3/3/2023 0 Comments J cole born sinner album art![]() Who is the person at the center of all this outward projection? We still don't really know. And toward the end, there’s a song-length love letter to Nas- “Used to print out Nas raps and tape 'em up on my wall/ My niggas thought they was words, but it was pictures I saw.” “Forbidden Fruit” finds Cole swimming in A Tribe Called Quest's “Electric Relaxation”, a track that also features a barely audible Kendrick Lamar. He co-opts a snippet of a Mike Epps comedy routine and he flips Cults’ “Bad Things” on a song about cheating, a track that also doubles down with Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman showing up to coo on the (long, guitar-heavy) outro. ![]() tirade. He duets with the remaining members of TLC (“Crooked Smile”) on a song that can be read either as a breezy style mash-up or as sacrilege. 1” (“Land of the Snakes”) and fashions it into an anti-L.A. He repurposes OutKast's “Da Art of Storytellin Pt. ![]() ![]() By the time you’ve reached the record's end, you’ll have seen him try on a number of familiar hats. Born Sinner, the heavily referential second LP for Roc Nation signee Jermaine Cole, borrows its title from the Notorious B.I.G.’s "Juicy". ![]()
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