there’s a strong argument that J Cole has had the best rapping performance every year of this decade so far
2020 - the climb back
2021 - la leakers freestyle
2022 - Johnny ps caddy
2023 - the secret recipe
2024 - pi/plate of collard greens
2025 - clouds
2026 - 39 intro
J. Cole's "2014 Forest Hills Drive" has officially spent a total of 600 weeks on the Billboard 200 📈🔥
It joins Drake's "Take Care" & Kendrick Lamar's "good kid, m.A.A.d city" as the only rap albums in history to reach this milestone 🏆
J. Cole verse on 39 Intro blows my mind every time. Wtf are those rhyme patterns
Money talks to me and they lack the dialect /
To reply back as I crack the fire axe /
Light refracts when the half black messiah raps
Like WHAT?
The Fall-Off is a timeless album, whether the world sees it yet or not. How do I know? Every time a new album comes out, I enjoy it and have it in rotation for a bit, some of them stick for longer
But every time I come back to The Fall-Off, it’s like a soul cleanse. It’s healing music that shows aging and maturing in such a beautiful way. This is an album that is going to age with Cole’s fans so powerfully. If you didn’t like Cole to begin with, you won’t like this album - it doesn’t try to change the haters. It just strikes straight into the people it’s made for. And I GUARANTEE, with every year that passes, this will age just better and better.
Most albums are made for a moment in time. This is an album that is made for the listener’s LIFETIME. Masterclass from Cole. Timeless
A friendly reminder that Cole dropped 4 freestyles that are better than some of yall's top 5 whole discography just days before dropping the album of the fucking decade