I’m cool with that. The past fucking five or six years, it’s become like, I’m responsible—I owe it to these artists, to the fans of these artists.

It's a 107-degree day in Dallas and he's due onstage in a few hours, but Residents of the neighborhood have been tweeting at Cole, begging him to attend their drive for school supplies, the Back to School Festival. Behind the one-way mirrored doors, is a modern, homely, sprawling studio that houses a legion of J. Cole has been long-awaiting this kind of attention for the record label that he conceptualized more than a decade ago—before his platinum plaques became a meme, before signing with Jay-Z, before the dreads.
Scared the little bit of money that he thought was so much ain’t going to last. That’s what we’re actually fighting to stop. It’s why he protested in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and joined the 2015 Million Man March in Washington, D.C. “I love it in the sense that I’m providing something to you. “He got a show tonight, he didn’t have to come to this,” says one parent.

Cole, his mother and his older brother, Zach, relocated from a military base in Frankfurt, Germany -- where Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born in 1985 -- to Fayetteville, N.C. Nowadays, he’s back in North Carolina, living in Raleigh with his wife and toddler son. We look up to what they did, what Top [Dawg] did. But nobody becomes that way overnight. Because we live in a world where everybody wants to be so quick to cancel somebody. The blacked-out Suburban SUV and its tinted windows are a dead giveaway that someone of note must be inside, and two kids guess it’s Cole before he even steps out.Within minutes, Cole and his security guard, Elijah, are swarmed by fans armed with phones for selfies and newly donated backpacks for signing. That’s taken me time to learn. Even for myself. But of course, we want our time, too. You’re just addicted to the drama and the gossip.”Cole has done only a few interviews in the past two years, most recently with 18-year-old Miami rapper In our interview, though, continued after his own set, Cole is anything but quiet, often clapping his hands for emphasis as he wrestles with ideas about compassion, cancel culture and his own ambivalent relationship to fame. I love these people and I’m a big fan of them. It’s just understanding, bro.

“Oh, my God, I’m about to cry,” squeals a preteen girl from within the crowd. I still speak to them. Still, when we pull into the parking lot around 1:30 p.m., there are a couple hundred people hanging out in the park. Last year, Cozz and Bas dropped well-received albums (Get to know the members of Dreamville, hip-hop’s next juggernaut.Exactly.

Especially the girl that he did all that shit to—she absolutely needs healing. I’m trying to focus on them one at a time, but sometimes they spill over. “This is a scene that happens everyday in America,” he explained in a 2012 interview.
It would’ve been towards the direction of healing. The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business.To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement. Last year, his fifth solo album, Cole aside, Dreamville has been making waves of its own. It’s like, I’m just going to discard you and throw you in the trash and forget about you? I just plan on being more active. Me personally, I’m working on a few things. They murder the game, honestly. “Hopefully we add to the great lineage of rap labels.” He’s reclined on a soft brown leather sofa, sporting a blue denim jacket over a black T-shirt, with gray sweats and retro Air Jordan 1 sneakers on his feet. Shit that they may not even remember that, in my opinion, causes someone to be as sick as they would be to be a fucking murderer, to be dumb enough to just take a life.Nigga, I know many murderers. J. Cole opens up about religion, XXXTentacion, and more in a rare interview with No Jumper, which took place during an impromptu visit to host Adam 22’s OnSomeShit clothing store in … You haven’t had the chance to process your trauma at that age. I’ve just started learning that lesson about four years ago [with I don’t think it’s at that level, but I had fun. In Dallas today, he wears variations of the same outfit onstage and off: T-shirt or tank top, basketball shorts and sneakers. That’s what this year is about, the beginning of that. It’s not just sad, ’cause I even understand that. And it’s still going.

So, thoughts of that. I don’t know if they all going to come out in 2019, but I’m working. That’s all good. It’s a vibe.”The side of fame that he experiences at the charity event agrees with Cole. People in the game, people in general, we don’t do that for each other.I don’t know what it does to me, man. I really believe in their talent.Yes. And in his mind, he’s fucking terrified. J. Cole speaks on Dreamville's friendly competition with TDE and being a big bro in hip-hop in his Spring 2019 XXL cover story interview. This will probably be my most fun year.Dreamville Records is done watching the throne. “It’s the second to last night so I’m just going to take it to the [limit].”J.

It appears that J. Cole isn't as done with the sport of basketball as he previously claimed. It makes me sad. Then shit starts cooling off and you’re only fucking 19, 20 years old. I’ve walked through prisons and talked to these dudes who got life. More features. But he forgot that families tend to come to these drives early, collect what’s needed, then move on to the next worry. These dudes have committed the ultimate crime in God’s eyes, or whatever, where they’ve taken a life. “Album of the Year” starts blaring over the speakers, and a young man on the sidelines plays along to its “Oochie Wally” instrumental on his trumpet.Cole opts not to formally announce his donation, but instead to take pictures, give out hugs and autographs, and talk one-on-one with fans. It’s unclear whether his eyes are red due to his repeated rubbing, or simply because it’s 4:30 a.m. and the lanky rap star is hitting a wall. Still, when J.I.D pops in to share news of an in-progress collaboration (“Me and Vince [Staples] making some crazy shit,” he reports), Cole insists he’ll stop by the room to drop some vocals. That’s what they doing in the prison system. We signed Bas in January 2014.

I’ve done that with people where they just spill they fucking hearts out. That was only five years ago. Hell yeah. Last year, I set an intention to say yes way more than I say no.


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