J Cole has such a wild range of quality, some of the best material and some of the absolute worst simultaneously KOD is good
One of my roommates likes J Cole and some tracks will pop on and I'm like "oh hey that's not bad" but there is entirely too much music out there to have myself sit down and listen through a whole J Cole album
Cole is somehow overrated and overhated at the same time. Interesting phenomenon. I don't think he's ever released something consistently good enough for me to reach for one of his albums a second time.
His early mixtapes were good, his actual albums are very mediocre. It’s especially disappointing because he’ll have a verse from like on “Johnny P’s Caddy” that reminds you that he’s capable of so much more
Cole stans make me very weary of listening to his albums again. He's got the talent but I kinda wish he’d let others handle some production earlier in his career. EDIT: This is my favorite version of J.Cole
He does good features. Neither he nor Drake belong in the "big three" conversation from a quality standpoint.
Oh yea his feature on JID's Off Deez is pretty great, although it was originally supposed to be a Kendrick feature which makes me so mad that it didn't happen lol
J Cole is fine. Some good and some bad. There are so many better rappers to listen to that i don’t feel compelled to dig deeper than that.
I don't dislike him but I find him to mostly make forgettable music. I've listened to all his albums multiple times and I still can't really imagine what he sounds like in my head
Forest Hills Drive is one of the best hip-hop albums of the 2010's imo but I'm a fan of his in general He's also absolutely incredible live, one of the few rappers that I think might be BETTER live
I was never a J. Cole fan, despite many attempts to get into his stuff, but I did really like Might Delete Later but I can't remember the last time I went back to it.
J Cole has always been entirely forgettable to me. Heard him so many times but still wouldn't be able to tell you who he was if someone played something of his to me.
I do think if I didn't get into J Cole in mixtape era I would not have bothered keeping up with him at all so I don't really encourage anyone to go back and dig in more