J.O.E.: J Cole Over Everything

So I just went to the J. Cole concert in Austin which was the best thing I’ve done all summer. I was going to write a blog about it anyways but after reading a pompous blog about how J Cole was mediocre at best and how the writer couldn’t understand how people could like him . . . yeah I got fired up. Who the hell was this guy? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but seriously . . . I think that guy was living in a soundproof box. Real life, J. Cole is one of the most talented rappers out there. I said it. There is soooo much trash on the radio these days, lyrics worse than Dr. Seuss, and when these non-J. Cole fans are hit with some lyrics about life, lyrics that mean something . . . they don’t appreciate it. They don’t get it, can’t understand it. J Cole is not out here rapping about the trap life, spending bands on strippers or how smooth his cars are. He’s real. So real that he had his dollar and a dream tour where he only charged the concert attendees literally $1. I actually tried to go to that in Dallas but there were literally so many people that swarmed the House of Blues and 5 other locations he was rumored to be at in the hopes of seeing him perform that they were at capacity shortly after the location was announced! It was crazy. People were hopping fences, the police were out in their riot gear and there were even people passing out in line from heat exhaustion/dehydration.

 

Bottom line, J Cole is one of the few rappers who knows where he comes from and is super humble about it. He grew a normal kid that had the ambition to do more with his life. By the sweat of hard work and ambition, he has now become a success. People still want to not give him the credit that his talent and hard work are due. Why? He literally went platinum on his 2014 Forest Hills Drive album all by himself without the help of any features but people still want to call his work mediocre.  Numbers don’t lie. These are probably the same people who listen to Iggy Azalea and think she’s a great lyricist. If you can’t see greatness when it’s in front of your face . . . well you are missing out.

That’s the problem with society right now. Anyone who’s saying what’s real isn’t being given the proper respect and accolades that they deserve. People will find any little thing to take away from the truth or bigger picture. Avoid becoming a zombie devoid of the real, just to become what they think you should be. They want you to be ignorant, ratchet and devoid of any substance. So they will deter you from getting any positive influences. Real recognize real. Period.