J. Cole Opens Up About Being ‘Tired of Rapping About Myself’ After Reading ‘The New Jim Crow’
During a recent panel session with “Black Panther” director, Ryan Coogler and NFL running back, Marshawn Lynch, J. Cole revealed that he was “tired of rapping about himself.”
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Cole says that after making “2014 Forest Hills Drive” he was tired of rapping about his “personal journey, flaws, and growth.”
The Dreamville leader credited The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander moved him to stop rapping about himself.
“[The New Jim Crow] was mind-blowing. It was everything we saw and see but just put into factual evidence of what was happening, it happened to coincide with a time after the Forest Hills Drive album – a time in my life where I was just tired of rapping about myself,” said Cole.
