![]() ![]() His last outing, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, laid further foundations in this respect, but remained bogged down by a bloated runtime and occasional concessions to the Cole of old now, we’re getting its leaner, smarter cousin. It was a muddled record, but the fact that it only served as a ballast for his popularity - it was around this time that he ascended to arena status - is reflective of a more intelligent hip hop climate in general, one in which emotional literacy increasingly wins out over mindless braggadocio.Ĭole remains a long way from the finished product but he has doubled down on his new appetite for reflection over extravagance, especially on this fourth album, 4 Your Eyez Only. Cole began to self-examine, having been put in his place by Nas (“Let Nas Down” was an moving response to his idol’s withering verdict on “Work Out”) and driven to referential introspection by an increasing sense of alienation from his influences. Things took a turn on second full-length Born Sinner. ![]() He refined the formula on debut LP proper Cole World: The Sideline Story - a slicker, sharper but no more substantive affair - but it remained tricky to shake the suspicion that Cole wasn’t wearing the traditional trappings of the genre particularly comfortably. “The Autograph”, meanwhile, saw him spin a hackneyed tale of his rise to stardom, and the more reflective moments were positively treacly - see “Home for the Holidays” and “Best Friend”. ![]() With open('./spotify_top_200_with_meta_20170101-20180101.Back in 2010, on his breakout mixtape Friday Night Lights, he demonstrated immense promise, but did so imbued with no shortage of the archetypal cockiness that's part and parcel of being a young rapper he swiftly claimed a place in the same bracket as Nas with “Villematic”, and channeled the willy-waving of his hero’s “Hate Me Now” on “Blow Up”. # Combined meta and basic song info from last time into file ![]() Spotify: Most Common Words for Each Genre Richard Lian Spotify: Most Common Words for Each Genre - 協作閣 協作閣 ![]()
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