4 Your Eyez Only LP fg_Catalog Number_MP0901 later telling Los Angeles historian

later telling Los Angeles historian Harvey Kubernik that Kaddish had stirred “the Yiddish currents in my own blood” and inspired “joy and anguish…the exaltation that great poetry will bring on

I like the thought it can keep growing

the Busby Berkeley influenced psychedelia of Kenny Rogers and the First Edition’s “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition is In”) and the Gypsy Kings’ redefining take on the Eagles’ “Hotel California

It’s a true labor of love

particularly among young people in the South African armed forces

4 Your Eyez Only LP fg_Catalog Number_MP0901 later telling Los Angeles historianJ. Cole's last album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, was both a profound personal statement about childhood, sexual insecurities, adult angst, and the follies of success, on top of being an addictive listen with smooth beats that sounded closer to Jay Z's prime in the early 2000s. But after hints at an early retirement and a declaration in September that he was going to stop performing for "a long time," it's a real sigh of relief to get this album.