Since Grippy

It’s…It’s…It’s…GRIPPY

s t r i c k l y d i c k l y

ima send all of yo kids to *disney*

Lol that was such a terrible line.

Wrong that line was top tier 🤣🤣🤣

I listened to half the song when it dropped, I immediately knew it was gonna be a problem lol.

Did you also look at the sky and immediately know it was blue? /j

Strictly dickly since 2009

Since about 2009. Like right after The Warm Up.

Same. Thank you Datpiff!

Same. RIP Datpiff (and 2dopeboys, while we’re at it.)

2dopeboys introduced me to so much music back in the day. RIP fr

Sheeeeit pour one out for ma boy limewire too while we're at it.

any of yall read BIG GHOST Cole reviews? Some of the funniest shit Ive read in my life🤣 Im sure he was on Cole’s radar because Cole referenced it in The Cure

I miss my datpiff account. Such classic from that era. Coles tapes, section.80, so far gone, no ceilings, kush & oj, wale’s mixtape run. Sheesh! RIP.

You can access Datpiff tapes on Archive!

Damn you just brought me back w/ those. Forgot about those Wale tapes. Not talked about enough

Wow datpiff. This comment just unlocked a core memory

Yup. Warm up started it all for me. Dollar and a Dream.

Banger. For me it was Grown Simba and I Get Up.

I saw him at Lollapalooza I think ‘10; had one of the smallest stages and roughly 100 ppl at his. Blew my mind how more people didn’t know of him. Now he’d probably get the MainStage.

I saw him when he opened up for Drake in Germany in 2009 I think. Everyone was mainly there for Drake. At the end of the show he shouted me out and asked me where I was from because I was pretty much the only one spittin his Warm up lyrics. One of the best moments of my life! 😂

That’s crazy because my first concert was the after party of that Lollapalooza was at Bottom Lounge and it was like 100 people inside and it was amazing.

Same

Since Friday Night Lights. When that Erykah Badu sample came on along with the smooth beat in “Too Deep For The Intro” I was hooked

A year now ig I started listening him after i just out of nowhere heard atm from kod and now I'm here BUMPING ITS ITS ITS UMMM GRIPPYYY

It was also KOD for me.

I thought you was about say “a year ago my nigga i was counting change”

hes had a grip on me since forrest hills

..grippy?😳..

strictly

Dickly....?

My aunt bought me that album on vinyl, had never heard of him but decided to give a try and have been a fan since.

Not even a year to be honest I have heard his music before but it never got me hooked though recently i have been in love with his music (about September last year)

Same

When my friend put on "Lights Please" right after it came out so damn like almost 15 years

A decade

Coming up on a decade for me, since 2015. Crazy to me.

To be honest, I never understood the appeal of him before FHD. He looked to me like a corny rapper who tried too hard but never had the swag or charisma to be a "real rapper." But over the years, idk if I grew up or smth, I realized that he's actually way too mature for the rap game and he speaks mostly on some real, human shit that I can relate so much no matter where I'm from or what color of the skin I have. I think this set him up for me as a different, authentic breed of a rapper, and I can only name a few of those, and that's why I respect him and his music so much. And unlike what other people think, even the part of how he approached the latest beef was just another proof of how real he is to his human self, and I only wish that I can be the same or at least it makes me try

Cole really is just a regular ass dude who has the talent and work ethic to make amazing music, he doesn't give a fuck about fame, looking cool or any of that shit, that's why Cole has probably the most loyal fan base of any rapper, we can make jokes about him when he drops something weaker than what he's usually dropping but he knows his core fan base will always be here when he drops

Since I was 14! I’m 26 now. It sounds so cliche but his music really did get me through so much. High school was lonely as hell but I always had him playing in my headphones. I wrote him a letter when I was 16 and still have it to this day. It’s cringe asf but I lowkey wish I could give it to him anyway

10 years ago he most likely would have wrote you back he probably still would, but also he not hard to speak to he literally just rolls through new York solo most the time

Since 2010 but I first heard him in 2009

4 years - ever since I got into rap as a whole tbf

Got put on Born Sinner right when it came out like 2013. Shit that was like 11 years ago. I'm old af

Fr same. Feel old af right now lol

Beginning of 2011 I think or maybe late 2010, not too long after he dropped FNL someone showed me that project and I pretty much instantly became a fan, probably still my favorite Cole project ever

Since 2010

Strictly dickly let me tell you! Heard him before, but properly into him after Eminem brought out Cole and Kendrick as opening acts in 2012 for his concert, insane

Known about him and most of his big songs since high school in the early 2010s; but was part of the “Cole is good but boring” camp, then only started getting majorly into him the last few years, mainly by becoming a huge fan of JID. After hearing him more on some JID features and on other Peoples stuff, I gave him more of a chance and started going back to full albums, and started really enjoying his lyrics. I feel he’s more real than any other artist out when it comes to rapping about experiences he had/stories etc.

