Cole | The Roxy | West Hollywood, CA | 10/23/21
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Cole – “No Role Modelz” – SiriusXM Small Stage Series Scroll down for a complete setlist of the concert and head to the SiriusXM website for details on future Small Stage Series concerts. Cole perform “No Role Modelz” for the SiriusXM Small Stage Series below. Bush “fool me once” faux pas, the rapper let a chuckle ring through the microphone, which added some levity to the four-minute telling. While Cole progressed through the song, the audience aided him on lines like “Don’t save her/She don’t wanna be saved.” During the breakdown section which hears the infamous George W. As his backing band dropped into the opening measures the venue erupted with cheers. He played this rendition of “No Role Modelz” by the book for the West Hollywood crowd. Related: SiriusXM Shares Pro-Shot “2001” From Phish Met Philly Performance The hip-hop giant also treated fans to covers of Jeremih‘s “Planez”, Dreamville‘s “Under the Sun”, and Young Thug‘s “The London”. Throughout the evening, Cole dropped hits like “MIDDLE CHILD” and “Work Out” alongside deeper cuts like the Missy Elliot collab, “Nobody’s Perfect”. Ebm Db Bb Ebm Bbm Ebm Gb Bbm Ab Gb Ebm To die a young legend or live a long life unfulfilled Bm Cause you wanna change the world Bbm But while alive you never will Ebm. On October 23rd, it arrived as the penultimate song on a 21-track setlist. “No Role Modelz”, which has garnered over one billion streams on Spotify alone, initially appeared on J. The intimate, 500-capacity show came as part of the Small Stage Series, which sees top artists in music and comedy performing at small iconic venues across the United States for SiriusXM subscribers and Pandora listeners. Cole performing “No Role Modelz” from The Roxy in West Hollywood, CA, on October 23rd. And songs like the beautifully sparse “Love Yourz,” where he issued the sobering reminder that “there’s no such thing as a life that’s better than yours,” are more affecting live as the sincerity of Cole’s slice-of-life reflections permeated throughout the building, hitting the intended targets in the audience.SiriusXM has released a pro-shot video of J. These moments, where Cole blends the right amount of humor and insight, underline his success.
Cole refocused with “Neighbors,” complete with frank narration of surveillance footage showing the futile, racially motivated police raid of his home and studio. The second it felt like he was deviating from the evening’s narrative, J. After opening the show with the first four songs from “4 Your Eyez Only” (“For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “Immortal,” “Deja Vu,” and “Ville Mentality”), he promised to perform the album in its entirety - but not without reaching back into his catalogue: his 2009 breakthrough “Lights Please,” “Nobody’s Perfect,” from his 2011 debut album “ Cole World: The Sideline Story,” and “Forbidden Fruit” from 2013’s “ Born Sinner,” to name a few.
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But atop a stage adorned with barbed wire, barred windows and clusters of surveillance cameras, his performance felt more one-man theatrical display than prison-yard soliloquy. Cole’s entry was quite literally a staged imprisonment. Cole doubled down on the album’s theme and one thing that’s made his name one of the biggest in rap: speaking from the heart.ĭressed in an orange jumpsuit and surrounded by security guards, J. I think somethings not good enough, and I wont stop until I feel like Ive made it. The 4 Your Eyez Only Tour kicks off in South Carolina with a run of thirteen small, intimate shows before going into Live Nation arenas in North America and the U.K., along with a mix of arena and theatre dates in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. And during a very good, very detail-oriented performance at Verizon Center Tuesday (the venue became Capital One Arena on Wednesday morning), J. American - Musician Born: January 28, 1985. Cole announces today that he will hit the road for a 57-city world tour. He’s had ample time to think about the best use of his platform, be it recently visiting inmates at San Quentin State Prison in California or using his most recent album, “ 4 Your Eyez Only,” as a semi-fictional microscope for the fragility of life told largely from a friend’s perspective. The 32-year-old moved back to his native North Carolina after years in New York, becoming a husband and father and living with much-valued privacy. Cole has withdrawn from the public eye in recent years. Regardless, the rapper remains committed to that honesty - and most importantly, to himself.ĭespite his swelling popularity, J. It’s the defining characteristic that endears him to his millions of adoring fans, but for critics who only find snore-inducing banality in his candor, it’s a high crime.