Folks should've never bought into the hype tho, they were setting their ear's up for failure

Cole has no objectively well received album on some rotten tomatoes 'Certified Fresh' approval rating business (e.g. GKMC/Take Care/DAMN/NWTS, at least 75% of the people who've heard them who enjoy rap probably enjoy them)
Even 2014 FHD is polarising despite it's massive success

The Drake memes about him being soft were funny but they weren't about the music being poorly received, the Cole memes (even if over the top/hyperbolic/hating) are about the music being boring/trite

If someone has never been able to win over everyone, we can't really believe they'd do it this late into their career just because they set their mind to it imo

Edit: I actually lied

Insane post tbh

nah ong its wild to see that s*** live on here 😂

j cole is j cole. and u might not love j cole. that just mean he isn’t for u. tbh his s*** is not for most people, including me. but u still gotta respect how dude is true asf to his vision no matter how corny it gets. and his fans love him for that and tbh so do i.

massive respect for cole even tho im not gonna be listening to his music lol

i think the hate is simply a natural reaction to the glaze. if that makes sense.

like if his fans weren't so annoying and wouldn't over-credit/hype Coal, and then you wouldn't have so many people instinctively hating.

lol did he really say that?

i didn't realize he dropped
Guess i was sleep

that s*** blowing me lmao

Edit2: im on the track "SAFETY" right now, this is some classic hip hop s*** so far

Didnt see much hate for this

Exaggerated glazing yes, but hate not that much

How you know if its underpar if you didnt listen?

Big hater energy

The Offseason was very well received. only CLB and Donda out streamed it in 2021.

4 songs went top 10 and if it wasn’t for interlude dropping the week before, 5 would have went top 10 which would have made him and Drake the only rappers to ever do that

niggas need to stop thinking Cole hasn’t been loved before, tired of this s*** cause of how the beef went

rap blockbusters are dead

Streaming killed the consistent event level album.

dbtf is a msssive moment album

As is Gnx

That’s why I said consistent. Used to be a monthly thing.

Not sure what those people were expecting. Cole is not capable of dropping a classic or magnum opus. His beat selection is just way too weak and he just raps in circles bout the same s***

The Off Season had a better response but it was also a 'see nigga, keep it simple. You ain't built for trying to do concepts & act deep' response

You been gawk gawking Cole all weekend I ain't tryna hear from you on this matter, you ain't being objective, you running defence
Respectfully

Cole doesn't cross into as many segments of the various hip hop fanbases like those with true universal hits, he has loyalists who do not adventure out enough & replay his stuff heavily
The type of niggas who in another life would be breakdown in tears if they got to meet their idol Big Sean or Logic, the type of nigga who thinks Bradley Beal is the GOAT

& this has nothing to do with the beef, I hadn't thought of the beef at any moment when playing this album

huh? Cole don’t have hits that dig into the culture? Bruh you tripping bullshit, stop that

Work Out? In The Morning? Crooked Smile? No Role Modelz? Love Yourz? Power Trip? Forbidden Fruit? Sparks Will Fly? Nobody’s Perfect? Kevin’s Heart? My Life? Pride is the Devil? Under the Sun? Down Bad? Neighbors?

bruh I be feeling like I’m tripping talking to some of you niggas about Cole. quit with the gay jokes bruh, what you mean you don’t want to talk to me about hiphop and you talking bullshit? respond to me how the songs above aren’t loved by a lot of people and that’s before I start listing features. Ya’ll be on bullshit about this nigga, just shut the f*** up cause you let these internet trolls get to you. S*** mad annoying bruh. niggas doing all this within a Spotify numbers thread while Cole actively handing out CDs to a mass crowd of fans out the trunk of his old car on some old school hiphop just like what this album showing love to just bullshit ya’ll be on 24/7 and think that s*** funny, it’s lame