J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive (Discussion Thread) *Stream*

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It just sounded juvenile and corny. Nothing really introspective, deep or thought provoking. Ni felt like I didn't need to know that. When a rapper has to many songs about girls he's had a easy life and may need to come up with some better concepts. J cole has no imagination

U right and this is why I don't really mess with his music but I can't front he makes it work sometimes....but there's no way I'm believing this dude was ready to start slinging like he implied....Please.
 

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U right and this is why I don't really mess with his music but I can't front he makes it work sometimes....but there's no way I'm believing this dude was ready to start slinging like he implied....Please.

How do you know that? nikkas kill me on here thinking they know what takes place in a person's life. Like a dude who aint from the gutter can't get caught in some drug shyt. I felt what Cole was saying because I was also in a similar position but in my early 20's. Single parent home, wasn't poor or rich (right in between) and the opportunity to slang presented itself and I didn't go through wit it although I was very close. So who am I to say what a teenager (Cole) at the time was gonna do or not?

And for dudes talkin bout Wet Dreamz. I thought the song was done to fit the concept of the first half of the album. I mean the first song is called January 28th, his actual birth date so it only felt right for Wet Dreamz and its concept to follow through. And the next song after that is 03 Adolescence, which is an older teenage Cole about to go to College.

Some of yall nikkas need to actually listen to the music instead of just hearing it
 

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How do you know that? nikkas kill me on here thinking they know what takes place in a person's life. Like a dude who aint from the gutter can't get caught in some drug shyt. I felt what Cole was saying because I was also in a similar position but in my early 20's. Single parent home, wasn't poor or rich (right in between) and the opportunity to slang presented itself and I didn't go through wit it although I was very close. So who am I to say what a teenager (Cole) at the time was gonna do or not?

And for dudes talkin bout Wet Dreamz. I thought the song was done to fit the concept of the first half of the album. I mean the first song is called January 28th, his actual birth date so it only felt right for Wet Dreamz and its concept to follow through. And the next song after that is 03 Adolescence, which is an older teenage Cole about to go to College.

Some of yall nikkas need to actually listen to the music instead of just hearing it

fukk site you think you on breh :childplease:?

We call albums garbage just based off the album art :troll:
 

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How do you know that? nikkas kill me on here thinking they know what takes place in a person's life. Like a dude who aint from the gutter can't get caught in some drug shyt. I felt what Cole was saying because I was also in a similar position but in my early 20's. Single parent home, wasn't poor or rich (right in between) and the opportunity to slang presented itself and I didn't go through wit it although I was very close. So who am I to say what a teenager (Cole) at the time was gonna do or not?

And for dudes talkin bout Wet Dreamz. I thought the song was done to fit the concept of the first half of the album. I mean the first song is called January 28th, his actual birth date so it only felt right for Wet Dreamz and its concept to follow through. And the next song after that is 03 Adolescence, which is an older teenage Cole about to go to College.

Some of yall nikkas need to actually listen to the music instead of just hearing it

nikkaz will bytch about cole being 29 rapping about wet dreamz (which literally everyone can relate to since everyone has been/is a virgin) but jay z damn near 45 aint never touched a brick in more than 20 years talking about movin bass(but they don't complain about how they can't relate) lmao
 

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Hold up...

Brehs in here doubting a musician who has shown he's speaking from a genuine place...about whether he "considered selling"?

Every breh who got into the underbelly of the hood was a good person at one point. Stop with this narrative that we are "demons" by nature.

I was a young boy growing up w/ 2 loving parents in Fort Greene during the late 80's into the 90's... I saw dudes hustling, I saw the women with them & luckily I was enthralled by it but maybe my structure & support system helped me not get trapped into that.

Honestly, the idea of him reminiscing on the 03 Adolescent song... That was almost exactly parallel to a talk I had w/ my big brother.

He was my half brother who dropped out of high school & BECAME a street dude... I told him I wanted to be like him... I could remember clear as day him saying, "Nah, you don't want to be like me, you're going to be better than me, big brother." He started calling me big brother after that even though he was 10 years older than me.

That changed my whole trajectory.

I say that to say... I felt this music. It hit me. And our communities need this to be the standard. If it were, much like the first ipod, the new artists coming after the Kendrick's & Cole's would perfect it & be better at a more accurate snapshot into the mind & life of Black youth.

When will we realize that bars like...

"I think I hate nikkas, I'm a nazi" - Defloaf
"Pull up up in a hooptie like we cops on em" - Bobby Shmurda
"Got your girl tip-toeing on my marble floors" - Rick Ross

Where is the average young black man living this life? Breaking it down... honestly, this violent shyt...most young black men do not want to actively or seek out hurting another black man. We won't back down from anyone, but this having a bloodlust to exact harm?

And having a bytch tip-toeing on my marble floors... although I did partake in the game of fukking the next dude's girl in my early adulthood... the lavish shyt mainly appeals more to a Wolf of Wall Street, not your average young Black man.

I truly praise the breh Cole for trying to create levity in OUR music.

For that...I rock with him.
 
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