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Top 10 J. Cole Songs


so just the dollar and the dream money
can’t buy you love
cause it’s overpriced welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
Jay Cole songs for this list we’ve
chosen our entries based on a
combination of the artists fan favorites
and their most commercially successful
songs I say a rare hope my girl ain’t
even we are guy angels we are getting
number 10 no role models
first things first recipe sucker fill
prayer for his third studio album Jay
Cole paid respect to the fictional TV
characters such as Uncle Phil from The
Fresh Prince of bel-air while showing
little respect to the gold-digging women
of reality TV within this lyrical
assault however one can find an
understanding of who Jay Cole once
wanted to be and the reality of his true
identity arcane fans like now 1 1 and
white neighborhoods ain’t got no shame
bout it she think I’m spoiled and I’m
risk as I can have any bitch I got
defensive as said nah was the same with
citing a hope for that Jada and will
love he moves on to explicitly detail
the flip side of rap stardom you think
about it rap she would flirt bet taking
off a skirt let her wear my shirt for
she leave appropriately titled
no role models keeps it 100 at least in
the sense that Jay Cole will never let
you fool him three times and if you do
well it’s gonna rain on you son peace I
look
let it rain oi
number nine before I’m gone I hit the
weed I told myself ahead I’ma be my last
don’t you smile cuz now my mom racing
fast much like the late Tupac Shakur J
Cole has been critically praised for his
lyrical gifts and his ability to touch
on inner city angst and with this early
mixtape release he through pleasantries
aside and produce a musical essay about
what his legacy may be cats really good
at yo Tatum had you so great I guess the
city started with a penny yeah keep
plenty money in the three free flowing
verses of before I’m gone
Cole reacts to bad influences the police
and ultimately those who misinterpret
the true meaning of his subject matter
rich if you listening I’m painting
pictures of hope their 40 class
embarrassed because he broke in essence
he’s expounding on the idea that one can
be hardened by life yet still have
enough intellect to change lives girl is
Missoula I’ve been gone from you the
show ain’t gotta worry about
I do it’s hard but the daughter you
would ease my pain I keep my number
eight apparently ah got my wish killing
me I don’t know free huh
well apparently J Cole wanted to play
good-cop bad-cop with this bipolar track
searching deep for his best Bob Marley
growl he expresses his thanks for his
mother’s love while touching on themes
of freedom got my wish killing me
however by the second and final verse he
drops the gushy demeanor for a
rapid-fire flow about women playing his
trombone while noting his sexual prowess
I’m takin off like going on a big
annoying getting hit like coin toss too
easy
okay maybe it’s not exactly on par with
the message of Bob Marley but it’s
certainly a song of some type of
redemption
yeah yeah
number seven lights please I had slow
bad things something like them tins the
mad brain something like the whiz from
an academic point of view one may label
this song is a lyrically deaf narrative
about the exploration of the female
anatomy but on the real Jay Cole is
saying that he likes him some sex Hotel
livers on the ceiling
she says she wanna blow else I hear and
I’m willing every time i smoke well it
the mine gone so that every word I spoke
well I’m trying to put her on whether
it’s hotel mirrors on the ceiling or the
threats of possible blindness lights
please functions as an ode to the
boredom a place where Jay Cole can’t
experience the transformative feeling of
sexual healing lights please lights
please turn off the lights for now
everything just seems so right now how
you make the darkness seemed so bright
it’s a basic mid-tempo jam with a
laid-back style but it’s cause I’m using
lyrics that make it worth a listen then
all I really want is for her to go down
No
before you know it she wet enough to get
trance low and all that deepness I was
previously therefore replaced by free
and I am currently down for as far as
rap go it’s only natural I explained my
plateau at number 6
let nas down get lonely the idols may
they never be a rival
was like Jesus not wrote the Bible just
as the title conveys this track is first
and foremost an apology to one of Jay
Cole’s hip-hop idols the concept came
about after nas dismissed the 2011
single work out and out of pure shame
Cole went back to the lab regrouped and
wrote a single which acknowledges the
true writer of the Bible Tommy now
charged a singer when he hate that shit
said you to wonder why you make that
shit I can’t believe I let nas dad
my heart stopped on my stomach I can’t
believe I let my dad sampling fellow
cooties gentlemen the track serves a
higher purpose beyond the obvious as an
allowed j.cole to dig a little bit
deeper and confront the endless battle
between artistic freedom and commercial
appeal Shibata his excel is blowing a
synth no-ip my mix Shawn I let the story
begin
fortunately nas approved and teamed up
with J Cole to let everybody know that
he actually made him proud I got the
phone call quietly I’m our dog I let
