I know J. Cole has his final album dropping in a week or two and I’ve seen the wave of content hyping things up and I’m just trying to play it cool… Take it a day at a time… Listen to a track or two while I wait to listen to the new album from front to back without any distractions on my side. This is the way you listen to good music. You have to chill out… You have to follow the instrumentation/beat and then see how an emcee falls in the pocket and has substance in his/her rhymes. I think it was probably this track right here when I first stopped and said, yup… Cole World is here. “Too Deep for the Intro” was that track for me. And yes I did like earlier songs but I felt Jermaine hit his lane on this track.
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I don’t remember the first time I heard JID (aka J.I.D.) but at first listen I saw the talent. His voice and flow reminded me of early Kendrick and I also heard a little Anderson .Paak in there as well. The timing around me finding JID was sometime in late 2018 because I remember he was promoting his upcoming album DiCaprio 2 on Dreamville Records. If you don’t know Dreamville Records, it is J. Cole’s label and if Cole had signed JID, you know he saw the talent as well.
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