'What you have is kids who had never picked up a book outside of class and who were barely picking up the books in class. 'I'm mad proud,' he told the Fayetteville Observer. Cole visited last March to help keep the kids excited to learn. The foundation also runs a local book club, which J.

Cole used in 2013 to help provide school supplies to hundreds of kids in the area. The house would add to his already active charity the Dreamville Foundation, which J. I want her kids to feel how I felt when we got to the house.' 'The idea is that it's a single mother with multiple kids and she's coming from a place where all her kids is sharing a room,' he said. 'She might have two, three kids they're sharing a room. He plans to flip it into a transitional home to help other families struggling like his own once did. And with those two words - 'rent free' - he may change the lives of numerous North Carolina families.Ĭole eventually bought the home for $121,000 in June 2014. Cole is making it work with what he has to give. It may not be the multimillion lump sum donation that some of hip-hop's biggest names have made in the past. So every two years a new family will come in, they live rent free.' 'My goal is to have that be a haven for families. 'What we gon' do, we still working it out right now, obviously it's a detailed, fragile situation I don't wanna play with,' he said. Cole outlined his plans on the podcast the Combat Jack Show to turn the Fayetteville, North Carolina home into a 'haven' for single mothers. But he has bigger ideas for the house than his album. He invited fans to the home for an album listening party in November 2014. The house has played a larger role in the release than that, though. The North Carolina rapper used the address as the title of his most recent LP to date.

Cole's childhood home, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, is iconic. Tickets: Available online from $29.50 to $149.50 starting Friday, February 24 at 10 am via Live Nation.The address of J. General ticket sales begin Friday, February 24 at 10 am via Live Nation. The “4 Your Eyez Only Tour” follows Cole’s 2015 “Forest Hills Drive Tour,” which was the highest-selling hip-hop tour of that year, after which Cole embarked on an international festival run in 2016.įans can access ticket pre-sales on February 22 at. Since its release, each of its ten tracks has notched a place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart in December. Stopping in at the Air Canada Centre on July 28, the multi-platinum-selling artist is touring in support of his fourth album, 4 Your Eyez Only, which debuted at No. Cole is back in Toronto in July as part of a massive world tour. American hip-hop recording artist and record producer J.

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