![]() ![]() ![]() Determined to create original songs, he begged his mother for a beat machine so he could produce music solely for himself. 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.Ĭole 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.
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