Albums J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only (Discussion Thread)

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...Back to the original :ufdup:

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more like an album trying to jump on whathever is hot at the moment. Good rapping, terrible production, lots of mistakes.
 
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im not a cole hater. i like his prior projects
he's trying to expand his subject matter but rests on his laurels in his rap style
he pokes around at deeper subjects but never fully commits....maybe thats his way of ensuring a good song...some rappers cant do both and make it listenable.
he's not the only rapper guilty of this...shyt kendrick does it...just a lot less.
just a little disappointed in hearing false prophets and then this...but this is his take at a concept album...so :manny:
i never said he was off topic.
He made a whole damn album about one particular topic which is fatherhood from the perspective of a man caught up on the street lifestyle... Like the whole album is about that :dead: guess thats not a deep enough commitment tho

Again u sound like the same corny regurgitated cliche cole hating points. Rests on his laurels? nikka went from tryin to sound like Kanye, to tryna sound like Outkast, to finally findin his own pocket. Like BS, FHD, and this one r all different thematically and sonically. Wut laurels iz he restin, on? This is his first album where theres not a single braggadocious bar and first time he relies this heavily on melodies. I dont kno bruh u jus got me kinda confused.
 

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Jcole is talented, skillful with the words, and a great guy with a good heart but.... that shyt does not translate into entertainment for me

Yea it's a nice thing to help ya gal out with chores but I don't ever ever ever wanna hear a rap song about that shyt. Just like I don't wanna watch a movie about high school vampires falling in love.
This is not for me at all but I can see how there are some people that will like it.

I appreciate the effort of trying not to have stereotypical subject matter but this wasn't it. When he came out with the controversial slick diss songs I kinda knew this album was gonna be on the soft side.
Honestly, I like the IDEA of "folded clothes"...and I wish more rap was like that considering how other genres do the same thing

But the way HE does it is so wack.
 

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can i have what you're smoking? After tpab and uu kendrick as certified himself as the greatest living musical artist.
ya'll need your asses kicked for say this shyt.

I sweatergawd ya'll boys are trolling when ya'll say this.

Kendrick don't even have the best project in the years his albums came out.
 

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Hopefully he drops a Truly Yours 4 with False Prophets, Everybody Dies, and a couple more comparable tracks, because It would be a crime not to get them on a proper release :feedme:
 

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cole doesn't have half the talent kanye has
dudes stay trying to be producer/artists.

Only one I've seen come close in the modern era is BIG KRIT, and even then KRIT can't find mainstream success.

Cole gets a pass cause he has the machine pushing his mediocrity.

And thing is, we've been chanting this for YEARS and we got called haters for it.

...and here we are again 3-4 projects deep and the same criticisms exist.
 
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right. Theres no singles off this especially considering the streaming world we live in where artists don't need to chase radio...but I don't know if thats a good thing...:patrice:
My nikka, everybody knos u dont like Cole. U kno u dont like Cole. So y u always camped up in Cole threads makin mad redundant posts about ur bullshyt opinion nobody give a fukk about :dahell:. Like how can u be this dedicated to discussion a mans music that u hav absolutely zero penchant for? Drop ur 2 centz on his new tape and KIM fakkit.
 
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