His best album is within that album, I just think the sequencing is jarring to the story and maybe one or two songs I don’t feel are absolutely necessary

Love the song though real grown man s***

Neighbors is probably the hardest song he's done

Real. Never got the hate for this, people just too cool

The outro is great

It’s my favorite Cole album but I hear you

I think Deja Vu & maybe one of the Shes Mines could’ve been replaced

Album is like a successor to Truly Yours 1 tho & some of those songs should’ve been on this album

Agreed on all of that. Still love it though truly feels like one of those hidden gem albums

Fr

If you’ve never been in love you won’t understand this song. Haters exposing themselves as virgins.

Yeah you can tell this album was a personal one & for the day ones

his storytelling on the album is def his best by far.
i understand why people don't like it, it's not what people were expecting - especially in 2016. His contemporaries were releasing increasingly dense, aggressive, and either more pop-friendly or bombastic albums, and cole comes just off of 2014FHD (a very pop friendly album) with something that's just borderline boom bap with very restrained instrumentals and a focus on measured vocals and straightforward bleak storytelling. people can say cole doesn't experiment, and that's fair to an extent, but doing that arguably at the peak of his fame right after his most successful album was an insane risk.

Facts. Amazing musically and the hate on the song proved the point of the lyrics. The message is great

I wish "High For Hours" would've made it on the album too. Dope song.

You know the way you put it into perspective really makes me appreciate the album all the more honestly. 100% facts from top to bottom

That bass line is ridiculous man, some of y’all needed to hear Steve Lacy produced it to realize how great the beat is probably said it’s boring cause u thought cole produced

you not wrong, but you ain’t right

it’s better than wet dreamz

Yeah and he’s still paying for that risk, that was the turning point where the boring label really stuck. If he kept carrying over the FHD good will and momentum it would’ve been better for his career. But instead he used the opportunity and confidence that FHD’s huge success gave him and dropped a really special unique album.

I wonder how different things would’ve went if Bryson didn’t drop Don’t before Deja Vu, if that would’ve made any difference for the reception or if that song would’ve connected more

groovy song the concept was jus "corny" and cole my nigga but fam nah we cant be droppin joints bout foldin clothes for the women idc

Javari should of made it

One of his best songs

High for hours too, could probably fit around change, neighbors and foldin clothes

album as a whole is much better than it’s given credit for. it hurts me cole hasn’t performed any of these songs of recent.

vile mentality one of his best

Yeah I agree. Personally I respect him for doing it and making such a personal album when the obv pressure would have been to chase the high off of FHD. He's a real one for following his own path with his post-FHD albums even in light of expectations and contemporary comparisons. It's a shame the criticism/backlash on social media to 4YEO & KOD got to him so much tbh. I agree with part of the critique that he was getting too comfortable with certain song formulas and compositions, but it was also interesting seeing someone at his stature just completely dodging all mainstream expectations whatsoever in such an individual way while still retaining such a big fanbase.

Love that singing

Ngl my girl ask me to fold clothes with her and I put the song on as a joke and realized it’s actually not a bad song

The chorus is what made the song a joke