Childhood

J. Cole was born Jermaine Lamarr Cole in Frankfurt, Germany in a US army
camp on 28th January 1985, where his father was stationed at that time . His
father is of African descent while his mother is German origin . She worked for
the postal service of the United States . His father turned
his back on his family soon and Coles mother brought
shim and his brother Zach to the US, North
Carolina . The adress of the home Cole
grew up in is 2014 forest hills drive,
which is a very famous name as it is the
name of on of his most succesful albums . Cole was a
shy kid and was immensely attracted to music and
basketball . Cole grew up in a poor location and was
surrounded by gangs as a child . He played violin for
some time and this was the time when he got addicted to
music and started dreaming about being a musician someday.
Rapping came natural to Cole and he started doing it quite
often by the time he was 12 . Upon receiving a music sampler
one Christmas from his mother, Cole became hooked to music
production. He joined a few local small time groups and started
practicing rapping and making beats . Cole thought that a move
to New York would let his musical ambitions breathe and he found
the right excuse by expressing the desire to study there and majored
in computer science, and kept working on his music side by side.
While in New York his mother had been avicted from their home but
Cole later on bought it back.