Why do Drake stans feel so threatened by J. Cole?

Warning, extra long post ahead...


...I knew you'd play this card & quite honest I'm a little disappointed in your lack luster effort thus far. Cole has never displayed acutely emotive inflection enough for you to rely on it for illustrative purposes. He's always relied on his lyrics. Kendrick Lamar doesn't inflect, he uses other mechanisms to draw emotion -- yet he's the only one who can "pose a threat" to Drake right? Hell Jay-Z doesn't even inflect. You've got this double standard in which you rate Cole but don't want to attribute those same standards from the artists you claim to like the most. That's not how it works...


...And I knew you'd play this weak "evolution" card also, you tried to do the same thing with K.R.I.T.

Explain to me why it's ok for Drake to be the same artist that has "found his footing" for the past 3 projects yet no one else can do the same. Again you got on K.R.I.T. for not hearing anything "new" from him over his last 3 mixtapes & now it's Cole's fault that he found his most comfortable & successful lane. Once again it's a double standard in which you hold Drake compared to the other two.

And you're wrong about Cole being the same emcee since The Come Up. Similar topics? Yes, & every single artist you listen to has their bread & butter topics they rely on. With Jay he uses the same !! 70% of the time. But similar emcee skills? Hell no. Cole on Friday Night Lights made songs he didn't (not saying he couldn't) make on The Warm Up or Come Up. Just because there aren't drastic changes to an artist's repertoire that does not mean they've been the same artist. It's like you expect incredibly ambitious leaps & bounds between an artist's projects in order to notice the distinctions. That's not Cole nor K.R.I.T.'s fault that you can't do it -- that's yours.


Interesting choice of songs to compare but...

Drake's been on that braggadocio wave, he was just less lazy with it on CS.

To Cole sounding like the same emcee for 3 years...aren't you angry at him for switching it up in the first place? I digress on that point let's get down to the real !!: we're going to act like Warm Up wasn't less about social commentary & Cole's ascension for the crown? That him being Grown Simba now as the prelude to greatness?

To now on Friday Night Lights where emotional appeal is much more heavily involved & less selfish lyrically. To where storytelling takes place to the emotional strength of a 2 Face. To where social commentary is much more of a focal point with See World, Cost Me A Lot & Enchanted.

Yeah, Cole was still on that come up mentality ALL through Friday Night Lights. Stop it, you know better than this...


This is what's confirming what I've been thinking this entire time. It's not as if you're rooting against Cole but given the material he's released since Cole World & the fact that you still claim you're unimpressed shows why it's really hard to see whether or not you're rooting for Cole.

The only reason you've listed for being unimpressed is something you shouldn't come to expect from Cole in the first place yet there's all of a sudden a new standard of rules in which you critique him, almost as if you don't want him to go back to his old self so you won't trivialize everything you've said to this point...


...That explains all of this then, the Drake from 6 years prior is unfamiliar territory for you. And no, revisiting it after you'd already been accustomed to hearing post SFG Drake wouldn't yield the same reactions had you been on the wave since 07. It's easier to like Drake now, he makes better music. But as an emcee, post a poll and see from Drake fans who have been fans longer than a year or two which Drake was better: TC or CS. It's pretty obvious...


Seems to be a recurring theme with you, harping on side points & ignoring the focal points of the counterarguments presented to you. I hate repeating myself so let the emcee angle go. I've already said far too many times for it to not click that he's a better technical emcee now. That's NOT the point.


I like how you're using 2 singles to say that CW:SS was only his singles. As if Lost Ones, Rise & Shine, and God's Gift aren't on the LP. Let me guess, he didn't inflect enough for you to enjoy those either...

^ well this proves nas stans definitely feel threatened by jay-z, you don't even need to bring up his name [pic]

Yeah but a lot of "Jay Stans" And "Nas Stans" like both artists. Drake stans literally are scare to like J. Cole.

Not to mention, that even if they did feel threatened it makes more sense because they were actually beefing.

Cole and Drake are cool with each other and Drake fans are still shook.

To be honest, most people I know like both artists.

I really CAN NOT believe that anyone is impressed with J Cole. I seriously can't fathom it. Like you must not listen to rap music regularly or you're new to rap in general.

The guy is incredibly average.

I don't mean to hate on the guy, but I'm utterly bewildered that someone can find him impressive and even further entertaining.

Coming from the dude that said Big Sean was underrated [pic]


Why dont you explain to us what a foursome is again [pic]

Coming from the dude that said Big Sean was underrated [pic]


Why dont you explain to us what a foursome is again [pic]

I really CAN NOT believe that anyone is impressed with J Cole. I seriously can't fathom it. Like you must not listen to rap music regularly or you're new to rap in general.

The guy is incredibly average.

I don't mean to hate on the guy, but I'm utterly bewildered that someone can find him impressive and even further entertaining.

Big Sean IS underrated in my eyes.

Tell me who is putting words together like how he did in "Show Out" with Young Jeezy?

That was pure creativity.