Saturday, August 25th
All I have to say is, thank God for music. I had the most gnarly dental procedure (6.5 hours!!) and was literally in my feelings. My babygirl Danielle (#baybie) came through last minute with an extra ticket to J. Cole at Staples Center. I honestly didn’t even know this was happening. I drove straight from the dentist chair in Encino looking and feeling like a straight mess. Confession: I had FOMO about missing this last night, because I chose E-40 instead.
ain’t nothin like that first time pic.twitter.com/Iwe1hhIWI2
— Shirley Ju (@shirju) August 26, 2018
Welcome to the KOD Tour, with openers Jaden Smith and Young Thug. This was night 2 of 2 sold out shows at one of the biggest venues in LA. Brazy. I was just in a deep convo with someone about how KOD is the album of the year. I went back to it today and I finally understood why. Cole is spitting about real shit. Real life shit that actually matters. Shit that we can relate to and try to better ourselves with. As a bonus, we got to hear him play all his old hits. “Nobody’s Perfect,” “Work Out,” “Wet Dreamz”… the list goes on.
j. cole over here talking about twitter A&Rs lmao
— Shirley Ju (@shirju) August 26, 2018
Again, super not trying to be seen but everyone was in the building: Mustard, Wale, Cozz… and those are just people I saw in the cut. My girl said hi to Cole’s baby on our way in (so adorable), and I drove right past Jaden. I guess Kanye and Kodak Black came through yesterday. Shout out to Dreamville and shout out to Bas who also dropped a fucking fire project. Cole had a long set and he always loves to talk in between songs. Lots of motivational speeches and even a shout out to Kobe Bryant (and LeBron James who I’m not a fan of). He also went on a spiel about twitter A&R’s and how he used to be one. That was a moment.
I didn’t watch the entire show because I head to Mura Masa at The Novo after, but best believe got my fix. Cole world.
Short setlist below:
ATM
Motiv8
Kevin’s Heart
Nobody’s Perfect
Work Out
Can’t Get Enough
Neighbors
Love Yourz
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