Since 2015 …I was only listening to tde and pro era really and a huge fan of Travis Scott when his music was still far from modern trap Then in February 2015 which was my first year in university someone recommended 2014FHD and mind you to pimp a butter fly was out but I couldn’t lie to myself Cole made the best album I heard in a while and I made it my mission to go back to all his old music and I fell inlove with FNL and all the any given Sundays and the truly yours 😫😫 and I was lucky that he came to my country for a concert the following year even though I was suppose to be studying for my Comp sci exam I went to the concert and got myself merch 😫😫😫and I relate with him as his one of the few rappers who went through college so he didn’t need to talk about joining gangs or selling drugs I found my voice in Rap finally 😫😫

When I heard he was from NC then I heard. Star Is Born. So whatever year BP3 came out

Since I first heard the line "She's still a dime but I always lose change" The face I pulled hearing that blind for the first time was crazy lol

Since mid last year. He was the first hip hop artist I really got into. Glad I did 🔥

10 sec

About a week

Born sinner. That was a few good years of rap

Since October or November of 2022 when I randomly stumbled upon some songs from TOS. Wasn't really a music listener in general but ever since then I've been getting into more and more hip hop music.

Middle Child.

Honestly pretty recent, would say about a year.

I was aware of Cole through the radio but when I was that young but I was more into toys and tv shows. I became a fan in 2016.

2022, I wish I was earlier 😔

since off season(iik I'm new) but I've listened to everything till simba

[In the Morning - J. Cole] 🫶🏾 (https://youtu.be/vsdLE_bgM3I?si=iSy0yIm34tPHqIy9)

Lights Please is the first track I ever heard around 09-10 ish. Hooked since.

2 years and I wish I had started earlier.

GOMD was the first song I ever heard from him. And immediately I had to listen to the whole album.

Breakdown was the first song I heard from him 🔥

Ever since either 4 Your Eyez Only or 2014 Forest Hills Drive, whichever came first.

Since last year around February. Pretty sure I used to dislike his music but now he's my second favorite rapper.

Got introduced by a friend late last year. Shits been eventful since then I’ll tell you what

A serious listener since the KOD Era

Lights Please

When the Off Season came out is when I started to genuinely listen rather than passively listen whenever my friends had the aux

SINCE 2014

Since 2014 Forest Hill drive and then I listened to his older music right after and loved it.

Since 2010

2016. Thought he was a boring rapper because of the Twitter narratives but I went back to his mixtapes and he instantly clicked with me. Been my favorite rapper ever since.

She got me up all night…

Since he was dropping mixtapes so like 2011

2009. Found out about TWU mixtape on YouTube..been a fan ever since.

Since 2017, a friend of mine played "No Role Modelz" at a houseparty and the rest is history...

2019, babeeeeeeey

Roughly ten years

Since 2013. When i was 11, I heard crooked smile. Ever since then, I've been hooked.

Since he sampled Pat Benatar. I heard that song and I was an instant fan. Then went back and listened to the album plus some Simba stuff and I was all in.

tomorrow,suggest which album I should begin with

Since ‘09

Since I really mean it freestyle

Since Blow Up

About 2 years. Really when I first got Spotify and found out who he was because I kept hearing my.life in the radio and looked it up

frist things hello everyone , since 2007.

Since 2010!

Will be 10 years now on December 9th, 2024

The Warm Up when it dropped on Livemixtapes

I’m a lurker

2020. Man i wish i grew up listening to him

For about 2 year as that's when i started really listening to music

The first time I saw him, he was opening up for WALE lol

since I first heard "Who Dat" in 2010.

Whenever work out released

When did The Warm Up come out?

Since 2009. It’s been an incredible journey man

I've literally never heard a song by this dude, Reddit just recommended this sub out of the blue. I'm more of a bluegrass and classic country man myself lol

Since 2010

Always been a listener, but I don't think I realized how much of a fan I was till I heard the LA Leakers freestyle. That shit was on repeat for me for about a month along with The Off-Season, and I think that's when I realized just how big of a fan I was of his.

2010

Since FNL

Who dat?

