"My cousin rapped like a No Limit rapper so I was kinda like imitating him...
It was terrible stuff that I wasn’t even doing, then I started like how much better I was than people, and that’s my first raps for real. Like, 'I’m better than you because'...
Over time, I started telling stories more and i started leaning more towards a Nas or a Tupac who I’d already loved. But I fell more in love with how they told stories and that’s when I stopped rapping about just being better than everyone" - J Cole Interview
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Before he learned about the instrumentation that makes up one of the crucial components of the art that we know as hip-hop, it was lyricism that initially ignited a young Jermaine Cole’s mind.
Once he first picked up the pen at age 12, Cole started out like most of us in that he looked to emulate that which he idolized.
Molded by the contemporary musical environment that he was in during those formative years, Cole’s early days as an MC were defined by following familiar patterns and flows.
But, courtesy of the fact that he was by no means an overnight sensation, Cole had the time to step mentally let go of his his heroes’ coattails and that meant that when he had a platform to unveil his craft to the masses, he an acute sense of who he was as an artist that’s often missing from today’s rappers that have to accelerate their careers due to the internet blowing them up.
As he outlined during this conversation with the late great Combat Jack, Cole’s time spent under the learning tree of the artists in his CD player or Ipod didn’t necessarily make him who he was, but that studious approach allowed him to identify a pocket of his own that he’s been forging ahead with ever since.
As opposed to being limited to his bars, he similarly heeded the work of the greats in order to mold his production style.
For starters, he took cues from his time in battle rap in order to inform his sensibilities as a producer.
“Not in terms of levels”, he said of the competitive environment’s impact on his style to MusicRadar, “but in terms of the dirtiness… When I was doing battle stuff, I wanted the drums disgusting sounding. I’d loop these super old breakbeats that were as dirty as I could find and then I’d put hard drums on top. Even now, to this day, if I’m doing a beat with a dirty drum loop, it will have a really hard, loud kick on top that really snaps.”
First given the opportunity to produce when his mother spent $1,300 on an ASR-X for her aspiring musician son, this extravagant purchase would prove to be an investment in his future which permitted his steadily advancing pen game to be accompanied by a steady stream of beats.
Later, this would be made all too evident when he produced nearly 70% out of a total of 42 tracks across The Come Up and Friday Night Lights.
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