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J cole born sinner album zip
J cole born sinner album zip








He equivocates-“crime pays like a part-time job” is the sort of evocative, economical phrase that has eluded Cole so often in the past. And when he rattles off rhetorical questions (“Have you ever seen a nigga that was Black on the moon?/Have you ever seen your brother go to prison as you cry?/Have you ever seen a motherfucking ribbon in the sky?”) he’s working in a long tradition of rappers and writers knocking a grave present against against its opposite. To that end, at the song’s most defiant moment, Cole nods to his real life: “If they want a nigga, they gon’ have to send a SWAT team.”Īt its lowest points, 4 Your Eyez Only rehashes Cole’s worst tendencies. (It’s worth noting that while “Deja Vu” and Bryson Tiller’s massive “ Exchange” share a sample and, at points, have similar drum programming, producer Vinylz claims that he and Boi-1da produced “Deja Vu” before its beat was stolen and repurposed for the Tiller version.) “No Role Modelz,” a breakout hit from 2014 Forest Hills Drive, tried to cast crass, regressive ideas about women as a moral struggle “Deja Vu” is its mopey inverse, where Cole shouts over the music in a club to ask “Who in their right mind letting you out the house alone?/Tell me, is your house a home?” The song also lapses into some of the album’s laziest writing, like “On a scale from 1 to 10, that girl’s a hundred.” It’s like “ Marvin’s Room” for guys who brought their high school letter jackets to college.

j cole born sinner album zip

Speaking of production, that’s the one area where Eyez falls far behind Forest Hills Drive.

j cole born sinner album zip j cole born sinner album zip

After “Deja Vu,” the album slips into a three-song lull of pale, ornate music-unfortunate because the songs grapple with the early death of parents, Cole’s love for his wife, and McMillan’s death, respectively.










J cole born sinner album zip