New Video: J.Cole x Miguel "Power Trip" ". Rap Radar. April 9, 2013. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013 . Retrieved September 24, 2013. Crooked Smile" contains an uncredited sample of " No One Gonna Love You", as performed by Jennifer Hudson. [82] Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Some of his guest appearances on song by other artist put him in this position.

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." So once you have all the parts together, where do you have to work the hardest to make it all sit comfortably? J. Cole Announces 'Born Sinner' Release Date". Rap-Up. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. That conviction was rewarded. Opening at Number Two behindYeezus,Born Sinnersold nearly 300,000 its first week, moved to Number One within two weeks, and as of late fall 2013 had moved more than 600,000 units. Multiple singles from the album toppedBillboard’s Mainstream RnB/hip-hop radio airplay chart, each one fueled by Cole’s personal production.

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iTunes – Music – Born Sinner (Deluxe Version) by J Cole". iTunes. June 14, 2013. Archived from the original on October 25, 2013 . Retrieved June 20, 2013. Christgau, Robert (June 25, 2013). "Serengeti/J. Cole". MSN Music. Archived from the original on August 15, 2013 . Retrieved August 25, 2013. Alexis, Nadeska (April 11, 2013). "J. Cole's Born Sinner Tosses Old Basketball Theme Out of Bounds". MTV. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. PopMatters Staff (December 10, 2013). "The Best Hip-Hop of 2013". PopMatters. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014 . Retrieved January 2, 2016. Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985), better known by J. Cole, is an American rapper/producer. Born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2009 he became the first artist to sign to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label.

Niggaz Know" contains samples of "So Tired", written by Willie Chambers and Andre Goodwin, as performed by The Chambers Brothers; and "Notorious Thugs", written by Steven Jordan, Sean Combs, Christopher Wallace, Steven Howse, Byron McCane and Anthony Henderson, as performed by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. If you listen to Lights Please, you can hear this vocal sample that’s on every snare with just keys on top; there’s really four or five elements to that beat and that’s when I hit that level of confidence to not overdo things. That’s when I started to hit that comfort level." a b "American album certifications – J. Cole – Born Sinner". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved September 18, 2020.Is She Gon Pop" contains a sample of "Chocolate Girl", written by Wayne Bell, as performed by The Whispers.

J. Cole Talks "Miss America" and Sophomore Album Born Sinner | XXL". XXL. November 19, 2012. Archived from the original on March 14, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. 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.New Music: J. Cole – 'Truly Yours 2' ". Rap-Up. April 30, 2013. Archived from the original on June 10, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. 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. Unexpected Character: A few... His first album had Missy Elliott (who had been on a music hiatus), whilst his second had TLC, Amber Coffman, Mike Epps and Pastor Kearney Thomas, whilst if you bought the deluxe of that album you got a song which included a chorus (for no apparent reason) by 50 Cent.

Ahmed, Insanul (June 24, 2013). "The Best Songs of 2013 (So Far) – 11. J. Cole f/ Nas "Let Nas Down (Remix)" ". Complex. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 . Retrieved February 19, 2016. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (June 15, 2013). "J Cole: Born Sinner". Financial Times . Retrieved May 25, 2019.

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Lowers, Erin (June 17, 2013). "J. Cole: Born Sinner". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013 . Retrieved June 18, 2013. Rich Niggaz" contains a sample of "Into Everything", written by Deborah Anderson, Michael Giffts, Fabrice Dumont, Stéphan Haeri and Christophe Hétier, as performed by Télépopmusik. XXL Presents... The 35 Most Anticipated Albums of 2013 – XXL". XXL. January 14, 2013. Archived from the original on May 28, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. 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". Cole:"I kind of freestyle every time. The Avalon [VT-737sp] is great, but sometimes I don’t have that and just have the Duet so that will do. And for the mic, the [Neumann] U87 is usually what we use. There’s also a Sony mic, the C800G, that’s great."