Bruh, you get it 4YEO was ass, blows my mind some people on here try to say it's a classic/his best album

Niggas lower the standard for Jermaine its really not fair when his supposed peers did what they did in rap, f*** that

they cookin op itt lol

He’s one of the dumbest most annoying people on the site lol

I wouldn’t say it was ass but the title track definitely eclipsed everything else on the whole album lol

I like Kendrick and GKMC and TPAB are masterful concept albums. But two things can be true: his weakness is delivering a clear message without being wishy washy. His strength is storytelling but when it’s time to stick the landing and delivery the point or message, we get things like “I’m real I’m real I’m really really real” and “I choose me I’m sorry”

If Kendrick made KOD the message would’ve been “well addiction might be bad but actually it might be okay I’m not your savior I’m just a mortal man” like bro enough with the waffle rap.

Dawg this avi is killing me coupled with your tone

Sounds like you just wasn’t ready for the message. The topics on KOD is definitely connected cmon

Isn’t he Mexican?

im crine 😭

race cosplaying aside, @op funny af 😭 kendrick hate been non stop for so many years

Let's agree that KOD is about addiction in various forms. Addiction to d****, money, social media, p****. How tf does Brackets, Window Pane and 1985 tie into that? You can quote a few lines from those songs to make it applicable, but you'd be reaching because the overall message of those songs don't address addiction. Which is exactly what bro said - Cole stacked a bunch of topics on there without really tying them together

And hilarious that you criticize Kendrick for not sticking the landing when he has to deliver the point/message when this nigga J Cole told d*** addicts to just put the d**** down and meditate instead Some dumb s***, especially from a nigga who saw his own mother addicted to crack

Troy Ave matured tenfold

Except for this

Agreed

But that’s because Drake and Kendrick are less formulaic

First time seeing that music video, almost as good as the song itself.. I enjoyed the s*** out of the Rich Baby Daddy music video too. Damn

Unfortunately that internet meme did enough damage to the peoples mental and J Cole will never get a fair shake for certain ppl

Their tour is about to make bank

Kids on d****
King overdose
Kill our Demons

Brackets and window pain apply to the 2nd and 3rd one. Album ends at window pain.

Agree with the medicate part tho, executed poorly

Well “kids on d****” and “king overdose” are the same topic of d**** and “kill our demons” just feels like such a loose topic on its own if it’s not relating to the d*** addiction theme

You might as well just say “my albums about all the ills of the world” because at that point you could say almost anything fits with the theme

And the cover art clearly depicts a king and kids doing d**** lol

I mean kill our demons can also relate to d**** tho hence the song once an addict being about cole mom and step dad passing down their demons.

I’m also not saying that because Cole can’t stick to a topic or concept for a whole album it makes his projects bad. I f*** with all his projects on some level

And not staying on topic for a whole album is what most rappers do. This is just in comparison to Kendrick who’s one of the few artists (in any genre) who can center whole projects around a specific topic or story so well

Altho I will agree with @2words and say Kendrick’s last 2 albums (that I personally still like) definitely lack the cohesion and clearness of his message that gkmc and tpab had

“Well I’m in the trenches so”

That’s why I said “kill our demons just feels like such a loose topic on its own if it’s not relating to the d*** addiction theme”

Because obviously it makes sense in that context but if you say he meant it as peoples demons in general then you could pretty much say almost any topic that relates to the ills of the world could fit the theme of the album