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SBU | Culture

J. Cole – Love Yourz

Gabrielle Martin Student Contributor, St. Bonaventure University
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SBU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

For Black History Month, I want to pay homage to one of my favorite artists… J. Cole. I grew up listening to J. Cole throughout middle school and high school and I have always had such a love for him as an artist. He released a song in 2014 called “Love Yourz”. I found this song when I was a sophomore in high school and it has had a chokehold on me ever since. I resonated with it so much and I believe other people do as well.

In this song, J. Cole talks about how no matter what you have you should love your life and appreciate it. He starts off the song by just repeating the lyrics “No such thing as a life that’s better than yours”. As the song goes on he describes different situations in life that will make you wish that you had a different life or someone else’s life. He talks about wanting a different car or a different house and then he sings the lyrics “But you ain’t ever gon’ be happy ’til you love yours”. In Cole’s mind, you will never be happy until you appreciate what you have and stop comparing it to what others do. This song is one that was highly raved about when it came out and still is so incredibly popular to this day. It is simply just a happy song that makes you feel good about your life.

I resonated with this song so heavily especially throughout high school. During this time in my life, I struggled with wanting someone else’s life or everything that in my life I did not like. It took me a while to grow out of that mindset in my life but now I can finally agree with what he is saying in this song. In the last couple of years, I have been able to appreciate everything I have going on for me and the people in my life. I spent so much of my life wanting to be someone else that I did not realize everything I was grateful for in my own life.

I invite everyone to go and listen to this song because of how amazing it is. But also to take a step back and think of everything there is to be grateful for in our own lives. Sometimes I go through these cycles in my life where I focus on everything I want to do that I am not doing instead of thinking about everything I am a part of in my everyday life.

Gabrielle Martin

SBU '27

Gabby Martin is a junior writer for HerCampus. This is her third year writing for this organization. She writes about her emotions and current life situations while also talking about mental wellbeing and self care.

Outside of HerCampus she is an Educational Studies major. She also participates in the BEA and Psychology Club. Her last two years writing for HerCampus brought her so much happiness that she cannot wait to embark on another amazing year with this chapter.

She is from Caledonia, New York which is about 30 minutes outside of Rochester. In her free time she's love to spend time with her friends going out to eat or going on walks. She love reality tv shows as well as cheesy romantic comedies. Her favorite food is bagels and she drinks a coffee every single morning when she wakes up. Her main goal in life is to have an imprint on someone's life or have a positive influence on the choices they make in life. She's a girl who definitely makes a ton of mistakes and tries to help others not make the same ones.