Sunday, July 3, 2016

J. Cole's Coming of Age Track 5: A Tale of 2 Citiez (2014 Forest Hills Drive)

When the album first came out this was the song I was bumping probably the most. A Tale of 2 Citiez shares a lot of similarities to the previous song 03' Adolescence. The similarities being different ways of dealing with being poor and sad. This song is a play on words with the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities. Not really a play on words but the song identifies two people in the same city, who could be each other. While A Tale of Two Cities by Mr. Dickens is about London and Paris during the French revolution. The French revolution is noteworthy in this song because to my knowledge, the people who overtook the french people in power treated them like shit much like how they were being treated. But this isn't Grant's blog so I won't bore you with a history lesson. Let's look at the music man!

Since a youngin' always dreamed of gettin' rich
Look at me my nigga
Fantasize about a white picket fence
With some trees my nigga
Used to want a Pathfinder with some tints
That's all I need my nigga
Throw some 20's on that bitch and get it rinsed


An important thing to know about J, Cole is that he had a single white mom through out his childhood. They grew up in a trailer park so when he was growing up he would dream about about a white picket fence and dreams as a luxury. They were also so poor (this sounds like bad stand up now) that a Nissan Pathfinder with tinted windows seemed like a hot ride. He also fantasized about making it rain with $20 bills at a strip club.

But now I see my nigga
That the world's a lot bigger ever since
Picked up the paper and they say my nigga Eddie caught a body, I'm convinced
Anybody is a killer, all you gotta do is push 'em to the limits
Fuck being timid in the Civic politicin' with the pushers and the pimps
I'm tryna write a story, can I get a glimpse? Yeah can I get a glimpse?


Alls those dreams are in the past now. He has been released to the cruel reality that is earth. Catching bodies by the way means to catch the charge for killing someone. Since Eddie was his friend and he couldn't imagine him killing someone he now thinks anyone can be a killer. He is tired of his Honda Civic (not much worse than a pathfinder mind you) and his lifestyle staying on the straight and narrow, politicin' (talking like a politician so like not saying the whole truth, and trying to get out of stuff) with the people who actually do shit. Since he is a musician he is trying to write a story of their realities so he wants a glimpse of their life.

(Chorus 1)
Last night I had a bad dream
That I was trapped in this city
Then I asked is that really such a bad thing?
They robbin' niggas on the daily
Can you blame a nigga that ain't never had things?
(What's the value of a thing?)
Guess not, last night THEY pulled up on my nigga at the light like
Ugh, nice watch, run it
Hands in the air now, hands in the air, run it
Hands in the air now, hands in the air, run it
Hands in the air now, hands in the air
Hands in the air now, hands in the air


A common phrase I've heard in rap music is being stuck in a box. I think he kinda feels like Schrodinger cat. He is always alive and dead because he is physically alive but also mentally dead because the only way to escape your city (or tax bracket) is to rap or play sports. J. also sympathizes with the robbers because like him they never had anything. Asking someone to run it is to hand it over quickly.

This second verse cuts into the perspective of the robber!

Small town nigga Hollywood dreams
I know that everything that glitters ain't gold
I know the shit ain't always good as it seems
But tell me till you get it how could you know?
How could you know? How could you know?


Since J. grew up in a small town he wants to live like he was in Hollywood (foreshadowing?). He decides to forego the reality that he knows that nothing is as good as it seems due to his lack of  getting luxuries.

Listen up I'm about to go and get rich
Fuck with me my nigga
We gon' circle round the Ville and hit a lick
Cop some tree my nigga
And some powder, bag it up and make it flip


J. is sick and tired of waiting for getting money the right way so he is going to hit a lick (getting money quickly). To cop something is to receive, take, or acquire something. Trees is slang for weed, powder is slang for cocaine, they are going to bag it up and flip it. Meaning they are going to sell it.

