Which is better: The Warm Up or Friday Night Lights?

idoitforhiphop10

It's no question that these are J. Cole's two seminal works. Cole probably won't even surpass these two projects (unless Born Sinner proves otherwise). Which of these do you think is cole at his best?

The Warm Up:





Friday Night Lights:

DMTxCannabis

The Warm Up

The Warm Up, hands down..

BlackGerald

can't chose. FNL should have been the album

idoitforhiphop10

The Warm Up

I will say this tho, fnl imo had better, more polished production. But warm up i think was better lyrically. He had more storytellin and conceptual songs on there.

CJ

Can't choose man..lol

buttuh_b

Both wack

Lab Baby

idoitforhiphop10 wrote: »

I will say this tho, fnl imo had better, more polished production. But warm up i think was better lyrically. He had more storytellin and conceptual songs on there.

All this. Warm Up felt like an actual mixtape. FNL made me mad cuz he threw away what could've been a really dope album, then give us the slighty above par Cole World, which felt more like a mixtape than FNL.

And Looking For Trouble is fuckin epic.

RodrigueZz

The Warm Up

I loved the warm up. I will personally go as far to say it's in my top 10 mixtapes of all time.

He really talked about internal conflict a lot on that tape. The struggle between right and wrong, light and dark, Black and white, within every man and in our society. It was very subtle too - he did not do it solely by coming outright and saying it directly. He did it through story telling, through description of his own feelings and the details of how he saw the nature of his world.

FNL was dope, but he changed a bit and it sounds like he tried to go for a more appealing sound. It was the beginning of his quest to get that radio hit.

BDB

The Warm Up

DMTxCannabis wrote: »

The Warm Up, hands down..

andre_1024

The Warm Up

Goin with Warm Up..

Monizzle14

The Warm Up

buttuh_b wrote: »

Both wack

any nigga who has french montana in their top 5 is ignored on the IC please take your lameness to sohh.com fourms thank you

idoitforhiphop10

The Warm Up

Lab Baby wrote: »

idoitforhiphop10 wrote: »

I will say this tho, fnl imo had better, more polished production. But warm up i think was better lyrically. He had more storytellin and conceptual songs on there.

All this. Warm Up felt like an actual mixtape. FNL made me mad cuz he threw away what could've been a really dope album, then give us the slighty above par Cole World, which felt more like a mixtape than FNL.

And Looking For Trouble is fuckin epic.

The thing wit his album is u could tell that he was just tryin to play it safe. Wit songs like workout, can't get enough, nobody's perfect, Mr. Nice watch, cole world, and in the mornin, he was desperately tryin to chase a hit due to pressure. He's been sayin lately that he has more freedom and he's in the same space now as he was in durin the warm up, so maybe he can redeem himself on born sinner *crosses fingers* .

n.mcfly

Friday Night Lights

I still go back to fnl I haven't played warm up in who knows how long

Lou Cypher

The Warm Up

Warm up Was the shit. So was FNL but i played the Warm up More.

idoitforhiphop10

The Warm Up

Bump for the niggas who ain't vote yet.

32DaysOfInfiniti

The Warm Up

The Warm Up, I was hype and putting all my homies on Cole when I heard that but then when I listened to Friday Night Lights I renigged after hearing all that off key singing...

I havent fucked with him since

DMTxCannabis

The Warm Up

Lab Baby wrote: »

idoitforhiphop10 wrote: »

I will say this tho, fnl imo had better, more polished production. But warm up i think was better lyrically. He had more storytellin and conceptual songs on there.

All this. Warm Up felt like an actual mixtape. FNL made me mad cuz he threw away what could've been a really dope album, then give us the slighty above par Cole World, which felt more like a mixtape than FNL.

And Looking For Trouble is fuckin epic.

Cosign 100%.. I remember when Higher was rumored to be a single for Cole's debut before FNL came out..

And Cole sounded real sharp on The Warm Up, and the concepts were on point as well..