KOD is among the most important albums of this generation

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Agreed. Hell, seeing that clip of him playing the intro music to ATM while crying on stage at one of his concerts after learning that Mac Miller OD’d and died still gives me the chills to this day

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

nikkas hatin on this album real talk shyt was dope and doper than every Kendrick album not named Section 80 and GKMC.

Cole my nikka too but slow your roll breh

 

[spliz]

Cole my nikka too but slow your roll breh

Nope. That’s how I feel. I wasn’t feelin TPAB really much at all and DAMN was just aight to me. If anything it’s on equal footing with DAMN.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

I've always said Kendrick is a better artist and I'm a bigger fan of his music. But the reality is Cole reaches people differently than Kendrick does. He's generally easier to digest to the average listener which is why they both serve a purpose

Why can't we just appreciate greatness

All facts, this is the same perspective that I have regarding these two.

 

[Da King]

It’s an all time corny try hard album

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Im a wayyy better writer now than I was 5 years ago

5 years later, this album has aged like Chateau Margaux


Choose wisely brehs

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Brackets

Loved everything about this album.

Brackets came on shuffle in my earbud while I was getting my braces yesterday. Braces Brackets

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

I revisited this album it's actually pretty good the concept was executed masterfully dude is talking about real shyt top to bottom

Still don't like ATM, Motiv8, or the Kill Edward thing

It is a very important album because it really touches on substance abuse especially as it pertains around urban black communities especially in a generation of the opioid epidemic

Exactly. It's only seen as "preachy" by the addicts. It's a defense mechanism. Or at least that's what it feels like

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Photograph was about the idolatry of women. Men these days are addicted to IG models and regular women. Social media. Love through technology. All of these are addictions



This album was so much more than "stay off the weed" raps. I won't break down the whole project. Hopefully the masses will years down the line

Cole will go down as one of the greatest artists of all time. Elite penmanship aside, he makes albums like this for a bigger purpose. Way deeper than him being the best rapper

He tried to give easily digestable game throughout this whole album for the youth. For the rappers. For Black America. For the world.

It's a shame Juice WRLD, Mac Miller, and many more passed away because of the vices

What we can't say is Cole didn't speak on the issue. He's one of the few in the game that has.

The issue that goes back far past the 80s and far past hip hop music (listen to Brackets)

Cole will get his flowers eventually. Maybe after The Fall Off

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

He didn't make this album for you to play in the whip mindlessly. This isn't party music

This was way more important than that irrelevant "listenable" narrative the critics spew. This project was supposed to be hard to listen to

To my niggas --- I hope you listening / --- and ---, I hope you listening

“FRIENDS” is written as a kind of letter of advice about drug abuse to J Cole’s protege and contemporaries. In these lines he directly addresses certain individuals, with the sound reversed on the studio version to censor the namedrops. Fans decoded it as being his brother Zach and in-house...

genius.com

Legendary shyt. GOAT shyt

 

[Kaypain]

Brackets came on shuffle in my earbud while I was getting my braces yesterday. Braces Brackets

Rep for anybody can find that Richard Pryor stand up bit in the beginning. I can't find it anymore

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

I like j cole …album was mid

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Rep for anybody can find that Richard Pryor stand up bit in the beginning. I can't find it anymore

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

I like j cole …album was mid

Everything Drake has done since 2013 fits your definition. Get that stannery out this thread please

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Everything Drake has done since 2013 fits your definition. Get that stannery out this thread please

What does drake have to do with this j cole album ?

Off season was a good way to come back ..because kod was boring