J Cole may be first known as Jay-Z's protege but he has emerged from the sidelines to become a Billboard chart topper. He was born Jermaine Lamarr Cole on January 28, 1985 in Frankfurt, Germany onto a European American mother and an African American father. He moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina with his mother when his father left the family.
J Cole has recently been left out of the 2016 music conversation. Until today. Two months ago J Cole claimed that his performance at Meadows Fest in New York would be his last show for a “very long time.” No one really knew what he meant by that. But today a link was released saying he is releasing a new album on Friday December 9th called 4 Your Eyez Only. The album comes out exactly two years from the day that he released his last album. 2014 Forest Hills Drive. That album reached double platinum and broke so many records.
Despite Cole’s claims of stepping away from the stage, a corresponding tour is a welcomed thought. His Forest Hills Drive tour sold approximately 565,000-575,000 tickets according to Cole’s booking agent, Rob Gibbs. The tour generated multiple sellouts, including the 18,000-capacity Madison Square Garden, and grossed over $16 million from July to September, according to Billboard.
Cole is one of rap’s more emotional artists since arriving on the scene, but it has often felt as if he slightly crosses the line between fully speaking his mind and keeping the peace. But according to his new documentary, he has few inhibitions as an artist and feels that now is his opportunity to spill his thoughts and let out his opinion.
“First of all, you get to this height or this level of your career, in terms of platform, who’s to say the next one, the next one might go down, it could go up,” he says. “You’re never guaranteed to be this high again. And while I’m here, let me use this opportunity to say the realest shit I’ve ever said.”
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