Released: September 27, 2011

Songwriter: J. Cole

Producer: J. Cole

I'm drivin', nigga as soon as I get the text we all in the car like, "Ahh, yeah nigga, we outta here nigga, yeah nigga!!" So we goin' crazy, we goin' crazy as fuck, we like super excited. Dog, ten seconds later, all I see in the back and hear is
Woop Woop
Blue lights right behind me, on the fuckin' undercover car, of all things
So I'm like "Fuck" I knew right away what it was. Dawg, for the, for two and a half maybe three years before that, in New York, I had been drivin' dirty, my license was no good
Dawg, how 'bout the moment I found out I was gon' get the deal a fuckin' cop got behind me and I already knew what it was
I handled it so like, I handled it the best way you could ever go to jail like I went to jail knowin', bitch like, ah know what I'm sayin'? I'm in there dog, spendin' the night in jail realizin', like, "These niggas have no clue, bitch I'm 'bout to sign to Jay-Z"
Laughs
That was the easiest night in jail a nigga could ever do, son

J. Cole

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.