You gon' see my nigga
One day we gon' graduate and cop a brick
And thats the key my nigga
Listen up I'm bout to go and get rich
Stand back and watch if you want to nigga
Me I want my pockets fat, a badder bitch
Tired of seein' niggas flaunt, I wanna flaunt too nigga
Watch some rollers in the fuckin' Crown Vic

Tryna lock a nigga up, thats what they won't do nigga
Wanna know a funny thing about this shit?
Even if you let em' kill your dream it'll haunt you nigga


A brick is a brick of cocaine. Also known as a kilo so that is the key my nigga (thanks rap genius). He wants his pockets fat, like a badder bitch. Also a Crown Vic is type of car that cops typically do. Also rollers are a term for cops (thanks again rap genius). His dream that they are referring to his getting money. Since drug dealing isn't really a sustainable income considering cops coming after you, and it isn't an "honest" earning. They (being the cops, and the government) killed his dreams. Because of the lack of the role modelz in the black community that aren't in the entertainment industry he doesn't see a better way to earn money than to drug deal. So the cops killed his dreams but they haunt him cause he knows it. This is more of an emotion than something I can explain.

(Chorus 2)
Last night I had a bad dream
That I was trapped in this city
Then I asked is that really such a bad thing?
I look around like do you wanna be another nigga, that ain't never had things?
(What's the value of a thing?)
Guess not, last night
WE pulled up on a nigga at the light like
(You know what the fuck it is nigga ,run that shit!)
Uh, nice watch, run it
Hands in the air now, hands in the air, run it
Hands in the air now, hands in the air, run it
Hands in the air now, hands in the air
Hands in the air now, hands in the air


This character that Cole painted instead of the first character who is trying to stay on the straight and narrow is now the robber. Notice the parrallels between the first and second verse. Same beginning and same essential state of mind. To the characters in the song its two different citiez. Hence the title of the song.

Father forgive me for my childish ways
I look outside and all the clouds are gray
I need your hands to take me miles away
Your wish is my command, my command, my command
But before you go I've got to warn you now
Whatever goes up surely must come down
And you'll get your piece, but know peace won't be found
So why just take me man, take me man, take me man
Your wish is my command, my command, my command


This is interesting. He hasn't met his dad according to himself. So I think he is talking to god. But, he doesn't have a role model so I think he is talking to god as if he was a friend or something. He asks god for forgiveness for all he did in his adolescence. So god rewards his wishes and says he will take him away and he will get a piece (piece of a pie is a term for a cut for a deal), but he will never find peace.  This is essentially the end of coming of age part of the album. But the next song doesn't exactly have a part so its really in limbo. Either way kick ass song and Kendrick Lamar did a song over this beat (that was made by Vinylz).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xAWiV4drB4




Saturday, July 2, 2016

J. Cole's Coming of Age Track 4: 03' Adolescence (2014 Forest Hills Drive)













This is the best song on the album. I don't know if I can stress that enough. Not only is it the best song on the album it has the best 10 seconds on the album in the song. 03' Adolescence is about J. Cole's mind state in high school essentially.

I grew up, a fucking screw up
Tie my shoe up, wish they was newer
Damn, need something newer


This whole first verse deals with self esteem issues and deals with the fact that he was poor. He is sick of having low self worth and being poor so he needs something newer.

In love with the baddest girl in the city, I wish I knew her
I wish I won't so shy, I wish I was a bit more fly
I wish that I, could tell her how I really feel inside
That I'm the perfect nigga for her, but then maybe that's a lie
She like a certain type of nigga, and it's clear I'm not that guy
Ball player, star player, I'm just watchin' from the side
On the bench, cause my lack of confidence won't let me fly


Good word play with rhyming newer with knew her. This whole couplet (I know that this isn't the right term) is really relatable to the vast majority of people in high school. I think we have all had a crush on someone that is out of our league.

I ain't grow up with my father, I ain't thinkin' 'bout that now
Fast forward four years or so from now I'll probably cry
When I realize what I missed, but as of now my eyes are dry
Cause I'm trying to stay alive
In the city where too many niggas die
Dreamin' quiet trying to dodge a suit and tie
Who am I? Aye who am I?(Yeah)


Since the lack of confidence won't let him fly he blames that on not growing up with a father figure. But, like everyone in high school repressed emotion and fear drives him. He knows that in the future that he will still be angry and sad. But, he doesn't have time for that he is trying to thrive and live in a city where people die. And these last two lines is a very interesting part of this song. Unlike most people rapping he didn't tell anyone he did till college. So he dreamt quiet and is trying to not be caught up in a suit and tie job. Even though that is a promising career it doesn't allow you to live, the same way rapping would. He is conflicted with these feelings as we head into the chorus.

