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J. Cole is prepping the release of his third album 2014 Forest Hills Drive for December 9 and to kick off the campaign, Complex gives him a dope cover for their December / January issue. Below is an excerpt but you can head here to read the entire interview conducted by his college friend Damien Scott.
Would you ever consider retiring—going out on top like Jay?
I don’t know. I love doing it, so I’m not going to use that as [a sales pitch], like, “Last album—make sure you go out and buy.” But I’m content if this is my last one, going out like this. Listen to all my music and you’ll hear this nigga who went to New York City and started with a dream; he gained his confidence and his step with The Warm Up and was here to show y’all niggas “I’m the best”—and Friday Night Lights put a stamp on that. Sideline Story was like, “I have to figure this shit out and sell records.” Born Sinner was “Fuck, that wasn’t how I wanted to do it. I gotta make up for that one, I got to get back to myself.” And then fighting through all of that to realize on 2014 Forest Hills Drive, “No, this is where it was always at.”
After the break, Cole takes us around his childhood home.