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Riff: J. Cole – “Photograph”

Apr 25, 2018

I won’t show my niggas now/I’II keep this one for myself/Love today’s gone digital/And it’s messing with my health

from Photograph lyrics by J. Cole

Over a mellow beat, Cole examines love in the digital age. He’s smitten by a woman he’s never met before, and the only connection he has to her is a photograph. She apparently has everything he’s ever wanted in a woman, and his heart is yearning for her in ways he’s never felt before. When it dawns on him that he’s never felt her touch he gets sick with grief; unsure if what he’s feeling is real.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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