J. Cole

Released: May 4, 2007

Songwriter: J. Cole

[Skit: Freddie P. & J. Cole]
Hello
Hello
Yeah
Hey, is this Cole?
Yeah
Wassup man?
Wassup?
It's Freddie P. man, from high school
Oh shit, how you doing bro
You remember me ?
Yeah
Man, shit, I'm good. Ey shit I heard you up in New York doing your thing man
Yeah man, I'm trying
Shit, keep on doing that shit, I know you putting the ville on the map
Yeah
Ey check this out man, I got some shit going on man. I wanted to talk to you about it
Okay
You know maybe doing some kind of management kind of thing
Euhh aight
Yeah man, I can make some shit happen for you man. Check it out
Watchu got?
I got a couple artists I'm managing
Okay
I got my artist T-Plain, he just joined with young jack strap
Oh shit!
You know that shit is going down
You managing T-Pain?
So basically man...
Hold up, you managing T-Pain?
Nahh, T-Plain
Who? T-Plain?
Yeah, you know, he bout to go down. Matter of fact
Can I Holla at you later? Ey come here man. Imma let you holla at him real quick. See what he can do you know
Aight
T-Plain: HELLOOO
Hello ?
T-Plain: IS THIS J. COLE?
Yeah! Yeah! Man
T-Plain: Oh wassup man?
Wassup?
T-Pain: I really like that shit you be doing!
Awh fuck
T-Plain: HE... HELLO ?

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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The Come Up Vol. 1

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The Come Up Vol. 1 (2007)

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The Come Up Vol. 1