NoName was right, Cole a fake intellectual

This album is him trying to force a classic but thats not how classics are born. He following the textbook too much with little that is special

this album wipes its ass with born sinner lol

listened to the first few tracks on my way to work.

way-too-early-take: this is not the magnum opus i thought it would be

This prolly accurate

That's when they come and close your CURDAN

most accurate take i’ve seen

I mean, you right. I can't come down on how someone should feel about it. Just trying to offer perspective on the character/person in the song displaying introspection and growth about his view on said lgbtq+ person in the song. In both Kendrick and Cole's case I find it much more progressive than regressive and negative, and I find it hard to look at it any other way, but I'm open to hearing why someone would tho

If he was trynna force a classic, this s*** would be 12 tracks long

that and d*** in da booty niggas, got it

Just saying as someone that was there on ktt1 release day ppl 1st listen was calling gkmc and fhd classics

How do you put some s*** like the villest on what you’re trying to make your best work

the let out surprised me

I feel a lot of the negative takes are going to age terribly, album is solid and got time on its side

yeah

Of course that’s why he gotta ride Kendrick’s d*** to make sure we know he’s real hip hop and not an abomination

agreed. he's fundamentals only

This site has just become "what can I s*** on this project for" on first listen lol

was simpler times back then

people actually liked music 💀

Thats what I was saying a couple pages ago. You get everything on first listen. Lyrically nothing really moved me like that

Album is...definitely a J Cole album. I mean that in a good way. But I'm also not sure what the ten year delay was with it (besides living) because it really is just a Cole album. It's themes/topics I feel like Cole has rapped about plenty of times before, but it's good when it is good.

If nothing else, in terms of his albums, I rank it his third best after FHD and Born Sinner. I did worry that Cole didn't really have enough to warrant two discs, and unfortunately I came out feeling like I was right to worry cause it's some tracks on here...hell nah. And I did find myself feeling like it was getting to be a bit of a slog. Credit to Cole for giving a lil variety and experimenting because it is a long ass album, it's just that those tracks he was experimenting and singing were not what I care to hear from him.

Still, if I skip those tracks and just listen to the ones from both discs that I enjoyed, they're strong enough to make up for those skips.

7/10 It's Cole being Cole

Somebody find the cracka who wrote this and laugh in his face for 10 mins straight

I liked the Two Six song, just starting this out. Hate the Run a train chorus