By Odeisel
J.Cole is trying to dig his heels in and go for the gusto. With word of a coming mixtape to serve as the final primer before his coming album, he grabs a hold of Kanye’s Friday G.O.O.D. music and beats it to death, faster than we could give Yeezy a thumbs up for no Pop music, on Cole’s latest-“Villematic”.
Yeah he’s inexorably linked to Drake in a Nas/Hov sort of way and now that Drake has under-delivered he’s got the cross to bear as a fellow leader of the new school. He’s heard the whispers of his supposed inability to craft songs. He’s also heard his coming exalted as the new school standard bearer. He’s dealing with all of that in stride with punch line after punch line winning him more and more votes
The slow groove of the beat allows Cole the pace to express himself spitting out his soul and his stress. He knows the expectations and admits that “these Vietnam tales be paying off well.” He also notes his ambition to be greater than those who came before him, which in this market of lowest common denominator should be applauded. He weaves in and around the dips in the beats, giving and taking with the soul sample that runs throughout the construction with more agility and lyricism that Kanye did on the beat. Cole also mentions the added temptations and pressures that come along with the notoriety. J. Cole doesn’t over do it and try to kill it a la Slaughterhouse, but he lets it breath and balances the beat nicely.
After listening to this, the ears should be a bit more wide open, and he should win a lot more fans over a beat that got a lot of attention over the weekend with its Kanye West association. “Villematic” is enough to make you want to hear that next mixtape. Enjoy.
J.Cole-Villematic
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