Listen to “Snow on tha Bluff” by J. Cole
Everyone, please take the time out of your day to say a prayer for Jermaine Cole. His feelings have been hurt by an unnamed woman (potentially Noname) who subtly alluded to his ignorance in a tweet (the possible source). How else was Jermaine supposed to respond to such an attack? (A DM?! Ignore it?!) No! He has pride. So duh, of course, he instead scrolled her Twitter timeline until he worked up the courage to drop the passive-aggressive, finger-wagging “Snow on tha Bluff,” which carries this message: Damn, you’re smart, but why not be a little bit nicer about it? “But, shit, it’s something about the queen tone that’s bothering me,” he raps, in a voice that sounds like he’s giving his mom a trembling explanation about how he spilled juice on her new carpet.
Does this unnamed woman have no sympathy? Does this unnamed woman have no heart? “She strike me as somebody blessed enough to grow up in a conscious environment/With parents that know ’bout the struggle for liberation and in turn they provided with,” he wordily spits, clearly fuming. Jermaine is only 35 years old. A boy. How could she have expected him to be as informed as she is? But he did it! He showed that meanie! After lashing out in the booth, I imagine Jermaine stuck his tongue out at her, before placing a Band-Aid—with cartoons—on his bruised ego.