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The track isn’t called “Untitled” – it just doesn’t have a title yet, according to Hypetrak. This was produced by Jim Jonsin and is set to be on Cole’s album. We shall see. To download, hit the arrow button on the right.
J. Cole – Untitled (Produced by Jim Jonsin) by Hypetrak

J. Cole chops it up with Sgt. Tibs of Gowhere Hip Hop to discuss the “Who Dat” video, his feature on Miguel’s “All I Want Is You”, working with No I.D. on the upcoming debut album (which he confirms is NOT titled ‘Cole World’), non-musical inspirations for the album, and which of this summer’s albums he’s listening to! The video also contains some bonus visuals of J. Cole performing at the WGCI Car and Bike Show at Chicago State University.

So J.Cole was in attendance at an event tonight in Chicago and FSD released this tidbit of info regarding his album. Apparently, he let the crowd know that famed Chicago producer No ID has handled production on three tracks to be released on his debut album. September? We shall see…

J. Cole performs ‘Last Call’, then begins ‘Roc the Mic’ and brings Freeway out.Freeway performs ‘Roc the Mic’ and then goes into ‘What We Do.’ This is at the Heineken event, which is touring the country. I believe Wale and J.Cole are performing at the NYC leg in a weekend or two.

Another track from Hollywood Cole – although no word on what this track is exactly from. This is pretty sick, in my opinion. Everything from Cole is a consistently high echelon. What do you guys think about his releases? Thanks to RR.

J.Cole – Premeditated Murder

A number of videos and promo materials dropped over this weekend regarding J.Cole rocking out in London. Above he names three tracks off the album. After the link, you can see some live performance footage and a nice freestyle with the BBC.

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Via illroots:

“We caught up with J. Cole in Chicago for the Heineken Inspire show at The Ravenswood Event Center. The young and buzzing rapper speaks on the reasoning behind his one-shot video for ‘Who Dat’, capturing a fans emotion through live show, his upcoming album due out later this year and what he hopes listeners will take from it. He also performs ‘Dollar And A Dream’ and ‘Who Dat’.”

I love this video right here. The first official music video from Cole to warm us up for the album. This was supposedly shot in 1 take, according to the song’s producer Elite. Directed by BBGUN.

Really looking forward to what is J.Cole’s (really) debut music video. Already liking what I’m seeing by the preview and the full thing drops on Monday.

Cole will be playing a ‘secret’ show tonight at the 40/40 Club in NYC with people of the media and fans who were given some tickets via different outlets (don’t try to work your way in or just show up…they are being strict with the names on the list I’m told). A shame I can’t go, but I have something else going on.

Says J.Cole:

June 15th, 2009. A year ago today The Warm Up dropped. I’m taking this moment and appreciating all the love and support that I’ve received from yall. All that love ya’ll gave allowed me to hit the road and perform these songs for you before I even had a single out. It’s wild to me when I show up in places like Houston, Atlanta, Richmond, Ohio, University of Maryland, NYC, so many other cities and schools, and the whole crowd knows every word to every song. Seeing that it’s so early in my career, only 1 single out, that’s a blessing. Thank you.

A year later and people are still getting put on to The Warm Up every day. Slowly but surely ya’ll, just like it was supposed to. The album is coming, your patience is gonna pay off.

Thank you for real.

Ya’ll know I don’t like throwing out too much but fuck it, it’s a special day. A leaked freestyle never hurt nobody.

J.Cole – The Last Stretch

Seems like either Tapemasters Inc or Evil Empire always have the unreleased music game on lock. Here, TMI drops this new one from their upcoming Cole mixtape. Really digging the sound of this latest joint:

J.Cole – Higher

And make sure to look out for that music video for “Who Dat” dropping soon! Looking forward to that.

J.Cole takes it back to North Carolina for his first full fledged music video for “Who Dat?” While the song won’t be a commercial success, it definitely lets you know that Cole is on his way. I would expect a few more commercial singles (by Cole’s standards) before we see a body of work dropping. Additional pics after the link:

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Here’s a pretty solid interview J.Cole recently had with Vibe online. Speaks on a number of different topics, but I thought his words on “Who Dat” were interesting:

VIBE: Everyone knows how important first singles are. Why was “Who Dat” the one?
J. Cole: First it was all feeling, just the sound and excitement behind it. Instead of shooting for an obviously commercial song, I love [“Who Dat”] because it’s really about the beat and the raps and not much more. It’s an introduction to those that were unfamiliar and also something for my fans to brag about as opposed to hearing it on the radio and being like ‘Ehhh.’ I also thought it was real ill, that I’m rapping on that the way I used to always rap… raw, aggressive. Those used to be the only raps I wrote, but as I get older, I barely do those anymore. It’s kind of interesting because the rest of my album is so far from that. That’s probably one of the only braggadocios raps, maybe one more. Everything else is conceptual storytelling with substance and meaning. Putting that out first, kind of reflects my growth as an artist.

This is also the first song from you where all the blog comments weren’t immediately positive—they were a bit polarizing. Were you surprised?
I kind of knew. Just from seeing other people, not even necessarily people from the blog era, you kind have to pick your strategy and go with it. People automatically look at the word ‘single’ different, especially ‘first single’. But I don’t pay attention because I understand that that’s going to happen for the rest of my career. As much as I would love to have everybody in agreement like ‘J. Cole’s the truth, everything he’s doing is perfect,’ I totally understand that that’s not realistic. No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do. These people’s opinions for the most part are valid, but I don’t stress it. I just do what’s in my heart.

True life. Are you shooting the video soon?
Next week, [me and BB Gun are] going to Fayetteville to shoot it. I have to stay loyal.

Nice. Is this something where you’re having a bunch of locals involved?
Yeah. I want it to be a surprise for the city.

What were Jay’s words when he first heard the single?
He liked it a lot, said the beat reminds him of a Biggie’s “Hypnotize.” I believe him. That’s why they call him Hov [laughs].

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Our Toronto crew Jordan & Mandy hit up the J.Cole show in Buffalo this past Friday and put together some great footage from the show.

Above is the footage of J.Cole doing his thing. There’s footage of “Grown Simba,” “I Get Up,” and “Who Dat.” Below is a quick vid of Jeezy doin his verse to “Dey Know.”

I noticed one or two guys go in over the “Who Dat” instrumental, so I looked for the CDS with the official instumental…well, here you have it thanks to HHU friend Elite. This was co-produced by Elite and J. Cole himself.

“Who Dat” Instrumental (prod. Elite & J.Cole)