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Cole played for the Eastern Team in the 2012 NBA All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game. Cole was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2012 Grammys but lost to Bon Iver. End of June, maybe June.' On November 6, 7 and 8, Cole was the supporting act for Tinie Tempah, appearing at Bournemouth International Centre Liverpool Echo Arena, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales LG Arena, Birmingham, England SECC Arena, Glasgow, Scotland and MEN Arena, Manchester. He had also stated that the album would consist of songs that failed to make his debut: 'I donвЂ™t know how many, but I got songs that didn't make the last album that are automatically going to make this one,вЂќ he said, revealing the release date. On Octoduring an interview with Hot 106вЂ™s Rise & Grind morning show, Cole revealed he had begun working on his second studio album, with hopes of releasing it in June 2012.

1 on Billboard Hot 200 in its first week on sale. The album is called 'Cole World: The Sideline Story' and was released on September 27, 2011. Let's change the game,' he tweeted in May 2011. He went on supporting Tinie Tempah and Rihanna in the next few months ahead.ДЄll the while, Cole was preparing for his first studio album. He then joined Drake as his supporting act in the Light Dreams and Nightmares UKВ Tour in early 2011. His third official mixtape 'Friday Night Lights' was released in November that year, featuring names like Drake and Wale. He supported the album with a college tour in 2010. His first single 'Who Dat' appeared on the mixtape 'The Warm Up'. 'I got the record deal,' Cole recalled, 'but I still had to learn and improve as far as being ready to drop an album.' He was then featured in his mentor's album 'The Blueprint 3' on the track 'A Star Is Born.' From there, Cole was a known collaborator, working with Wale, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, B.o.B and a lot more. Cole was officially the first artist to be signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation. Jay-Z apparently heard his song 'Lights Please'. He received a text from an associate who told him that he has a business meeting with Jay-Z to attend. But when the big rapper came out, Cole was shunned. With only courage and determination, Cole stood outside Jay-Z's office building for hours to give him his demo tape. Cole first came up with a mixtape called 'The Come Up' in 2007. He was working as a bill collector in the city but his passion laid somewhere else. John's University on an academic scholarship where he majored in communication and minored in business, graduating magna cum laude. In pursuit of a better chance, he moved to New York City as soon as he graduated from high school He enrolled in St. Cole spent the remainder of his teen years as Therapist, posting his music online under the moniker.

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She granted his wish and from there, a young Cole spent all his free time creating sounds and songs that would lay the foundation for what his style has evolved to today. Determined to create original songs, he begged his mother for a beat machine so he could produce music solely for himself.

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Cole found himself with composition notebooks full of rhymes but no beats of his own to lay them on. Seizing every opportunity to write, at age 15 J. From there he delved deep into the music of hip hop luminaries including Tupac Shakur, Nas and OutKast, taking from them a love for telling stories with an unbridled rigor. He moved to Fayetteville, North Carolina with his mother when his father left the family.Д¬ole fell into rapping at the age of 12 when his cousin from Louisiana spent the summer in Fayetteville, showing him the basics of rhyming. He was born Jermaine Lamarr Cole on Januin Frankfurt, Germany on to a European American mother and an African American father.