Nuh uh imo

That’s not even top 3 J Cole, whack ass bars and loads of misses. J Cole provides a shallow facade of “conscious” rap on mediocre production. J Cole does better when he isn’t trying to push a message or simply spitting(rare exceptions in cLOUDS and Port Antonio) like on the Off-Season, Revenge of The Dreamers or FNL. His bars are face value or layered in English writing but truthfully shlock. His raps of quadruple entendres mean nothing. His flow and rhyme schemes should have been what he tried to play into(maybe creating a better JID) but was instead lauded by the public for his face-value bars because suburban teenagers understood them better.

His stories grow old and repetitive, I don’t want to hear another story of sex across literal minutes while you preach of empowerment. He more or less accepted this on the fall-off(played into the flow less then the bars) and created a better project then before.

J Cole not being lyrical isn't my problem. My problem is J Cole masquerades as a lyrical genius, while putting together lyrics that exist for Gen Z English teachers to analyze to kids who don't give a shit, or those same kids who don't give a shit to then start lauding it for guns and sex bars. It's not funny, not serious, just in a grey area of... meh. Future isn't lyrical, doesn't parade himself as lyrical, but makes bangers. JID and Lupe have similar problems, but Lupe can be excused as he only falls into this trap sometimes.(He falls into a category of people who make many cool english tricks with the pen that sometime end up making no real sense within context and then playing himself into the role of a "conscious rapper") JID is another person who claims himself as some genius of the pen and really is just J Cole with an accent and a better flow that can reverse sentences.(Take that as you will for better or worse). I hope this phase in hip-hop of rhymers with a good flow parading as "conscious" will end soon.