According to Payan, the album features a lot of vocal experimentation over menacing production and plenty of 808s, but not much in the way of boom bap. Cole initially recorded the album in two weeks but went back to the drawing board to perfect the final three tracks. He says he knew he could "create a classic."

"Cole says he sinks into a zone and is writing at least a song a day. By song six, he realizes there's something going on. He has never written like this before. 'God was just giving it to me, like, "Here n*gga, I'll write it for you, just take the credit,"' he said. After the first two weeks of recording, Cole thought to himself, 'Yoooo I'ma come back from touring in Australia, drop this s*** and blow everybody away.' When Cole gets back, he mixes it but something doesn't feel right. He said if he was being honest with himself, he knew three songs weren't up to par. If he could make three more songs up to par, he would have 'a classic.' So Cole says he took his time and perfected the album. It's a beautiful album."

kod was awful and ifw cole

LMAOOO

peaked with friday night lights

STOP PLAYING G

damn god is a horrible ghostwriter then 😭

Its a good album

Def not his best but eh

Pretty good album tbh

KOD > Scorpion

Lmfao

botivate

Amazing album

You really gonna deny the bars that are on the album?

Lol album is okay but you can tell he tried to make DAMN. lite

Not even remotely the same concept as damn. Or beats

Yall just take s*** and throw it out there. Out

Sometimes I feel like the Cole hate on here isn’t genuine. It’s on some “let me impress my peers” type s***.

ATM>Humble

Fax

Basically

4YEO was better than Views as well