J. Cole

Songwriter: J. Cole

[Verse]
Dream like you never seen obstacles
Chasing obscene profits, so we ain’t stopping for the red lights Look in my rear view, all I see is niggas headlights
Catch me if you can, hoe, they try and sack me and I scramble
Look up in the sky, you’ll see exactly where I am, bo
Hey, don’t you see me, man?
Making my wishes come true, with no genie, man?
I got the keys to my beamer with no Beenie Man
I’m on these rich niggas ass, no bikini, man

Jermaine Lamarr Cole (b. January 28th, 1985), better known as J. Cole, is a rapper and producer who was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He gained a passion for rap at a young age and first went by the names Blaza and Therapist (the latter was given to him by Bomb Sheltah, a respected rap group from Fayetteville) before settling on his own name.

He first started getting recognition in 2007 with the release of his debut mixtape The Come Up. First, after a failed attempt to share a CD of his with Jay-Z, it would later be Hov, that would come to his attention after he heard Cole’s song “Lights Please”, Jay-Z would go on to make J. Cole his first signing to his then newly formed record label, Roc Nation, in 2009.

Since then he has become one of the biggest names of the “new school” era, with the release of five platinum certified albums. His debut release Cole The Sideline Story defied industry expectations by selling over 200,000 copies in its first week without a top 40 hit single at the time and his sophomore Born Sinner, saw him go head-to-head with Kanye West in a now iconic sales battle in Hip-Hop. Before this, Cole released two projects that would eventually become his Truly Yourz series, the third project debuted on the deluxe edition of Born Sinner.

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