Latest Release
- 5 APR 2024
- 12 Songs
- 2014 Forest Hills Drive · 2014
- KOD · 2018
- MIDDLE CHILD - Single · 2019
- Might Delete Later · 2024
- The Off-Season · 2021
- KOD · 2018
- 4 Your Eyez Only · 2016
- WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU · 2024
- KOD · 2018
- The Off-Season · 2021
Albums
Artist Playlists
- The rare rapper capable of reconciling the conscious with the commercial.
- No theatrics, just straight-up realness.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- Every song Drake and J. Cole are performing on their massive joint tour.
- The artists that inspired the rapper from Forest Hills Drive.
- Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
- Their 2018 collaboration “a lot” is a classic.
- These two icons had collaborated before, but this song is the one.
- There’s more to “January 28th” than J. Cole’s birthday.
- We're doing this one for Nipsey Hussle… 🏁
About J. Cole
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
- BORN
- 28 January 1985
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap