▲ 9 r/Jcole

A J. Cole x Conductor Williams EP or a J. Cole x The Alchemist EP?

What would you like? If you'd be getting ONLY one of them, what would you prefer?

As much I love The Alchemist i personally would want a Conductor Williams EP for some technical heavy bars shit. I know The Alchemist would also be able to serve the same purpose to accommodate heavy bars, entendre shit with the production but I feel like Conductor Williams would complement Cole more...

what yall think?

Post Script Input (Edit): Also that one snippet with Conductor Williams' production on it from the MDL era was so fire...

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 2 months ago
▲ 58 r/Jcole

Why nobody has asked Cole about Grippy yet

We had a whole ass press run. we had interviewers asking Cole about that repeated beef shit so much over and over but nobody asked a simple question "Why tf Grippy, bo?"

either Grippy was a troll or Cash Cobain had a gun to Cole's head the whole time in the studio, no inbetween.

u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 3 months ago
▲ 32 r/Jcole

"WE SERVE THE WHOOOOOLLE HOUSE"

Yo this shi catchy as fuck. The beat fire too. That piano loop and those 808s!

both Cole and Prettyface Gangsta delivered. I hope Cole does collaborations of these sort more often.

And as in the blog he said that 2026 is a big year...

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/kanyewest+1 crossposts

On Sight by Kanye West if it was on The College Dropout

I got sick yesterday and I will get back to normal around like tomorrow. Being sick sort of gave me a break from regular life schedule and I said to myself "Man, it's been so long I haven't made Music." So, I made this beat. Whilst making it I thought to flip On Sight's verse into a 'The College Dropout' typa beat.

Lemme know whatever you think about it; good, bad, appreciations, criticisms; I'm open for everything!

Peace.

Dev

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 3 months ago

When I say MBDTF is a better rap album than TPAB, is that a Hot Take?

Before anyone jumps in, I’m not saying MBDTF is the more important album or more meaningful album with context to the concept, messaging and all that.

I’m talking strictly about the music itself: sonics, production, replay value, overall listening experience, and the quality of the rapping performances across the album.

I think Kendrick is a better technical rapper than Kanye, but I also think MBDTF has some of the highest production peaks in hip-hop history and a stacked lineup of great rap performances. Tracks like Dark Fantasy, POWER, Devil in a New Dress, Runaway, and Lost in the World are hard for me to put below anything on TPAB from a pure listening standpoint.

For context, my top 3 rap albums are:

  1. Illmatic
  2. MBDTF
  3. TPAB

So my question is: when I say MBDTF is a better rap album than TPAB, is that actually a hot take, or just a minority opinion

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 4 months ago
▲ 68 r/Jcole

Jermaine, What about some music videos man?!

The Fall-Off is Cole's most anticipated album ever, it must have atleast a few good amounts of music videos yo. I hope something might still come...

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 5 months ago
▲ 11 r/intj

What are some lesser-known productivity hacks that genuinely work for you?

I’m not looking for common advice like the “80/20 rule” or “turn off your phone.” Those are useful, but I’m more interested in personal or unconventional productivity hacks that specifically work well for you, even if they’re not widely talked about.

Could be mental tricks, environmental changes, routines, weird systems, anything.

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 5 months ago

What are some of your own personal hacks to boost productivity, which works for you but are lesser known to the world?

I’m not looking for common advice like the “80/20 rule” or “turn off your phone.” Those are useful, but I’m more interested in personal or unconventional productivity hacks that specifically work well for you, even if they’re not widely talked about.

Could be mental tricks, environmental changes, routines, weird systems, anything.

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 5 months ago

What are some of your own personal hacks to boost productivity, which works for you but are lesser known to the world?

I’m not looking for common advice like the “80/20 rule” or “turn off your phone.” Those are useful, but I’m more interested in personal or unconventional productivity hacks that specifically work well for you, even if they’re not widely talked about.

Could be mental tricks, environmental changes, routines, weird systems, anything.

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u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 5 months ago
▲ 0 r/Jcole

Had this discussion with this "Top 1% commenter" from r/TeenageRapFans and I realised I just wasted my time and energy.

I just scroll reddit, rarely engage in certain type of full-fledged long discussion but I just went for it. Anyways, just wanted to share. And I'm ready for "I ain't reading allat" comments lol.

u/Narrow_Essay_7532 — 5 months ago