4 Your Eyez Only
by J. Cole
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J. Cole bestography
4 Your Eyez Only is ranked 3rd best out of 17 albums by J. Cole on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by J. Cole is 2014 Forest Hills Drive which is ranked number 1745 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 979.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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4 Your Eyez Only track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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4 Your Eyez Only rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Les Echos Les 10 meilleurs albums HipHop / R'n'B de 2016 | 10/10 | - |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 98 Music Albums of 2016 | 64/98 | 2 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | XXL Mag 50 Best Hip-Hop Projects of 2016 | 30/50 | - |
| 2025 | Hyggevinyl | Top 58 Music Albums of 2016 | 49/58 | 1 |
| 2025 | Bjartmar03 | Top 22 Music Albums of 2016 | 11/22 | 3 |
| 2025 | SUPERJEFF6 | Top 100 Albums According to Keegan's Twitter Followers | 54/100 | - |
| 2025 | Bjartmar03 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 39/100 | 12 |
| 2025 |  travelful | Top 100 Music Albums of 2016 | 96/100 | 0 |
| 2025 | jackq | Top 16 Music Albums of 2016 | 7/16 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 51 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 178 | |||
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4 Your Eyez Only ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/08/2026 20:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,671 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/12/2026 17:37 | daCritic | 4,634 | 73/100 |
| ! | 02/07/2026 15:42 | TonySayers61 | 25,676 | 64/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.4/100, a mean average of 68.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.9.
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souplipton 12/14/2016 05:47 in What album are you listening to right now?4 Your Eyez Only comments
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Most of it is amazing, some of it makes me snore.
quite good and some nice ideas in there nonetheless (Edited)
Could not stand this album and never finished it. No track stood out. Coming from a J Cole fan that appreciated him a lot more when he dropped mixtapes. (Edited)
This album has an interesting concept and some pretty meaningful songs I just wish the wordplay & lyrics were stronger. (Edited)
tgarritsen 12/28/2016 17:46 | #181147
Nice album, a little uneventful but really nice easy sounds. And it's more about the story anyway.
Couldn't get through it the first time I listened, but eventually listened to the whole thing through a couple of times over. It's very boring with some incredibly lazy hooks. Not awful, but not good either.
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