This is pretty much how I feel in a nutshell, I think Cole is the best pure RAPPER out of the big 3–but he not a great writer or that great at making MUSIC.
This album exposed that.
He needs to start working with other people, because this whole “ima lock myself in a studio alone and make an album in a couple weeks” shyt is bringing the quality of his catalog down.
You can tell this was made in 2 weeks, it sounds like a rushed concept album that’s not as deep as people are making it out to be.
He dedicated an entire diss record to LIL PUMP (a rapper that won’t be around in 3 years) and nikkas is acting like this is some timeless classic when it’s not even in his top 3 best projects.
He missed on this shyt, point blank period.
The stans and the “certain intelligence” nikkas can force themselves to listen to this shyt 100x and convince themselves this is some classic but in 3 months no one will be listening to this.
This is better than 4YEO but what does that mean? Cuz that shyt was off base too.
He missed twice in a row since Forest Hills Drive.
It’s looking spooky for J.Cole right now, the nikka that was supposed to pick up where Hov left off.