Things change, rearrange and so do I
It ain't always for the better, dawg, I can't lie
I get high cause the lows can be so cold
I might bend a little bit but I don't fold
One time for my mind and two for yours
I got food for your thoughts to soothe your soul
If you see my tears fall just let me be
Move along, nothing to see


Damn.

I always did shit the hard way
My nigga Squirrel slangin' in the hallway
Burnt CD's and trees like this was Broadway
Times Square, kept the dimes there in the locker
Some Reggie Miller
With more brown hairs than Chewbacca
Whispers that he got it for the low low, sell a
Dime for a dub, them white boys ain't know no better
Besides, what's twenty dollars to a nigga like that?
He tell his pops he need some lunch and he gon' get it right back


I knew the general thing that he was saying in this verse but I didn't exactly get it. He did stuff the hard way like trying to get good grades, and make clean money in the future. When his friend Squirrel was making money instantly selling weed. Dimes are bags of weed that sell for $10 and Reggie is slang for the lowest quality weed. So calling it Reggie Miller means its good bad weed. Comparing it to the third best shooter in NBA history (Sorry Reg you know its true). Also Reggie since it would be bad weed would make you choke like what Reggie Miller did to Spike Lee (see right). Also bad pot has brown hairs much like the aforementioned Wookie. Since Squirrel sells a dime for a dub, that means that he sells $10's worth of weed for $20's. But white boys don't know better.

I peep game
Got home snatched my mama keychain
Took her whip, the appeal, too ill to refrain
I hit the boulevard pull up to my nigga front do'
His mama at home, she still let em' hit the blunt though
I told her hello, and sat with my nigga and laughed
And talked about how we gon' smash all the bitches in class



He saw the game his friend was getting. So he decided to take the car on a joyride to his friends house. Where his mom doesn't care if they smoke. J. Cole is a good guy who respects how hard his mom worked so he respects his mom too even though she doesn't give af about either of them (foreshadowing). Notice how both of them talk big game (how they going to smash all the bitches in class). But as you see in this next part both of them don't know how bad each other has it.

I complimented how I see him out here getting his cash
And just asked, "What a nigga gotta do to get that?
Put me on," 


Jermaine Cole at this point is so sick and tired of being poor he is telling his freind that he want's to deal drugs too. His freinds response is the best part of the album.

he just laughed when he seen I was sure
17 years breathing his demeanor said more
He told me, "Nigga, you know how you sound right now?
If you wasn’t my mans, I would think that you a clown right now
Listen, you everything I wanna be that's why I fucks with you
So how you looking up to me when I look up to you?
You bout to go get a degree, I'ma be stuck with two choices:
Either graduate to weight or selling number two
For what? A hundred bucks or two a week?
Do you think that you would know what to do if you was me?
I got, four brothers, one mother that don't love us
If they ain't want us why the fuck they never wore rubbers?"


J. Cole has a hard life at this point but is protected up till this point. Even though Squirel is getting money and doing "well". He would rather be living how J. Cole is. Because, even though J. Cole's future is uncertain, Squirrel knows his future is certain. You can't make a living selling $10 dollar weed. So he knows he will have to move up to selling cocaine and harder drugs to get by. When J. Cole is going to college! Squirrel envies this life that J. Cole has. Its kinda remarkable and a complete switch to what pop music says. Squirrel also knows that he needs to make money now to support his 4 brothers and his mom that doesn't work. Like Cole, Squirrel doesn't have a dad but instead of Cole he is crying now, instead of in 4 years. 4 years that Cole will be in college. So he is coming to the conclusion that defines lack of self worth. My parents didn't want me, and they didn't want me because my dad isn't here. So why did they not use some form of contraception? He isn't asking J. Cole he is asking the universe or God or whatever you believe in. I just can't articulate what this means right and it hurts me to know that.

I felt ashamed to have ever complained about my lack of gear
And thought about how far we done came
From trailer park to a front yard with trees in the sky
Thank you mama, dry your eyes, there ain't no reason to cry
You made a genius and I, ain't gon' take it for granted
I ain't gon' settle for lesser, I ain't gon' take what they handed
Nah I'm gon' take what they owe me and show you that I can fly
And show old girl what she missing, the illest nigga alive
Aye who am I?


After the verbal rashing that J. Cole received from Squirrel he feels shitty that he doens't appreciate what he has. Because unlike Squirrels mom J, Cole's mom has worked hard to give him a future. She raised him nice and hardworking. She instilled that through her working for the house they own. Which is 2014 Forest Hills Drive. J. Cole is no longer feeling sorry for himself he now has self worth and he is going to take what is his. Which is the rap game by storm!





