Test your knowledge of J. Cole's biggest hits, deep cuts and iconic moments.
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His clearest singles give themselves away: the flip on 'No Role Modelz', the horns of 'Middle Child', the workout bounce of 'Work Out'. These are the guess-the-song gimmes before the hookless story songs begin.
The facts behind the verses decide a tie: a platinum album with no guests, a debut single built on a Paula Abdul sample, the first name Jay-Z signed to Roc Nation. The detail a close quiz keeps for last.
J. Cole's catalog splits by difficulty. Start with his rare radio hooks, then move to the story songs with no chorus to grab, the no-feature albums, and the mixtape and Dreamville cuts only day-ones hold.
Cole does not chase hits, so the easy points are his few hook-driven singles: 'No Role Modelz', 'Middle Child', 'G.O.M.D.' and the early 'Work Out'. Most players place these from the chorus, which makes them the gentle opening of a J. Cole quiz.
Here the quiz gets specific to Cole. 'Wet Dreamz' narrates a nervous first time, 'Lost Ones' argues both sides of an unplanned pregnancy, and '4 Your Eyez Only' unfolds as a letter to a friend's daughter. With no hook to hum, you have to know the verse to name the song.
Cole records almost entirely alone, and 2014 Forest Hills Drive went platinum without a single guest. So when his voice does appear elsewhere, on Miguel's 'Power Trip' or 21 Savage's 'a lot', it stands out, and a good quiz asks you to catch him as a guest.
The top tier lives before and around the albums: mixtape cuts from The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights, plus Dreamville compilation tracks like 'Down Bad'. Place these from a short clip and you are guessing like a day-one Dreamville fan.
His fans pride themselves on knowing the verse, not just the hook. Play a rap quiz on Songtrivia and try to name 'No Role Modelz', 'Wet Dreamz' and 'Middle Child' from a short clip.
His real name is Jermaine Lamarr Cole. He was born on a US military base in Germany on January 28, 1985, and grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Expect his best-known tracks from the 2010s and into the 2020s, including 'No Role Modelz', 'Middle Child', 'Wet Dreamz', 'Work Out' and 'G.O.M.D.'.
The singles are easy points, but Cole builds few radio hooks, so the trap is a story song like 'Lost Ones' or '4 Your Eyez Only' that you can only place by the verse. That is exactly the round to guess the song with friends in a multiplayer music quiz.
Cole records almost entirely alone; 2014 Forest Hills Drive went platinum with no guests. That is why his features on Miguel's 'Power Trip' and 21 Savage's 'a lot' stand out, and a quiz likes to test them.
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