Therapy Thursdays
I shared this with you via @Teamcole 2 weeks ago.This footage is vintage as well as classic & Funny, everything wrapped into one. It means alot because its the first thing I found when I googled J.Cole I hope you enjoy this as much as I did, especially the Chris Brown impersonations.
Warm Up Mixtape Release
This is footage is from the mixtape release party back in July. Looks like our boy “showed up and showed out” in the ville. Enjoy
props:jaxbeatz
Fayetteville Business Owner Shows Love
He goes by the name Carolina Chris aka NAVAJO0999 if your ever in Fayetteville stop by “Carolina Computer Repair”.
And The Award Goes To…
As you know J.Cole won the award for “The Most Slept On Artist Of 2009″ at the SMES back in September, Finally pictures have surfaced of this event. clap for ‘em! Heres a list of all the winners
props nvr for the pics
J.Cole Graces His First Magazine Cover
So it looks like our boy has landed his first official magazine cover. This month Cole graces the cover of Beyond Race Magazine. Also be sure to peep the video for some behind the scenes footage, as well as a brief interview.
Up Incoming J.Cole Features
Im sure we got our quick J.Cole fix once Reflection Eternal dropped, a track featured J.Cole, Jay Electronica & Mos Def ,but be aware that theres more on the way. J.Cole is expected to feature on a couple of up incoming projects from other artist. Be on the look out for Elite’s “Groundwork” dropping January 4th & Omen’s “Afraid Of Heights” coming in March.- You know where you can get them first!
Reflection Eternal – Just Begun ft Jay Electronica & J. Cole & Mos Def [CDQ]
Reflection Eternal’s “Revolutions Per Minute” drops February 2010.
Reflection Eternal -Just Begun ft. Jay x J.Cole x Mos Def CDQ
Spotted: Heard That New
Therapy Thursdays VI
In light of Omen’s recent mixtape sampler “Delayed” dropping, this post was only right. You probably remember Omen from his amazing feature on J.Cole’s The Badness off of “The Warm Up”. In 2006, Omen released his first mixtape, “Do The Right Thing”, which consisted of two featured tracks with J.Cole titled On and On and Break Out. Check them out below and be sure to download “Delayed” which also features a verse from producer Elite!
On and On Omen ft. J.Cole
Break Out Omen ft. J.Cole
Vote “Lights Please” For Hot 97 “Songs of 2009″
The hottest radio station for hip-hop and r&b, Hot 97, is compiling a list of the “Top 97 Songs of 2009″. J.Cole doesn’t even have an album out yet but his hit Lights Please has been frantically hitting radio waves. Please be sure to vote for J.Cole’s Lights Please and make sure his song makes this list!
“Lights Please right now, slowly but surely is picking up on the radio from here [New York] to L.A to back home [North Carolina]. I made that song when I was still in school..it’s off a mixtape so we have’nt really gone hard with it yet…watch what happens with Lights Please.” -J.Cole [Mic Check Radio]
J.Cole On DJ Semtex List “Hardest Verses Of 09″
Anyone could drop a list on the best tracks, artists, or verses, of 2009 (which too many have) but Dj Semtex isn’t just anyone. The high profile hip/hop UK dj, Dj Semtex, recently released via his blog the 9 verses he thought were the “hardest” of 2009. The list of course included a verse 2 verses from J.Cole’s which were his verses from A Star is Born and Beautiful Bliss. Here’s the list,
1. Mos Def (Feat Slick Rick) – Auditorium
2. Clipse (feat Kanye West) – Kinda Like A Big Deal
3. Jay Electronica – Exhibit C
4. Dizzee Rascal – Freaky Freaky
5. Drake (feat Lil Wayne, Kanye West, & Eminem) – Foreve
6. Jay-z (feat J Cole) A Star is Born
8. Faboulous (Feat Drake) – Throw it in the Bag (Remix)
9. Wale (feat J Cole) – Beautiful Bliss)
Reflection Eternal ft. Jay Electronica & J.Cole & Mos Def [Download]
Last night Just Blaze and Jay Electronia had a session on Toca Tuesdays and dropped the highly anticiapted track, Reflection Eternal. This track which features, J.Cole, Mos and Jay was initially heard about two weeks when Kweli dropped it at an event. Here is a download link to this track which was made off of a ripped version from the Toca session, and lyrics are below.
