Roughly three years ago, I came across an amazing song “Lights Please.” The artist spoke about his relations with a girl and how the opposite sex has the ability to make all the problems in the world vanish for the time being. “Lights please lights please, Turn off the lights, For now everything just seems so right, And how you make darkness seem so bright, Feelin' like things gon' be alright, Lights please.” With that hook, I was instantly hooked. I’m all about the lyrics, no matter what genre. From Jay-Z to Adele, Run DMC to Whitney Houston if the lyrics hit close to home, I’m sold. With the help of my friend, who we will call The Music Guru, I spent the next week listening to The Come Up and The Warm Up, two mixtapes by an artist who started as The Therapist who now called himself, J.Cole.
A total of 3 mixtapes later, features all over the radio & internet, and now awaiting a “classic album” to drop, if you say I’m a fan, it’d be an understatement. If you said I was ‘obsessed’, I would tell you it gives you the wrong visual since I'm a female ha. I think the proper wording would be “I’M ALL ABOUT HIM.” I did my research on him, personally and artistically, and was impressed. Yes, he is tall and attractive, but his lyrics spill passion and verbalize his dreams. I force my friends to find love for him, and I even got my mother to listen to him… telling her he attended St. John's University in New York on an academic scholarship, to get closer to Jay-Z and the music industry, and graduated magna cum laude, something I wasn’t even able to do. He is beyond talented and skilled in his craft. The littlest things he chooses to do make me say “wow!” From his choice of vocabulary to the fact that I’ve never heard him use the word “yo” in any track he has ever been on and for some reason; I hope that he never does.
I truly believe he will be the Jay-Z of my generation. I say that with everything that goes along with that title. He is not “that dude” who sings "Who Dat" or “In the Morning” which features Drake. I actually get upset when people base their opinion of him off those two songs, not because I don’t think they are great – they are, but because he has such deeper, more meaningful songs like Enchanted, Rags to Riches, Song for the Ville, Problems, and The Badness. If you are taking the time to read this blog, you should take the time to YouTube those songs, or Google the lyrics. It will be worth your time.
“Success is all relative to you and your expectation for yourself. So I know I am blessed and successful so far but I know in the grand scheme of where I want to be I’m not successful yet technically. So I think success is really what you envision for yourself. I got way bigger goals so I can’t say I am successful with those yet, personally.” –J.Cole
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