
So every two years a new family will come in, they live rent free."
"My goal is to have that be a haven for families. "What we gon' do, we still working it out right now, obviously it's a detailed, fragile situation I don't wanna play with," he said. Cole outlined his plans on the podcast the Combat Jack Show to turn the Fayetteville, North Carolina home into a "haven" for single mothers. But he has bigger ideas for the house than his album. He invited fans to the home for an album listening party in November 2014. The house has played a larger role in the release than that, though. The North Carolina rapper used the address as the title of his most recent LP to date. Cole's childhood home, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, is iconic.
Label: Dreamville, Inc.The address of J. Listen to one of its singles, my.life featuring 21 Savage and Morray, and you'll be convinced. Although sometimes a bit hampered by the artist's affected seriousness, this album is nevertheless one of his best releases in five years. Tracks like close or demonstrate this perfectly. Cole's real strength, as this sixth album shows, is that balance between modern sounds, boom bap samples and vocal melodies that he has been putting out throughout his career, in which smart songwriting trumps pure attitude. Cole who is trying to contradict his image as a nice rapper, but for all that, hardness isn't necessarily his strong suit. The Off-Season opens up with the hysteria-inducing blowout piece 95.south, followed by amari, which is strongly influenced by the Chicago sound. Cole can come across as a man with something to prove. See More Your browser does not support the audio element.
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