J. Cole relocated to New York after finishing high school and enrolled in St. John’s University, where he eventually earned a degree in communications in 2007 and graduated with honors.
He released The Come Up, his first mixtape, in 2007. He also rapped over beats by Kanye West, Large Professor, and Just Blaze, albeit it was mostly his own production.
Where did J. Cole go to college and high school?
Rapper and record producer Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born in the United States on January 28, 1985. Cole, who was reared in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was born on a military base in Germany, first became well-known as a rapper after his debut mixtape, The Come Up, was made available in early 2007.
After deciding to join Jay-Roc Z’s Nation imprint in 2009, he went on to record two more mixtapes, The Warm Up (2009) and Friday Night Lights (2010), all of which received positive reviews.