Download Reflection Eternal [Radio Rip]
(Talib Kweli)
(Ay, yo, Hi-Tek?
Do me a favor, man, speed it up a little bit)
From the intro you know I’m so influential, ’cause I’m glowin’ like a candle
The focus is so essential, dawg, what you tryna get into?
I steady the flow, ready to blow like snotty tissue
They snitchin’ like Donnie Brisco and countin’ like Monte Cristo
The ghetto full of betrayal like Iago and Othello
Your fellow neighbor will slay you, they’ll smoke you like cigarellos
Police, want that info, they’ll grill ‘em like portabellos
I’m murderin’ instrumentals ’cause I rap with the conscience
Of felons, killers, and monsters, so revealing and honest
We’re still feelin’ the promise, some nights I kill ‘em with kindness
Hittin’ like Muhammad Ali, you more like Tatyana
All this is prob’ly karma: You dishonored the father
Whether it’s God Almighty, or the almighty dollar
We follow the prophets like Islamics or the Dalai Lama
Your bullet points so hollow they could prolly pierce body armor
Look in the scope, my people still a target
(Jay Electronica)
Smile on my face, tears of a sad clown
Feelin’ out of place as I whistle a cab down
If I tip extra, can I huff a cig?
Blow my smoke out the window, droppin’ ashes on the bridge?
I’m in New York now, like Akeem and Semi was
Tryna get the lobby door open from a semi buzz
I just wanna go to the slum
And throw my money on the floor like the Notorious B.U.M. (Uhn)
Build a home, teach a class, start a revolution
Free the mind, heal the body, talkin’ evolution
This that black Elohim Anunnaki rap
That Farrakhan Akeem Olajuwon Qaddafi rap
I dedicate this to my niggas in New Orleans
Rockin’ black and gold stocking caps and fleur-de-lis Shockey hats
I’m in the coatroom, screamin’ “Who Dat” on the double
Servin’ gumbo wit’ a shovel, dawg, I’m on another level
Me and Kweli come together like two pieces of metal
We magnetizin’ the ghetto
(J. Cole)
(Yeah, now here’s the memo)
I’m a rebel without a cause, a bezel without no flaws
And shawty, you straight, but you look way better without no drawers
Let’s sweat out this alcohol, bet I’m about to ball
And never let up, look how I just crept up without applause
Fed up with all the frauds and left y’all without a job
The center of attention, this is clever, I’m Pau Gasol
Really though, I’m LeBron, really don’t got my mind
On this new school of rappers, I will really go Columbine
And throw up the diamond sign, boy you know I’ma shine
Flow is in Ramadan
‘Cause couple years ago, the game had they pajamas on
But now they on my dick, man, I should throw a condom on
Ay, ’cause a nigga comin’ raw like I ain’t got one on
And I ain’t stoppin’ or coppin’ no pleas, I just lock and load, squeeze
Dawg, I’m on a higher level, I’m on top of nosebleeds
Niggas say they sick, but when they write, they don’t sneeze
Like the nigga on the block wavin’ his Glock but won’t squeeze
Please
(Mos Def)
Hold your applause until the ceremony end
Yours truly, truly blessed, yet again a noble pla-anted
Super magic, abracadabra kid
Mysterious master Jim, blacker pen, arrowhead
With the long-barrel stem, and his apparel fresh
Harbor lights shinin’ out the black power grid
With the Black Power grip
And pure power don’t power trip
Push the cellar ceiling up and make the tower tip
Your Gladwell point, and Babylon polish
All about nothin’ where it’s all about the dollar
And mansions on the fort line of a shaky market
The devil at the dancehall, thirsty for a partner
Get off ‘im
There is not a parcel or a portion
Or a measure of a fortune more awesome
Gorgeous
The funky Four Horsemen and one more
With Hi-Tek on the score, once more, of course
You’re welcome, thanks
Appreciation for your participation
Special dedication
Celebration, bitches
Props: Nahight
Kayne In Studio Making “A Star Is Born”
In this clip, Kayne, GLC, Really Doe, Don C, Shon Bonds and others preview the future “Blueprint 3″ track which J.Cole made his big debut on. The bass sounds crazy good!
