Revolutionary
All Star
Drake bot arrived
NEW J Cole via his blog: Clouds
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Revolutionary
All Star
Definitely and im glad people are seeing it. But at the same time i understand his moves because he was never legitimate enough for this kind of fight...you gotta prove yourself with your work first. Thats why he was massively criticized for that song he dropped
iliketurtles
Do Right And Kill Everything
iliketurtles
Do Right And Kill Everything
Ppl laughed at Cole because of how wack the song was, and thats why he ducked it lol
Facts
iliketurtles
Do Right And Kill Everything
Clouds is a classic 
DAMN is DAMN average.I don't care what these bots say. Damn is not better than GKMC.
altruicsense
Lord of the 7 Kingdoms
damn, this nikka can rap..
he can never be Top 5 but damn no denying his pen game.
Good Kid M.A.A.D City DEFINITELY got love in the “streets”. I saw that album’s impact in real time. EVERYBODY was bumping that album when it dropped. It made a lot of people go back and discover Section 80.
By the time Damn dropped Kendrick was already a superstar. Everybody from the “streets” to the “casuals” were checking for him.
Impact is different from when someone drops their first album versus their third. Expectations are different, the key is that Kendrick lived up to those expectations his first three at bats, which is hard for any artist to accomplish, let alone a rapper. Of the big three, Kendrick is the only one who can boast he achieved this. Cole’s debut was looked at as a disappointment amongst hip hop heads because he went too pop and Drake’s Thank Me Later was looked at as a disappointment artistically because it didn’t match the creative highs of So Far Gone. Both course corrected on their second studio albums and were able to retain their core fanbases while also expanding their reaches. Jay-Z and Roc Nation took the creative shackles off Cole and Drake tapped The Weeknd to write for him and it worked out. While Kendrick was allowed to do whatever the hell he wanted because both TDE and Interscope realized they had a generational genius on their hands so they let him cook. By the time each of them got to their third albums they’re identities, and therefore they’re expectations had been set in stone.
Drake was the hitmaker
Cole was the rapper’s rapper
Kendrick was the artistic genius
Kendrick flipped it a bit and caught a BIG hit with Humble, but he didn’t sacrifice his artistic vision. Cole flipped it a bit and dropped a cohesive album with no singles or features and proved he could make impactful bodies of work. Drake kept on making hits and never switched up or tinkered his formula. The impact of Damn was the “surprise” that Kendrick could craft big hit records that stayed true to who he was.
By the time Damn dropped Kendrick was already a superstar. Everybody from the “streets” to the “casuals” were checking for him.
Impact is different from when someone drops their first album versus their third. Expectations are different, the key is that Kendrick lived up to those expectations his first three at bats, which is hard for any artist to accomplish, let alone a rapper. Of the big three, Kendrick is the only one who can boast he achieved this. Cole’s debut was looked at as a disappointment amongst hip hop heads because he went too pop and Drake’s Thank Me Later was looked at as a disappointment artistically because it didn’t match the creative highs of So Far Gone. Both course corrected on their second studio albums and were able to retain their core fanbases while also expanding their reaches. Jay-Z and Roc Nation took the creative shackles off Cole and Drake tapped The Weeknd to write for him and it worked out. While Kendrick was allowed to do whatever the hell he wanted because both TDE and Interscope realized they had a generational genius on their hands so they let him cook. By the time each of them got to their third albums they’re identities, and therefore they’re expectations had been set in stone.
Drake was the hitmaker
Cole was the rapper’s rapper
Kendrick was the artistic genius
Kendrick flipped it a bit and caught a BIG hit with Humble, but he didn’t sacrifice his artistic vision. Cole flipped it a bit and dropped a cohesive album with no singles or features and proved he could make impactful bodies of work. Drake kept on making hits and never switched up or tinkered his formula. The impact of Damn was the “surprise” that Kendrick could craft big hit records that stayed true to who he was.
Shooting Cole the TINIEST bit of bail here, i don’t think he was “scared” and in quaking in his boots at the thought of battling Kendrick. I think he truly overestimated one thing.
1). His “friendship” with Kendrick
And underestimated one thing
2). The amount of ambition Kendrick had to be the best and his loathing of Drake.
Cole don’t have no hate in his heart for either Drake or Kendrick. He sees Drake as a kindred spirit as they have similar backgrounds. Both are biracial, with white mothers who raised them and black fathers who they only saw during the summers. Both got on by dropping mixtapes, both got mentored by superstar legends, both struggled with the pressure of living up to being the “next up”. They helped each other at crucial points during that come up.
Cole sees Kendrick as an artistic soulmate. They share the same hunger for rap. The same love for the artform. The same desire to be respected amongst their peers. I truly think if someone offered to ghostwrite a single bar for either of them, they’d probably murder that individual. They spent time on the road together. Cole probably thought there was a solid brotherhood between them. And Cole does strike me as the type to hold friendships dear.
When Cole spit that “Big three” line. I do think he meant it with his whole heart. He’s said that he’s close to retirement and The Fall Off is supposed to be his last album. So that would mean he’s content with his place in Hip Hop and is content with being part of the top three where each had a claim to being the best. Drake because of his monumental commercial success. Kendrick because of his prodigious critical/commercial acclaim. And Cole because of his incredible skill. Kendrick said “F U C K That. Its time to go to war and PROVE whose number 1”
Not skirmish
Not battle
WAR
And thats wherein the problem lies for Cole. He ain’t scared of a skirmish. He ain’t scared of a battle. He don’t want to go to WAR. Kendrick had an entire WAR strategy planned out. Including the inevitability of things getting dirty. Cole’s deadly mistake was thinking this was going to be a battle. 7 Minute Drill is a BATTLE record. He should’ve checked the temperature with Kendrick or his camp before he put out that song. Or he should have said “fukk friendship. This is what Hip Hop IS” and prepared for WAR.
Either way he should have NEVER put himself in a position where he’s apologizing on stage in front of thousands of his OWN fans. That was egregious as fukk. fukk being friends with the man who said “Muthafukk a big three, its just big ME!”.
Cole misread the entire situation from top to bottom and if anything, should be being clowned for being blind to the situation. That might be worse than simply being afraid to engage.
spliz
SplizThaDon
Bro I’m bout to deactivate my account I swear. lol. This site is insufferable at this point. The dikkriding in the last few responses to me doesn’t even deserve a response from me. These nikkas ruin every fukkin thread. What’s worse is that real posters dikkride so much that they happily engage with the bots and contribute to the bullshyt.
iliketurtles
Do Right And Kill Everything
Look at this thread it's a jcole song and there spamming kbot bullshyt like anyone believes them
mods need to lock them in a thread somewhere hmm gnx thread???
