Shade 45 radio personality Angela Yee recently caught up with RocNation artist J. Cole at the Eminem/Jay-Z show at Yankee Stadium and spoke to Cole about his new labelmate Willow Smith, his upcoming mixtape, and more.
“I haven’t met her, but I did just get a phone call that the family wants to meet me,” said J. Cole. “Cause I got so many raps shouting out Will Smith. I don’t know if you really notice I shout him out on ‘Who Dat,’ ‘A Star Is Born’…That’s just cause I got a high respect for him and even his family right now they got a perfect life. So I can’t wait to meet little Willow.”
J. Cole was somewhat reluctant to speak on his new mixtape, but did reveal that it will be released in early October.
“Really when I decided to do the mixtape it was on some spur of the moment,” J. Cole explained. “I had just did the song and I’m like ‘Damn I got all this music fuck it let’s just put out a mixtape.’ And now it’s like we putting together mixtapes like this is in the album, but that’s what today’s game is. I’m calling it a mixtape for the sake of calling it a mixtape, but it’s really an album in a sense.”
As far as the release date for a studio album J. Cole explained that a solid date is still up in the air.
“I don’t really have a definite date. I could say some shit, but it probably wouldn’t be right,” said Cole. (September 16)
UPDATE: J. Cole revealed today that the mixtape will be called Friday Night Lights, and is planned for release on November 16. The host site of the tape will be DreamVillain.com.
god damn his album is never coming out….
come on J we want that album
why r u 2 faggotz below cryin’ bout j cole neva releasin’ hiz album? look at it diz way homoz. da more we wait 4 it, da betta it’z gonna be. j cole will rain supreme ova lil gayne and flake when cole world hitz da shelvez. mark my wordz, bitch azz niggaz!
and oh yeah, ROC NATION BITCHEZ!
Really? didnt 50 and eminem do that waiting game shit too? that worked out well for them
The J.Cole albums never gonna come out. Jay-Z is an insecure ego maniac who will not let anyone else get any shine. Anytime anybody on Jay’s labels gets a little shine they get shelved immediatley. Why you think rocafella fell apart as soon as Dame left.
Jay-z has everything but yet he won’t let anyone else get any shine. Dude as to be the most insecure person in the world.
J.Cole’s my man and i wish dude a succesfull career, but that ain’t happening till he gets out from under jays chains.
shut the fuck up. Jay-Z has brought Cole on tour with him for the last year and just 2 days ago he opened up at yankee stadium. hes album will come out and it will be a success. hes slowly but surley building hes fanbase.
What about Kanye? He gave Kanye the space to shine back when the College Dropout came out. Dude believe me the album will come.
actually Jay just wanted Kanye for his beats, at least at first anyways
I hate how these labels work. They want artists to put out enough singles before the album drops to get a good buzz, and during that time they should be out promoting it on BET, every interview possible, on their website, everything. I thought Cole World would drop next month but they kinda always want like 6-8 weeks at least for buzz to spread.
I dont know what to look forward to, Friday Night Lights or his Debut Album but one thing i do know is they both gonnna be Fiya. I just hope he keeps his Debut album *Feature Free*, maybe one feature track with Jay-Z but thats it because id love to FINALLY see a artist release a album without any Features because the featuring crap is getting fcukin wack and believe any artist works better by themself then with others on their own work also having a feature was like a privilege but now you got shit like Eminem doing a song with Nicki Minaj etc etc, i mean WTF, wheres the whole rarity of having one certain artist work with another.
But fcuk that Im hoping to hear some more of that “The Warm Up” magic. Its a COLE WORLD.
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