Spotted: h.e.r
The Sample That Started “Can’t Cry”
Millie Jackson (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right
Cam’ron Who’s Hot
Throwback: J.Cole Interview With TGIF
As information on J.Cole slowly rolls in and we all sit and wait for Delayed to drop, it’s a perfect time to highlight an old J.Cole interview that didn’t get a lot of views. In this throwback interview, J.Cole talks to Thank God I’m Famous about what his professors probably thought of him back at SJU, if Roc Nation was a University, his love for UNC and more.
Late, A shocker,Engaging from Thank God I’m Famous on Vimeo.
J.Cole Nominated For “Best Of The Booth 09″ Awards [Vote NOW]
Dj Booth recently announced their categories for “The Best Of The Booth 2009″ awards. J.Cole is in the running for 3 titles which are,
- Best Mixtape/Street Album “The Warm Up”
- Breaking Through Next Year
- Best New Artist (Signed)
Vote NOW here and make sure J.Cole rightfully walks away with all three of these titles.
Props: JCole Music
J.Cole Sings UCB “Sexy Lady”
Manager, Ibrahim and J.Cole goof around on this recently released video which J.Cole was captured singing UCB’s hit song Sexy Lady. Should we be expecting a future collab with J.Cole and UCB?
J.Cole Performs “Lights Please” At Lincoln High
J.Cole not only balled up at LA’s Lincoln High School for a charity basketball game, but he also performed his hit single Lights Please. Watch the crowd go crazy as the beats drops.
Props: HHDx
Hooping With J.Cole
On Tuesday Cole showed off his skills while playing in Power 106’s charity basketball game. So if you ever wondered if J.Cole could actually hoop, here’s the proof.
Props: Rap Radar
Therapy Thursdays V
Personally, one of J.Cole best verses and the beat is equally as tough. J.Cole rapped this verse on an Angela Lee radio interview couple months back but it’s time for a revisit. Shall we…
“I’m on top of the world and I can’t get no higher!-Jay you should of took that one man”-J.Cole
Reflection Eternal Mos Def & J.Cole & Jay Electronica & Talib Track
So this is the track real hip-hop heads have been anticipating? Talib dropped the track recently at The Boom Box 3rd Anniversary event. Track drops at 1.18.
“Throw up the diamond sign, boy you know Imma shine, flow is a Ramadan, a couple years ago the game had their pajamas on, but now they on my dick, man I should throw a condom on” J.Cole
Spotted: TF
J.Cole Fan Performs Drum Freestyle To “Young Simba”
Got to love the way J.Cole inspires his fans. This is footage of 20yr old Martin freestyling to Young Simba with the usage of his decked out drum set. Try to listen to how he drums alongside the beat rather than the lyrics.
“Simba” by J.Cole. Definitely my new favorite artist. I downloaded his mixtapes a while back, but just now got to listening to them. As soon as I saw the music video for this song I fell in love with the track. Love the beat, so I had to do a freestyle on it.
Hope you enjoy. -Martin
J.Cole Featured In Spin Magazine’s 2010 “A Look Ahead”
Every year Spin Magazine compiles a list of 10 artist that are set to “make big noise in the year to come”, this year J.Cole is featured as one of those artist. Along with the list, they put together a mixtape featuring a track from each artist.
J.Cole & Wale Set To Perform At Club 9:30
Looks like the Roc Nation boys are at it again. This time Wale and J.Cole will be hitting up D.C’s Club 9:30 on January 1st, along with Remy and IB. Tickets start at just $10 and can be purchased this Thursday via Tickeyfly.com. Click here for details.
J.Cole On The Come-Up Show
J.Cole sat down with The Come Up Show (ironically enough) in this recently released interview. The interview took place after a “Blueprint 3″ performance in Toronto London, Ontario. In this video J.Cole talks about how he convinced his mom to get him a beat machine, meeting Jay-Z, his future plans, and much more.
Props to The Come Up Show
