How This Mixtape Saved J Cole’s Career (Friday Night Lights)

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@chronosoulja Ай бұрын

It’s insane they listened to Friday night lights and didn’t think release that as an album. Everyone in that room was bugging tf out

@officialconch Ай бұрын

Same people who heard Jesus Walks and laughed

@KoreanGingseng Ай бұрын

It wasn't that FNL wasn't good, but the reason why it was better as a mixtape was because of the many sample clearances they weren't gonna be able to get.

@tinicoleofficial Ай бұрын

Hands down one of Cole’s greatest projects of all time💯

@SuqMaDiqHo 9 күн бұрын

@@KoreanGingseng& it just feels like a mixtape

@Mato-x6g 5 күн бұрын

Friday night lights was a album@@SuqMaDiqHo

@MultiCjrox Ай бұрын

I truly believe that J Cole’s career needed The Sideline Story. He needed that freedom that came with the commercial success (220k first week sales is INSANE). As mentioned in the video, we woulda never got the Born Sinner we got without it. He NEEDED to learn the anatomy of a hit song. We would never have seen 2014 FHD, as he said, if he didn’t take those years to study and develop the so-called “superpowers” that allowed him to smack every song out the god damn park. Developing different facets of your skillset within your field is critical, and it’s one of the many lessons I’ve learned from exploring J Cole that I hope to embody in my future, and in my career/life. Y’all feelin’ me?

@KLoff-pg1dm Ай бұрын

Cole had a Classic RUN Bro dropped: The Warm Up Truly yourz 1,2,3 Friday Night Lights Born sinner Revenge of the Dreamers Friday Night Lights!!!! Hope he can bring back that feeling on The Fall Off !

@tinicoleofficial Ай бұрын

ROTD 1, 2, & 3

@luiz_fuego Ай бұрын

man un excited for it but knowing it’s his last is crazy 😭Cole bout to pull a Andrè3000 on us & disappear

@D2Rwall17 Ай бұрын

There a truly yours 3

@youngm.a.r.s2614 4 күн бұрын

@@D2Rwall17truly yours 3 is pretty much the bonus tracks on the Born Sinner deluxe edition songs like: “New York Times”, “Is She Gon Pop”, “Miss America”, “Niggas Know” & “Sparks Will Fly”

@VedantFalcon Ай бұрын

Amazing video man. This is exactly what I want to see as a J Cole fan. Your research is so deep. I love to see this kind of Cole lore being covered. You gotta share this around on the subreddits and shit, cause this video was 🔥🔥🔥

@ericvelazquez7296 Ай бұрын

I agree, as a J Cole fan I enjoyed all the research and video editing. 🔥🔥🔥

@KLoff-pg1dm Ай бұрын

FNL, Truly Yourz, Born Sinner, & FHD will forever hold a place in my heart 🖤

@elle_9136 21 күн бұрын

How are you feeling now? 😊

@Makimade Ай бұрын

Fnl been slept on, real cole music

@thedivinemessenger Ай бұрын

DA REAL COLE !!! THE REAL PPL REALLY KNOW

@treztyles6830 Ай бұрын

FNL undoubtedly a classic! 2face Cost Me a Lot See World Farewell Higher Premeditated Murder Classics!

@Muhammad-Abdul-Aziz Ай бұрын

Too deep for the intro

@23elam Ай бұрын

This kinda research and backstory is what I need.

@skabzemortal Ай бұрын

The Wam Up, FNL, 4YEO & TOS...Cole’s best albums

@Other_sefranko Ай бұрын

W takes I agree

@MrASAPAB Ай бұрын

2014 gotta be here. Over TOS.

@officialconch Ай бұрын

You meant FHD not 4YEO

@MrASAPAB Ай бұрын

@@officialconch nah 4YEO is better than FHD. But FHD deserves to be there over TOs. IMO ofc.

