J. Cole Uses What To Help Single Mothers? “The Power Trip” rapper uses his home, yeah the house he grew up in. The house you see on his Forest Hill Drive album cover. The “Apparently” rapper apparently can do no wrong; not only does he create uplifting heart felt rap music; he is practicing what he preaches and creating projects to better the lives of his listeners back home in North Carolina. J.Cole also dishes about his upbringing in a recent interview. “Life for him ain’t been know crystal stair” before all of his success his mother lost their home and they were forced to live in a trailer. He also talks about noticing his mother was the only white person in the neighborhood with 2 small children. Through it all he always had faith and a positive outlook about his process and his future. Once he got his deal and after the “Work Out” he was able to purchase the house back.J. Cole has decided to pay it forward with plans of offering free housing to mothers with multiple children. More details after the jump
“In the South, especially in North Carolina, it’s like this,” he said of his family moving to a trailer park when he was 4. “I can’t speak for Atlanta, I’m not from there. But North Carolina is like this. That was my first glimpse of the hood. This is not Eminem, 8 Mile. Shit was fucked up. No disrespect to people that’s still in the trailers and shit but that’s what it is. It’s very affordable housing. Very affordable. The neighborhood we lived in was fucked up. I was a kid. The reason why it had such a big effect on me is that I was coming from somewhere else. I was coming from a military base. My father was in the army and my mother was too, she got out when she had me. Before I was 1 we moved back [from Germany] to Fayetteville, Fort Bragg.
My parents separated before I was even conscious. After we moved back they were separated. When they got divorced we had to move out of the military quarters ’cause you can only live there if you’re married. That’s like real nice housing, it ain’t no mansion but it’s safe. Everybody got jobs, everybody got benefits ’cause they’re all in the Army. When I’m four years old we have to move; it’s me, my brother, and my mother and we moved to Spring Lake, a little outskirt area of Fayetteville. We moved to the trailer park in Spring Lake. It was my first taste of like, ‘Oh, shit. This is nothing like where we came from.’ I knew the energy was not right. I knew my mother was the only white lady in the neighborhood and there was no man in the house.”
J. Cole also revealed that fans are going to his house and taking pictures on the roof like he did. Someone even stole the street sign SMH.
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