J Cole could have had a fairly turbulent 2024 given the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef, however he is closing it out on the best of notes. Furthermore, he launched a brand new audio sequence – Inevitable – concerning his profession, he introduced a 2014 Forest Hills Drive tenth anniversary present in Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis (plus a particular bodily version with beforehand unreleased bonus tracks), and he additionally re-released his previous mixtapes The Come Up, The Heat Up, and Friday Evening Lights on digital streaming platforms for the primary time ever. The North Carolina MC expressed gratitude for his loyal and supportive fanbase in late November.
“This can be a very particular second for me,” J. Cole tweeted. “Been ready patiently for this present day, like numerous yall have. I wanna say Thanks to all people on the market that stored these tasks alive, even throughout all of the years they weren’t on streaming providers, particularly this undertaking proper right here. ‘Friday Nights Lights’ lastly out there now on all platforms. […] To have a full concept of what this implies for me personally, you would need to know the whooole journey. This Inevitable sequence we doing, is that. […] Like to all people tuning in, it’s actually one thing particular. The Come Up, The Heat up, and Friday Evening Lights all up lastly. Thanks.”
J Cole Thanks His Followers
Elsewhere, J. Cole’s supervisor Ibrahim Hamad confirmed the bittersweet information that subsequent yr’s Dreamville Fest in North Carolina might be the last-ever iteration of the pageant. It is a very reflective second for the entire collective, however numerous it’s most likely falling on Cole’s shoulders as its flagship artist. The battle definitely provides to that context, but it surely’s good that he can indulge on this nostalgia alongside his die-hards.
After all, there’s nonetheless loads of new music on the way in which, as Daylyt may need one other monitor coming after he and J. Cole had been noticed within the studio. So Dreamville followers do not need to enter a mourning interval simply but, particularly throughout this celebratory time together with his older materials. It was a tricky yr at instances, however 2024 proved to be a fairly superior stretch for Cole followers all issues thought-about.
About The Writer
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a employees author for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH whereas finishing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington College in the summertime of 2022.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop information protection, equivalent to his assessment for Unhealthy Bunny’s hometown live performance in 2024. However extra particularly, he digs for the deeper facet of hip-hop conversations, whether or not that’s the “loss of life” of the style in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the numerous shifting elements of the Younger Thug and YSL RICO case.
Past partaking and breaking information protection, Gabriel makes probably the most out of his live performance obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s additionally developed a robust editorial voice by album evaluations, think-pieces, and interviews with a number of the style’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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