J Cole speaks on feeling pressure to sell records,mixtape, touching fans lives!

[G.R.I.P. Money $$$]

Wiz = modern Too Short

weed = pussy

both spit game and make cachy songs, with simple lyrics
both know their lanes, and doesn't switch from it

no..wiz is average..too short is wacc as fuck...big difference...

 

[G.R.I.P. Money $$$]

nice interview, still cant see the hype in him, but nice interview...

 

[cuttadc13]

LOL Wale's retarded ass label dropped the ball on him for one thing and they appeal to different audience. Cole has a female fanbase, not like Drakes female fanbase either (who go from Ja to 50 to Wayne to Drake), but real fans who listen to lyrics and he has the hiphop heads. All he needs at this point is to make the right commercial tracks and he will cross over, which is were i believe (Danja Handz) tracks will come into play. Wale style and delivery is what's stopping him from crossing over, Coles style is way easier to digest in the mainstream. Am i saying he will do Drakes numbers off bat, naw, but he will have a longer career imo because his music and style won't wear on a audience.

That's probably the only thing I can't agree with...J. Cole won't have a longer career than Drake, and not more successful either...just not happenin

 

[usmarin3]

That's probably the only thing I can't agree with...J. Cole won't have a longer career than Drake, and not more successful either...just not happenin

Mark my words, in 5 years Drake will be Ja Rule. As soon as the next movement hit the scene (which will be a street edge music), the game will get rid of him. It's all cyclical, if you study the game there has been many Drakes (Mase,Ja,etc). Where Cole has him is, his fanbase are hiphop fans, it's not trendy female fans who jump from one dick to another. There will be a DMX and 50 Cent type rapper that will kill his buzz.

 

[usmarin3]

Wale has a female fanbase as well. A lot of his mixtape shit is on females. But I'm not convinced that both have a large fanbase to do good numbers. If his style is so much easier to digest how come he isn't on mainstream airwaves. Who Dat flopped as a single. I can't see Cole making a dance track because I never heard one from him and he shouldn't take the B.O.B/Travie Mccoy route of puttin a singer on the song to carry the track with a strong hook. That would have his fame shortlived. He's a great story-teller...but the radio don't play that. He's not commercial.

I don't know no female fans that check for Wale like that, and ive been to both of their concerts. Bitches view Wale as that African nigga, they look at Cole on some he is cute (pause)and i like what he raps about stuff, you go to dudes shows and bitches are rapping LIghts Please word for word and that aint no radio friendly pop ditty. Cole is building his fanbase, that's what you negros aint understanding, i went to two concerts (one in Tampa when he first started gaining popularity) and later on after Who Dat dropped, it grew drastically. Yall are too focused on what you see on tv and radio, that doesn't mean shit nowadays, look at Gucci and Wacka, all over the radio and both their albums flopped. LOL at Who dat flopped, how is it a flop when it's a street single for one and it charted on Billboard, got radio play, and made MTV and BET countdowns?

Like i said, don't confuse being on the radio and tv as beeing successful or the route to take, a fanbase can drive you to plaques and concert ticket sales. Look at Nas NIGG*R album, no commercially successful single and it went gold.

 

[G.R.I.P. Money $$$]

mane fuck all dat, ill be shocked and appaled if j cole sells 1 record above gold...

 

[CMac]

Good read real talk, I'm glad I took the time to read it all. J Cole is a real nigga, I know he anit gonna sell too well, he's not mainstream enough to sell like Drake But sales don't mean shit, the album should be dope, Cole is a really good MC.

 

[ShencotheMC]

mane fuck all dat, ill be shocked and appaled if j cole sells 1 record above gold...

Damn cuz. Shocked and appalled? lmao

 

[thetruth391]

hes ok. i still wont say hes great

but def not garbage

 

[real_hh_rep]

Again, people talk about predicting sales and shit. Fuck that. Cole is coming with big album!

 

[Meet The Sniper]

I think Cole has it figured out, if you listen to him speak he knows he can't just make music for hiphop heads, he has to appeal to the mainstream. He also knows that he can't forget about his core fanbase either, make singles for the mainstream and make the body of the album for the core fans. I know he said his next single will be a cross over song!

Kinda contradicts the whole "for the love of the art" thing huh?

Great interview. Hopefully Cole doesn't let the pressure get to him, and makes the music he wants to make. Regardless of sales. Then again, it isn't my livelihood that these sales depend on.

 

[J. Rob]

I'll keep saying it.....J. Cole is not a mainstream artist, he's more like an "underground superstar"....a-top-of-the-underground type of rapper who flirts with the mainstream every few years like Talib did with Get By, Slum Village did with Tainted and Selfish, and Dilated Peoples did with This Way

I hope Jay doesn't try to force him to be something he's not

 

[FyHunnit]

J.Cole is always talking, and doing interviews,

But never making any hard hitting tracks.

 

[usmarin3]

Kinda contradicts the whole "for the love of the art" thing huh?

Great interview. Hopefully Cole doesn't let the pressure get to him, and makes the music he wants to make. Regardless of sales. Then again, it isn't my livelihood that these sales depend on.

Nope, it's the music business, it's the business of selling music. Art alone doesn't pay for studio fees, production, marketing,etc

 

[usmarin3]

Bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jonlakadeadmic]

J.Cole is always talking, and doing interviews,
But never making any hard hitting tracks.

describe hard hitting

 

[usmarin3]

describe hard hitting

Waits for it, waits for it!!!

 

[FyHunnit]

describe hard hitting

something that'll actually stick on the radio.

 

[usmarin3]

something that'll actually stick on the radio.

That's still not descriptive dude!

 

[IceBergTaylor]

Its definitely not smh.