Cole operates using an interesting tactic many of the songs are told through the perspective of James. “Immortals” opens with a soulful, anguished moan, and immediately leaps into bar after bar of the glamorized grit and toughness of the protagonist and narrator of the album: James, Cole’s friend.
Cole gives us some of his finest lines the album, while crystallizing the nuanced and tortured vision of the album. What truly defines this album, however, are the tracks “Immortals” and “Deja Vu.” Here J. It brings a grandiose vision and fears and angst that permeates the entire album, one of death, and inner fears, and nearly seamlessly transitions into expansion of this vision, and solidifies it, portraying the best of Cole and “4 Your Eyez Only.” “For Whom The Bell Tolls” represents the album as the whole, painting a rainy picture with an ethereal, glass-like instrumental, and muted, funk-like trumpets. In a period where rap has created masterpieces drawing from other genres, Cole follows suite with a album of his own, remaining distinctive and personal. Weaving together a tale of repressed emotions, love, fear, frustration, and ego with intriguing lyrics and a slurry smooth flow, Cole crafts a steady, yet innovative continuation of his previous work.
Cole capitalizes on the distinctive elements of his last album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, and constructs an introspective, jazz-laden, heavy concept-album.
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