Cole World: The Sideline Story
by J. Cole
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J. Cole bestography
Cole World: The Sideline Story is ranked 7th 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 1704 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,000.
(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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Cole World: The Sideline Story track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 70 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 03/12/2026 10:37 | Mafedere | 580 | 75/100 | |
| 08/19/2025 10:36 | Bjartmar03 | 656 | 59/100 | |
| 07/01/2025 04:29 |  Nacho212 | 1,928 | 72/100 | |
| 06/15/2025 12:56 | cicadelic | 12,983 | 73/100 | |
| 04/29/2025 04:36 | PapaShiz86 | 11,431 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.7/100, a mean average of 64.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Good album, filled with bangers.
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.
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!
by far the best hip hop debut album since Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor back in 2006.
covecove 10/24/2011 14:48 | #29034
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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