Born Sinner

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Non-Appearing Title: "Before I'm Gone", "Enchanted", "Villuminati", "LAnd of the Snakes", "Sideline Story", "Lil' Ghetto Nigga", "Is She Gone Pop?".

His debut album, Cole World: The Sideline Story was released in September 2011, and hit number one on the US Billboard 200, Top R&B Albums and Top Rap Albums chart, selling more than 218,000 in its first week. Smith, Trevor (June 22, 2013). "J. Cole – Let Nas Down (Remix) Feat. Nas [New Song]". hotnewhiphop. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016 . Retrieved February 19, 2016.Mesfin, Fekadu; Talbott, Chris (December 19, 2013). "AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on July 16, 2015 . Retrieved January 2, 2016. Cole:"Then on the hook, we wanted to make it sound like I was literally listening to a love song on the radio, so we threw effects on there." The Mentor: His is Jay-Z. In terms of record production his mentor is hip-hop producer, No I.D., who also mentored Kanye West. Freestyle Version: Frequent across his earlier mixtapes, mostly over songs by Kanye West and Jay-Z, although also over Cassie's "Must Be Love", Missy Elliott's "Best Friend" and Talib Kweli's "Get By". Disappeared Dad: He has a strained relationship with his father, this is a reoccurring topic of his.

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a b Scheinman, Ted (June 14, 2013). "J. Cole: Born Sinner". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on June 17, 2013 . Retrieved June 20, 2013. Cole:"I think the first time I started paying attention to production was around 1997: the year Biggie’s second album [Life After Death] and Puff Daddy & the Family’s albumNo Way Outcame out. Puff’s crew [The Hitmen] was sampling all these older songs that my mom would recognize, or my stepfather would call out, so I got into the credits to find out who produced the songs. Mez:"On Miguel’s vocals we used a Distressor, a Pultec EQH-2 and a Neve 1073, crunching them pretty hard to make it sound a little more tube, a little older than it was. We went extreme with it at first, but then it seemed too much, so there ended up just being a slight frequency cut at the top and bottom to get that FM squash. We distorted things a bit, and then added a reverb that’s also on the drums; that was actually done in L.A. at Record Plant and was a vintage EMT 140 plate." a b Hyman, Dan (May 2, 2013). "J. Cole's New Album: 'I'm All the Way Inspired' ". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013.