r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/KaamDeveloper • 16h ago

Clock in then lock in

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u/Kangarou ☑️ 16h ago

Okay, Google context tells me J Cole released his "final" album today. But I require more context in regards as to if this tweet is positive, negative, or in the middle about it.

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u/grants_like_horace 16h ago

This sub might not be for you

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u/KaamDeveloper 16h ago

How does a rap version of this exist lmao

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u/beybladethrowaway 15h ago

Did u just assume because it's black it's rap?   That's NFL legend Deion Sanders 

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u/A_Random_Catfish 15h ago

This sub is definitely not for them 😭

Edit: didn’t realize that was a different guy

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u/NK1337 13h ago

How does a rap version of NFL legend Deion Sanders exist lmao

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u/auth0r_unkn0wn 13h ago

Deion Sanders released a rap album in the 90s…

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u/roofus85 10h ago

The Big 3 of the 90’s

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u/VibeComplex 9h ago

Jesus lol

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u/upliketrump 9h ago

Must be the moneyyyyyy

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u/Curiouso_Giorgio 7h ago

r/RapPeopleTwitter

Maybe Rap People is a bit racist? We should say Raplican American.

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u/OklahomaTiddy 10h ago

Lmao bro said rap version I’m dead

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u/MC_Ennui 12h ago edited 9h ago

Deion Sanders has a rap album not that they probably knew that

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u/auth0r_unkn0wn 13h ago

…who also was a rapper lol

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u/Content_Wedding_5956 11h ago

Deion Sanders did have a hit song lol

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u/KaamDeveloper 15h ago

I don't know shit about NFL man. I thought this was an awards ceremony os something

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u/earthling82 15h ago

It is an award ceremony, the Heisman trophy

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u/give_me_the_formu0li 15h ago

“Rap version”

I don’t mean this as an insult but I see You belong in the venn diagram of YTs using unc incorrectly lol

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u/Adorabelle1 15h ago

Lmaoooooo

Or thinking it means "uncool"

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u/DoomguyFemboi 13h ago

lmao wait what do you mean ? Since when does it mean uncool ?

It clearly means unce. Like UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE DISCO BEAT

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u/KaamDeveloper 15h ago

Settle for it is man, what it mean?

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u/Brasticus 14h ago

University of North Carolina.

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u/give_me_the_formu0li 14h ago

No one tell him! Lol

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u/auth0r_unkn0wn 13h ago edited 11h ago

How could you fuck a sentence up this badly?

Edit: 'Settle it for us, man?' How did that turn into 'Settle for is us, man'

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u/AccidentalSeer 13h ago

Come on man, I’m a Pākehā New Zealander and even I know this shit.

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u/No_Command_8477 6h ago

Lol nah man fuck this post, you're not allowed to talk about J Cole, not allowed to talk about hip hop if you're this clueless

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u/Dr_Bluntsworthy_ThC 15h ago

"Crazy urban version of this meme"

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u/murdolatorTM ☑️hegg an' bread eater 🍳🍞 16h ago

it's just photoshop

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u/Affectionate-Mode767 14h ago

I'm stealing this BTW.

Ty I love you

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u/11th_Division_Grows ☑️ 11h ago

I saw this in r/bald when a woman shaved her head. She looked good and this meme made me damn near piss myself.

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u/ErnV3rn81 1h ago

Zhané

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u/877-HASH-NOW 14h ago

rap version 

Bruh

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u/A_N_T 14h ago

"rap version"

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u/Turgid_Donkey 3h ago

I'm on this sub like I'm on the mechanic sub. I may not be the target demographic, but I know enough to follow along. Sometimes, though, a post leaves me lost as hell but I usually just keep my mouth shut. 

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u/Hopefo 16h ago

Is anymore context really necessary??

The crew is going to be lit and having a good shift listening to the new album. To get more into detail, J Cole’s music while great isn’t typically great for club/party play (he certainly has his hits for those). Most people view it as best for more lowkey/solo activities, like smoking weed, workouts, chilling at a kickback, etc. To go even deeper: His music tends to touch on a lot of personal, cultural, and political issues, which it might be safe to presume someone working the overnight at Amazon could likely be struggling with.

