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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.'

J. Cole

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J. Cole
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: January 28
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When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.
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Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday
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Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Anything's possible, you gotta dream like you never seen obstacles.
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So ahead of my time even when i rhyme about the future I be reminiscing
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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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I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated
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Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real.
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While silly ni**as argue over who gon' snatch the crown / Look around my ni**a, white people have snatched the sound / This year I'll probably go to the awards dappered down / Watch Iggy win a Grammy as I try to crack a smile.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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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.
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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 gotta make a move, I gotta do this now, If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.
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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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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool it's good for me.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.
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When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something.
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