How come J cole can just be himself and drop music and everybody else has to play a character?

[Izanami]

"They don't know, they just study the charts
Me, I study the shows, the fans, study their hearts"

 

[Izanami]

double

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Basically after he built a strong strong core he was able to fall back on this since that Born Sinner flop it's kinda like the same lane as he was with his early mixtapes but like I told my friends because we discuss music he realized he couldn't compete with Kendrick and Drake in regards to popularity in the mainstream even Big Sean is above him meanwhile he's seen as above Wale he could lean on his core more so then a much newer artist still building a core like whatever lil whatever 77 Q

I think a lot of rappers change for each project like Big Sean but this is different

when did bornsinner flop??? U dudes running with all kinda random ducktales lol. Dude pushed his album up a week to compete with kayne and his album sold more. The album did more than expected he most definitely competes with drake and Kendrick lol. 2014 fhd was probably the biggest album of 2014. And no big sean is not bigger than him in the mainstream sean is a single driven artist, Cole doesn’t have to release a single and the world gonna take notice


Today I'm out in Philly, my fans waitin' for twelve hours
Just to get their dollar signed
Thoughts stream like I'm Spotifyin'
Trenchcoat flow, bottom line
To these too cool for school nikkas I'm Columbine
Flow dumber than your projections
This makes twice now, I doubled what you expected, yet
Your covers keep perplexin' me
Maybe it's too complex for me
But is this 'bout skills or is this 'bout sales?
Cause either fukkin' way, man all them nikkas is less to me
You legends know that we rap
bytches screamin' like Jodeci's back

Born sinner is wasn’t close to a flop either, it doubled what it was expected and outside Ye, once the label say he could sell without a pop single they official backed off him and let him work. He hasn’t made a pop driven song since.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

^^^ this and that "no jewelry no nothing, just a regular nikka" look is his gimmick for Image wise

U can’t really be a gimmick if that’s who he is tho. If me as a grown man tell u “I’m good on rocking chains” and my whole career mirrors that, even before I had a album out how can it be a gimmick. Staying true yourself is a gimmick?

Remember when I did a show with Waka Flocka Flame
Felt naked cause the boy rocked about a thousand chains
Guess we rock a lot of ice cause we got a lot of pain
That's 5 hundred years of selling, I'm tryna tell em
Jacob the Jeweller is cooler now he a felon
Jay put a stamp on the nikka but wouldn't mail him
If he could'ntsell him, so what that tell him huh?

 

[Cadillac]

U can’t really be a gimmick if that’s who he is tho. If me as a grown man tell u “I’m good on rocking chains” and my whole career mirrors that, even before I had a album out how can it be a gimmick. Staying true yourself is a gimmick?

Remember when I did a show with Waka Flocka Flame
Felt naked cause the boy rocked about a thousand chains
Guess we rock a lot of ice cause we got a lot of pain
That's 5 hundred years of selling, I'm tryna tell em
Jacob the Jeweller is cooler now he a felon
Jay put a stamp on the nikka but wouldn't mail him
If he could'ntsell him, so what that tell him huh?

My point is not about him rocking chains. That's cool if he never rocked chains. Shows consistentcy. But I used that as nothing more than a highlighted example. My point is about his whole bummy, trying to look average look. Like how he dressed when he went to white house

 

[GreenGhxst]

education...

dude was doing music and college at the same time and realize i got a degree and i can move onto something else if music doesn't work out, so i don't have to be a gimmick like these 3rd grade dropouts like kodak black types who has nothing , can't think for themselves and followers of what others do or what bytches and nikkas would like

Cole just being himself.... this is why he can be able to transition into movie or tv like common and cube in the future and these other nikkas can't

goat response

 

[Pazzy]

Do you know j cole personally to say that though? if not, then you can't say that.

 

[Big Boss]

So was 50 a gimmick or he's being himself?

 

[KBtheKey]

Who is j cole?

 

[DIMES]

Basically after he built a strong strong core he was able to fall back on this since that Born Sinner flop it's kinda like the same lane as he was with his early mixtapes but like I told my friends because we discuss music he realized he couldn't compete with Kendrick and Drake in regards to popularity in the mainstream even Big Sean is above him meanwhile he's seen as above Wale he could lean on his core more so then a much newer artist still building a core like whatever lil whatever 77 Q

I think a lot of rappers change for each project like Big Sean but this is different

Born sinner flop? The same album that literally destroyed social media, battled prime drake , & had damn near zero features or outside production? That beat Kanye West dropping on the same date?

Oh yeah that was a flop

 

[satam55]

I don't think I've heard a single J-Cole song

Real shyt. Other than the commercial singles from his 1st album, this is the only J. Cole song I know:

 

[Goat poster]

Basically after he built a strong strong core he was able to fall back on this since that Born Sinner flop it's kinda like the same lane as he was with his early mixtapes but like I told my friends because we discuss music he realized he couldn't compete with Kendrick and Drake in regards to popularity in the mainstream even Big Sean is above him meanwhile he's seen as above Wale he could lean on his core more so then a much newer artist still building a core like whatever lil whatever 77 Q

I think a lot of rappers change for each project like Big Sean but this is different

Did this dude just said Big Sean is bigger than J.Cole


You might wanna look up them numbers fam...Sean OPENED for Cole on the FHD tour.