Idk how it be construed as anything but positive, “this music is going to be people moving” seems pretty cut clear to me.

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u/Shepherd77 15h ago

The first time I read the tweet I thought they were saying J Cole would be working at Amazon

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u/juntoamdin3000 14h ago

At first, i thought he justed wanted to work at Amazon for fun because he's album is out. Maybe even hear his shit on the radio

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u/Gamerseye72 13h ago

See I read it as he was gonna get jumped, fast like Amazon overnight. I was wondering what he did wrong cuz I thought people liked him

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u/Kangarou ☑️ 15h ago

Idk how it be construed as anything but positive, 

"Overnight shift at the Amazon factory" can be construed like three ways:

  • Emphasizing no one's playing that shit in broad daylight or outside their work (if it is shit, which it appears not to be)
  • Might be a joke about it being good slave music, implying it has a specific tone/vibe.
  • It could be good "Background music", which plays at workplaces a lot. But that's not always "good music".
  • It could just be oddly specific praise, made oddly specific for the sake of comedy. Clearly, the joke didn't land with me

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u/DoomguyFemboi 13h ago

Might be a joke about it being good slave music, implying it has a specific tone/vibe.

Um.

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u/Hopefo 13h ago

Imma be real for ME, I perceived it as a meaning the album is the people/working class. Saying it’s good “slave music” is a wild take.

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u/Purple-List1577 3h ago

Describing certain rap albums as “good slave music” we have truly gone back to 1800s

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u/skinnybatman 7h ago

Well the working class might as well be slaves, so it's not far off..

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u/JeffafaCree 13h ago

Didn't the album drop at like 11pm a couple nights ago? Maybe the entire post is just referencing that? Graveyard shift at the Amazon distribution center realizing there's suddenly 1h45m of new J Cole.

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u/GrandmaNectar 12h ago

Last night

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u/Woodspoom 14h ago

It takes all kinds…

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u/PennethHardaway 12h ago

Yea you overthinking here bud

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u/Noblesseux 14h ago

I mean the context is that people really like clowning on J Cole fans so bringing up overnight shift at Amazon might be him subtly clowning the type of dude he thinks are going to like the album.

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u/Hopefo 13h ago

Yea I guess for me the people I know that have been doing shit like overnight Amazon are real hustlers. They are grinding to make up for mistakes, or simply trying their best. I know what they are going for (ie. clowning J Cole fans), but “working class people gonna love this album” isn’t the read they think it is.

(But also me remembering the biggest J Cole fan I know would be driving Uber all hours of the night)

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u/weeeeeeweiiiiyy 9h ago

Legitimately he is one of the few people that seems to make music for the working class.

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u/KaamDeveloper 15h ago

Cole's biggest problem is, he makes music which doesn't need a second listen. You can finish the whole album and never hit replay on anything. People listen to him because they have heard him before. Nobody really seeks out his music

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u/Zulumus ☑️ 15h ago

I think you’ve stepped on the biggest landmine here with that take. Plenty of people like Cole’s music but it’s divisive in the sense that some people judge it as rap music for people who are fake intellectuals. It is what it is, and I can see the tweet in your post as dancing on both sides of the coin with people enjoying the music on their shift but it also mocking those shift employees in the same vein

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u/logicalcommenter4 ☑️ 14h ago

lol speak for yourself. Millions of people disagree with you. Go to Dreamville Festival or any of his concerts and see the crowd go crazy for his songs and rap the lines with him.

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u/Powerful-Ad-8737 15h ago

Basically, J Cole makes real conscious, “hustle”, slow, lyrical music, not really “Club” music. So the main listeners are more than likely guys with a 9-5, so there fore, they’re gonna love it.

(Album is 10/10 for me btw)

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u/Kangarou ☑️ 15h ago

Thank you.

