4 Your Eyez Only by J. Cole

“4 Your Eyez Only” is an efficient story with even higher music. J. Cole’s album seems to be again on his powerful childhood and an general tough life via rap and clean jazz songs.

This can be a nice album, however in all probability doesn’t stay as much as the hype. A lot of the songs are tales, not simply upbeat, pointless rap songs. “Deja Vu,” “Neighbors,” and “4 Your Eyez Only” are the principle songs I’m reviewing. I really feel these three are a very powerful on the album.

“Deja Vu”s upbeat tempo expresses anger. The rhythm may be very clean although. Normally upbeat songs miss out on this sense of smoothness, however Cole has all the time completed this effectively. Within the album’s general story, this tune offers with anger and love. Actually, it’s one in all solely a pair on the album that convey love. The tune explains how his girlfriend leaves him for different guys.

Though offended, as an alternative of whining and crying, the singer strikes towards his “larger goals.” “Deja Vu” is a good tune with combined tones that tells a narrative effectively.

“Neighbors” is extra jazz than rap. It incorporates a clean sound, and the vocals are quicker. This unevenness of the tone and vocals pull the tune collectively. “Neighbors” is about how Cole grew up in a neighborhood the place everybody suspected him of committing crimes. He talks about how his neighbors thought he was promoting medicine, which, towards the top of the tune, he does admit to doing. This tune’s melody is my second favourite of the album.

Lastly, the tune “4 Your Eyez Only” is my favourite of the album. It’s also a high vendor. This tune is sort of 9 minutes lengthy and options J. Cole rapping about his life, his household, and his daughter.

“4 Your Eyez Only” has an ideal melody, and the rapping is phenomenal. Cole raps in regards to the troubles of his childhood and about how a lot he loves his daughter. The tune is sort of a timeline of his life, and he ties it collectively flawlessly. About getting in bother with the legislation, Cole raps, “innocence disappeared by the age of eight years” and “picked
up by the household enterprise by the age of 13, six years later was handed sentence.” He additionally raps about rising up within the tasks: “My pops was shot up, drug associated, mama addicted, so Granny raised me in tasks the place thugs was hanging.” Lastly, he raps about how a lot he loves his daughter. J. Cole talks about making an attempt to call her when he was simply 19. He says, “I instructed her Nina, the prettiest identify I might consider, for the prettiest factor my eyes have ever seen.” Cole additionally expresses that he needs his daughter to discover a good man who isn’t like him. On the finish of the tune, J. Cole tells his daughter that her daddy is an efficient daddy as a result of he loves her.

These three songs alone make this album value shopping for. Whereas some followers won’t get as excited in regards to the story-telling in his songs, I feel it makes J. Cole distinctive.