I liked The Off Season a lot man but Middle Child really isnt that good of a song. If Middle Child was on this album, it’d be bottom 3.

i stopped at the baby song. I'll start over and go through the whole thing later probably

Lol you can’t be creative

I’ll be honest the production on this was underwhelming to me. Now the hooks don’t have to be DAMN level of memorable and catchy but they don’t have to be so bland, like damn I know you trynna connect the dots and make the verses connect to the hook but the beat and the hook on pride is the devil is so uninspired to me. I would say this album is a 6.5-7.5/10. He was rapping his ass off but the production and hooks hold it back.

Hunger on Hillside might be my favorite track. Keep running it back.

The song was just bad. I'm glad it's not gonna be on The Fall Off.

I agree with you, mentioned both flaws on the album lol

God DAMN this s*** is f***ing trash. J Cole refuses to rap over a good beat. I don't know who's producing garbage audio filth for him but their hands need to be tied together permanently so they never produce again. He just needs to give up and start begging Drake or 40 for beats. It's actually crazy how the second LA Leaker beat he freestyled on is grimier and harder than any beat on this entire album where he attempts to rap hard and grimy!

That's just one of the bad aspects of this top garbage can candidate; the mixing is atrocious. I refuse to believe that he worked for years on this s*** just for it to sound like it was mixed by a mentally challenged blind man.

Cole's rapping is boring as s***. I can't remember a single memorable flow on this entire album. His bars are wack as s*** too. You can tell he was in the studio saying his bars and would glance at his homies like "that s*** was hard right? right?". You can just tell he was trying TOO hard to get those "oh s*** he said that!!!?" bars off. There was no finesse or subtly to it. When Drake says a crazy line he just pushes on to the next one, but Cole's rapping style is a level below. It sounds like he's rapping for our approval and oh he so badly wants it.

It's also very clear that he has nothing of substance to rap about. But that's not a surprise considering how he stays indoors 24/7. Cole was on lockdown before the entire world was. This guy try's so hard to spit with aggressive venom but his words feel weightless. Cole raps like he's actually replying to rappers and beefing with them when we all know that's not true. Drake is the perfect example of a rapper that can spit with arrogant aggression because he's actually a battle rapper. After finishing this album I'm just wondering, "why are you so mad, Cole?", "where is this aggression coming from?". The only thing he's good at is rapping about fake woke, pseudo intellectual bullshit.

Furthermore, Cole FINALLY decides to get some features and plays it safer than a man wearing two condoms by getting Lil Baby and 21 Savage...how surprising....someone he already collabed with and one of the hottest rappers in the game. If it was 2015 he would've got Future, if it was 2017 he would've got Cardi B, it's too predictable. There is literally no creativity, artistic progression, or experimentation in this album. This album is clearly a statement that he realizes the fall off is coming. Like he said, it's either up or down from here on. The last two flops must have woke this nigga up from his own music. Cole is done.

That song is ass

That’s what I gave it too

6/10

Maybe it’s a 7/10 but nothing stands out to me. From the production, features, content.. everything seems mundane.

LiL Baby needs to switch his flow up! He’s mastered his lane (fast ass flow) but he’s 5 albums deep now.. a f*** ton of features now..

And that flow is getting stale

he saw the meme and changed his ways

Cool project
Definitely disappointed in the features tho

Every J. Cole album aside from 4YO is a solid 7/10

Possibly the most consistent rapper of all time in that regard

Progress but next he’s gotta clarify his views on cancer

if he's possibly pro-cancer it's f***ing over

This is the epitome of not mid. S*** is really good.

you luigi brother now

Didn’t want knuckleheads in my mentions

ITT: a lot of niggas that aint artistic but autistic ed

cool album but honestly still nowhere near fhd for me. I probably gotta let this one sit more but there's something about that album that I really like that's beyond just rapping nicely on a solid beat

Alt = alternative??

If so thats the reason why he stands out, there isn't much competition.

Applying Pressure one of my favorite songs of the year. Beat is infectious

Just finished listening to the new J. Cole album, currently lost for words man, crying real tears Cole bro, this is quite possibly, quite literally, sincerely, the best possible music I have ever heard. My ears are flooding with cum, currently on my way to heaven.

Middle Child is a confirmed classic