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[81kb]

Respect to HarlemtotheBronx for actually recommending some tracks instead of making some dumb useless comment.with that being said I heard 4 of those songs.3 of em were dope.Simba is crazy.I just wanted to hear something crazy from Cole.Never did I say he was wack cuz I can sense the potential from the previous tracks that I heard

 

[cheese wagstaff]

The dudes who say Cole is too boring must be like 15 years old. I guess Nas and Rakim are boring, too.

 

[golfalphabravoecho]

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Got it done. Strangely enough, Target had it for 12.99 on day one but 9.99 on Friday. I'm guessing to push those iTunes numbers up.

 

[81kb]

Originally Posted by Cheese Wagstaff

The dudes who say Cole is too boring must be like 15 years old. I guess Nas and Rakim are boring, too.

Ur first post and that's all you can come up with?

 

[toanotherlevel]

I really like the album. Like I told a friend, the album feels good.

Mr. Nice Watch, Cole world, and Never Told are my least favorite.

My favorite is Breakdown - this is such a powerful track, IMO.

There's enough full reviews in here, no need to go into anymore detail, I think.

 

[ace rawstein]

heres another review of Cole's album with multipleperspectives....

 

[rafool]

^^^ saw that review a few days ago as well as the Needle Drop one, both pretty good reviews imo.

 

[vincecarterwut]

Originally Posted by Ace Rawstein

heres another review of Cole's album with�multiple�perspectives....

Dude in the black = ColeWorld22?

 

[scotthallwithapick]

People always try to paint Cole as the anti-mainstream Cole. I feel like that is gonna hurt J in the long run

 

[johnny kilgore 4]

just came back from the Tabernacle in ATL. I went to the concert with my boy and my gf.
J COLE HAD THE WHOLE DAMN PLACE IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. no !!#*%! lie.

His DJ was raw,, like there wasnt a time where you stopped moving. At the end he ended with Farewell acapella and when the beat came in, he shouted out people in the venue.

" red shirt farewell, black shirt farewell" he said " grey sweatshirt" and pointed up to my section and i just threw up the diamond ...

cant no one tell me +%++ now

 

[cheese wagstaff]

Originally Posted by 81KB

Originally Posted by Cheese Wagstaff

The dudes who say Cole is too boring must be like 15 years old. I guess Nas and Rakim are boring, too.

Ur first post and that's all you can come up with?

I've been here since 2002, son 

 I have a decade's worth of posts

 

[81kb]

Originally Posted by Cheese Wagstaff

Originally Posted by 81KB

Originally Posted by Cheese Wagstaff

The dudes who say Cole is too boring must be like 15 years old. I guess Nas and Rakim are boring, too.

Ur first post and that's all you can come up with?

I've been here since 2002, son 

 I have a decade's worth of posts

Yeah that's sumthing to be proud of I suppose

 

[dipsetgeneral]

Excellent/classic debut.

This is what new comers in today's game need to look at when making a complete album.

Worst song on "Cole World" = "Can't Get Enough".

Best song on "Cole World" = Everything else.

 

[buc em]

Yaaaaaaaaawn.

Jay-Z's verse on Mr. Nice Watch was the highlight of the album.

 

[jumpman2314]

Originally Posted by Johnny Kilgore 4

just came back from the Tabernacle in ATL. I went to the concert with my boy and my gf.
J COLE HAD THE WHOLE DAMN PLACE IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. no !!#*%! lie.

His DJ was raw,, like there wasnt a time where you stopped moving. At the end he ended with Farewell acapella and when the beat came in, he shouted out people in the venue.

" red shirt farewell, black shirt farewell" he said " grey sweatshirt" and pointed up to my section and i just threw up the diamond ...

cant no one tell me +%++ now

...

 

[cole world 22]

Originally Posted by whyhellothere

Originally Posted by 81KB

Heard the album all the way through a second time it's still just ok at best to me.dude is just mad boring to me.

college dropout syndrome

This.

 

[cole world 22]

Originally Posted by DipsetGeneral

Excellent/classic debut.

This is what new comers in today's game need to look at when making a complete album.

Worst song on "Cole World" = "Can't Get Enough".

Best song on "Cole World" = Everything else.

Naw man. "In The Morning" < ________.

 

[blackredxiiigoat]

Originally Posted by GSDOUBLEU

Originally Posted by blackmagnus514

This reminded me of Backstage when Hov said there's someone "writing some !!+" with a bowl of Apple Jacks and he said he'd sign him

got this from page 6 

K, you a damn prophet son.

  

 

[dead stokc]

Originally Posted by Johnny Kilgore 4

just came back from the Tabernacle in ATL. I went to the concert with my boy and my gf.
J COLE HAD THE WHOLE DAMN PLACE IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. no %%##$+ lie.

His DJ was raw,, like there wasnt a time where you stopped moving. At the end he ended with Farewell acapella and when the beat came in, he shouted out people in the venue.

