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Tracklist:00:00 Intro01:22 Dollar And A Dream III06:05 Can't Get Enough Feat. Trey Songz09:51 Lights Please13:20 Interlude14:59 Sideline Story18:57 Mr. Nice Watch Feat. Jay-Z22:55 Cole World26:00 In The Morning Feat. Drake29:54 Lost Ones34:18 Nobody's Perfect Feat. Missy Elliot37:29 Never Told41:00 Rise And Shine45:35 God's Gift49:08 Breakdown53:59 Work Out57:53 Who Dat1:01:52 Daddy's Little GirlArtist: J. ColeAlbum: Cole World:The Sideline StoryRelease Date: September 27, 2011Label:Roc Nation/Columbia/Sony
Though he’d released a couple of acclaimed mixtapes via Roc Nation in the years leading up to his official studio debut, it was 2011’s Cole World: The Sideline Story that positioned the unassuming rapper among a new hip-hop generation’s upper echelons. The handful of radio smashes—including the massive Kanye sample flip of “Work Out” and the steamy Drake collaboration “In the Morning”—were proof Cole had bona fide star power. Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story. XXL Staff Published: September 27, 2011. “Cole World, World Tour with no album,” J. Cole tweeted earlier this month. Such mobility should be a blessing. Cole World: The Sideline Story. Intro Produced by J. Cole We start off the album with an intro that reminds me of the intro on Friday Night Lights. Dollar And A Dream III Produced by The University & J. Cole If you’ve been following J. Cole for a while, then you’re no stranger to the “Dollar And A Dream” series. Sep 30, 2011 Cole World: The Sideline Story. After a string of promising mixtapes, rapper J. Cole was signed by Jay-Z and now returns with his major-label debut. Jay guests here and inadvertently highlights.
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Although he rarely shows it, the pressure on J. Cole to deliver a classic debut album is along the lines of the pressure a superstar basketball player faces when the ball is in his hands with his team down by one during the final seconds of a championship game. The title of Jay-Z’s protégé doesn’t exactly ease the load either. But unlike his mentor, J. Cole does not bring that superstar player persona to the mic, he spits from the perspective of someone watching the game from the sidelines, hence the name Cole World: The Sideline Story. While his peers are rapping about the glitz and glamor of the limelight, Cole consciously takes a step back as his music speaks more to the average Joe than to the extravagant lifestyle of a your typical rapper. This is exactly why many people are drawn to J. Cole and Cole World: The Sideline Story is an excellent example of him addressing an array of relatable subjects too seldom discussed in today’s rap music. Something Cole is able to do in commendable lyrical fashion. However, a few obvious attempts at making records that falsely portray himself as more of a “superstar” rather than the genuine MC that he is make the albums preconceived status as a classic debatable.
It’s no surprise that the songs where J. Cole tries to be a superstar are singles like “Can’t Get Enough” featuring Trey Songz and “Work Out” where he impressively flips a sample taken from Kanye West’s “New Workout Plan”. But the most interesting example of Cole’s identity crisis is on “Mr. Nice Watch”, the joint where Cole copped that oh so precious Jay-Z feature. As usual, Hov kills his verse, but the rest of the track is somewhat puzzling as the technoish dubstep beat sounds like something you’d hear at a rave, not on a J. Cole project. The lyrics are just as out of place as the beat when Cole tries to pull of his best Jigga impersonation with the line “No more Mr. nice guy / Hello Mr. nice watch”. Who are you kidding Cole? Jay might be Mr. Nice Watch, but you’re totally Mr. Nice Guy and its written all over the rest of the album.
With that being said, the rest of Cole Word: The Sideline Story is much more honest and real, which in Cole’s case makes for much better music. Cole gets real personal on tracks like “Breakdown” where he breaks down his relationship with his father (or lack there of) and even mentions watching his mother abuse drugs when he was a kid.
One of the most admirable aspects of Cole World: The Sideline Story is the way that J. Cole deliberately spits about sex and women. On the song “Lights Please” Cole attempts to educate a women who is riding the slut wave about life love and relationships, but finds himself in a hypocritical position when he falls victim to her sex appeal. The song is best summed up by the lines “So I tried to show her about the world and just who we really are / And where we’ve come and how we still have to go really far / Like baby look at how we like broke on the boulevard / But all she ever want me to do is unhook her bra / Then all I really want is for her to go down low / Before you know it she was wet enough to get drowned slow / And all that deep shit I was previously down for / Replaced by freak shit I am currently down for”.
Perhaps drawn from some of his experiences he describes on “Breakdown”, on the final verse of “Lights Please”, Cole goes on to spit the following insightful and noteworthy bars “And ain’t it shameful how n*ggas blame hoes for givin’ birth / To a baby that took two to make / Coward n*gga you a fake / How you gon’ look in your sons face and turn your back “.
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J. Cole continues to drop similar knowledge on the tracks “Daddy’s Little Girl” and “Cheer Up” on which he borrows the line “I wake up in the morning and I ask myself / Is life worth living should I blast myself” from his favorite rapper Tupac Shakur’s “Changes”. However Pac’s influence on Cole runs much deeper than merely quoting one of his rhymes, as the song “Lost Ones” is pretty much Cole’s version of Pac’s classic “Brenda’s Got a Baby”. On an album full of great songs that address women, “Lost Ones” is easily the most emotional and arguably the best as it deals with subjects like premature parenthood and abortion.
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Other tracks that are worth mentioning include “Dollar And A Dream III”, the title track“Sideline Story” and of course the one joint where Cole is able to blend his relatable lyrics with shades of a potential superstar type of hit, “In The Morning” featuring Drake.
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If Cole World: The Sideline Story dropped at this time last year, or around when Friday Night Lights was released, I might be more inclined to call it a classic. But ever since he popped up on the scene a couple years ago, J. Cole has spoiled his fans with incredible music to the point where it has become inevitable to expect some sort of growth and evolution that is not really heard on Cole World: The Sideline Story. For example, “Lights Please” is right up there as one of the best songs on the album and it first came out over two years ago. I don’t want to say that J. Cole set the ceiling too high for himself on this one, but when your expected to perform like Kobe and only put up Joe Johnson numbers then one has the right to be critical. Don’t get me wrong though, the conscious commentary that Cole brings to the table with this project is exactly what Hip Hop needs more than anything in my eyes. However, when you are the apprentice and your Jedi master is the Yoda of the rap game, that isn’t quite enough. You are expected to be great, and right or wrong, you are expected to be a superstar. This album proves that J. Cole is great, but he has yet to live up to his superstar potential.