Friday, July 1, 2016

J. Coles Coming of Age Track 3: Wet Dreamz (2014 Forest Hills Drive)

J. Cole is the best story telling rapper in the mainstream ever. The reason I say mainstream is because I am ignorant. Wet Dreamz is definitely one of the most interesting songs on the album, because I can't actually think of a rapper who would talk about the first time he had sex in a rap song, and actually make it sound cool. I dont want to ruin the song for you. Please listen to it. 2 things of note though. In the song he flips the chorus' to switch who it refers to. Which is something J. Cole has done on numerous songs.

Listen to the song before you read on! Wet Dreamz by J. Cole.

The other thing to note is that his switching dicodamy with his story for the first time he had sex. In the song Too Deep for the Intro in the album Friday Night Lights, he says:

Should I admit that a slutty bitch was my first smash
Was it experience so nah I didn't wear it out
Always thought my first time would be with someone I cared about
But being a virgin was something to be embarrassed bout
I used her ass for practice so I wasn't scared out my mind

So according to himself in 2010 a slutty bitch was his first smash. However in Wet Dreamz he claims that the gal hadnt had sex. Believe it or not, this is a big debate in the J. Cole community or the Columminty. People get into this debate a lot. But, believe it or not I dont care! This song is good. Play it for your kids before they go to sleep.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

J.Cole's Coming of Age Track 2: January 28th (2014 Forest Hills Drive)

Due to the distortion effects on the first couplet of lyrics I was only able to make out what he was saying through my good friend rapgenius.com

Rap tune
Can I make a million dollars off a rap tune?
Can I make a million dollars off a rap tune?
I'm tryna make a million dollars off a rap tune


He is trying to figure out if rapping is really what he is going to do as a career. I think it is interesting how he says rap tune, because he is a rapper. But he also makes almost every beat in this album. Including this one.

The real is back, the ville is back
Flow bananas here, peel this back
And what you'll find is, your highness
Can paint a picture that is vivid enough to cure blindness


Being real in hip-hop is like what it sounds. It means that you aren't fake. It means that you do everything you said you've done, and are not trying to be or act more thug than you actually are. So when he has the ville following the statement the real, he is claiming Fayetteville, NC is indeed real.
Flow is bananas because its crazy. And when you look into it (peel this back) you will find that J. Cole can use his words to create situations and stories that cure not actual blindness, but I think he means cultural blindness. Some topics on this album I would have never thought about if it wasn't for J. Cole and other rappers.

Carolina's finest, you knew that already
And turned to the greatest, I proved that already
And if you would like, I do it twice
I just sharpen my blade for a minute became lost in my ways
This for my niggas that was tossed in the graves


This is pretty self explanatory. He proved the he was the greatest (with Friday Night Lights), but he had to do it again. Because he got lost in his ways (J. Cole the Sideline Story). In the last track of Born Sinner in a song called Let Nas Down he details how he sold out in J. Cole the Sideline Story. 
He had a single (his highest charting single at 13th in the billboard hot 100) called Work Out, that when you compare it to what he did on this album yeah he did sellout a lotta bit. He is proving that he is the greatest for his friends that died.

Every so often I fade deep in my thoughts and then get lost in the days
We used to play before your coffin was made
Just got the call nigga got caught with a stray
Hope he's okay


Again pretty straight forward. A stray is a stray bullet. One that wasn't meant for his friend so that means that his friend wasn't doing anything wrong.

Just got paid what Cochran got paid to free OJ
Just to share my life on the stage in front of strangers
Who know a nigga far too well, and that's the danger
Know me better than I know myself
I rip a page out my notebook in anger
And let these thoughts linger, singing


Johnnie Cochran got paid a lot to free OJ just btw. He is comparing that money to his pay check. But, all he has to do is share his life, all his insecurities and dreams to people he hasn't met. But you beter believe that people like me know him a lot. He is scared that his fans know him better than he knows himself and that sends him into a fit of rage and anger while he signs the hook...

