What Is Money Without Happiness?

"Love Yourz" is one of many meaningful tracks from J. Cole's album 2014 Forest Drive. In this song J. Cole touches on the rise to fame and how everybody has to find the good in their own lives. He does so in a poetic way through his own perspective and uses his own life experiences.

J. Cole grew up living a less privileged life and now he finds himself in the spotlight. This life, however, does not turn out to be all that he expected. This becomes clear through the line "for what's money without happiness? Or hard times without the people you love". This is the beginning of the theme of this song. That theme being that you must find happiness with what you have, and that fame won't necessarily make you happy.

Always gon' be a whip that's better than the the one you got
Always gon' be some clothes that's fresher than the ones you rock
Always gon' be a bitch that's badder out there on the tours
But you ain't never gon' be happy till you love yours

These four lines sum up the meaning of this song perfectly. J. Cole has climbed from the bottom to the top, and he remembers finding the good in his old life. J. Cole uses repetition to get his point across that no matter what there will always be an upgrade to what you have. In other words, Money does not always mean happiness. Because of this Cole states the you must love what you have instead of wanting something new. That is the theme of this song and J. Cole expresses it in a poetic manner.