No stranger to huge, sold-out venues, J. Cole made his first appearance in South Africa performing for the excited, but slightly smaller, crowd before the launch of TV show Big Brother StarGame, the country’s version of Celebrity Big Brother. Taking in everything the country has to offer, Cole not only put on a performance but [...]
May 9, 2012
Nura Abdela
Music, Snapshots
With his debut album reaching the top spot on the charts just weeks after it’s release, Roc Nation saviour J.Cole has even more to celebrate. The North Carolina rapper’s top-charting debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story hit gold not too long ago in December, and now his self-produced second single “Work Out” has just [...]
January 12, 2012
Cheyenne Davis
Arts News, Music
Roc Nation’s posterboy and Grammy nominated rapper J. Cole dropped in on the Late Show With David Letterman last night to perform his Kanye West and Paula Abdul sampling single “Work Out” which is taken from the North Carolina hailing MC’s chart topping debut solo studio album Cole World: The Sideline Story with his full [...]
December 22, 2011
Verse
TV
That kid Jermaine alias J. Cole hit the Jimmy Kimmel Live show last night on the promo run for his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story which has taken the number one spot on the Billboard charts this week and has broken debut album sales records. J. Cole performed the album title track as [...]
Woah! Wasn’t expecting this to drop yet but I’m not mad at all. From his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story out on September 27, Roc Nation’s golden boy J. Cole hits a Brooklyn basketball court before taking it to the club in the official video for his self-produced lead single “Work Out,” sampling [...]
August 15, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Music Videos
WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE NOW Ahead of the next installment in his Any Given Sunday series of free downloads, North Carolina emcee J. Cole took to uStream tonight to connect with his fans, sip champagne, preview some snippets of new music that didn’t make the cut on the album, and to clear up what [...]
August 15, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Arts News, Music, Music Videos
Currently known as Mr September 27th in anticipation of his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story, Roc Nation rapper J Cole performed at the Heineken Red Star Access event at Bowery Ballroom in NYC this week, debuting his new single “Can’t Get Enough” and also performing better known tracks “All I Want Is You,” [...]
August 11, 2011
michelle
Music
Yesterday two representatives of the new west coast takeover, Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock dropped into Sway In The Morning on Shade 45 and delivered an incredible freestyle which was the first on the new show. The rappers kicked verses over J. Cole‘s Kanye West and Paula Abdul sampling “Work Out” single and killed it. [...]
July 22, 2011
Verse
Freestyles
SoulCulture TV caught up with J. Cole on his return to the London’s Wireless Festival this weekend, having torn down the Pepsi Max stage for his second year running, to discuss the theory behind the title of his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story [out on September 27], his fans’ mixed reactions to the [...]
July 3, 2011
M. Gosho Oakes
Music, SoulCulture:TV
After waiting for an eternity (It seems) here is the official 1st single from J. Cole‘s forthcoming debut album. The Kanye West Sampling “Work Out” is finally here for our listening pleasure and is well worth the wait. Listen To: J. Cole – “Work Out” | Download J. Cole’s debut LP (of which the title [...]