2014 Forest Hills Drive

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Both Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming and Forest Hills Drive: Live covered his fall 2015 show at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Act 2 started on April 30, 2015, in Zürich, Switzerland and ended on May 18, 2015, in London, England, it featured Jhené Aiko and Pusha T. There is also a signature in sharpie though I'm not sure who it belongs to as it doesn't look like the artist's.

Its narrative, the tropes, and the strategies are completely overcome by the album's terrifying integrity. Forest Hills Drive received generally positive reviews from critics who admired its ambitious concept, production and lyrics.

The album won Album of the Year at the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards, and Top Rap Album at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. Cole's career at the time, outpacing the first week sales of his second album Born Sinner (2013), by 74,000 copies (297,000 copies). Overall VG condition, some minor shelf wear at corners, small tear on back, records are glossy with minimal surface wear, likely played only a handful of times. In September 2014, during an interview with HipHopDX, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's manager Steve Lobel revealed Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone recorded a track with Cole for the album, though the song never made the album's final cut. The cover art is unusually low resolution, one of my labels is separating from the record and it looks like water damage (but nothing else is water damaged?

Act 3 was the longest leg of the tour, it started on July 12, 2015, in Seattle, Washington and ended on August 29, 2015, in Cole's hometown Fayetteville, North Carolina, and featured Big Sean, YG and Jeremih. In 2015, 2014 Forest Hills Drive was ranked as the eighth most popular album of the year on the Billboard 200. The song was included in Sprite's "Obey Your Verse" campaign in 2016 where 16 lyrics from 2Pac, Missy Eliiot and Cole were emblazoned on Sprite soda cans and bottles.

Will show some signs that it was played and otherwise handled by a previous owner who took good care of it.

Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands. The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on May 18, 2016. Wet Dreamz" contains a sample of "Mariya", written by Charles Simmons and performed by Family Circle; and a sample of "Impeach the President", written by Roy Hammond and performed by The Honey Drippers. Jesal "Jay Soul" Padania of RapReviews said, "He been afforded a rare amount of artistic freedom on 2014 Forest Hills Drive and there aren't even any singles, so it's great that he's more or less delivered. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

In addition to the album's sales toppling early projections by over 100,000 copies, 2014 Forest Hills Drive also broke One Direction's record for most album streams on Spotify, being streamed over 15. Lamar remixed Cole's " A Tale of 2 Citiez", [58] while Cole remixed Lamar's single " Alright" from his studio album To Pimp a Butterfly. It was released on December 9, 2014, by ByStorm Entertainment, Columbia Records, Dreamville Records and Roc Nation. Recording sessions took place over the whole year, while the production on the album was primarily handled by Cole himself, along with several others such as Illmind, Vinylz, Phonix Beats and Willie B.

Apparently" was serviced to American mainstream urban radio, as the album's first single on December 9, 2014. On May 23, 2019, 2014 Forest Hills Drive was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales, streaming and track-sale equivalents of three million units in the United States. Cole with guest producers Elite, Ron Gilmore, Tray Samuels, DJ Dahl, Illmind, Cardiak, CritCal, Vinylz, Organized Noize and Jproof. David Jeffries of AllMusic said, " 2014 Forest Hills Drive comes off as a great, experimental, and advancing mixtape, but it's insider to a fault, as slight as that fault might be. January 28th" contains a sample of "Sky Restaurant", written by Yumi Arai and Kunihiko Murai, and performed by Hi-Fi Set.

Cole released the live music video for "Love Yourz" on January 28, 2016, the music video was filmed during his Forest Hills Drive Tour, [33] and on February 27, 2016, "Love Yourz" was released as the album's fourth and final single. Both records are in great VG+ shape with only some light superficial surface scuffs from the printed inner sleeves. One thing to note with the color is that it's not a super perfect split - the black sorta takes over the red near the edge of the discs. On November 27, 2015, in celebration of Black Friday, Cole and rapper Kendrick Lamar released two separate tracks, both titled "Black Friday". J. Cole Gets Introspective In His "Apparently" Video: Watch – Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.