J. Cole’s LA Leakers Freestyle

5.13.21

J. Cole via LA Leakers Freestyle 5.12.21

It has been far less than 24 hours and the J. Cole Freestyle with the LA Leakers has already surpassed over two million views on YouTube. On top of that, the reaction videos are plentiful, and going crazy. The LA Leakers suggest they have been waiting for J. Cole to come freestyle for them for the past twelve years, and the day has finally arrived. If J. Cole’s Interlude from his upcoming project The Off-Season was not enough to get you hype, you may want to check out this freestyle.

J. Cole showed up on the scene, ready to go, in an oversized dark gray hoodie, casual as ever. While I feel like I always see him in more of a serious light, he was loose and seemed to be really excited to be there, though the first thing he said was he had not done a freestyle in a long time. Throughout the video he restates it has been a while, and he forgot what it felt like to go in the way he did. as the energy was through the roof.

The Los Angeles Leakers start off J. Cole with the beat of 93 Til Infinity from Souls of Mischief. “Rest assure, the best is here, in the flesh, for sure.” He opens up his bars and everyone is already tapped all the way in. The last thing you need to be in a freestyle is humble, and J. Cole threw that mindset right out the door. While claiming his thrown and living the life that comes with that, his bars were incredible, to think this was an actual freestyle and he made so many comparisons without hesitation. J. Cole made nods to several artists like Van Gogh and Picasso, and John Brown. He smiled throughout the whole thing and ended with “hardest s*** out of the south since slavery.”

It was mostly the delivery for me. If you have been here before, you likely know I am not the biggest J. Cole fan out, there are a lot of those. I want freestyles a lot and people tend to just get so serious, close their eyes, and go in. J. Cole really had fun with, delivered everything with so much energy, hand motions, it was a whole performance, and you can tell he was having a good time. The guys were so impressed, they thought, mayne that one was too easy, and decided to keep going.

The second instrumental played was Still Tippin by Mike Jones. A completely different vibe then the previous track, but a dope beat, nonetheless. The team suggested, since Cole is rapping, let’s give him a real rap song, J. Cole responded “that’s an understatemnt” and called the track a classic.

I am going to say that the second one was not my favorite. The energy and the performance was absolutely still there, but the beat was totally different. J. Cole used this round as an opportunity to rap, and rap quickly. I feel like his flow could have gone over any hard rap beat, I do not really think it was the right flow for Still Tippin. I am not hating though, he really did he thing, especially with that outrageous Bill Cosby line. I think he got tripped up a bit at the end where he decided to end it, but ended it with energy.

J. Cole slouched back and shouted out the album dropping May 14th. There are already dozens of reactions videos on the freestyle already, including one from Shaq Life who said the freestyle might put Eminem in retirement (then swiftly took it back). Needless to say, the fans are ready for the album to drop tomorrow now more than ever.