“Crooked smile” j. cole is a song that most people can relate to, as a whole. Globally most people are changing the way they look or either do not like how they look, causing themselves to love themselves less. This song explains to those that they are perfect the way they are without changes. He says raps in the song that “We ain't picture perfect but we worth the picture still” (line 10) Cole wants the listener to know that the way a person is as perfect as they come. People don’t have to change themselves because god created them in his own personal image of perfect. Humans as well have different opinions on what they think is perfect, someone can see another person as perfect even when the other person views their self as average or ugly.
