Most moving and forthright is the closing title track, nine minutes of grimly focused reflections from multiple vantage points. One track regards an unjustified SWAT raid on a house he rented for recording, leaving him feeling targeted, "Even when the president jam your tape." There's a moment of levity and sweetness throughout "Foldin Clothes," where Cole enthusiastically handles some domestic duties, while the two parts of "She's Mine" regard, respectively, his wife and daughter. Cole also draws from some aspects of his own life. Told in the first person, most of its tracks trace the life trajectory of Cole's slain friend, as someone who dealt drugs, changed course after falling in love, and died at the age of 22. Released on short notice and with minimal hype, it's another one without guest verses, and his leanest yet. Cole's fourth album arrived exactly two years after 2014 Forest Hills Drive.
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