In the unforgiving realm of hip-hop, where rhymes are razor sharp and rivalries run deep, the genre has long marched to the ...

Over the past decade, J. Cole has crafted a well-deserved reputation as a humble, down-to-earth figure in rap. Besides eschewing the typical trappings of rap stardom — chains, flashy cars, designer ...

The post Rap Song of the Week: Smino and J. Cole Light It Up on “90 Proof” appeared first on Consequence. Over a soulful groove co-produced by frequent collaborator monte booker and Groove, Smino uses ...

J. Cole has raised eyebrows throughout the hip-hop world for the way he chose to publicly address his diss aimed at Kendrick Lamar on the new song "7 Minute Drill." While Cole didn't flat-out say the ...

J. Cole spent some time with the emerging talent Ty Trilly in the 40 Project in Queens, New York, to listen to his music. The Dreamville co-founder linked with an emerging rapper on Wednesday evening ...

J COLE: (Rapping) Light work, like it's PWC. It's a cold world, keep the heat under your seat. I got a... MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Here's something you don't hear every day. Grammy-winning rapper J. Cole ...

On Friday at midnight, an already historic rap beef metastasized into an all-out hip-hop Infinity War—with Drake playing a Thanos who has yet to throw down his gauntlet. Slate’s Chris Molanphy made a ...

Once upon a time, North Carolina native and Grammy-winning rapper J. Cole was a pretty good basketball player. Now, he’ll own an NBA team. On Friday, the Charlotte Hornets announced that MIchael ...

J. Cole's story is unusual for a rapper. For starters, he was born in Germany — his father was a G.I., and his mother is German. He didn't grow up in a city, but rather in a suburb in Fayetteville, ...

J. Cole has long held a reputation as one of his generation’s foremost rap lyricists. In a recent interview with Kevin Hart, he revealed some of the influences that he used to develop the style that ...

NBA great Shane Battier is the furthest thing from a hip-hop historian. He rarely listens to rap but his name appeared on the hit song "Rise And Shine" by Grammy winner J. Cole in the early 2010s.

J. Cole has revealed the shockingly young age at which he started smoking cigarettes. "At 6 years old, I was smoking cigarettes regularly around the neighborhood," he said. The rapper described the ...