![]() just on that, that is another gripe with the album (or maybe with cole in general) - how many things on this album do you think you will pick up on the 2nd time you listen? how about the third? can you really be a top tier rapper if everything is made so obvious in your music? anyway yeah, songs like these are why i see the potential in cole and get so frustrated when he has so many lowlights in his projects. I feel the same way about she's mine part 2 as i did about part 1.Ĥ your eyez only is the most interesting interesting track on the album to me by far, and probably the only song (except maybe immortal) that I will actually pick up more things from on further listens. I don't want to talk about "foldin clothes" any more than saying "i wanna fold clothes for you" is not a line which needs to be said once let alone like 20 times. hey, cole, listening you talk about why you moved states because you were having trouble coping with attention is more interesting that hearing that you're "surrounded by the trees and the ivy league." i like the hook on this song. he talks about how he has gone away, is building a house back home and spends literally 3 bars talking about like why he moved away and stuff before just like describing the house and his location and everything. The first verse of "neighbours" is another frustrating thing. i need to not allow myself to get turned off by individual bars, this was a stronger track than i made it out to be. I was about to talk about 'change' but I just listened to it again and noticed that at the end of the first verse he says "see I believe if god is real he'll never judge a man / because he knows us all and therefore he would understand / the ignorance that make a nigga take his brother's life / the bitterness and pain that got him beating on his wife" - what is he trying to say there? that domestic violence can be understood if you're going through a hard time? whatever, despite that it's a cool track although i sighed again when he said "when i was a senior I was boning on my classmates." i imagine this song is further homage to pac. sort of sounds like something out of 'the divine feminine' and yeah outside the aforementioned line it's a really sweet track and as far as i can recall, something pretty new from cole. 'she's mine pt 1' is kind of a refreshing change from the way cole usually talks about women (until he says "plus the head game is stronger than a few excedrin" - why? it doesn't fit in at all!!!) and the instrumental is nice. ![]() the concept of the track revolves around him disappearing/not enjoying life or wanting to be around etc, but he still manages to make it incredibly simplistic ("damn it, won't be long 'fore i disappear" x4 in the middle of the verse) and he still manages to include "bitches hit my phone when they want some dick," somehow, as wrong as it may sound in the context. ![]() 'ville mentality' sort of summarises why i have a problem with people calling cole a really great lyricist. Then 'deja vu' came, and i sighed audibly at lines like "he introduced you as his girl and i was heartbroken" and "i heard you got a man but who in their right mind is letting you out the house alone." i think that song is sort of like, if you got everything that people hate about cole's writing and put it into a track. the depressing, lonely lyrics of the former and the vintage cole storytelling of the latter were without a doubt far more interesting than his usual subject matter, and the repeated existential questions had me really interested and i was starting to wonder if this might be the album where cole lives up to his potential. honestly i was really excited after listening to for whom the bell tolls and immortal. the production is without a doubt the highlight of the album to me.īut man, in terms of lyrical content, this album is largely just the ultimate frustrating j. the drums are consistently really fucking good, the samples are great and the beats just suit cole really well. And Mobb Deep’s Prodigy delivers on the threat with his astonishing first verse: “Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone…” It’s the kind of thing that should get you locked up for life.Ok, to start off before going totally in with the criticisms i just want to say that this album was (for the most part) incredibly well produced. It’s the sound of a looming threat that could exist in any era. II” so timeless is that it’s also somewhat generic. II,” Mobb Deep’s Havoc combined three equally mercurial jazz samples: Herbie Hancock’s “Jessica,” “Daly-Wilson Big Band’s “Dirty Feet” and Quincy Jones “Kitty With The Bent Frame.” The songs are so obscure (at least to hip hop fans), their presence in the track remained somewhat of a mystery for a decade and a half. II.” That slow drum beat and those sirens seemingly ripped out of a horror film. There’s something immediately terrifying about “Shook Ones, Pt.
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