“I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do” - J. Cole (J. Cole Quotes). Those famous words were spoken by J.Cole, also known as the rapper with the album that went platinum without any features. He had a rough life as a kid, but J.Cole is known as one of the greatest rappers alive, because his music inspires people and all of his songs have a meaning to them. Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born at a U.S. army base in Frankfurt, Germany on January 28, 1985. He had a father, a mother, and an older brother. His mom’s name was Kay Cole and his 6brother’s name was Zach Cole, His father’s name remains unknown. His father was an African-American soldier and his mother was a German postal worker. When J.Cole was born his father abandoned them and just left his family all alone. So his mother took J.Cole and his brother, and they moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina(J.Cole Biography). They lived in a trailer park and his mother was struggling with multiple jobs to make money. But later on she married another man who was also in the army. They relocated to a nicer house. J.Cole was 15 years old and went to school at Terry Sanford, he was very a shy kid. He had a 4.2 GPA. So J.Cole was a very smart kid. He loved playing basketball, but he was very …show more content…
He worked as a stint at an ice hockey rink, where he had to dress up as a kangaroo mascot. He worked as an ad salesman for a newspaper. He was also a bill collector and a file clerk(Adaso). But he needed more money because he wouldn't get paid much with his part time jobs. He noticed that one of his friends was getting lots of money by selling weed. So J.Cole wanted to start selling. But it turned out that selling weed wasn't a very good idea, because his friend explained to him all the trouble he could get into. J.Cole decided not to sell weed and just focus on school and