Unfortunately for J. Cole, he was unable to avoid a premature album leak last night, like Kanye and Jay Z did last month with their album Watch the Throne. Kayne and Jay Z successfully dodged bootleggers before the release of Watch the Throne; making for one of the first high-profile Hip-Hop albums to do so in recent years.
J. Cole had this to say to Vibe.com a little while back regarding a possible leak of his album "I feel blessed. There's been worse leaks than that so I understand it's part of the game, I always understood that. As long as people hear it together, it's cool," Cole said. "And I just know that the people who are going to buy it were going to buy it anyways. The people who weren't probably weren't anyways. If anything, the leak will reach out more people who might be like 'ah man, let's go get this.' So you know, it's kind of like promotion these days- if you got a good album. If you don't have a good album- they'll trash you."
Good way to look at it from J. Cole as Cole World- The Sideline Story happens to be a good, if not a great album. With the appropriate amount of star power with the likes of Drake, Jay Z, Missy Elliott and Trey Songz as well as J. Cole's signature witty yet intellectual rhymes, it was difficult to expect anything less. Wouldn't rank it as a classic, but Cole World- The Sideline Story is definitely an album to remember.
Download it here. The album officially drops Sept. 27th.
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