-Z something about why I couldn’t put out a particular record and said ‘Yo man, you gotta understand my fans look at me like I’m the chosen one. If I put that out they’ll look at me like I’m crazy.’ And he looked at me and said, ‘Yo, I could fill a graveyard full of chosen ones’ and went on to say how it’s about keeping old fans, but reaching new ones. So when said that it basically meant, ‘Do you want to be the chosen one and never grow?’ Because to me Cannabis was the chosen one in my book, but it never really panned out for him.

No I.D. taught me that there’s no rules in making music. When I was growing up as a rap nerd, I created rules in my head of what rappers can and can’t do. And same with producers—like it’s a cardinal sin to use the same sample. Like if someone already flipped a sample, thinking it’s off limits. But that’s not the truth, maybe you can freak it and do it better. The same reason I put a Paula Abdul sample on “Work Out,†because I learned that Kanye doesn’t play by any rules. So he’s not going to play by rules and Jay-Z’s not going to play by rules, then I would be a fool to live by these false rules that really just create a box around you.

Mark Pitts said the greatest quote ever, I might get it as a tattoo one day. He said ‘Play the game to change the game.’ It’s as simple as that and it works for all levels that I’ve been on in this career thus far. Like you come in with the intention to change the game, which I did and still have. But you can’t change the game until you actually get in it and learn how to maneuver through it. Build the right relationships, build the right fanbase and get the right power. You get the power by playing the game. Those were ill words.

I also got some other great advice from Jay-Z. One time I was complaining about being on the road so much. My vibe was like how am I supposed to make an album the way I want to when I’m on the road so much. And he was like ‘Yo ni–a that’s where you need to be because that’s where you get these experiences. You go to the club, you saw what works and what doesn’t work. You get the stories so you can incorporate them in your verses better.
 
^ Yeah I was reading the VIBe stuff earlier. J.Cole had a homepage take over and there was some great stuff on there including the posted article by Ace.
 
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VIBE: I've heard some people wonder why you don't work with other producers more. This debut is mainly your creation from the ground up, but Hov could probably link you with any beat king you want. Why's it so important for you to have control over the boards?
J. COLE: It really has nothing to do with money. There's a financial benefit of course, but that's not what I think about at all. It comes from doing all of this since I was 15. I couldn't get beats from anyone else so I had to make them myself. And I've always been a very controlling person, like I write my own destiny type *#!@, so that's how it started. But then I got smart about it and realized 'Oh *#!@, I have a sound.' And the benefit of it is is that my destiny is in my own hands. My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes. Of course I will step out like the Bryan Kidd record ['Can't Get Enough'] and I'll always work with other producers, but as long as I stay true to my specific sound, my fans won't leave. I could lose my deal tomorrow and I would still have my fans. I could do this theortically forever because I have a sound.




It definitely has potential to be your break out song(Cant Get Enough). Especially when it comes to women really paying attention. Were you searching for a song with that type of energy?
Originally I couldn't ever for see that song, I could only pray for that type of song. When I started making this album I didn't have the ability to make that record. It took a good year to even learn what it took to make that song—going on the road with Jay and watching him do 'Big Pimpin'... I wanted that. I remember going into the studio with No I.D. and telling him 'Yo, I need a 'Big Pimpin'' because the energy is so crazy when Jay performs that song.' But I didn't have the right tools yet as a rapper.




What tools were you missing?

I mean it's just about growing and learning.





Was it difficult to approach the beat with the right flow?
Nah, I could've rode the beat the same way. But it's a combination of things, it's riding the beat, it's lyrical ability and it's the picture you paint and the persona you put out. I had all of those things, but it wasn't cohesive yet. It took a while to basically put everything together. The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album. So I grew into that. I made that song last year in October. I've just been sitting on it, waiting. It was actually meant to be the third single. It was a blessing that it leaked because it reminded the label and management of what we had been already saying since October.

They were iffy at first?
[Nods head]

That's weird. 
But everything happens for a reason. At first we had some issues with the hook.

The original was different?
I rapped that hook first, then I asked Trey to get on it and he sang the hook. I wasn't necessarily in love with the way he sung it first, but only because I was married to the old version. But I realized quickly, shhh this is fucing crazy.  

