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The song was produced by Cole himself, with additional production from Ron Gilmore, and additional arrangement by Elite. The song also features background vocals from Dreamville signee, Ari Lennox. It also features samples from J Dilla's song, "African Rhythms". The narrative follows the story of Cole's friend who was killed at the age of 22.
This became Cole's seventh US number one album on the chart. [71] At the time of its release, The Off-Season achieved the largest streaming week of 2021, accumulating over 325.5 million on-demand streams of the album's 12 tracks, surpassing Morgan Wallen ’s Dangerous: The Double Album which debuted with 240.18 million streams for its 30 songs ...
J. Cole first took up rapping in his teens, collaborating with the local Fayetteville hip hop duo Bomm Sheltuh. [1] The Come Up , his debut mixtape, was released on May 4, 2007. [ 2 ] Following the release of The Come Up , J. Cole was contacted by American rapper Jay-Z and subsequently signed to his record label Roc Nation .
In December 2008, J. Cole dropped the mixtape The Warm Up to The Warm Up, [6] which included many songs that would make the final cut of The Warm Up such as “Grown Simba”, “Dollar and a Dream II”, "'Til Infinity" and the original version of “In The Morning” - a song that would later be remixed and included on Friday Night Lights. In ...
At a listening session in New York City, J. Cole previewed his debut album to a select few, including Insanul Ahmed of Complex. [3] At the listening session it was revealed the song "In the Morning" featuring Drake off his Friday Night Lights mixtape would appear on the album. Cole defended his decision saying, he felt the song never got the ...
Nicki Minaj may be the queen of rap, but she had to give the crown to J. Cole for his work on Pink Friday 2. Cole, 38, joined Minaj, 41, for “Let Me Calm Down,” one of the songs from Minaj’s ...
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He wrote: "J. Cole has a gift in turning tears into teaching tools and KOD is a concise, leather-bound audiobook of invaluable life direction goals." [ 47 ] In a positive review, Lawrence Burney of Vice deemed the album Cole's "best effort yet", saying "yes, there are times when he seems a bit out of touch on KOD , but what translates most ...