The best part, however, has to be the larger SWAT dude who so clearly wants to be the one using the battering ram that he thrusts his hips along with each hit. In the clip, you can see a 13-person SWAT team busting into the studio, kicking down a back door and knocking out the security cameras. Now, it’s been placed underneath “Neighbors” as a mini-music video of sorts, coming in at just under a minute-twenty. It features security cam footage of the actual raid on The Sheltuh, which originally aired during the 4 Your Eyez Only: A Dreamville Film documentary special on HBO back in April. If you ever doubted the story behind the song was true, check out the video above. Of course, no growing operation was found, and Cole wasn’t even there - he was in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. They called the cops, which led to a massive investigation ending in a SWAT team raiding the studio.
Cole’s latest “platinum with no features” effort, 4 Your Eyez Only. The song was inspired by an incident that occurred in March of last year, when residents around Cole’s The Sheltuh studio in North Carolina began suspecting the rapper and his crew were using the location to grow weed. A security fence was installed to keep people off the property.“I guess the neighbors think I’m sellin’ dope, sellin’ dope,” goes the opening line of “Neighbors” off J. In light of his success, Cole was able to purchase the house.The home was Cole's third album's namesake, and the album cover features Cole atop the roof gazing into the distance.The popularity of the album has drawn crowds to the famous address, and neighbors said people have tried getting on the roof to copy the album cover. Cole told the podcast host that it felt like a "mansion," where he had his own room and space to dream big.Years later, the relationship between Cole's parents would fizzle, and his mother lost the home to foreclosure. Soon, his mother would re-marry another soldier, and the family moved into the 1,600 square foot home on Forest Hills Drive. When he was a toddler, his parents divorced, and his mother had to move him and his older brother out of post housing and into a Spring Lake trailer park. I want her kids to feel how I felt when we got the house." The idea is that it's a single mother with multiple kids. The popularity of the album has drawn crowds to the famous address, and. "So every two years, a new family will come in and live rent-free. The home is Cole's third album's namesake, and the album cover features Cole atop the roof gazing into the distance. "My goal is to have that be a haven for a family," Cole told New York's Combat Jack internet radio show. The irony of the phrase? Well, it was scribbled across the home that Cole planned to turn into a rent-free home for single mothers and their families. Cole's team would not confirm when the vandalism happened and Fayetteville police say the incident was not reported to them.The photo has been shared more than 300 times, with Facebook users arguing the rapper's involvement in his hometown. The photo posted to Facebook surfaced over the weekend but by Monday morning, the black spray paint had been painted over. "J.Cole.Do you even care about the ville?"Those were words marred on award-winning rapper J.Cole's childhood home. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes.
He also repurchased the property back in 2014 to use as a rent-free home for single moms and their families. It’s located on Forest Hills Drive, which he named his 3rd studio album after. If you’re a Cole fan, then you’re very familiar with this house. The house that J Cole grew up in in Fayetteville, North Carolina was vandalized over the weekend, and according to pictures that surfaced on Twitter, someone used black spray paint to question Cole’s love for his hometown.