![]() Cole frequently slips up on the front end of 2014 Forest Hills Drive, because he’s often charming on the rest of this album until he goes full “Last Call” on the 14 minute outro “Note To Self” (this move was executed better by Beatking on his June mixtape Gangster Stripper Music 2). Cole bares his fangs he just wants more people to like him for it. It’s the equivalent of starting each paragraph of a persuasive essay with the phrase, “I believe.” It arouses suspicion that whenever J. ![]() Elsewhere on “Fire Squad,” Cole decides to start calling out white artists for becoming popular off of black music and almost immediately backs off of his statement, admitting it was a joke a with little bit of truth to it, rather than sticking to a valid point, Eminem name drop notwithstanding. ![]() ![]() Cole’s ode to becoming a man, “Wet Dreamz,” is particularly awkward, but he’s also not at the point where he can pull off yelling, “This is the part that the thugs skip” without sounding like Fergie’s going to spontaneously appear in the studio out of thin air and break into the third verse of “Fergalicious”. ![]()
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