" red shirt farewell, black shirt farewell" he said " grey sweatshirt" and pointed up to my section and i just threw up the diamond ...

cant no one tell me %+++ now

Ehhh, glad u enjoyed the show.
Me and the homey Pilot Cristobal was in there.
Show was just aight. He did his thing, but it was
just mad short, and son had no openers. Surprised how
he made the tracks he has with a chill vibe sound like it was
supposed to have a lot of energy. It was kool, but I enjoyed Kendricks & Doms show last week more.

 

[thekillerj23]

Going to the show in Cleveland tomorrow, Few Questions:

-It says 7, what time does Cole start performing, since no opening acts!

 

[ace rawstein]

show in New Orleans started at 8 Cole DJ prolly came on bout 9,9:15...Cole came on like 945

i dont know what goes on before he dj gets on...i got there around the same time he was coming on...it may just be some local open acts that just get a look.

 

[drew]

Here's my take on the album:
J. Cole dropped one HELLUVA debut album. Years to come, I feel like this album is going to be considered a classic by me. I've been playing the album from front to back non-stop for the past few days. It's almost unbelievable how I was able to relate to so much of this debut. 

Sideline Story 

  

  

  

Lost Ones 

 

 

 

 

Breakdown 

 

 

 

%##!, this whole album was 

 

 

 

I'm not even on J. Cole like most of the dudes on this thread but I got no problem saying that J. Cole is definitely going to be one of the greats in the future.

To quote J. Cole on Sideline Story:

"Dont you know that I be out in France/

Where the fans throw they hands like PACQUIAO./

NOT CAUSE MY LOOKS, cause my HOOKS could knock ROCKY OUT."

 

 

 

  

  

9.5/10 Easy.

-Drew

 

[|A-Man|]

Of all the lines.

Am I missing something?

 

[ballinsam23]

some explain that Katrina Gina Shut up Cole line to me....

 

[sillyputty]

[h1]J. Cole[/h1][h2]Cole World: The Sideline Story[/h2][h3]Columbia / Roc Nation; 2011[/h3]
By Jayson Greene; September 30, 2011

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• J. Cole

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J. Cole is the kind of rapper who worries aloud, and frequently, if he's getting too deep for his own songs. A St. John's University magna cum laude graduate raised in poverty by a single mother, Cole distinguished himself in his early career as much through effort as talent. Over a string of fiercely earnest, frequently impressive mixtapes, he rapped in writerly thickets in which the semicolons and embedded clauses were audible, and he produced all his own tracks. He became a leading light of the conscious-rap crowd, who, always eager for a viable mainstream entrant in rap's ongoing culture wars, fervently embraced him. And then, perhaps inevitably, Jay-Z swooped down and signed him.

The resulting major-label debut, Cole World: The Sideline Story, which finally saw release this week, is shaping up to be an actual Big Moment for Cole: Despite a tepid radio presence, it is projected to sell nearly 250,000 copies. Those are startling first-week numbers for a new rapper these days, and they assure that J. Cole will get at least a partial promenade through the spotlight. People appear to care deeply about this guy. But it's difficult to imagine why from the evidence of this studiously bland and compromise-riddled record, which seems to be searching for the meeting point of every conceivable middle.

About half the album bears Cole's production signature: a glimmering update on 1990s jazz-rap, spiked with live-sounding boom-bap drums. As a rap aesthetic, it's about as rigidly conservative as they come. But Cole is admirably committed to it, and he fleshes it out with surprising musical detail-- backup vocals, comping jazz guitars, lots and lots of grand piano. The songs that stick to this template feel warm, pleasant, and Cole-+!$. The rest of Cole Worldis a 2011-era pop-rap project with a varying success rate: the madcap, syncopated single "Can't Get Enough" feels like a lost transmission from 2002-era rap radio, and it succeeds only insofar as it compels you to imagine how much better an '03-era T.I., or even N.O.R.E., would have finessed the beat than does Cole, who deflates the track's bounce.

It doesn't help that Cole brings the least-flavorful bars of his career to his debut, aiming, most likely, for something more universal than his diaristic mixtapes. The few glints we get of his personal life are intriguing: "Lost Ones" is a slippery and well-conceived, two-sided argument between Cole and his baby mother over whether they will keep the child. "Breakdown" affectingly recounts his late-in-life reunion with his father. But otherwise he seems to be playing by implied, major-label debut rules: keep it simple, slow it down, don't lose anyone. The result is like glutinous paste that results from mashing together Drake, Kanye, and Big K.R.I.T. and straining out what makes them interesting.

Jay himself, the benefactor figure, pops up twice, and both times his presence subtly undermines the marquee star. On his guest verse for "Mr. Nice Watch," he flexes his double -time flow and coolly blows Cole out of the water. He's heard again on the intro to "Rise and Shine," musing in a sampled snippet from his 2000 concert film Backstage on his ideal signee: rapping over his breakfast cereal, gunning for Jay's own spot. "I'mma find him, though, and sign him; I don't want no problems," he says and there is a startlingly predatory ring to his laugh. J. Cole certainly posed no threat to Jay-Z's crown; he's too humble and lacks charisma. But maybe the next up-and-coming rapper to successfully forge and remain in his own lane is the one who refuses Jay's help.




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