![]() Cole, who’s not only being backed by Jay-Z, but was preordained by everyone’s favorite half-Jewish Mafioso/professional pillow talking crooner/rapping Canuck, Drake, as having a “Nas-type character”, premiered with such a painstakingly average debut album.īut among the influx of up-and-coming rappers that face the seeming disadvantage of possibly being the face of their generation is the 25-year-old Compton native, Kendrick Lamar. The sinking realization that the same rapper who was destined to be the herald of the impending “new wave” of rap may not be that forerunner for his respective generation hits somewhere around the part where then rap's presumed messiah of yesteryear, J.Cole, had the audacity to rattle off such bafflingly awful lines as: “Hey, Cole heatin’ up like left-over lasagna” on his highly anticipated debut album. The initial reception to rappers who are pegged as harbingers of the “new school” is always tumultuously optimistic – until their first major release. By Spectrum Staff Writer - October 22, 2012
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