He was so focused on his goal and is now realizing that his time with his mom is coming to a close.

The line should read “how I treat you And my girl” not ‘with’… Cole is talking about his wife in that part of the line, how he should treat his wife and mom better because they both love him very much

I am still upset that I’m credited with only 2% of this annotation man that’s fucked up 😭

@FelicityOlsen

The word play you told us about “unless he dribbles” is correct but you didn’t explain it fully

J cole is saying a black person is never shown on T.V. or media unless he dribbles i.e., plays basketball or unless he dribbles where dribbles means when saliva comes out of your refering to the idiom “A dribbling idiot” meaning that a person who’s intellectually deficient and not even aware enough that he’s dribbling out of his mouth and wouldn’t even wipe it summing up that a black man wouldn’t come on T.V. unless he is mentally deficient or “A dribbling idiot”

now this kinda a difficult phrase to understand
“fiddle with mics”
as fiddle means a lot of things but after some research I couldn’t find “play with”

but according to me it could be interpreted as

fiddle meaning cheating or falsifying , therefore as a rapper scaming people or saying false thing

and if fiddle means to “play with” ur 3 points about Jordon,gay scheme, a rapper would be true✔️✔️

Why are rappers supposedly non-intellectual? Writing good raps takes some exceptional understanding of the English language, which takes some smarts. Music is an art form. There’s nothing wrong with rap in general, but the real problem in my opinion is that black people shouldn’t be limited in terms of what they can become.

Guys please stop putting references to Ferguson everywhere. He can’t be referring to Ferguson because this album was released literally a month after Michael Brown was shot. The riots then happened after whilst he must have been preparing the release and preparing for his promo. He is simply talking about racism in general.

So he is talking about how the media only shows black people with non intellectual roles/statuses. These are often only basketball players or are performers of some sort (mainly rappers).

There is a major play on words here.
“Unless he dribble” could be interpreted in 2 ways :
1. Dribbling as one would do in basketball
2. A dribbling person. Certain disabilities cause certain people to dribble. This could suggest that they only show blacks that have something mentally wrong with them.

The “he fiddle with mics” could be interpreted in 3 ways :

1. He uses the microphone. He raps, sings or anything performance related.
2. Mics could also mean Mikes as in Michael Jordan, the famous black basketball player.

3. The term “fiddle” can mean “to play with”. So he could also be suggesting here that blacks aren’t shown in the media unless if they are non straight/gay/sexually ambiguous.
   Let’s replace the term fiddle with “play with” and the word mics with “Mikes” which is a common first name for boys/men.

4. (..) or he plays with Mikes.