Media Perception: J.Cole vs. Kendrick Lamar

[Professor Polo]

I'm a bigger Cole stan than I am a Kendrick stan, so despite the OP usually being on some Anti-Kendrick shyt... I can see where they're going with this. I think the reason why Kendrick is bigger than Cole is the push behind him, the Dre co-sign, and the fact that Kendrick's bodies of work sound more expansive, cohesive and detailed. It also might have to do with how people see Cole as 'boring' too, but I think when they say that, they mean he's too ordinary. I personally think him being so connected with the ordinary is his strong suit, that's why people love him, and that's why he's about to get his first Platinum rap album.

Well said

Dap + rep

 

[Drew Wonder]

White people love Dead Prez and Public Enemy too. Does that mean their music isn't pro-black?

 

[Drew Wonder]

Um, Drake is poppin' so....

Also for someone who isn't poppin, J.Cole's latest effort is gonna sell more than Kendrick's overrated and overhyped stale snooze fest.

Now all your threads make sense

 

[GoldenGlove]

The album is great to me, but if anybody made a thread saying some of the stuff Kendrick said on this album they'd be negged and called a troll.

That Trayvon Martin line


The whole speech at the end of the album about how he feels like if black people all came together as one that would stop the "enemy" from destroying us... it's much deeper than that, and I honestly just chalked it up as smart dumb nikka talk at the end of the day.

 

[MostHatedBox]

I feel like J Cole can spit his ass off but 2014 Forest Hills Drive is the only album of his I could play all the way through. And even that gets shyt on by Friday Night Lights.

 

[Nuuko]

thats because kendrick is a better artist and delivered 3 amazing albums in a row... cole only gave us 1 decent album. And its coming from a cole fan

 

[Hum Alistair]

Kdot is infinitely more talented though, not that hard to understand

 

[Kenzo Ten]

Objectively speaking, cole's catalog is average while kednrick kendrick is only making masterpieces.

thats it

 

[ML29]

Kendrick has consistently put out a better product, there's nothing else to it.

 

[Osmosis]

Cole's rhetoric is more beneficial but his music is subpar compared to Kendrick's

 

[smitty22]

This isnt subpar to nothing Kendrick has put out, and im a kdot fan

 

[Drew Wonder]

This isnt subpar to nothing Kendrick has put out, and im a kdot fan

If Cole had more songs like this and less songs about him losing his virginity I'd consider him better than K Dot

 

[SirSly]

I could go deep but outside of the instrumentation K Dot is the same dude rapping on the same subjects...

And perfecting the subjects...

These six songs are the basic theme of the album...

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Kendrick's work is more dense with that message imo.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

nikkas really care about sales that much?