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True. Leading up to your debut, it seems like everyone has an opinion on where your career should be going. Do you ever pay attention to the Internets comments for advice on next moves?
Nah, nah. I take things for what they are. If someone is saying something and they sound dumb as *#!@, then they're opinion is not valid. But if you sound like you're making some sense... a lot of times it's people assuming, acting like they know what's going on. So you have to understand that these people's opinions are misguided. There's so many critics, but they don't actually participate in the creation or consumption of music. It's easy to look from the outside. It's natural, I talk about other artists too... who's better, who's $*%*#*# up... but you really don't know. I just happen to have a foot on both sides. But when I can tell it's coming from a genuine place of concern it's both flattering and annoying. 

Interesting dichotomy.
It's flattering because it's like 'Yeah, thank you. I want to see me win too,' but annoying when you think about how people don't really know what's going on. 

Like an unneeded urgency?
Yes! Like you're now creating a problem.

From what I can tell from a lot of your lyrics, you're not the biggest fan of Twitter. Or am I wrong?
Let me preface this by saying, I do follow my timeline. I'm not glued to the *#!@, but I'm not one of those people that's like 'Ah, fuc Twitter.' But t's a gift and a curse. A gift because we can learn so much instantly, the negative is I feel like Twitter breeds negativity more than positive. Someone  can have a negative comment for the sake of being negative, shoot it to their followers and now other people's opinions are tainted before they even witness anything for themselves.




True. Definitely saw that with some tracks from 'Watch The Throne.' What are your thoughts on it?
I thought it was great. I like 'New Day' a lot.

Does it feel different listening to a Jay-Z and Kanye West album now versus when you were unsigned?
It definitely feels different. Now it feels more competitive, before I felt like it was so out of reach. But now it's like 'They want to drop this shh a month and half before my shh comes out? Damn. Let me take my shh up. Let me add to mine.' So the competitiveness kicks in now because I'm in the game. I may be very low, but my sights are high. So it's very different. Even when Kanye's album dropped last year I was still on some fan shh. But now I finally feel like I'm in the game. 

That must be a dopeass state of mind. But I know it's been a rough road. What's the biggest stress you had to overcome?
The most stressful part was the wait. Knowing what I'm sitting on, making crazy new songs, but then not knowing when your release date is. That was frustrating. But I learned my patience is immense. I work best under pressure anyways, so it was good for me to have that tested. We'll see how it's received though.
 
J. Cole speaks on the current genre-bending trend in Hip Hop and why he doesn't listen to Internet commenters.

Vibe.com recently caught up with budding Roc Nation star J. Cole to discuss his highly anticipated debut albumCole World: The Sideline Story. During the interview, Cole spoke on some of his contemporary artists' tendencies to split their time rapping and singing. According to Cole, he's all for the likes of Drake and Chris Brown balancing their rapping and singing skills. He added that he feels like some artists who rap on the side simply do it for fun.

"I think it's dope [that some rappers sing and some singers rap]. Why not?," he said. "Who says Drake can't sing if he wants to sing? Who said Chris Brown can't rap if he wants to rap? It's just adding another facet to your style. It's just evolution man. The sad truth is, is some of our legends from the past came out now, people would think they were boring. You've just got to find a balance."

He added, "I don't even think they take themselves seriously - they just want to come on. If I could sing, I would sing just like Chris Brown. Someone like Trey Songz, I feel like he genuinely loves rapping and that's fine. Some singers may not be your favorite rapper, but maybe they don't give a *%%+ and their rapping helps them express something they can't by singing."

Cole also spoke about Internet commenters both celebrating and critiquing his career goals and musical decisions. He said that he usually doesn't pay attention to too many outsiders' comments on his work. At the same time, however, he says that he finds himself engaging in the same kind of commentary of others, and that it's strange to find himself on both sides of the industry.

"I take things for what they are. If someone is saying something and they sound dumb as %*@+, then they're opinion is not valid," he said. "But if you sound like you're making some sense... a lot of times it's people assuming, acting like they know what's going on. So you have to understand that these people's opinions are misguided. There's so many critics, but they don't actually participate in the creation or consumption of music. It's easy to look from the outside. It's natural, I talk about other artists too... who's better, who's *!%$%%# up... but you really don't know. I just happen to have a foot on both sides. But when I can tell it's coming from a genuine place of concern it's both flattering and annoying...it's flattering because it's like 'Yeah, thank you. I want to see me win too,' but annoying when you think about how people don't really know what's going on. "
 
Just got my tickets for the Royal Oak show in Michigan. Will be my third time seeing him in just under a year span, can't wait!
 
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