J. Cole was supposed to kick off his career with some classic F&L type of s***, when we found out FNL was supposed to be his debut. It sucks they scrapped most of the OG project and instead look at wtf we got, like we got s***ty songs like Workout and Mr. Nice Watch

Can't believe HOV did him dirty, s*** even the fire single Who Dat ended up getting scrapped from the album. Can't believe because of him we ended up with a mediocre, solid project. I even tried listening to the album last night and found myself skipping a lot of the songs. I'm glad Cole improved over the years since then (Album-wise) but damn what it could've been.

All that mid just to drop more mid after mid after mid

You just called Work out s***ty but said Who Dat was fire

Who Dat was good

well you live an you learn. It's not a horrible album just forgettable. Plus he recovered great with Born Sinner

It was such a disappointment considering all the hype

Who dat was fire

I actually like the Work Out flip

But that album disappointed asf + we Damn heard 95% of that whole album before it came out

He gained a lot of fans from that album what are you talking about

He blew up off of No Role Modelz but niggas was bumping Sideline Story and Born Sinner long before that

I'm not saying the album is 100% garbage just boring and mediocre all around, just forgettable. I agree BS was a step u[ and even then it still isn't on the level of his early tapes

Niggas on KTT really think He Let Nas Down when everybody was bumping Lights Please and Work Out back in 2011

He DID let Nas down, that guy laughed at him for how mediocre the WorkOut song was

sohh.com/j-cole-reveals-nas-disgusted-reaction-to-work-out-i-was-hurt-like-dmn-why-he-gonna-say-that-video

“N*ggas were killing me,” Cole added, referring to the response to “Work Out.” “My partner gets a call from No I.D. who, that’s my mentor, you gotta understand that, he’s like, ‘What the f*ck? Who approved this sh*t?’ … So I was mad that he didn’t call me and he finally called me a week later and he was explaining to me, ‘Yo, to tell you the truth, I was in the studio with Nas man, and that n*gga was like, ‘Why the f*ck that n*gga make that sh*t? Don’t he know he the one? He was on track. Why the f*ck he do that?’ And I was hurt. I was like, d*mn, why he gonna say that? They gonna box me in like they box him in. F*ck that, I’m getting defensive. But really I was just hurt as a fan, you know what I mean? I idolized that dude, I had his raps written on my wall. So, I said that long a** story so that you have perspective for that song on your menu that says, ‘Let Nas Down’ and I had to tell you that.”

Niggas don't understand sarcasm

How do you know he was sarcastic? Y'all reaching now

Nigga I was being sarcastic

Niggas reaching a new level of stupid everyday bro

How was I supposed to know lmao

You think I randomly mentioned Let Nas Down

terrible album

He sucks mixtape cole was a different breed

Born sinner so slept smh

I never read this

The label was pushing most the songs on that project