I can't quite remember if I posted this before (memory is shyt on here) but J. Cole is the embodiment and face of every lame millennial hip-hop fan out there. They are those fans who are always blindly praising hip-hop. They are distinctly different though, from old hip hop heads, who you can give a modicum of respect simply because they actually lived through the 90s.
These millennial hip hop fans serve as the footmen for boring rap music and standing up for generic tasteless bullshyt like Joey Bada$$, Wale, and of course J.Cole. They also are eager to genuflect to "legends" of the game, always celebrating people like Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Nas ("Let Nas Down" is one of the greatest yet sad concepts for a rap song I've ever heard. A song that is exclusively made up of bytch ass lines that depict pathetic servility and latent homosexuality, it's a wonder how Nas even decided to get on the remix), artists who have lived off their names for years now but are provided a new spotlight due to people giving them misplaced respect. It's hard to articulate these fans that I'm talking about, but I know it when I see it.
I mean really, who gives a fukk about TLC? Yet it would not be surprising in the least to see a J.Cole interview, humbly talking about TLC as legends, bathing in the celestial light of the people who had a hand in penning classics like, "No Scrubs". He's a fukking embarrassment, him and his contemporaries.