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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

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J. Cole
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: January 28
Film Director
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up his fights were always on in my house.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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One thing you should know about me is I never play to lose, Always aim high and rarely obey the rules.
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School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.
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I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I don't wanna forget the fact that I wanna be one of the best rappers. I feel like some of the best rappers ever - 2Pac, namely, one of them - could take sub-par beats or average beats and turn them into incredible songs.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.
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In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead.
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I'm the type of person where, A., I look at things as challenges, I like challenges and, B., I truly believe that you determine your own destiny.
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If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.
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It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.
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I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.
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My Mother's an actress, and she's always told me, Boy, you're an actor. I would look forward to seeing if I'm any good. I want to be good at it, that's the only thing.
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So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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