If you're looking for the high points of his discography, these are often cited as his most impactful: "Love Yourz": Famous for the line "No such thing as a life that's better than yours" "Deja Vu":

J. Cole has quietly done something stranger—and, I’d argue, better . He’s built a discography that doesn’t have a single catastrophic failure, and more importantly, each chapter actively improves the ones before it.

His discography shows a positive slope of ability. He is the only rapper of his tier who got better at rapping post-35.