Music aside, J. Cole has one of the greatest runs in rap history

[MIAlien]

I have respect on his name, its you who doesn't seem to respect what he has done and try to rewrite history to make him bigger than artists who were clearly bigger than him in their prime.

Where did I try to rewrite history? And where did I say he's bigger than those guys in their prime?

 

[GreenGhxst]

Plenty of people have long careers but never make big runs.
J Cole never had a run, never was on top of the game, just a career journey man, which is hard but respectable.
Instead of trying to rewrite history and his relevance though, just admit you respect and like his work and keep it moving.

platinum no features is not a journey man

 

[MyMindWarpsandBends]

Pop acts?

Cole has had the ultimate industry push. His music would never gain him universal appeal

That’s more due to his fan base though Cole never does a lot of marketing to sell his music he just knows what his fans like and he gives them that every time and they support him

 

[MyMindWarpsandBends]

Easy Kendrick had Damn come out, J Cole never had his Damn moment where he crossed over and became a super star.

Technically Kendrick was already at that point when TPAB came out, he was doing the Stephen Colbert show and everything Damn just pushed him further out there

 

[CrimsonTider]

That’s more due to his fan base though Cole never does a lot of marketing to sell his music he just knows what his fans like and he gives them that every time and they support him

He does plenty of marketing

 

[gluvnast]

platinum no features is not a journey man

I forgot to even mention he's now doing it without any stimulus feature now....

 

[cartierhoe]

cole only has had a run because he raps about shyt like college debt and jacking off in math class and doing laundry and weirdo nikkas/white boys and bytches who want to be pandered to love that shyt

"I wanna fold your clothes!!"

 

[MyMindWarpsandBends]

He does plenty of marketing

The only marketing I see is for his tours, he rarely does interviews and is rarely on social media people just really relate to Cole and he’s safe he’s almost like easy listening hip-hop

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

Yall so mad at facts

nikkas in here calling JCole the Joe Smith of rap

Men lie women lie numbers dont

I'm not even a fan of dude but cotdamn he's definitely on a " run" foh.

There's maybe a handful of current rappers who wouldn't trade they're careers for J coles success

 

[prophecypro]

Quietest monster career

 

[Jhoon]

Did i see a nikka in here put J. cole and DMX in the same sentence?

DMX went platinum is one calendar year. He didn’t sell a couple hundred thousand copies — he sold millions. In one year!

There comes a point where you have to let these kids express their lousy opinion.

If I were to grade this thread, I would give it a C+. It’s a poorly conceived idea with weak arguments.

 

[BigTyme Records]

Im actually dissapointed in J.cole he never made anything that topped "the warm up" and FNF. Those are by far his best projects. Nothing comes close to be honest. N that shyt came out in like 2009-2010 ish

 

[AMcV'88]

no classic projects, no classic songs, no classic verses but managed to bamboozle so many. Cole World.