Hate when rappers who had it EASY try to act like they had it hard.

[Osmosis]

How many major mixed rappers are there in hip hop history? This has nothing to do with the OP i'm just curious

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

I'm speechless

That nikka said he was looking forward to a nice tuna sandwich on a bagel. You can't be serious; "6god"

 

[mr.africa]

Degrassi is the bottom?

drake stans about to come in with phrases like....
' the bottom is relative' and
'the bottom means different things for different people'

EDIT:
TOO LATE, THEY ALREADY CAME THROUGH!!

 

[thernbroom]

I might be wrong but I think somewhere in one of his songs he mentioned his mom might've
been hooked on something.

On topic :

This shyt applies to Drake more than ANY contemporary rapper,it's weird as fukk to see some
child star who could afford 50,000 to 60,000 dollar cars as a teen talk about "Starting from the bottom".
It's even fukking weirder when I see people try to pretend Kendrick or even J. Cole's upbringing is analogous
to someone who was in a mansion when they were on government assistance.

Some african kid can say the same about 99% of rappers in the game, Jadakiss is the perfect even biggie

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I feel like Cole's cocky attitude makes him sound like he's from some supergrimey hood. And that's why he comes of so fake to me.

 

[Wild self]

Some african kid can say the same about 99% of rappers in the game, Jadakiss is the perfect even biggie

Yeah, I always wondered about that. If a child soldier who came to America and blew up, would do to these frauds?

 

[Hyperion]

A college degree doesn't mean you had it easy

Far from it, in fact. Degrees don't even guarantee you the job nowadays, unless you're in the medical field. Even then, I don't think you're likely to make six figures out the gate. Never mind how hard you actually have to work to even get certain degrees.

Besides, exactly what the hell do people expect these rappers to be doing in their spare time? Do people realize how expensive rap actually is? You gotta pay for equipment, eventually studio time when you get to a certain point, mixing and mastering, marketing and promotion, beats if you're not a producer, and so much more. That can easily get into the thousands no problem. A good job would not only help you pay for the rap dream but would also be great in terms of having a career to fall back on if worse comes to worse. It'd be harder if you have a dead end job. Not impossible, obviously, but a lot harder. Some dudes were in the streets like that, and that's them. That shouldn't be the bar for how a rapper comes up, though. All I care about is whether they can rap or not, everything else is childish shyt.

That's why when these rap brehs who from the streets never talk about black empowerment, that sends sirens.

Right. If you're gonna claim the streets so bad, you would think it'd take nothing at all to stand up and speak about the injustices going on right now. And yet, they're silent. Granted, rappers don't have to be activists, but they have a voice. How many hood tales do we really need? Most people don't even live like that, most people live Middle Class, just like how J. Cole came up. So I don't get the ridicule. I guarantee you most rap fans wouldn't even know first hand what it's like to go be in the streets like that. But it's the entertaining factor, it's the fact that it's so completely different from someone's regular life that makes them so drawn to it.

You got kids listening to stuff like this on the way to school or work. But kids also bought the fukk out of 2014 Forest Hills Drive, and it shows. They'll also buy Views From The 6 with no problem. And I'm pretty sure they're gonna cop Swish from Kanye too. So to me, if anything, being a "suburban rapper" helps you. You don't need to be "hard" and thugged out, and why should you be if you were blessed enough to have certain opportunities? That makes no sense. That has no correlation between the ability to make good music or not. What matters is being able to be creative and using your imagination to paint a picture. Whether you're from the grimiest hood or from the richest mansion in LA, that's always been the most important. Otherwise, we would've never accepted Kanye in the first place.

 

[Capitol]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/j-cole-aint-real.359499/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/fukk-j-cole-straight-up.320283/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/heres-the-difference-between-me-j-cole.370680/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-want-to-fight-j-cole.337493/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/i-went-to-college-because-of-j-cole.368645/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/j-cole-is-the-fakest-struggle-rapper-out-there.343785/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/why-doesnt-j-cole-drop-albums-randomly-more-often.332058/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/do-j-cole-and-jay-electronica-chill-together.306655/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/j-cole-you-should-do-a-song-with-me-but-this-time-write-it.370444/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/j-co...-and-was-a-canibus-stan-in-highschool.361914/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/j-co...ff-the-weakness-of-let-nas-down-alone.354780/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-...-j-cole-is-because-of-how-frail-he-is.333157/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-...rake-kendrick-j-cole-are-total-frauds.301406/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/when...bered-more-than-kendrick-j-cole-drake.333164/

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/itd-...-cole-talking-about-himself-with-this.319163/

The dedication

 

[Express]

i hate when broke ass nikkas think nobody else got problems besides them

 

[Express]

nikkas think hip hop exclusive for those who grew up with roaches all in their apartment.
Hip hop is for everyone.
And at the end of the day those guys made well for themselves get your own money

 

[Fart Knocker]

Like j cole. You gotta FOUR YEAR DEGREE. You could quit rap right now and get a 6 FIGURE JOB.

I literally laughed out loud reading this. What an incredibly dumb statement

 

[the cac mamba]

im not a cole fan, but i dont think ive ever heard him frontin on any songs

 

[duckbutta]

Like j cole. You gotta FOUR YEAR DEGREE. You could quit rap right now and get a 6 FIGURE JOB.

Your mommy bought you $500 beat machines as a KID. YOU had it EASY stop acting like it was anything different.

"If you don't take chance how we gon get rich"

SMH stop talking like that. You were BORN rich. You never took no real chance.

This is the number 1 reason why I could never get into J Cole. All his early stuff is about him struggling in college...and I am like...nikka...you in fukking COLLEGE...just you being their means you aint struggling

After the umpteenth..."this tuition this" and "my teachers that" and "she hanging out with the athletes this"...I just tuned him out

 

[Express]

This is the number 1 reason why I could never get into J Cole. All his early stuff is about him struggling in college...and I am like...nikka...you in fukking COLLEGE...just you being their means you aint struggling

After the umpteenth..."this tuition this" and "my teachers that" and "she hanging out with the athletes this"...I just tuned him out

yall nikkas from zimbabwe or something?

 

[FTBS]

All successful rappers tell and exaggerate their struggle as well as their success .

The worst thing is for fans that have it easy and know nothing about the streets to sit up calling rappers "soft" and demanding street shyt. The main dudes focusing on street credibility and authenticity generally don't have it themselves. In my experience, real street nikkas don't care about that shyt.