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One of the neighbors told the police we were growing weed or selling drugs out of this house. So the neighbors started getting real paranoid.Īpparently what happened was, we were all in Austin, Texas, for SXSW thankfully no one was in the house when this went down. Ubers coming, and every once in awhile you’ll see a group of us outside on the porch smoking weed. So you have, predominately, African-Americans coming in and out of this house. Cole.It’s also in the suburbs of a pretty wealthy neighborhood in North Carolina. Cole doesn't know what it means to be me but because of the unrelatable honesty of tracks like Neighbors, I see a tiny but important glimpse into the world of J. By all means you if make art or create anything you must make art or create for people that aren't you and tell stories that aren't only exclusive to you and people like you but remember. I want to be everything to everyone but the reality is I can't. I want to people, and a whole lot of them, to see what I make and to feel some personal connection to it and I lie to myself by saying that the only way to achieve this is to force feed them their own stories.
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So why does this matter? In my journey to create art that I want people to consume and feel, I struggle with trying to be relatable. And with that Cole connects in a way that I feel he hasnt been able to in the past because he trades out being #relatable with being real. It plays out more like a journal entry with an instrumental than political statement about race relations in America. All it says is, "The neighbors think I'm selling dope." In other words, its just honest. It doesn't want to be. It doesn't give us a hook we can chant in moments of pain or inspire some great cause. "Somethings you cant escape, death, taxes and a racist society that make every n*gga feel like a candidate, for a Trayvon kind of fate." And its fit for a king right or a n*gga that can sing and explain all the pain that it cost him." "I been building me a house back home in the south ma, wont believe what it's costing. The story of a mega successful rapper and how even in a world where millions know his name, can still feel so small and two sets of lyrics expertly paint the picture of what it means to be Jermaine Cole, international superstar. What made Neighbors such a stand out track was not that he did not desire to tell us our stories, but he told us his. Not even in the slightest. Much of Cole's work has mainly revolved around the plight of poor people, loving your life despite struggle, with the occasional party track here and club banger there, but with the ultimate desire to tell stories that connect. Cole's mansion in North Carolina was once raided by SWAT after his neighbors believed him to be some kind of drug kingpin.
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That statement being, MY HOUSE IS SO BIG THAT MY NEIGHBORS THINK I'M PABLO ESCOBAR REBORN.
#J COLE NEIGHBORS SONG FULL#
The beat is very stark and without much ornamentation (the story of how he made it is pretty cool), the hook is very plain and the lyrics aren't full of double entendres or braggadocio but thesis of the song, which is inspired by true events, is where the magic lies. What caught me was not that the track was a departure sonically from what I had heard from Cole's catalogue, but because there was something starkly different about it from pretty much anything else I had heard from his work prior. During my first listen I liked what I heard and I felt like it was business as usual until I got to the 7th track of the album, Neighbors. Coles music, the fact that it is very #relatable. Cole released his fourth studio album, "4 Your Eyez Only." The album was a solid piece of work that was met with generally positive reviews but it echoed one of the main attributes and faults of J. On December 9th, 2016, American rapper J.