J. Cole As A Role Model

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Most people would leave to a different state or out of the country and touring around the location they have chosen. If I was given a ticket to anywhere I choose, I would visit the house where my role model and favorite rapper was raised. It might sound unorthodox to visit a famous person’s house but that specific house gave the famous J. Cole his motivation to be the successful person he is today. J. Cole was born in germany inside of a military base, but raised in North Carolina. At the age of five his parents divorced, J. Cole’s mother took him and his brother Zack to a trailer park. The trailer park at the time had a ton of crime’s that took place and J. Cole was not used to seeing the illegal activity that was going on at the trailer

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