J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive 2LP

And they say you can't go home again. Following 2011's Cole World: The Sideline Story and 2013's Born Sinner, Jermaine Lamarr Cole, aka Roc Nation rapper J. Cole, returned to his childhood home in Fayetteville, North Carolina on his third album: 2014 Forest Hills Drive. The 2014 release is a concept record about how a boy discovered his purpose, written from the perspective of a superstar rapper questioning the facets of fame. It is a meditation on the value of love relative to worldly success. And it is an extraordinary work from an artist who continues to grow and create. The narrative is a tale of Cole's and also serves as a series of metaphors that complete a story of passion, growth and ultimately reflection. It's an album to ingest as a whole with the sum of its parts creating the full tale. 2014 Forest Hills Drive does more than immortalizes an address in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It speaks to a progression in a young life emotionally and also from a socio-economic vantage p