Jermaine Cole (born in Fayetteville, North Carolina), better known under his stage name J Cole is a rapper and producer he is best known for being the first artist signed to Jay-Z Roc Nation label and has released two mixtapes 2007′s The Wellcome Up and 2009 Warm Up
The rap world is at a crossroads in the light of shrinking budgets, music executives rest on its laurels find the next YouTube sensation with catchy hooks and dance moves to collect digital singles sales, while many artists have tried to break through in spite of an industry melt few have been met with critical praise and applause for those who have not been high enough to swing in the current rap market looks to excel where his contemporaries have failed NorthCarolina native J Cole gives promise of a new day in hip hop
raised by his mother in North Carolina, J Cole hometown of Fayetteville would give a lot of sights and experiences that would shape his sound Cole fell into rapping at 12 years when his cousin from Louisiana spent the summer in Fayetteville showed him the basics of rhyming, he was connected directly from there he dug deep into the music of hip hop celebrities with Tupac Shakur and Nas Outkast take away a love for telling stories with unbridled rigor Seizing every opportunity to leave at 15 age J Cole found himself with composition notebooks full of rhymes, but nothing beats of their own to put them on a firm to create your own songs, he asked his mother to a beat machine so he coulde proproducera music only for himself, she granted his wish, and from a young Cole spent all her free time creating sounds and songs that would lay the groundwork for what his style has evolved to today
Feeling the need to be heard, J Cole used college as a tool to chase his dreams, he attended St. John’s University on an academic scholarship to choose school so he could be in the heart of the music industry: New York City After polishing his sound and graduated Magna Cum Laude J Cole released his debut mixtape properly titled “The Come Up” hosted by DJ On Point mash of dusty soul filled ljudrum raw energetic drums, and an endless variety of topics, ranging from carefree days in college, seemingly endless state ofm which the poor scrapping for change-The CAGR Up sets J Cole broad range of lyrical and production talents on display, “All a nigga want to do is to take his mother from that, but they rather lock us up and make sure we are not coming back “he spits violently over cascading keys and triumphant strings of self-produced” Lil ‘Ghetto Nigga ”
With such a diverse display J Cole is ready to wake up a dormant industry and cement his name in this game, but more than that with his debut album for currently in production, he hopes to change the current wave of rap music swinging it in a more meaningful insight and passionate direction
