Cole World: The Sideline Story (studio album) by J. Cole

Cole World: The Sideline Story by J. Cole
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-09-26
Overall rank: 13,409th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 78 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2011 (298th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (2,852nd)
Award Best albums of all time (13,409th)
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J. Cole bestography

Cole World: The Sideline Story is ranked 7th best out of 14 albums by J. Cole on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by J. Cole is 2014 Forest Hills Drive which is ranked number 1369 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,272.

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Cole World: The Sideline Story track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 72 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rating: 66 (11 votes)Comments: 0
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Average Rating: 
66/100 (from 78 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.0/100, a mean average of 64.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.

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75/100
From 12/09/2020 16:26
Good album, filled with bangers.
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From 05/23/2018 01:48
Back when J Cole did album with features. Definitively a more pop style of production but still some great songs like Lost Ones and Dollar and a Dream.
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From 07/05/2017 16:38
Might not be Cole at his most lyrical but damn the production is dope, I think some people forget that J. Cole produced 12 out of 16 of the beats on this album. Not to say his bars aren't great either because theres still a lot of stand outs here!
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From 01/08/2012 21:24
by far the best hip hop debut album since Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor back in 2006.
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From 10/24/2011 14:48
Certainly enjoyable at certain points because he decides to use a different approach in terms of samples and interpolations but when it comes to flow, Cole feels a bit regular and the album doesn't completelely clicks because of it, not bad but not that big...
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