J. Cole - 4 Your Eyez Only [OUT NOW]

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  1. Baja
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    Dec 10, 2016
    Watch Cole go with Folding Clothes as the single and it blows up on the radio and we see @Mike Tyson in few months jamming it while[​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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  2. lvl7katana
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    Dec 10, 2016
    yooooo. [​IMG] with the release date on the side!!!
    rise-losangeles.com
     
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    Dec 10, 2016
    Deja Vu still on repeat, DAAAMN

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  4. ThatsthenewYe
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    Dec 10, 2016
    on the first listen
    intro, she's mine, Neighbors
    I was like, there is something strange about all of this. who is he talking about?
    Then, still on first listen, 4 your eyes only dropped and the "it means i'm dead" line, and I directly think about the lil' girl interlude on Ville Mentality
    Realizing he wasn't talking from his perspective was really cool, and giving this album a brand new meaning.
    I love concept albums just for the sake of being conceptual and creative albums and of course cohesive. I'm always all for it.

    That being said,
    I loved the fact cole used to make well constructed-rapped-melodic hooks on FHD and FNL
    this one has none... even worse, the hooks are so uninspired and terrible.
    the album as whole is kinda deep, but replay value for individual track is... NONE

    And If I'm being a dickhead, I would say it's a kind of a smart dumb album.
    like, over complicated, the whole concept is inspired by the "Sing About Me" Kendrick Track.
    it's a 1 hour version of Sing about Me. Which can be, from this point of view, a dumbed down 12 minutes kendrick track.

    Think I still like FHD better.
     
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  5. krowned
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    Dec 10, 2016
    The musicality on some of these tracks is the best I've heard in Hip Hop since TPAB. Sometimes you just gotta let the music move you. Cole has some of the most powerful vocals in the game. I don't think he gets enough credit for the emotional inflections in his voice. It's why he can get away with simplistic lyrics often because the tone of his voice and his delivery are so powerful. When he couples that delivery with top notch storytelling & lyrics like on the title track & Change, Cole is really in a league of his own that none of these mainstream rappers are even trying to take on.

    Not to gas Cole as deeper than he is but this album is really what many black men in America need right now. This s--- needs to be a double disc though I was expecting bars after bars the way he was snapping on False Prophets and Everybody Dies he gotta back all that talk up with some more competitive music.
     
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  6. eddie313
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    Dec 10, 2016
    Yea record is off da chain:colerly: Bigger dreams
     
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  7. krowned
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    Dec 10, 2016
    Cole's flow on the start of Neighbors :sad2:
     
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  8. eddie313
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    Dec 10, 2016
    This is classic man
     
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    Dec 10, 2016
    d--- right, fam - BIGGER DREAMS!
     
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  10. Pgill2016
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    Deja vu immortal and 4 your eyez only may be 3 of my top 5 songs of coles albums
     
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    Dec 10, 2016
    I tried to find employment even if it's wiping toilets,
    But these felonies be making life the hardest,
    Resisting the temptation to run up and swipe a wallet,
    Or run up on your yard and snatch your daughters bike and pawn it

    :hard:
     
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    I think the friend daughter might be the little girl he was rapping about in breakdown "his daughter 25 pounds by the time he get out she going to be 4"
     
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    Day two, still dope.
     
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    Day two, still Deja Vu.
     
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    Dec 10, 2016
    like Kanye - Runaway
     
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    Bliss I don't have any bitches

    Dec 10, 2016
    Folding Clothes the best feel good song in the world right now
     
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  19. Baja
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    Dec 10, 2016
    Right?! People be bugging. If that somehow ends on the radio :whew:
     
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    Bliss I don't have any bitches

    Dec 10, 2016
    It will cause it's Cole. He doesn't have to do strictly singles anymore to end up on the radio.
     
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