between Warm Up & FNL can't really remember when exactly

i started to listen to Cole when Can't Get Enough dropped how the hell this s*** let nas down i dont know but i stopped listening to cole when 4YEO dropped s*** was a snoozefest and then KOD was whatever to me so i didnt check next albums yeah but im a big born sinner enjoyer that s*** is quite spiritual to me, im curious what he got for fall off he caught up my atention a little bit

2010
I had downloaded this bootleg unofficial tape called A Nigga from the Ville with some Cole loosies/compilation and s*** had me locked in. Downloaded it off the strength of seeing his name on blogs here n there. Then found Kendrick later that year as well

Shout out to both dem

Still have to

What a time

clap for em
then applaud hov for giving him the platform

Arr matey! Grab a seat and pull yer ears and let me tell you a little captain's tale about ye power of Captain J.J. Cole's chanteys....

Last moon me crew and me did some plunderin' at ye Alamo Sea, I would just drink with the lads with scurvy 'nd play drinkin' games with them and all the lappings of a sailor! One day me was gallopin' in listenin' to me compass tunes, and I passed one of the sailors, Sir Frankie. Ahoy, little buggard has scurvy and probably wont live to see anoth'r moon. When he notices me tunes he hollers, "Arr, matey! What be you listn'en to?". So I tells him I'm rockin' to the chanteys of Captian Cole's Warm-Up (classic, mateys). Sir Frankie has never heard of Captian Cole, so the lad pondered if he could take a dead man's ear to the chantey, so I pass him the compass player and play Sail Away for him. Alas, I look'd away because me head insisted I heard some canons on the broadside, but when I turn back to Sir Frankie, arrr, I see tears in his lookers. He takes the compass off at the end of the chantey and tells me it's the most beautiful tune he ev'r laid his listen boxes on, and asks if I can upload it on his iCompass. I end's up giving him the mixcompass, but then I went on a sailor's vacation for a cupple a fortnights, and when I came back, the lad wasn't on me ship. I asked one of me crew where he went, and he said "Sir Frankie took a leave, cap'n", which I assumed meant he met the sailor's fate....

Arr, then off to about two long fortnights yonder....

One day me crew and me sail off to the sail-in theatre, and as I enter the theater I recognize this lad. I do a double take because it's Sir Frankie, and he has 3 pompous ladies on his arms! Me said aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, I swore that that lad met a sailor's demise! He spots me me and sails over to me. I tell 'm I thought he was dead, and he says that he left the Alamo because his scurvy somehow went away. He says that ever since the day I played Captain J.J. Cole for him, he listened to the Warm-Up non-stop, and within two fortnights or so of doing that his scurvy walked the plank! Alas, since he was in the Alamo for so long people from his ship would always send him get well soon planks, so when he got out he used the coordinates on those planks to find ladies, and used Cap'n J.J. Cole to get them to go out on the sea with him. Now he basically living the life of a true sailor, when a year ago he was on the brink of walkin' the plank.

Arrr, so ya see matey, Captain J.J. Cole cures scurvy and helps you pull landlubbers. Name another sailor that can do that.

Purple Rain was the first cole song I heard back in 2010 or 2011. Shortly after I downloaded FNL and the rest is history.

Got to the club early just to get in free and wait for hoes to show up

Yesterday

May of 09

older cousin posted Simba on his fb back in 09

I was in Sixth grade

2010 tbh.

He had a crazy comeup.

2010 FNL

Well really 2009 when my hommie put me on the Warm Up but FNL when I personally started listening

1973

Prob since bp3 just recently got into born sinner again so good

Pretty sure Work Out was the first song of his that I heard. Not a great introduction but I kinda liked it at the time.