i sin so i can't cast the next stone

unless it's baguettes round my neckbone

inside of my frame lies a power

you can't get this game from no TED talk.

talk your s*** Jermaine.

One phone call get you canceled like a homophobe in this PC culture tf is he even trying to say

What’s a conscious rapper then? U seem to know the true definition

oh ok i feel you. yeah artists can go a bit OD with their work lol but there's a lot of pride in it

i'll try to find a post i made a few pages back and quote you hold up

"there are no threads nitpicking their money bars tho"

because. those. stans. understand. majority. of. their. subject. matter. is. money. bars.

And yeah, that's why Cole stans have a specific bad rep on the internet lol. no other fanbase had the "it takes a certain type of intelligence" type of statement about their favorite rapper lol.

well except Lupe but that's cause he said it himself on SLR2.

Lmao I think we know what he’s trying to say he thinks PC culture needs to ease up on the homophobes

I dived deeper in this album and no way the praises I read were genuine dude sounds so stupid

which joints made you feel like that?

you google it man. I don't wanna answer.

let's get into the music y'all. why do you love it. why do you hate it.

You gone say I'm hating

U don’t got the answer that’s why 😂

Full on Eminem tier bar

I hear what ur saying but you gotta understand apart of coles brand whether fair or unfair is that he’s just a regular, humble dude that raps.

Niggas like Kanye (I am a god) Drake (6 god), and Jay (billionaire) are telling you they aren’t regular so they’re not gonna get the same criticism for that type of bar as Cole

Now that I think about it literally all three of them niggas have called themselves god at some point

@2words this what i mean by misconstrued tho

That line is hard as brix. I know you’re not in here slandering The Climb Back. 11/10 song.

Ye and Drake's majority subject matter isn't money bars so this falls flat

and that intelligence s*** started as a reddit meme and niggas just picked it up and ran with it

Literally look up conscious rapper: “Conscious rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that focuses on creating awareness and imparting knowledge. Conscious rappers traditionally have decried violence, discrimination, and other ailments of society.”

Sound like college dropout to me

great flows

great lyricism and wordplay

great production – especially love the fact that it sounds modern yet soulful and lush

every feature showed out

perfect length

it’s really an amazing album . like this is exactly what I look for in an album from one of my favorite artists .

is tupac a conscious rapper?

that's not phrasing i use on this site. i'm interested to know what people think of the art. i ain't sign up for ktt a decade or whatever ago for surface level convos i could have in my text msgs lol lemme hear you bro

Weed just hit yeah this top 1-3 in his discography

Cole cemented it with this album. He is the best rapper alive.

God DAMN this s*** is f***ing trash. J Cole refuses to rap over a good beat. I don't know who's producing garbage audio filth for him but their hands need to be tied together permanently so they never produce again. He just needs to give up and start begging Drake or 40 for beats. It's actually crazy how the second LA Leaker beat he freestyled on is grimier and harder than any beat on this entire album where he attempts to rap hard and grimy!

That's just one of the bad aspects of this top garbage can candidate; the mixing is atrocious. I refuse to believe that he worked for years on this s*** just for it to sound like it was mixed by a mentally challenged blind man.

Cole's rapping is boring as s***. I can't remember a single memorable flow on this entire album. His bars are wack as s*** too. You can tell he was in the studio saying his bars and would glance at his homies like "that s*** was hard right? right?". You can just tell he was trying TOO hard to get those "oh s*** he said that!!!?" bars off. There was no finesse or subtly to it. When Drake says a crazy line he just pushes on to the next one, but Cole's rapping style is a level below. It sounds like he's rapping for our approval and oh he so badly wants it.

It's also very clear that he has nothing of substance to rap about. But that's not a surprise considering how he stays indoors 24/7. Cole was on lockdown before the entire world was. This guy try's so hard to spit with aggressive venom but his words feel weightless. Cole raps like he's actually replying to rappers and beefing with them when we all know that's not true. Drake is the perfect example of a rapper that can spit with arrogant aggression because he's actually a battle rapper. After finishing this album I'm just wondering, "why are you so mad, Cole?", "where is this aggression coming from?". The only thing he's good at is rapping about fake woke, pseudo intellectual bullshit.

Furthermore, Cole FINALLY decides to get some features and plays it safer than a man wearing two condoms by getting Lil Baby and 21 Savage...how surprising....someone he already collabed with and one of the hottest rappers in the game. If it was 2015 he would've got Future, if it was 2017 he would've got Cardi B, it's too predictable. There is literally no creativity, artistic progression, or experimentation in this album. This album is clearly a statement that he realizes the fall off is coming. Like he said, it's either up or down from here on. The last two flops must have woke this nigga up from his own music. Cole is done.