You can make the case that it is this very divisiveness that separates these rappers from the pack and makes them stars in the first place.īy any estimation, J. Most figures in music that can be qualified as “controversial” usually have a quality about them that pisses people off. For example, Young Thug’s gender fluidity and unorthodox vocal style angers dusty rap purists Kanye’s narcissism and outspokenness tends to both annoy and inspire people in equal measure as does Drake’s unrelentingly cultural ubiquity and cornball fuckery. Not because his music is so obviously good or bad but because the polarization that surrounds J. What this debate largely obfuscates is how strange it is that J. Cole” tends to disgust and anger people of the opposing view. Cole makes partisans of us all as an opinion as largely innocuous as “I J. Cole is boring,” “you have to have certain intelligence to appreciate J. Cole went platinum with no features,” “J. A rogue tweet discussing the merits of Forest Hills Drive is liable to elicit a flood of people in your mentions spewing talking points that have become so tired they have become literal memes (“J. For a rapper who makes aesthetically pleasant if largely inconsequential post-Kanye pop rap, the debate surrounding the relative quality of his music reveals a kind of entrenched schism in rap fans where any opinion-positive, negative or otherwise-feels like an act of contrarian dissent.
Cole’s rap career is the polarization his music seems to effortlessly elicit from divided, angry rap fans. If you ask me, the most interesting idea surrounding the success of J. Doc Zeus went platinum with negative five features.
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