@MosesJohnson7891 Ай бұрын

Born Sinner was dope too

@TruuJones Ай бұрын

I'm SO tired of people discounting Cole's mixtapes EPs and the literal dozens of other songs he's released over the years FOR FREE when talking about incredible "discography". Drake too for that matter. They're either ignorant or blatantly ignoring it because it doesn't support their views. Cole could re-release those songs as 3 separate albums and it would blow up the internet. & Drake already did one.

@tinicoleofficial Ай бұрын

Fr tho! Those “underground” tracks are the real classics!🔥

@SuqMaDiqHo 9 күн бұрын

I’m telling you Man!!! Cole has so many hidden gems that aren’t on albums

@youngm.a.r.s2614 4 күн бұрын

The difference between Cole and Drake is that: Cole’s recent stuff is highly exceptional just as much as his older stuff. Of course his older stuff like FNL & TWU are classics, but I feel like over the years like from 2018 when he started his feature run up until now, Cole’s pen game has sharpened so much that projects like “The Off Season” & “Might Delete Later” are some of his best projects to date which is scary because they’re considered preludes or appetizers to his main course which is “The Fall Off”, in which he’s been teasing for years & some of the songs that he teased on his MDL vlogs that was left off the “MDL” album, possibly being saved for “The Fall Off” sounds like we’re in for a rude awakening from Cole. Even Daylyt & Trae Tha Truth both have confirmed in interviews that “The Fall Off” is some of the best rapping from Cole that we’re ever gonna hear. So I feel like Cole has increased lyrically and in his discography, aside from his mixtapes. Drake on the other hand I feel like started off on fire with his first 3 mixtapes “Room For Improvement”, “Comeback Season”, & “So Far Gone” lyrically because it was authentically him. Yes, he’s had massive hits after those mixtapes, yes his first 4 studio albums “Thank Me Later”, “Take Care” (which The Weeknd gave him), “Nothing Was The Same”, & “IYRTITL” are all classics, yes he became a superstar in the mainstream world, but I feel like he started portraying an image in trying to be a fake tough wannabe hardcore rapper, even in some of the songs off his albums in which I named that are classics to me, straying away from his original sound that got him signed to Wayne in the first place, which is what made Dot crash out on him because instead of continuing to create a wave for himself, he started hopping on other artist’s wave to remain relevant like for example: him stealing XXXTENTACION’s flow on “Look At Me” & using it on “KMT” off “More Life”. And he started using mafia bars in his lyrics which felt inauthentic coming from him because that isn’t who he truly is and isn’t who he portrayed himself to be when he first came into the game. And not to mention, he was already sort of famous as a child actor before he got signed , so a lot of that tough talk in his lyrics wasn’t being bought into from certain people. And I feel like his last few projects he put out with the exception of “Her Loss” w/21 Savage & “Scary Hours 3” have all been somewhat decent to mid. I honestly don’t think he could ever go back to the artist he was when he first came out. The artist that was authentic and not trying to be something he wasn’t🤷🏾.

@TonyH1992 Ай бұрын

Can’t wait for the born sinner video, maybe you should do a video for all of his albums? That would be dope

@TonyH1992 Ай бұрын

The work and research that you put into this video is dope. You deserve more recognition 🔥🔥

@TheCynicalGhost Ай бұрын

Friday Night Lights is tied with Dark Fantasy as my favorite "album" of all time and while i was aware of his struggle to make it, getting a full deep dive does amplify a project I already adored.

@tony199002 Ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥 FNL was a classic!

@MrASAPAB Ай бұрын

Is **

@ibrahimkamara8019 Ай бұрын

2:29 nah thats crazy telling a guy thats litterally blowing up at the same time as drake that he can be the “new drake” 😭

@officialconch Ай бұрын

Drake cleared Cole by that time, he started in 2006.

