After the successful release of 2014 Forest Hills Drive in 2014, the 32-year-old rapper from Fayetteville, North Carolina, disappeared and moved to Raleigh, well away from the urban centers of rap and into the desert, as it were. Including live instruments and a strong jazz influence, the added production and chords make it his most sonically satisfying to date. Cole For those familiar with church history and rap, J. Another outing without featured performers, 4 Your Eyez Only, and executive produced by Cole’s long-term producer and friend, Elite, it’s a high quality music experience that’s beautifully and uniquely composed. The whole thing first came together when.

Though quite unexpected on the relatively short album, both songs have gorgeous arrangements and a sincerity to it that makes both truly romantic odes to love and fatherhood. Photographer Anthony Supreme took to Instagram to share the full story about how his photo became the cover for J. Cole reflecting on what it’s like to be an impending father. Cole melodizing about being truly in love with a woman, and then She’s Mine Pt. At the center of 4 Your Eyez Only is the murder of a friend of J. So, despite the brutality of its topics, there are moments where Cole finds hope in love, which will predictably be a place of criticism.

That’s not an insult to anyone, but this is grown man music. This isn’t album meant to appeal to the Hypebeast who’s willing to drop hundreds of dollars at every Kanye concert they can get to or try and grab a pair of Yeezy’s while they bump Drake. Cole - Forest Hills Drive Explicit Lyrics (Vinyl) J.

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