"You have to write the first thing that comes to your head, like I need a shower, I stink, I went out last night, red pen, anything that comes to your mind, that’s how I got back to writing, that opened up a lot of things.

I realized I like writing stuff down better, you know what i mean? There’s something more intimate about writing it down.

So, I was reading that book, I started to appreciate it. I got notebooks and notebooks full of lyrics. I also got a blackberry full of notes.

It took me back to when I was a kid."

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 J. Cole Teaches How To Write Rap Songs Quote #1
1:51 #1 Systematic Dedication
3:26 J. Cole Teaches How To Write Rap Songs Quote #2
4:38 Rap Coaching For You
5:07 #2 Searching For Knowledge
5:45 J. Cole Teaches How To Write Rap Songs Quote #3
7:04 J. Cole Teaches How To Write Rap Songs Quote #4
9:52 #3 Focus On Yourself
12:23 J. Cole Teaches How To Write Rap Songs Quote #5

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#1 Systematic Dedication

Although he began rapping under the pseudonym of Therapist in his teens, Cole’s rise to a modern GOAT didn’t happen serendipitously, nor was his incisive style a god given ability.

For Cole, his adeptness on the mic and the consistency of his pen was something that he had to nurture over time and as far as he sees it, there’s no room for complacency or waiting for divine intervention.

A believer in the idea that “when you don’t write for a while and you wait around for inspiration, it’ll never come”, Cole may take a while between projects, but it’s not because he allows his mind to fall silent.

Instead, his absence accounts for him sharpening his sword before each outing.

A man who isn’t afraid of a little self-reflection, one thing that we can take from Cole is the the fact that he took the lessons learned from squandering his potential on the basketball court and parlayed them into his approach to rhyming.

As such, when he entered the rap game, he knew that it was time to put in his 10,000 hours in order to ensure that he wouldn’t fall short of his capabilities.

From The Come Up through to the present day, this desire for improvement and commitment to putting in the hours has yielded a refinement of his flow to a point that it is watertight, as well as a conceptual thoroughness in his writing that can only come with mastering his craft.

And rather than take the foot off the gas as he got acclimated to the renown he receives, Cole has depicted the process behind his most recent project, The Off-Season as one that was born of a similarly regimented tactic as the one he employed on his very first tape.

“Do you really wanna look back ten-twenty years from now and be like, the reason you didn’t make it in this music s**t is because you didn’t put in the work. So, I was like f**k it, that’s where The Warm-Up came from. Every day, I wrote verses, made beats. All that to say was The Off-Season was like the same concept. Before I feel like I’m fulfilled in this game, let me try to reach new heights.” — J. Cole Interview, 1:36

Quick Tip- As well as speaking to his unquenchable hunger for greatness, Cole’s earlier reference to applying techniques from The Artist’s Way into his own work touches upon the importance of arming yourself with knowledge.

By reading and retaining your curiosity about the world, it will always prevent subject matter from becoming stale and it’s safe to say that the repetitiousness that has blighted other rappers’ bars has never been a problem for Cole.

After all, this is a man that managed to make a riveting narrative about unconditional love out of a track entitled “Foldin’ Clothes”.

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