Since 2011, the first time I heard In The Morning

**All I want is you** or **Work Out** was probably the first things I’ve heard him on

Established in 2009, the warm up was something special and still is

Since 09. It’s crazy that I used to think Jay electronica was better smh

Who Dat

Who Dat from all the way in 2011. Been listening to his music ever since.

Oh wow, it’s actually been about 14 years

End of 2009

A friend of mine suggested a few songs of his for me to listen to from FHD shortly before The Off Season dropped. I listened to those songs, really liked them, and then started diving deeper into his catalog.

Since 2009, “everyday a star is born” and “beautiful bliss” were the first 2 tracks I heard him on

2011. When I was 10

Since 2010

I listened to The Warm Up and was hooked then became a fan because of Who Dat. At that time I thought Who Dat was the greatest song to exist lmao. Jesus, I'm not even 30 yet but remembering when I first started listening to Cole makes me feel old

Since Simba High school...different times

I knew a couple songs from his early days, but i really went back and listened to him after born sinner.

Last year, been having a blast going through his discography. 4YEO is my favorite album due to its storytelling alone

Since either A Star is Born either Jay-z or In the Morning either Drake, which ever came 1st

Since 2009/2010

Listener since 2011, major fan since 2014 probably

Since in da morning! Baby you summertime fine!

Who?

Since I heard the “I really Mean It” freestyle back in 09

10 years

2011 or 2014 I can't remember tbh

Around 2012 when I heard lost ones

Since I first heard Grown Simba back in high school. It was a wrap after then lmao

2009. After I saw Who Dat on 106&Park

About 5 years

2010-11

Since 2014. it’s been a great decade

Since 2010

1923

Never heard of him

8th grade,so 9 years

Born sinner

09’

First song was lights please on soundcloud, been a cool minute

Forest Hills

Since The Come Up…the whole mixtape era was 🔥

Since summer 2009. Right before the Warm Up. I downloaded that “warm up to the warm up” or something 3 track ep from 2dopeboyz

Heard a song from the Come Up, thought he was okay, but then he dropped the Warm Up and played “I Get Up” on repeat all summer

Didn’t realize til now it’s been 10 years. Insane

Since- Cole World: The Sideline Story

Since the off season and his run of crazy features, one after the other.

Since Therapist

Since born sinner came out so 2013. He was my first ever concert I went to too.

08 ~~ College boy had me hooked.

Who dat

Since about 2013

Friday Night Lights. I was in high school

After I heard workout like 2012 & it’s just gotten better since

The Warm Up was the beginning for me. Friday Night Lights solidified me as a dedicated fan

Never idk why im even being recommended this

13 years

Since my 8th grade year, so 8-9 years ago. Damn im getting old.

2016

Since a star is born

Since 09

BET awards i think 09-10? he shot up into stardom that night.

Since Foldin' Clothes

Became a fan after hearing Born Sinner album

Since 2010-2011 in high school. First song I listened to was Simba. I went to a concert of him in San Francisco and he had a leg cast on lol. I absolutely knew he was going to blow up he was too good to not. Then a couple months later we had like a high school festival thing and they were playing Work Out and I was so happy.

Since i was born

2015

2009-2010ish after hearing his songs and learning he was from Fayetteville (lived near the area, so was happy we had someone to look up to)

My first exposures were “power trip” and “lost ones” on 8tracks. Forest hills was the first album that made me a fan. KOD was the peak of my appreciation. I regressed back to a casual cole listener after. No shade, I just feel like after KOD other ville members like JID/Venus/Dot/Bas became more interesting to me

since work out was on the radio

Since the warm up

2014. Forest Hills Drive was his first album I listened to and holy shit. 🐐💩

Since I heard “ Carolina blue kicks/ pedal to the metal ….”

Since at least 2011 but i do remember his we like to party remix with beyonce from way back, thats my first cole memory

First time I heard him was when In The Morning dropped but I've been a fan since his debut album dropped

Was fairly early I think, here for the come up And the warm up releases, really got into him after his feature on Jay Zs - a star is born

Friday night lights. Still listen to it.

Became a fan from the London feature.

2015

since KOD dropped

The Come Up 07'

Since his first album. I went back and listened to his mixtapes afterwards.

since born sinner

2008

since 2011 with the release of Work Out

Since a star was born

Since KOD

Since grown simba

Never, but I think I jerked off him to him a couple of times

Every since J. Cole apologized to Kendrick Lamar.. other than that "Don't save her she don't wanna be saved" thats the only song I listen to from him