Dec 18, 2016

Day ten, still Deja Vu

 

Dec 18, 2016

Reach

 

Dec 19, 2016

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7625536/j-cole-fourth-no-1-billboard-200

2nd highest streaming debut of all time ...

" 4 Your Eyez Only also logs a big streaming week as it tallied 118,000 in SEA units (equaling 51.7 million streams of the album’s songs), which is the second-largest streaming debut ever for an album. It trails only the bow of Drake’s Views, which launched with 163,000 streaming units in its opening frame (equating to 245.1 million streams of songs from the album that week). 4 Your Eyez Only is just the third album to surpass 100,000 streaming equivalent album units in a single week, following Views and The Weeknd’s Starboy (with its opening frame of 117,000 in SEA units)."

but now looking back its weird how few streams FHD had ... 353k pure album sales and 371 eps ... this one only 10k mor album sales, 363k, but 492k sps

 

Dec 20, 2016

Day eleven & twelve, still Deja Vu

 

Dec 21, 2016

Day thirteen, still Deja Vu

 

Dec 21, 2016

Day thirteen, still low IQ

 

Dec 21, 2016

 

Dec 21, 2016

only good songs is neighbors and immortal

 

Dec 21, 2016

Day zero, whatever bro

 

Dec 21, 2016

I could hear Pusha T on Immortal

So I hustle like my n----s in Virgini A !!

 

Dec 21, 2016

dammit, wont be long fore i disappear

You call it runnin', I call it escapin'
Start a new life in a foreign location
Similar to my n----s duckin' cases
Can't take the possible time that he faces

the daughter is hip hop...

Album was to drop in February,, that was the 20th anniversary of All Eyez On Me



the album is about 2PAC

 

Dec 21, 2016

so Deja Vu was made for 2014 FHD ... IB says it fit better on Eyez but i disagree, to me it wood fit perfect on FHD ... with the whole "she fu- with small town n----s i got bigger dreams" and then the whole theme of st tropez, "he's on his way he's bout to go to hollywood" ... it wuda beefed up FHD even more, wuda been nice somewhere early in the album, plus exchange wasn't out yet, who knows FHD mighta been a classic

i still don't really see the full connection of Deja Vu to Eyez's story line ... mainly cause the "small town n----s i got bigger dreams" so I'm still just wondering who's perspective its from ...

oh well it still worked out ... being coles first top 10 hit and all

“Déjà Vu” became Cole’s first ever Hot 100 Top 10 debut at No. 7. But there is a likeness to Bryson Tiller’s "Exchange" because of the song that it samples on the beat. How long ago was “Déjà Vu” made and was there any hesitation to put that out?

I wouldn’t say there was any hesitation because I felt like it’s just two totally different songs. We had already made "Deja Vu," like that song was literally made for his last album [2014 Forest Hills Drive] and we just knew it would fit better because of the story he wanted to tell on the album. Cole had already made the song, so when Bryson’s album came out and we heard it, it was a feeling like, "d---, he used the same sample." But to Cole, it don’t matter. He’s not competing with Bryson. What Bryson’s song did was incredible, and to Cole, it was like, "It’s a part of the story I want to tell, so I’m gonna use [the beat]." We didn’t really know the backstory at the time of what happened with Vinylz and Boi1da and [ForeignTeck] who made the beat. That was none of our concern. We just knew that Bryson had a really dope song that was out that used the same sample, basically the same beat, and that we had a totally different song. It's like 10 years from now, nobody’s gonna be like, "Oh, Cole and Bryson used the same beat." They’re gonna enjoy those songs, you know? Those songs are gonna age, and people will connect to it differently. You know, people might connect to “Exchange” in a totally different way than they’re gonna connect to “Déjà Vu” so it’s not really a big deal to us.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...e=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

"The album was initially like 13, 14 songs and then just at the last second, we kind of were like, "Look, if we’re trying to tell a story, let’s just make it as clear as possible and cut it down to that." So when we cut out "False Prophets" and "Everybody Dies," it really hurt because "False Prophets" was on the album the whole time and it was one of our favorites but we had the documentary piece already in the works."

oh yeah and there was 13-14 songs including everybody dies and false prophets ... i respect what they did cutting it down tho cause ye those two wuda been weird on the album especially with the story ... and how would that have worked out with false prophets having used joey badass waves beat

 

Dec 22, 2016

Think it would be fine since it's now on iTunes / Apple Music anyway, so the sample / beat has been cleared

 

Dec 22, 2016

Dope to know we got like all songs from this session

 

Dec 22, 2016

Heard foldin clothes on the radio

 

Dec 26, 2016

Album still Fire!

Merry Christmas y'all!

 

Dec 26, 2016

 

Dec 26, 2016

Early

 

Dec 26, 2016

Didn't open the JCN tread yet lol

 

Dec 27, 2016

Think cole aint dropped a single from the album yet because he cant. read somewhere he dropped 3 singles for 2016 as a label requirement. love yourz, everybody dies and false prophets. so the first single from the album will probably drop in jan. makes sense tbh.