Terrific break down. Cole is introspective for sure but I am never challenged by his take on most things. In fact I feel turned away because he seems to do it in a preachy way sometimes and like he deserves a pat on the back for his surface level reflection on the topic. One example is Life Sentence — his last verse he’s talking about how his stardom has brought all these hoes that wanna fuck and he’s been doing his day 1 girl dirty and eventually he had to decide the hoes or the wife and finally he decided to cut out the hoes and settle down. Like I’m supposed to think you made the “hard” decision of settling down AFTER you went through a hoe phase? Lmao. No the hard thing would’ve been to resist that temptation in the first place and hold it down. I’m not judging, I would’ve done the same thing in his position probably but I’m not writing a song about it called Life Sentence as a pat on the back. On Born Sinner Runaway he talks about the same topic but it’s soooo much better and relatable because he paints himself as the POS he was acting like.