J. Cole has opened up about sometimes being jealous of those who lead a “normal” life without fame and a strong desire to squeeze the most out of their existence.
The Dreamville boss sat down with Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers earlier this week for an all-encompassing interview for the latest installment of his Lead By Example Podcast.
“I’m envious of people who don’t have strong desire or strong vision and don’t have something,” he began. “They have a peaceful life and an enjoyable life and it’s like, ‘I go to work, I like my job, I like my salary, I’m not stupid rich but I love my family. I come home — life is amazing.’ And they live their life like that and I think that is just as valid.
“We live in a society and a culture that pushes, like a hustle culture to work hard, like boom, boom, boom. I think people could feel guilty and insufficient for not having some great dream to dream. I’m like, ‘No, it’s a blessing to be satisfied, to be at peace, to be content with life.'”
The 45-minute sit-down hears J. Cole touch on a multitude of topics including smoking cigarettes at six years old, hoop dreams and his pillars of success among other things.
While he isn’t ready to hang up his mic for good just yet, the North Carolina native has hinted at retirement being on his mind.
Earlier this month, Cole joined BTS star J-Hope for an assist on his “On The Street” track where the 38-year-old opened the door to walking away from rhyming in the near future.
“Some days, I wonder if I need to pick a different hobby/ I’m deep in with this rappin’, it’s all a n-gga know/ I never didn’t nothin’ better, it’s hard to let it go/ But like a father watching his daughter/ Walk down the altar with tears in his eyes/ You gotta let her grow,” he raps.
“I contemplate if I should wait to hand over the crown/ And stick around for a bit longer, I got a strange type of hunger/ The more I eat, the more it gets stronger.”
Here we go. Another millionaire celebrity telling us how bad he’s got it lol
I mean clearly you’re not at peace with your life, he’s not talking about you. Get lost
Cool story bro… now go eat a dick
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This has been another episode of finding what you’re look in the comment space. Goodnight
Son you made a dumb ass comment talking about Cole like he’s Elon Musk and expected to get universal agreement? Go crawl back inside your mother lmfao
I see you couldn’t help but reply. Truth hurts, b!tch! Now kindly get off my nuts and get a life… lol
Ay nope, you a bitch
He can ways walk away from his life and become a regular person. As a regulat person myself i take offense to the notion I have no strong desire or a strong vision. More money more problems, gtfooo
Yeah this humblebrag BS is just another tally in the corny colum for j.cole. this is pathetic shit.
Shit we can switch lives if he wants
You mean he could do whatever it is you do and you could easily hunger for the next record, write rhymes in the spot and play basketball yadda… Why don’t you?
Go ahead and retire but we know he’ll be right back at it again. His point is that the dream is better than the success? How can you not have a dream?
Poor guy =(. It has to be very hard being part of the 1% economically speaking…. and popularity speaking. My life is so much better. I love working 40 hours a week, just to enjoy some weekends off, just to start back up again Monday morning. Who wouldn’t love that!?!? This poor dude has to chronic put entire albums every 4 years!!! That means a studio session everyone few months! Poor guy!!!
Nas came back and made him questioned his existence.
Ah Tone Deaf Cole at it again