In 2015 J. Cole embarked on what was one of the greatest hip-hop tours in celebration of the 2014 Forest Hills Drive album. He is one of the hottest hip-hop artists out and came up alongside Kendrick Lamar and Drake. We decided to compile the 30 Greatest J Cole Quotes Including Lyrics, to celebrate his success and the realness he brings as an artist.
Recently Cole announced a four part mini-documentary leading up to the the release of his HBO special that will showcase his homecoming. The documentary shows Cole on his journey after the release of what could be considered his best body of work in 2014 Forest Hills Drive. The album took listeners on a journey through his eyes and also touched upon some pretty impactful social issues occurring right now in the United States.
Cole takes pride in his craft and he is one of the best storyteller rappers that have ever graced the genre. He continues to inspire his fans at the show and has more than enough quotes to inspire them in their everyday life. Fans are also appreciative of Cole’s humility as a person. Recently Cole released a project titled, Revenge of the Dreamers II that not only contained new verses from him, but from the artists that he has signed to his Dreamville label. All in all Cole is a special talent and his music speaks for himself. You can check out out 30 Greatest J Cold Quotes Including Lyrics below.
“But for real… One thing I know about myself is that I don’t like to give too much of me outside of music. I’m in love with the music. I’m mad grateful to have my dream career of putting words together, flipping samples and making projects that make you feel something.”
“I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.”
“Living in a world where bad means good, that explains why the bad hoes attractive, that explains why the bad rappers go platinum”
“I got a life in my grip, she holding tight to my wrist. She screaming: ‘Don’t let me slip.'”
“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.”
“Ain’t no way around it no more, I am the greatest, a lot of n****s sat on the throne, I am the latest.”
“Born sinner, was never born to be perfect.”
“Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren’t really about anything – which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.”
“I keep my head high, I got my wings to carry me, I don’t know freedom, I want my dreams to rescue me..”
“I gotta do this for me. They tell me life is a test but where’s a tutor for me?”
“I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.”
“To never try is the ultimate fail, but love is wanting more for someone than they want for themselves.”
“Teachers treated n****s as if they totally worthless and violent, and hopeless. I saw but never noticed that a college point is right to be ‘All you can be’ posters.”
“Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process – maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like ‘Lights Please’ happens like that.”
“It’s beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success, hear my words and listen to my signal of distress.”
“Armed and dangerous, call the law. Stick to the script, no audible. Country a** n***a with an Audemars. Can’t spell the shit but I order more.”
“I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.”
“I know that everything that glitters ain’t gold, I know the sh*t ain’t always good as it seems, but tell me til u get it how could you know?”
“I keep a cross on my chest, either that or a vest. Do you believe that Eve had Adam in check?”
“I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.”
“In my own class man, I write my own passes, I hear the shots fired, yeah I see the stones casted, my sh*t is already fire, don’t gas it.”
“Put a price on my head won’t make me run. Try to kill me but it can’t be done. Cause my words gon’ live forever. You put two and two together Cole here forever.”
“My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.”
“You know the saying, ‘fake it til you make it,’ me I did the opposite, I made it then I faked it.”
“I’m just a man of the people, not above but equal. And for the greater good I walk amongst the evil.”
“I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.”
“Ain’t no hope for the youth, well ain’t that the truth, when all your role models either rappin’ or they hoop, damn.”
“Love is a drug, like the strongest stuff ever.”
“I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‘Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.’ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.”
“I walk along this long harbor of life and sit on the piers, reflect on my pain and sh*t on my fears.”