Albums J. Cole - The Off-Season (Discussion Thread)

[mr.africa]

the intro sliding into the song on hunger on hillside

great album

 

[aSniperJones]

‘The Off Season’ is a great album.

It hit me while at the gym training and now I can’t take it out of rotation... and I don’t skip a single track.

I absolutely HATED ‘a m a r i’, but damn it hits so hard now!

 

[Mike the Executioner]

Sideline Story was a disappointing follow up to Friday Night Lights but I still love that album. We played it relentlessly in the crib I was living at. "Dollar And A Dream 3", "Can't Get Enough", "God's Gift", "Nobody's Perfect", "Breakdown". And I know "Lights Please" and "In The Morning" were old but I'm glad he included them on the official album.

"Born Sinner" is probably my favorite Cole album

This album feels like a return to early Cole to me, I love it.

I feel like Born Sinner doesn't get talked about by anyone, positive or negative. It seems like after Friday Night Lights, Cole's career gets ignored until FHD.

It's weird because I've never heard it in full, but all the songs I've listened to bang ("Villuminati," "Power Trip," "Crooked Smile," "She Knows," "Let Nas Down," "Born Sinner"). I figured people would think that Cole was going in the right direction with that album.

 

[dubsmith_nz]

I feel like Born Sinner doesn't get talked about by anyone, positive or negative. It seems like after Friday Night Lights, Cole's career gets ignored until FHD.

It's weird because I've never heard it in full, but all the songs I've listened to bang ("Villuminati," "Power Trip," "Crooked Smile," "She Knows," "Let Nas Down," "Born Sinner"). I figured people would think that Cole was going in the right direction with that album.

Everyone I know enjoyed that album when it dropped. It was a step up from Sideline Story and "Crooked Smile", "She Knows" and "Power Trip" were all big singles.

It still gets play from me

 

[mson]

We sending them Yaweh, we sending them Yaweh

 

[I'm Blackman]

I must be the ONLY nikka on earth that loves foldin clothes. That song hit for me at the right moment in my life

I love it. Grown man shyt to me.

 

[Izanami]

Amari is a banger. Really grew into my favorite track on this.

 

[HiiiPower]

Nah I can’t blame the label for SS

The production on that album is really really bad and Cole has some really cringey hooks and bars

I love born Sinner but I can see why Non Cole stans wouldn’t like that album

I’d partially blame the label for Sideline Story because so many great tracks were pushed to the mixtape as they forced Cole to craft his album for radio+specifically demographics. Did Cole’s wack production hurt too? Yes.

Both right, It DID have some god awful bars & beats, but the label stopped that album from being a lot better when they pushed his album back because it didn’t have a “hit” forcing him to put a mixtape out to keep his buzz and momentum strong

Premeditated Murder, Home for The Holidays, Enchanted, 2Face, Before I’m Gone & The Autograph were all made for his album

 

[Goat poster]

I feel like Born Sinner doesn't get talked about by anyone, positive or negative. It seems like after Friday Night Lights, Cole's career gets ignored until FHD.

It's weird because I've never heard it in full, but all the songs I've listened to bang ("Villuminati," "Power Trip," "Crooked Smile," "She Knows," "Let Nas Down," "Born Sinner"). I figured people would think that Cole was going in the right direction with that album.

“Will she pop” is one of my fav Cole tracks

My ex’s cousin from Australia put me on to it.

 

[Piff Perkins]

92k in the second week.

 

[patscorpio]

i was expecting not be blown away by this album...i listen to this on my drive to my folks house last week and i was like this shyt is dope

 

[LevelUp]

Great album

 

[CrimsonTider]

I love it. Grown man shyt to me.

chores aren’t grown man shyt

that song is awful

 

[AJtheOne]

Been listening to Cole since the beginning. Well Warm Up not The Come up. Hunger on a Hillside is probably one of my favorite songs from Cole. It's such a clear perspective of where he is in respect to where he came from.

Hunger on the Hillside reminds me of some Rocky/Creed type shyt. They should put that in the next Creed movie

 

[FromBillionsCameOne]

No desire to listen to Cole for some reason but I think I should force myself.