One of my favorite songs off of Cole’s debut album is “Mr. Nice Watch”. This song features fellow rapper Jay-Z, also Cole’s label signer.
“They say time is money, but really it’s not. If we ever go broke girl, then time is all we got. And you can’t get that back, no you can’t get that back,” sings Cole in the hook of that song. And, that statement is entirely true in my mind. Once you use up time, there is no way to get it back. And if all you have is time, then you’ve got a lot. You don’t need money, just time.
Prior to the release of J. Cole’s debut album, he started a trend called “Any Given Sunday”, where before he released his debut album, he would release something new every week. During this time he released three of his mixtapes. Those mixtapes only contained a few songs a piece and those songs were the songs that didn’t make the cut for the actual album. The three mixtapes held songs that had great potential, but still lack some of the lyricism and flow that songs on the album had.
J. Cole is touring the U.S. now, and at the end of the month he will begin touring in Europe.