Don't give 'em too much you
Don't let 'em take control
It's one thing you do
Don't let 'em taint your soul
If you believe in God
One thing's for sure
If you ain't aim too high
Then you aim too low


(Verse 2)
What's the price for a black man life?
I check the toe tag, not one zero in sight
I turn the TV on, not one hero in sight
Unless he dribble or he fiddle with mics


Checking the toe tag makes it sound like black people are like pieces of meat being sold by a butcher. He blames partly the way that black people are kinda viewed as worthless is because they don't have any role modelz that aren't rappers or athletes. Some of you might be pointing to Obama and to that I say that Obama grew up in the hood as much as he was born in Kenya. Not at all. Obama does not have the same life experiences as most rappers and athletes.

Look out the window cause tonight the city lit up with lights, cameras and action
May no man alive come through and damage my faction
I brought you niggas with me cause I love you like my brothers
And your mothers' like my mother


Think we need a plan of action
The bigger we get the more likely egos collide
It's just physics, please let's put our egos aside
You my niggas, and should our worst tendencies turn us into enemies


I think it is note worthy of the contrast of the word nigga in these two parts of the same verse. Thought by most white people, black people have flipped the connotation of the word to mean a positive person. Like a brother or mother. But there is also plenty of black people who also believe that the black community shouldn't use it at all. Saying that no matter how we use it it still has a negative connotation. So I think in the first part he uses the positive connotation and he uses the negative connotation to refer to brothers that are against him. Even though they are his friends he knows that anyone can have pent up rage, and that is essentially a nigga tendency. I think this way because he says our worst tendencies. So its something that him and his friends that he already described as niggas would share. I am not trying to be racist at all. This is just what I've picked up from his music along with others music as well.

I hope that we remember these
Nights fulla Hennessey
When Hov around we switch up to that D'usse
Gotta show respect, one day we tryna stay where you stay


When him and his friends are fighting he hopes that they remember the days that they were drinking and having fun. J. Cole was signed to Jay-Z's label Roc Nation. Also, Jay-Z has an endorsement to D'usse. So to show respect and to hopefully end up like him they drink D'usse when he is around.

Cause we from where you from
Not talkin' bout the slums
I'm talkin' 'bout that mind state that keep a black nigga dumb
Keep a black nigga dyin' by a black nigga gun
And keep on listening to the frontin' ass rap niggas sun
Yeah I said 'sun' 

J. Cole is an educated person. He graduated from St. John's University and isn't a paranoid freak. He does blame the government that keeps black people in the slums, but also keeps them dumb, because all poor kids (not just black) aren't doing well in school. This is because there doesn't seem to be value in it. So instead the poor are reduced to dying due to gang violence. But, the gangs are black on black which is crazy to think that the government would have some hand in that mind state.  Now the last two lines I had to look up on rap genius. According to them:

Moreover, J. Cole is paying hommage to the Five-Percent Nation which is an American Organisation founded in New-York by saying ‘Sun’.
In this organisation, men are called ‘Sun’ and women ‘Moon’. Many artists referenced this slang from Nas to Erykah Badu.

This is New York's finest
For 11 winters straight I took on New York's climate
Like show me New York's ladder
I climb it and set the bar so high that you gotta get Obama to force the air force to find it
Never mind it, you'll never reach that
Cole is the hypnotist, control the game whenever he snap
That's every track, nigga

This is kinda just badass. The last lines is cool af. He compares hypnotist that snap to put people under a trance to whenever he mentally snaps and gets angry. You hear a lot of anger in this song.

(Hook)
I ain't serve no pies, I ain't slang no dope
I don't bring no lies, niggas sang my quotes
I don't play no games, boy I ain't no joke


He hasn't dealt drugs. He doesn't speak lies and people have said his lyrics (much like to what I am doing here).

Like the great Rakim, when I make my notes
You niggas might be L or you might be Kane
Or you might be Slick Rick with 19 chains
Or you might be Drizzy Drake or Kendrick Lamar
But check your birth date nigga, you ain't the God
Nah you ain't the God
Nigga, Cole the God
January 28th


J. Cole says he isn't like any of these rappers. All who are very esteemed and well regarded. But, he does say he is the God. Which is Rakim. Who was also born on January 28th.

