You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy. “I’m already an over-thinker,” he continues.

“With the album it was like, ‘Where’s the single?’ I’m like, I don’t even know what the fuck a single is. “I was coming from a place where I was putting out free albums ,and I didn’t even know they were albums,” he says. Specifically, the rapper was overwhelmed by the transition from recording mixtapes to a full-scale commercial release. I’ve got so much respect for him.”įeeling strongly about his current work is something he was missing in the months leading up to the release of his debut album, Cole says. But man, there’s never been any bad blood. People don’t see that with Jay, and they assume there’s some kind of bad relationship. “I think people expect to see like, you know, how Lil Wayne is with Drake or how Kanye is with Big Sean.

“I’ve never been on bad terms with Jay-Z,” he says. All in all this album will do him a lot of good in him channeling that hunger he wowed us with since he burst on the rap scene and the confidence to do what he feels is his best form of music without unnecessary external pressure.He’s also heard the rumors that his relationship with Jay-Z is on the rocks, though Cole dismisses any rift between the two. On Born sinner Cole channels some of his old releases as on several songs he has rhyme schemes which his most ardent followers would have heard on an earlier project, for which he cannot be blamed since between being signed and releasing his debut album, Cole dropped more than a fair share of potent material deserving classic status and commercial recognition.

The singing features by Miguel and TLC are also written by Cole and probably the title track's hook was co-written with James Fauntleroy which shows that Sole is as adept a hook writer as he is a lyricist. As usual he feels like he has a lot to give the listener hence he produced the entire album lest two interlude tracks and had no rap features. Cole in a moment where he felt truly liberated from all the expectation that was placed on him since becoming Jay Z's first artist on Roc Nation. Cole in a moment where he felt truly liberated from all the expectation that was placed on him since becoming Jay Z's first Born Sinner is J.

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