The Pin Drop.

         If anyone read my first Introductions blog, you would know that J Cole is my favorite artist. He doesn't talk about what mediocre African American male rappers talk about, ya know; the expensive things they have, sex, drugs, money. He talks about things that relate to most of his audience. Such as the cons of crime,and "the hood", teen pregnancy, adultery, etc. His smoothness and honesty grabs everyone's attention. He grabbed my attention from his second mixtape,The Warm Up which was great. His debut album, Cole World: The Sideline Story sold more than 300,000 albums the first week. Pretty good. This album reflected on his personal past and present life. One of the songs I listen to on his album, almost everyday, is Never Told(video at top). In this song, Cole describes infidelity and what happens because of it. Which is very unique, because not most men admit to the things other men do. A quote he uses is "But the truth is, we all the same, on different teams, but its all a game.The objective tryna score, you gotta wife, you find a whore". Which is very risky because alot of men do this. A lot of men like to say they're different from the others but J Cole was very honest. Another song is Cheer Up (video at bottom). The first thing I noticed was the beat. Its a very catchy great beat because its something little girls would jam to. In this song, he describes how girls confide in boys, but they only want one thing: sex. Girls take their words and end up hurt. J. Cole's telling those girls to "Cheer Up". He gives very good advice young girls such as: "You see you're looking for a man like you need somebody. Get your a** off of Twitter, you could be somebody", which even relates to myself causewe look for happiness in other places such as boys and Twitter. These 2 songs really show J.Coles true colors and how he doesn't care about his image. Great.