J. Cole released 2014’s best selling hip-hop album, Forest Hills Drive, which sold over 300,000 copies in its first week; a huge feat in the age of streaming, Spotify, and Pandora. However, there is a good chance you haven’t heard any of the songs from the album, given that Cole accomplished all of this without a radio single.
Tonight you should change that. Cole will be taking the stage this evening at the House of Blues along with three of the genre’s most exciting up-and-coming artists: Bas, Cozz, and Omen.
All three cult sensations are part of Cole’s Dreamville/Interscope Records imprint, which means that Cole guested on and had a role in producing each of their albums.
Despite all being in the same music family, each of the artists will bring their own unique style to the stage. If Cole is the wise patriarch of the bunch, musing anti-consumerist thoughts on Letterman, then Cozz is the fresh-faced youth.
His Dreamville debut Cozz & Effect boils over with energy and punch. A little all over the place lyrically in the most entertaining way possible, the 21-year-old seamlessly raps about everything from “Instagram famous bitches” to “prayin’ I don’t run into a Kryptonite” in his South Central L.A. neighborhood in one flawless swoop.
Bas on the other hand, feels like the flashy one of the bunch filming Spring Break-themed videos complete with girls in bikinis and rapping about enjoying the amenities of first class on tracks like “Charles De Gaulle to JFK.”
Doors open at 7PM.
