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Kendrick Lamar brought heavy bars for Drake and J. Cole on the new Future and Metro Boomin album We Don't Trust You.

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Drake and J. Cole brought their It's All A Blur: Big As A What tour to Cleveland over the weekend and fans certainly didn't leave...

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Soulja Boy has backtracked his J. Cole slander after a conversation with Nicki Minaj made him realize that he may have jumped the gun.

Ari Lennox is currently on the European leg of her age/sex/location tour. Last night she was shocked by a surprise appearance from her Dreamville labelmate J. Cole.

J. Cole admits that he took his first puff of a cigarette at age 6 because he was trying to impress the older kids in his Fayetteville, N.C. neighborhood.

One of the most important aspects of hip-hop music is the beat. Producers, often overlooked, are tasked with setting the tone of the record. They literally cook up the music that rappers will then attempt to polish with their words, style, and energy. But if the instrumental isn't tight, if the beat isn't spectacular, then the words probably won't even matter.

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While J. Cole’s latest album, The Off-Season, earned rave reviews from fans and critics alike, the mean streets of social media have been far less kind to his turn as a professional basketball player. The 36-year-old rapper has two games under his belt as part of the Patriots of Rwanda, and the stats from his […]

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The rumor that J. Cole and Diddy threw hands has been floating around for nearly a decade now, and it was interesting to see an older, wiser Cole finally acknowledge the rumble on wax. “Let.Go.My.Hand,” Cole’s introspective cut from The Off-Season, finds the 36-year-old rapper reflecting on fatherhood, fame and his notorious scrap with a Bad […]

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The wait is over. Cole hit fans with hard bars, introspective rhymes and some very special guest appearances.

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Like most of us, artists often dream of what life would be like if they’d pursued another career. On Monday (May 10) news broke that J. Cole, a lifelong basketball fanatic, was on the roster of an African Basketball League. The move makes sense: Just before the release of his 2014 album, 2014 Forest Hills […]

RADIO ONE EXCLUSIVE

“Just know this was years in the making,” J. Cole tweeted Tuesday (May 4). The rapper’s highly anticipated album is on its way, and in true Cole fashion, he’s saying very little and allowing the music to speak for itself. “My new album The Off-Season available everywhere 5/14.” Accompanying the tweet was the album’s official […]