workout >who dat

hated workout at the time for cole but still

I love this album in private and in public so I mean

The album's name sake also happens to be one of my favorite Cole songs. It didn't blow me out of the water, but it's a perfectly good album.

s*** thread

Think I'm the only person itw that disagrees with this opinion and to me Sideline Story is by far the best Cole album lol

Better than KOD tbh

Who Dat literally how I found Cole. Dat boy was spazzing.

Also where tf did the who dat video go? Part of why it's a classic.

Industry was a lot different back then. You can look at this and TML and see how labels tried to manufacture these albums. Tried to manage rappers like pop stars and it failed spectucularly

Wait is KTT saying Can't Get Enough didn't slap?

A lot of these rappers rush to try to make their Graduation that they make a s***ty debut

Sidelines was great.

Lost Ones>>>>>

The story goes he walked in with a more traditional J Cole album and Hov was like “nah this won’t sell”, and he was right. People were not looking to Cole for the deep cuts his first album out. Everyone wanted to see what kind of hits he could churn out.

Who said Work Out was trash? Point em out im fina beat they ass

Workout is a top 5 cole song

He blew up off what?!

Yeah I was very disappointed

TL;DR

FNL his real debut anyway and Sideline has some great tracks on it

D&D 3 (great track besides notoriously hilarious line)
Never Told (Dion drops another gem of a beat and Cole drops one of his best flows. Amazing storytelling)
Lights Please (remastered. He always wanted it on his debut because its what made Hov sign him)
Lost Ones
Rise & Shine
Can't Get Enough
Who Dat
Title track
In The Morning (forced by label because of Drizzy stim)
Breakdown (one of his best songs storytelling off the charts, sample is gorgeous and his best beat to date)

All in all the OG FNL with the best tracks from SS included wouldve been a classic and better than F&L

Label tho

Nvm read the op

Youre good op

Label youre right

OG FNL > F&L tho

Wet Dreamz was suppoaed to be on their as well

And Premeditated Murder was meant to be on his 2nd album

Makes sense lol

The song Cheer Up which the unfineshed version leaked was supoosed to be the outro as well

Makes sense after listening to something like Breakdown

Had some misses but also some great tracks

Wasn't cohesive at all though

F*** the label man

He still wouldve done 217k

Work Out didnt blow up til afterwards

4YEO his best album tho

Need mixed by Ali to remaster it