you have to have a certain level of intelligence twitter

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Ok dis actually a hilarious exchange

This just in: Popular music applies to a broader range of people instead of an intelligent, significantly aware listener base

that means its dummies listening to your favorite music too good for the artist, more streams , oh well.

I gotta give it to Cole, he cultivated a following while being mid.

Ok dis fire RT

blocked that cornball who just posted. not because of what he said though

Idk if this applies to the people in OP but I've noticed white people don't know the meaning of like 90% of the lyrics of some of their favorite rap songs

Tbh you need a certain level of intel of gents to understand these bars

he just genuine tho always was idk why people on his bumper like that

U took that quote out of context

Casuals

the same people itt making this a joke gas up kendricks bullshit lyrics, hov on 444, and try to pretend lil uzi vert is lyrical

of course he did because j cole haters literally have stage 5 autism

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Lol niggas really forget this

The idea is not to bar up the record so much that it's not easily digestible. The entire point is for lines to be witty, but not overly so.

People not trying to go to rap genius for every damn bar. The spirit and delivery is far more important.

The difference is, Cole is considered a top tier lyricist but usually his music is so shallow and surface level. An artist like Carti or Travis isn’t trying to be that at all so even if they just say some cool s*** it feels a lot better than people freaking out
Over the most surface level Cole bars

This isn't really an example of it but one of the things that always put me off Cole was the forced wordplay

Like you'll be listening to a nice lil song and then he'll throw in " I'm hot, dog, ketchup to me "

casual rap fans like the 1 in op eat it up tho, same way they do with Eminem (who I believe.Cole is a huge fan of so that prob explains why hes like that)

And black rap fans will clown Eminem and praise J. Cole for using the same exact technique

She went from a Spanish dime to a basic white girl

KTT getting more pretentious by the day

kanye west does the same thing and u listen to him

People of all fanbases freak out to basic lyrics it's not a cole specific thing lol kendrick even made a bar bout how his fanbases does the exact same. I posted a drake thread where his fans do the same. And all 3 are considered top lyricists

Feel like he isn't as good as he think he is but once was for sure. Maybe that'll change but it's been letdown after letdown and I'm only checking cause he shows glimpses but it's been a miss for a minute