@luiz_fuego Ай бұрын

U can tell Cole was lowkey pissed😭

@Ona-zc3dp Ай бұрын

Finally someone Talkin about this classic Mixtape Songs such as. “Farewell, See World and Too Deep for the intro" are just so😖 and do not forget his feature on “Bonus: Looking for trouble" one of his *first great feature*

@KDBetter Ай бұрын

That was a great year for music… my senior year of hs/freshman yr of college. Good times! We were spoiled.. I loved More About Nothing and my roommate loved Friday Night Lights and we would be blasting both in our room all year. I got introduced to weed by way of Wiz, whom the guy I was dating was in love with lol. I also got introduced to Section 80 that year from a homie that was from Cali and bought Kendrick (music) on campus. Of course Nicki and Drake were already deep into their runs… man d times!!

@meowraiu2 Ай бұрын

love this documentary. been getting into cole lately

@thedivinemessenger Ай бұрын

BEST PROJECT HE EVER DROPPED AND ITS SOOOOO FIREEEE WTFFF 😩😩🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@Spookydiaries745 Ай бұрын

Bro, please make more of this kind of content. Shit is so inspirational fr

@TruuJones Ай бұрын

Idk if it was a sample clearance issue or anything but i truly believe "You Got It ft. Wale" could've done real well on the radio in 09-10. Cole has other songs in hindsight that mightve done well give some of the hits we've heard after Cole's start, but i dont blame the label there. You Got It was the little party club song that was staring them right in the face.

@wxllmadeit Ай бұрын

This video is so good 🔥

@danielleduc8034 Ай бұрын

Love the quality over quantity content brother 🙏🏼

@macfentymacfenty6924 Ай бұрын

Amazing compilation

@andilenonkwelo6616 Ай бұрын

Cole really is the 1 man. Hate that ppl don't see that

@luiz_fuego Ай бұрын

wen he retires believe they gon act like they always liked him

@hennessey6509 Ай бұрын

as someone who owns a KZbin channel with 200k+ i want you to know to keep grinding. you make some fire videos bro

@officialconch Ай бұрын

You have 3 subs lil bro

@pulluponkhaleeq Ай бұрын

This is actually the first video i seen on KZbin of someone talking about this Tape like this which is crazy lmao

@SuqMaDiqHo 9 күн бұрын

One of the best mixtapes ever & propel just don’t realize man.

@officialconch Ай бұрын

13:25 this is nasty work 😂. Fantano never said that

@VersworldRecords Ай бұрын

Great work

@carlosibarra1360 Ай бұрын

Not mentioning spittas mixtape run is criminal when you put wiz in there

@diesel101raw Ай бұрын

Friday Night Lights is the GOAT Mixtape

@kiddream5749 14 күн бұрын

This is truly Cole’s first album

@matucomedes Ай бұрын

Warm up > Friday night lights

@abdulmajeedghareeb Ай бұрын

Great vid

@MichaelSims-rn6vu Ай бұрын

The world was goofy back then. They couldn't understand a sideline story or a section 80. But now...

@hdot89 Ай бұрын

I remember the impact Drake’s So Far Gone Mixtape had and how many upcoming rappers changed their whole style and approach at that time once it dropped.

@thedivinemessenger Ай бұрын

THE COME UP , WARM UP AND FNL WAS AN INSANEEE RUN !!!! MISS THIS COLE

@leahdubskushlyfe 18 күн бұрын

I love this video and I fucking love J Cole's music. Thanks for this namaste

@Mav822 23 күн бұрын

They all on streaming platforms now

@Kombatjack_ Ай бұрын

16:55 “it’s waaaay darker this time”

@kingtarantinosisk544 Ай бұрын

Friday night lights should of been his debut Debut album damm

@elle_9136 21 күн бұрын

Well this aged nicely ❤

@peace_of_mind_00 Ай бұрын

Living in the Carolinas back when cole was first coming out was a cool time. I was rooting hard for cole heavy. I first heard of him on star is born & beautiful bliss back in 09.