It is Thursday night. I actually thought today was Thursday. Corrected.

It absolutely looks like a drug deal going down. lol

done and done.

panama definitely doesnt hate Drake. panama has written articles full of praise for drake.

I actually mean all of that as a complement. I’m a fan of pettiness. A self-avowed Petty Tendergrass. I think he’s bored because he has no peers. I think many rappers need proper motivation to truly bring out the best in themselves. See Ice Cube and Eminem.

BeeGees slander? lol

Cole, you stupid.

I am. lol

For the longest, I had no idea the names of his songs, I just knew the first few notes and who was responsible for them.

Which shows how much you know. My white mother didn’t play Kenny G; my black father and mother did. But you keep on keep keepin’ on.

Thank you for making sure my jazz bonafides were checked. Whatever would I do without that jazz undressing.

I vividly remember crying in the movie theater because of that movie.

Now, did you all watch the edited version or the original “dirty” version?

He sure did. I just went back and listened. That makes Jimmy Jam’s impersonation that much funnier.

I actually agree with you about Prince. I love the Prince stories because it makes so much sense for him to be as great as he was. The stories are priceless and all sound exactly like Prince stories, all very consistent.

I just came here to say that your handle is awesome.

You highlighted “Light-Skinned.” lol. He calls himself Lightskinned Jermaine.

I can acknowledge talent where talent exists. I think saying that the problem is where hiphop is right now assumes that everybody who doesnt like Cole is spending the rest of their time listening to Future and Migos. And that’s not accurate. It’s lazy to just say that folks dont get Cole b/c they only listen to trap.

Yeah. that’s pure non-sense. For one, they’re SONGS. he’s not a poet. A song includes the music. If the beat is trash, it’s still a dope song? I don’t think that’s how it works. For two, you can care about lyricism AND beats. Are you saying that it has be one or the other? Illmatic is a classic b/c the beats and the…

The struggle with that argument is that people like myself rarely listen to trap music. So how do we square in that? I’m a hiphop head. I’d rather feel the music listen to the lyrics and get lost in the soul of it and I still don’t think most of his output is that great.