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ALBUMMight Delete LaterJ. Cole
Albums by J. Cole
ALBUMMight Delete LaterJ. Cole
ALBUMMight Delete LaterJ. Cole
ALBUMD-Day: A Gangsta Grillz MixtapeDreamville & J. Cole
ALBUMThe Off-SeasonJ. Cole
ALBUMRevenge of the Dreamers III: Director's CutDreamville & J. Cole
ALBUMRevenge of the Dreamers IIIDreamville & J. Cole
ALBUMKODJ. Cole
ALBUM4 Your Eyez OnlyJ. Cole
ALBUMRevenge of the Dreamers IIDreamville & J. Cole
ALBUM2014 Forest Hills DriveJ. Cole
J. Cole's Popular Music Videos
A Lot (feat. J. Cole)
21 Savage
MIDDLE CHILD
J. Cole
Under The Sun (feat. DaBaby)
Dreamville, J. Cole & Lute
All My Life (feat. J. Cole)
Lil Durk
ATM
J. Cole
Pretty Little Fears (feat. J. Cole)
6LACK
First Person Shooter (feat. J. Cole)
Drake
The London (feat. J. Cole & Travis Scott)
Young Thug
Your Heart
Joyner Lucas & J. Cole
Kevin’s Heart
J. Cole
Artist Playlists
J. Cole Essentials
The rare rapper capable of reconciling the conscious with the commercial.
J. Cole Video Essentials
No theatrics, just straight-up realness.
J. Cole: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
J. Cole: Deep Cuts
Thought-provoking gems buried in the rapper's discography.
Set List: Drake & J. Cole’s It's All a Blur Tour - Big as the What?
Every song Drake and J. Cole are performing on their massive joint tour.
J. Cole: Influences
The artists that inspired the rapper from Forest Hills Drive.
J. Cole: Sing
Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Artist Biography
Raised on 2Pac, Biggie, Nas, and JAY-Z, J. Cole emerged in the 2010s as a kind of torchbearer for serious hip-hop. He takes on capital-T topics with an earnestness—and moral imperative—that most rappers seem to avoid. A North Carolina native (born in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1985), Cole moved to New York City on scholarship to St. John’s University, graduating magna cum laude while making beats on the side, at one point waiting outside JAY-Z’s studio for three hours to give him a CD. Jay dismissed him initially, but circled back a year or so later on the strength of Cole’s mixtapes, making him the first signee to the Roc Nation label. Cole’s since gone on to release a string of ambitious, increasingly confident albums, often meditating on single subjects at length: 2018’s KOD, for example, offered a sustained look at addiction, while several songs on 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only were written from the perspective of a friend killed in his early twenties after leaving the drug game—a composite of people Cole knew from childhood. Despite the gravity of his subjects (and his sobering delivery), Cole—like his occasional collaborator Kendrick Lamar—is the rare artist who's managed to reconcile the conscious with the commercial, balancing his conceptual side with giant singles like “Work Out,” “Deja Vu,” and “ATM.”
Hometown
Frankfurt, Germany
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap