Brehs lets step back and recognize the year cole has been having musically and success wise ......

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Feb - Truly Yours dropped out the blue, shyt was great, gained him alot of new fans and showed his old fans he still got it

April - Truly Yours 2 dropped, basically in the same same fashion, he leaked cole summers and had the internet on fire, and he announced that he would be releasing truly yours 2 the next day

meanwhile power trip is steady rising, the songs is a great single also, no selling out shyt, releasing a left field video for it and get talked about all over the net(song ends up going plat, probably the biggest for a hip hop artist this year)

Announces his album , only for kanye to announce that he dropping his a week earlier, get up enough courage to push his album forward to compete wit kayne who is a superstar and has a much bigger fanbase

album leaks and its a instant hit wit the fans, some media like it, some dont, but the fans love it, and still getting bumped to this day

"let nas down" get major traction and is discuss heavy on every hip hop board and social media, then finally get a major cosign from nas and nas letting the world know he is a fan

goes head to head in sale wit ye, only doin slighly less 1stweek and 2nd week beating it, and eventually beating wale 2nd weeks number wit his 3rd weeks number and getting the a another number 1 album

going gold in less than a month, still selling pretty good even during the magna carta hype

performs at the bet awards, and basically introduces a new single to the world "crooked smile" which then starts moving up the billboard

and even having a more songs on the album that can be pushed "sparks will fly"

all and all moving into the next level in hip hop(above some of his peers like wale, big sean, meek, so on and so on)
 

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:salute:

I was a lil worried when he basically dropped nothing last year except a verse on Game's album (that I remember)

But he came back and seemed to learn from his mistakes the first time around and did it right...

No gimmicks, no corny beef or anything like that that. Dude just put out dope music and the people responded.

I'm not gonna sit here and say he is great or the Next Nas or no shyt like that but he has had a very solid start to his career and if he can continue to grow like he did from The Sideline Story to Born Sinner I think he'll be considered one of the better rappers of this gen
 

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Yet he will still somehow end up at #10 on the hottest MCs list
 

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I was a lil worried when he basically dropped nothing last year except a verse on Game's album (that I remember)

But he came back and seemed to learn from his mistakes the first time around and did it right...

No gimmicks, no corny beef or anything like that that. Dude just put out dope music and the people responded.

I'm not gonna sit here and say he is great or the Next Nas or no shyt like that but he has had a very solid start to his career and if he can continue to grow like he did from The Sideline Story to Born Sinner I think he'll be considered one of the better rappers of this gen
he didnt release anything official last year, but the comp mixtape was random songs that leak made he know he didnt lose anything and that he was gon be good, i would suggest u check it, some really good some on it J.Cole The Cure Mixtape Download
 

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J. Cole is my favourite rapper in the world but even as a die hard stan, Born Sinner wasn't it for me.

I can't do anything but salute the year he has had though. fukk a list too, someone like Sean will be on that list next year for some bullshyt and put up half the numbers Cole did. I'm cool with Cole coming over to London for a tour in the winter and completely ghosting for six months now.

He earned his NewLegend spot nicely :salute:
 

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Definitely deserves his props. I think after Kendrick did so well it pushed Cole to want to reach that level.

Even his artist Bas dropped a dope tape a couple months back.
 

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J. Cole is my favourite rapper in the world but even as a die hard stan, Born Sinner wasn't it for me.

I can't do anything but salute the year he has had though. fukk a list too, someone like Sean will be on that list next year for some bullshyt and put up half the numbers Cole did. I'm cool with Cole coming over to London for a tour in the winter and completely ghosting for six months now.

He earned his NewLegend spot nicely :salute:


Give it a listen after an l, dont do anything else just listen to the music
 

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Him & Wale REALLY stepped up this year, cant say the same for a lot of Artists (MCHG was dope though, La Familia getting played daily :lawd: )

Only shame is Wale's sales aint reflecting the talent right now, But Wale will max out at 350-400k which aint bad..

Basically:

The Gifted >>> Born Sinner >>>> MCHG >>>> [A BUNCH OF MUSIC LOST IN THE MIX] >>> Yeezus
 
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