The Disc 2 single reminded me a lot of this, always been one of my favorites

Only real ones know about The Warm Up Before The Warm Up

not that big of a Cole fan but this song and album as a whole resonates with me so much

Was really into Cole when The Warm Up came out

Stopped fw his music after the lukewarm debut, kinda interested in The Fall Off though. Off Season wasn’t terrible

Cole Summer
Change
4YEO (song)
Knock Knock
Too Deep For the Intro
I Get Up
Lights Please
Crunch Time
Hunger on Hillside
LAnd of Snakes

Of the top

Lil too deep I suppose

I Get Up

There’s a couple cringe songs on Warm Up but it’s my favorite Cole project

Edit: saw knock knock and lights please too now i wanna go bump the warm up after im done eating China buffet

His melodies back then

Im from cali but this special

Just spun it a few days ago a lot of songs held up well

Even his vocal inflections on the song I posted it’s just so nice to the ear

Problems was the first J Cole song I ever heard really could tell from there he was gonna be one of those ones fr true Nas disciple

Classic

I heard this was a Diddy reference too, can’t imagine puff rapping this

related

Bro I remember the summer this dropped thinking he was going to conquer the f***ing world