Like your favourite songs to make your vote count. Cole's top and latest Hip-Hop / R&B, Nu Disco / Disco, Dance songs, watch videos and discover DJs similar to J. In January 2015, Cole decided to house single mothers rent-free at his childhood home in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He has also developed other ventures, including Dreamville Records, as well as a non-profit organization called the Dreamville Foundation. Self-taught on piano, Cole also acts as a producer alongside his hip-hop career, producing singles for artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Janet Jackson, as well as handling the majority of the production in his own projects. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200, making it his fifth album to reach number one on the chart and has since been certified 2x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. His fifth album, KOD, was released in April 2018.
The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum in April 2017. In December 2016, Cole released his fourth studio album 4 Your Eyez Only. Cole from the 4 Your Eyez Only album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: Oh Now I was barely seventeen. The latter earned him his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album.
His next two releases, 2013's Born Sinner and 2014's 2014 Forest Hills Drive, received mostly positive reviews from critics, and both were certified platinum in the United States.
Billboard 200, and was soon certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Cole released his debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, in 2011. Intent on further pursuing a solo career as a rapper, he went on to release two additional mixtapes, The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights after signing to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint in 2009. With all likelyhood, the people who experienced the biggest mainstream success like Drake, J.Cole, Big Sean and a couple of others will continue to be very. Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer.īorn on a military base in Germany but raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole initially gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007.