It's been a lot of Common posts in here lately and with him being my fav and Cole being my second It got me thinking of other dope Collabs.
Cole and Common production by NO ID
Cole and T.I. Prod xuction Mike Will Made it
Cole Busta and Redman production by Swizz Beats
Cole Earl Sweatshirt and Black thought produced by Tyler
Now before i get jumped by all the 30 somethings saying "just listen to the music lil bro", i LOVE the album. I've been listening to it NON-STOP. But to me an album as a work of art is a little bit more than just the raw music itself (although that's obviously the most important part) if you really want to create something that truly feels alive, vibrant, and breathing, so I just wish we got more visuals. I really liked all the graphics with the the amber orange text on the black background, and i REALLY loved those posters from the MDL era saying "The Fall-Off is Inevitable" with the graphic of him falling.
I just really like this album (it's in my top 5 albums ever, idc, it's not recency bias, it's genuinely one of my favorite pieces of art), i just wish it's visual identity got fleshed out a little bit more.
Like, with FHD drive everything was drenched in this all encompassing, deep blue (think Apparently's music video, the deluxe cover for FHD, a lot of the lighting during the live performances). KOD has this really bright, vibrant thing going on with all of it's visuals, to the point it even seemed satirical with how over the top it was, and that really played into the concept well.
The Off-Season also had a blue thing going, similarly do FHD, but it felt much colder. It genuinely felt like working through the winter, grinding. The music videos also had this rawer vibe. Especially punchin' the clock and applyin' pressure.
I know Cole isn't a Tyler The Creator, or a Childish Gambino but i truly would have liked to see more visual stuff, because EVERYTHING we got in this album cycle was really pretty. I LOVE the album cover, i LOVE all the gold and black shit, i LOVE the back covers of the physical releases (both the CD and the Vinyl are SO sick).
The og album cover and it's back cover are both pictures Cole took when he was a teen, and the booklets and whatnot in the physical releases are all pictures of Fayettville Cole took in recent years, so it would have been cool to maybe see more pics his took during his childhood in the marketing or whatever.
Also, i'm far from the first person to say this, but the lack of music videos is also a bummer! I know Cole never did that many videos, but all the visuals accompanying MDL and it's rollout were hella cool. Hopefully with the upcoming tour we get some! Some of what i mentioned (stage design) has literally not been revealed yet lol.
yeah thats about it also home alone is fire and that whole album too
Hope it doesn’t get removed or taken the wrong way by anyone in the great sub
If you never heard “Be” by Common, listen to it. It’s one of the best rap albums ever. Common is one of Cole’s major influences so I hope this doesn’t get removed. I’m not hip on much Common outside his albums with Kanye, but “Be” sounds like a blueprint to Cole’s music.
In the Road to Homecoming documentary, Cole is listening to No Role Modelz, specifically this line:
"Out-of-touch-with-reality hoes
Out in Hollywood bringin' back five or six hoes"
The clean version of the song repeats six in place of hoes. In the explicit version they are listening to in the video, it repeats the six in the background, even though he is saying hoes in the foreground. After noticing this mistake in the video, Cole and Ib make the joke that "all the hoes are clean hoes, we need the dirty hoes". I thought this was really funny and I wanted to share it in case anyone hasn't seen this video before.
I know this isnt J. Cole involved; feel free to remove it if its against the ru-ru's, but i know Dreamville reddit is practically nonexistent. Lute aint dropped in 5 years and I haven't heard a thing from him since(Im real bad at following artists on the internet). Glad to see this on my Spotify homepage.
This song is some Cole’s best writing I’ve ever heard, the emotion, the story telling… this is Cole at his best. Safety is very similar in the writing style but the nostalgia around this song and where I was in my life enhances this song to another level. What’s your favourite song from Cole?
Just my experience, I even posted that it came and went like a goofy in the past but I no longer believe that
Im 40 & I dont even like rap, never really did, and just happened to come across this on spotify a few weeks ago and now I'm looking at jcole tickets....his story telling rap is so good.
1- drums n bass
2- the let out
3- 39 intro
4- poor thang
Look what I've found in resident evil 8 village 🤔
Aka which J cole songs y'all think helped him cope with grief and homelessness the most?
Not even underrated, but more just one of his best songs and no one really cares
If so, what are you doing in life?
They don’t fell like bonus tracks at all to me. LATT is a top 5 song on the album.
Here’s the Spotify code.
What are some songs you hope he plays?? For me it’s Can I Live and Land Of The Snakes! I’m literally gonna throw up and cry at this concert I’m so excited. Please share your excitement and songs too!! 💃🏼
So I'm on holiday and went to a record store to get some stuff. And I found these. KD3 means a lot to me since it was my second Nas album, only after Illmatic. Saw lots of other cool vinyls and CDs there. Really hyped to play it on the record player when I get back home.