nice day yeah and on this flight me I
never knew straight up now tell me do
you really want to love me forever
Oh RZA just the hit air number five work
out we got a good day mama see you again
well here’s the track that led nas down
and hey can you blame him giving J Cole
sample of Paula Abdul’s 1988 hit
straight up or maybe it was the
additional kanye west sample yeah won’t
you try that dying cancer flow I’m here
for one night half top where you go I
wanna see it
regardless this joint gave j.cole a
billboard hit and further propelled him
into the pop-culture spotlight lyrically
workout covers the usual rock cliches
bling status and sex but that chorus
though right Cole took on a Kanye like
snarl for a little extra grit shred up
now tell me do you really wanna love me
and yes the track was designed for mass
appeal but it’s undeniably one of the
most catchy singles released by the
lyricist yeah yeah number four I get up
I woke up early in the morning I was
blowing up my phone and I used small
talking when they knock trying to talk
lifestyles of the young black and
restless for Jay calls 2009 mixtape he
served up a sunny chorus of hope while
dropping three impassioned verses about
jobs politicians and inner-city
realities while even finding a way to
squeeze in another reference to the
Fresh Prince a fresh crisp uyama City
ain’t no Vale yeah if you would say
we’re worried bout my whale fish powered
by his own personal experiences Jay Cole
channels AB it’s up to Paul Shakur and
by the end I get up represents a wake-up
call to upper class America and all
those who get up with little to worry
about while choosing to remain a loop to
some of America’s dark truths and
disparity youths who say damn it them
jobs out there ain’t trying to pay I
pray granted not a five is how you
survive rain trying to survive Hashanah
though my momma arrived
number three crooked smile featuring TLC
land picture perfect but we work the
picture still I got smart
I got rich and I got fit to steal for
this track J Cole sample Tupac straight
ballin and featured R&B legends TLC for
a positive message about personal
imperfections
your man’s not wrong questioning whether
he would be as popular as Eminem or
Adele if his skin was a different color
coil settles on the idea that a crooked
smile is what makes everybody their own
and there’s no reason to feel insecure
about who you are
seem like I have to race to see the hot
formation but if I wonder why he didn’t
help me in the hell already I ask is my
skin jam what are they
just as Tupac once reached out to women
with Brenda’s got a baby this track
highlighted in her beauty while
retaining a bit of that j.cole grit I
just open up dance say I love my brother
addicts here I got money
one two one two one two one two yeah
number two lost ones maybe a girl I
can’t imagine what it’s like for you I
got two pregnant now inside there was a
life for you every so often a hip-hop
song comes along that instantly connects
with listeners on a higher level and
through the raw and desperate tone of
lost ones J Cole’s narrative of abortion
became an instant classic
frankly I’m feeling like when ready
units hold up now let me finish
think about it baby me you we still kids
ourself beginning with his own thoughts
on how a baby might affect his future
lost ones turns to the female
perspective in verse two as a pregnant
woman thoughts are delivered through the
voice of J Cole himself come to me
talking about abortion is my body if so
don’t think you’ve been a floor sick
more of a train of thought production
reflecting an inner dialogue the song
offers a commentary on the hopes and
fears that can either make us
self-destruct or beginning you and
hopefully better life when they get
pregnant fulfill matter
it’s like extortion minute that is
really pregnant allocated abortion but
what about you’ll see
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions Hey join with me
you know my dick then we always argue
about the same thing tell me why
swear
gonna be just the girl of my dreams did
she kill is what she sings i am i lying
to myself I wanna get something off my
mental I can tell you a pro poor baby be
gentle cuz cuz I never did this before
down and out when these love songs she
got me up burn a number one power trip
featuring miguel
she got me
as Tony Montana famously noted in
Scarface first you get the money then
you get the power and then you get the
women back home and crawl now when the
city’s my thumbnail huh the same clothes
that I used to get touchdown like gasps
crisscross totally crossed that when as
Jay Cole demonstrated on this track all
that in a record deal with Jay Z cannot
make one ball out on a power trip and
also become the victim of one in this
case Jay Cole teamed up with R&B star
Miguel
three years after collaborating on all I
want is you and broke things down about
a woman’s influence
it’s got the classic j.cole flow it’s
got crossover appeal and most
importantly power trip is less about
popping bottles and more about the human
element
so do you agree with our selections what
is your favorite j.cole song again on
the farm home another day by the time so
today I woke up in the honey so it’s
only right I got two pictures playing on
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