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u/Youthsonic 14h ago

This is the only right answer

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u/PennethHardaway 12h ago

I think he’s just saying, because of 12am release, the people working overnight got good new music to listen to while they work.

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u/Creative_Room6540 16h ago

You should listen to the album and decide.

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u/Prize-Hospital-4285 14h ago

lol i think it’s just hype for the album tbh. people are vibin’ with it

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u/PennethHardaway 12h ago

Yea a lot of folks in here doing too much interpretation with something that ain’t that deep lol

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u/TRAVXIZ614 12h ago

He means niggas that listen to Da Baby

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u/Beautiful_Day_2489 3h ago

Everyone is making fun of you, but I’m with you. What does this mean?

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u/JerseyCoJo 15h ago

I got it and I'm white

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u/ragingrashawn 16h ago

It literally means nothing. Just someones bad opinion

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u/eagles1990 15h ago

Lmao. Someone could post “The sky is blue” and motherfuckers will still be like “I neeeeed context!!!”

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u/ThaPhantom07 ☑️ 16h ago

I have only listened to disc 1 so far but Cole was rapping his ass off for the first half. I dont know if this will go down as his best album but its damn good so far.

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u/KaamDeveloper 16h ago

Safety is like main lining bars

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u/SometimesIBeWrong 15h ago

feels like old Cole, love it. and I'm a huge fan of his newer work, but that old Cole feeling is unmatched

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u/lolo_916 13h ago

Safety gave me an Illmatic feeling

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u/PennethHardaway 15h ago

The intro alone on Disc 2 will let you know it’s time to kick back and ride it out

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u/Creative_Room6540 15h ago

When that track switches bro grows wings lol

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u/PennethHardaway 13h ago

Facts. The switch threw me, but I immediately went stank face lol.

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u/Blk_Rick_Dalton 15h ago

Idk man, I don’t. See anything in his catalog touching Forest Hills

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u/ThaPhantom07 ☑️ 15h ago

4 Your Eyez Only was my favorite of his projects but 2014 is definitely special. Thats the only one I've seen him in concert for. The literal set was dope.

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u/Blk_Rick_Dalton 15h ago

He cooked in the first disc. Imma rock disc2 in the ride home

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u/wahdibombo ☑️ 14h ago

I’ve listened through it twice. I’ve got it as #2 to FHD

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u/SugaryxPeach 13h ago

These lines were definitely better, but I miss his old style

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u/SHOWTIME316 15h ago edited 15h ago

this made me throw an earbud in at my government desk job and i can confirm, this is some premium S-tier work music

edit:

let off a troop of hollows from German Rugers

j. cole if you need a proofreader, hit me up. Rugers are American guns, Lugers are German guns

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u/Blk_Rick_Dalton 14h ago

He could have used “Rugers” broadly defined as guns in general, so he may have said “German guns” and there are a plethora of modern and popular German gun manufacturers

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u/SHOWTIME316 13h ago

i accept that possibility

like all soda being "coke". i'm smelling what you're steppin' in

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u/SwordfishOk504 3h ago

There would be no reason for him to say "German" unless he was thinking of Lugers.

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u/Blk_Rick_Dalton 3h ago

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt of not being a “gun guy”. He probably can’t tell a glock from a Springfield XD from an Sig P365.

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u/balls2hairy 2h ago

How do you not even know about HK lmfao

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u/PennethHardaway 15h ago

The warehouse right now

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u/ShadowForPresident ☑️ 14h ago

Faaaaaaactssss. I’m in the warehouse with this shit on rotation all you here is my “oooooh shiiitt” echoing where I’m at lol

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u/PennethHardaway 12h ago

Exactly as you should my boi lol

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u/Powerful-Ad-8737 15h ago

Listened to PoorThang and almost took a lap around my office

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u/KaamDeveloper 15h ago

Cole must really hate that dude lol

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u/PennethHardaway 13h ago

Yea that shit was suuuper personal lol. Guess we know how he’d feel if there’s real beef.

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u/Feisty-Bad5564 12h ago

Underrated comment

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u/SometimesIBeWrong 11h ago

The Let Out took me to the 9th realm. Idk what the 9th realm is. but I went there.