This song is a good thing to keep in the back of your mind during the whole album. Its 4 minutes long but goes by way farther than that. The political impact it also has makes it very noteworthy. Again a very somber song.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

J. Cole's Coming of Age Track 1: Intro (2014 Forest Hills Drive)

Do you wanna be? That is the question J. Cole asks. Possibly my favorite part of this whole album is his genuine delivery during the introduction. To me it sounds like he is on the brink of flowing into tears during this track. The first part of this song is him asking 3 questions. The first being do you wanna be? He says this in his unique delivery which to me makes it mysterious. Because as humans we all be. I am being right now. But, we all know that there is something that is supposed to be added there. So when he adds happy, and free. He separates these two ideas. As if you can only choose one. You can either be happy or free. Which is a sad way to look at life no doubt. His next lyrics are supposed to relate to the struggle of himself and the people around him.

Free from pain, free from scars
Free to sing, free from bars

In this first part he names essentially basic emotions and fears. I'm scared of pain. I'm scared of pain that is basic human emotion. Then he mentions free to sing, the idea of anyone able to say anything they want in this world, but that idea contrasts when he says free from bars. This can mean 2 things. Free from jail bars, or free from rap bars. Bars of course meaning how to measure how long the verse is. That is common musical vernacular. Jail bars keep all those previous ideas not a possibility. In prison you will have pain, scars, and chances are they won't let you sing to clear your mind. But also being free from rap bars is scary. He loves rapping. He wouldn't do it unless he loved it. Sadly in Hip-Hop it is about selling records. Usually the common music listener doesn't want to think about pain and scars. Also when he says sing he compares that to rapping bars. When you sing you are free, but rapping has rules and restrictions. You have to stay on beat, 16 bars in one verse, you have to have the right amount of syllables. So I think he is saying he would rather sing.


Free my dawgs, you're free to go
Block is hot, the streets is cold


These lines just keep along with the prison theme. In other songs he has mentioned friends that are now in prison. So he is sympathizing with those individuals.

Free to love, to each his own
Free from bills, free from pills
You roll it loud, the speakers blow
Life get hard, you ease your soul
It cleanse ya mind, learn to fly


These are basic freedoms that we all would love to have. But, where he grew up all he knew about was either being an athlete or a rapper. Having enough money to not worry about bills is a good dream. But pills, weed, loud music in the club all come with that lifestyle. But, he want's to be free from all that. As evident in the song. He then says that It, cleanse ya mind. It being ease your soul. Which is to just blatantly relax. When he relaxes without pills, weed, and loud speakers he learned to fly.

Then reach the stars, you take the time
To look behind and say, "Look where I came
Look how far I done came"
They say that dreams come true
And when they do, that there's a beautiful thing


This last part here is the saddest thing. As I mentioned in the introduction to the album he had a platinum selling album one of the best accomplishments in the music industry. But, his dreams haven't even come true yet. He hasn't reached the his dream yet. He finishes the song with another round of do you wanna be.

https://youtu.be/NtjrFw4i2Qo
This is the music video he made. Look hard at the facial expressions he makes. I use Rap Genius for finding the lyrics. Here is a link to that website.
http://genius.com/4481449
I did not rip anybodies opinions off I have came to these conclusions on my own.

2014 Forest Hills Drive Introduction to the Album


2014ForestHillsDrive.jpg2014 Forest Hills Drive is the third studio album by J. Cole. The preceding album was Born Sinner which went platinum along with 2014 Forest Hills Drive. He made the album to his own liking and the label respected that. So when he made the album this is his vision, without being tainted by anyone else's influence other than his friends. If you draw your attention to the album art to your right you see that he is sitting on top of a building. That building is 2014 Forest Hills Drive, the house he grew up in. So this album is essentially from what I see his life story up to this point in time. The album Born Sinner seemed to be a darker time in his life so many expected 2014 Forest Hills Drive to go back to his old style of funny, witty, introspective, and tracks which he had on Friday Night Lights, The Warm Up, and The Come Up. But more on those later. An interesting thing about this album is that he doesn't really mention him graduating to Saint John's University almost at all. I believe the reasoning behind this is that he is trying to make more relatable music. Because, not every rapper has even gone to college much less graduate. So 2014 Forest Hills Drive is essentially his life minus college. I divide this album into essentially 3 parts. The first six tracks are J. Cole's coming of age. The next three are his sellout, depressed, upset, love struggles part of the album. While the last 4 are looking forward to the future. So without further ado, I will be trying to get the coming of age part done. Stay tuned for more. I'll leave y'all with some memes, that will hopefully make sense in the future.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

New Album Review Is...

I'll be review 2014 Forest Hills Drive. In comments leave more albums to review in the comments!