I’m Starting to Feel Bad for J. Cole

Laced

Feb 7

I mean it's two things. The first is just stan culture which we've seen plenty of. That's pretty easy to look past for the most part. The second is disappointed people with valid criticisms because this album has been hyped for 10 years. Both these things are mixing together though, and that's what you're seeing most likely.

humey

Feb 7

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Orangutan 😂

Feb 7

As an olive branch I’ll admit I really like Apparently

orangetcovid 👌🏿

Feb 7

very necessary thread

rather late

Feb 7

GodzillaMinusOne

5mo

KTT in a weird place now where Carti, Thug and Future get praised/supported more than Cole, Drake and Kendrick

No they dont boomer

Smacked Voodoo

Feb 7

Blaze

5mo

Facts tho

Bernie X 🙊

Feb 7

Cole doesn’t seem like a big internet guy and the hate trend is almost exclusively from people who live online so he probably is okay

U shouldn’t feel bad

Jbreezyondeck 🌬️

Feb 7

Blaze

5mo

This is killing me because I feel like there are probably 6 people that knows this meme exists

treeman

Feb 7

Nigga boring

TheRocket64

Feb 7

J Cole is worth $60 million

He couldn't care less about the memes and trolls

mr get dough 🤩

Feb 7

mdmadon

5mo

o s*** its actually out both j cole n asap released underpar efforts at the start of the year it seems (haven't listened to either n not in a rush to )

Flacko album was fire

notbrock

Feb 7

GodzillaMinusOne

5mo

KTT in a weird place now where Carti, Thug and Future get praised/supported more than Cole, Drake and Kendrick

You ain’t been on here very long then

Future always been loved. Carti been loved since self titled and Thug was so annoyingly praised on ktt1 I almost stopped checking the forum

CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN

Feb 8

1 reply

Album is not bad. Some of the hate online is crazy but for the most part, the fans are happy.

notbrock

Feb 8

1 reply

TheFader

5mo

Growing up my friend group was always full of Cole fans and I was only known as the resident Cole hater. Besides Forest Hills Drive really, I was always super critical of his albums, made the NyQuil jokes, said most of his discography was mid. In 2026, I still generally feel the same about his discography as a whole, but after seeing him perform at Dreamville Festival four years straight I do have to admit my respect for the guy has gone up a lot (went back down a little after you-know-what), even if I still think his album output ain’t all that.

Which brings us to The Fall-Off. Do I think the album sounds like the ten-years-in-the-making magnum opus retirement classic that he played it up to be? Absolutely not. I think it’s a good album overall, but the hallmark Cole flaws are on full display for most of its runtime.

But damn. The way people been talking about this s*** online the last 24 hours, you would think this guy dropped an album as bad as Teenage Emotions

I can’t lie, some of the jokes do still get a chuckle out of me

But on the other hand, it does feel like people just outright hate the nigga no matter what he does. To an extent, I get it, I’m not the biggest fan of his work overall, but I also really don’t understand the level of vitriol that seems to be directed towards him nowadays

It’s kinda Coles fault tho

He confidently hyped this thing up to the point that even his haters weren’t doubting it was gonna be a classic