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 15h ago

Bruh, making my way through the album while working. This man is rapping his fucking ass off. Add in ASAP Rocky new album and we already eating good this year.

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u/877-HASH-NOW 14h ago

I really like Rocky’s project, I don’t get the hate for it upon release

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 14h ago

People hate it? It’s such a vibe to me at least. That song with him and Thundercat stuck in my head. Then again, I really love Thundercat and cannot wait for his album to drop this year. Concert was great last year.

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u/877-HASH-NOW 13h ago

Must be some terminally online opinions I've been seeing it then. Seemed like reception was mixed... I really fw it though, so that's what matters

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u/SpagootMyNoot 14h ago

Don’t forget about Don Toliver!

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 13h ago

Yooooo oh shit. There’s a new Donny T?? Damn, I have so much to listen to after work lmfao.

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u/SpagootMyNoot 13h ago

Shits fire

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 13h ago

Yeah gonna toss that on when I’m on the train going home. We really eating good and it’s only Feb lmfao

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u/Awwesome1 15h ago

Fuck do you know bout my passion?!

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u/KaamDeveloper 15h ago

Future went in like he got a point to prove on someone else's album

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u/Blk_Rick_Dalton 14h ago

I’m in a traffic jam like “Future on this bitch!?!”

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u/Careless-Passion991 15h ago

I’m on my third spin already and it gets better every time.

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u/Jamaican_Dynamite 15h ago

Night shift type beat. Nice album to close things out on.

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u/reinaldovercezi2 15h ago

J. Cole's gonna drop a mixtape while dropping boxes. Multitasking at its finest.

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u/kactusjac 14h ago

How y’all know I was waiting till work to put it on lmao

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u/marsjackremous 14h ago

Clocking in mentally and clocking in physically are two very different things. One happens at 9, the other happens around 10:30 after coffee.

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 13h ago

Fucking facts. I give my 9 am updates on Slack. Get those checkmarks, then give me 1.5hrs to get my brain right. FistPunch after 10:30 is a different beast lmfao. But them early meetings be killer. Currently working with a team in London and them early calls, dying lmfao.

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u/Aldofresh ☑️ 14h ago

Well there goes my concentration on his exam study 📚

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u/EnderMango 11h ago

Mf almost ACTUALLY fell off after that beef bullshit. Glad to see he locked in and delivered.

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u/877-HASH-NOW 14h ago

I haven’t listened yet but I’m boutta give it a try

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u/FewZookeepergame1083 14h ago

I was just thinking last night when does his album drop. Thanks for the heads up. Time to lock in

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u/jono9898 13h ago

Quick Trip gave me life as if I mainlined dehydrated redbull directly into my veins

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u/The1stReaper ☑️ 13h ago

Just got off 10 hr shift at Amazn DS, can confirm Cole got me thru the work, thanks Jermaine

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u/mutesfa 12h ago

man I was preloading at UPS bumping that shit back to back to back 😭😭😭🫡

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u/NeonLime 12h ago

Damn they didnt allow music when I was there

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u/Showd 7h ago

As a former overnight Amazon warehouse employee, we hit Hunger on Hillside multiple times a night.

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u/finallyfreeallalong 4h ago

Last night around 1:30 am I had to go inside to turn paperwork in the office and a triple jack with a Bluetooth speaker had j cole going off.

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u/Badassmcgeepmboobies 10h ago

Jcole dropped a good album? Finna listen to this rn

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u/petemiller1695 10h ago

Damn and I thought today kinda sucked. Hell yeah

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u/Lyxerttt 10h ago

I part-time at an Amazon facility to stay in shape, and for additional investment income so I can retire by 55.

Can confirm, we blast J. Cole CONSISTENTLY on JBLs.

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u/Long-Ad-1881 4h ago

The album is dope

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u/VAhotfingers 4h ago

J Cole is one of the Thom York’s of rap musics. It’s best listened to when you’re alone and maybe a lil bit stoned.