2014 studio album by J. Cole
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2014 Forest Hills Drive
is the third studio album by American rapper
J. Cole
. 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
. It was announced three weeks before its release and had very little marketing, with no singles or promotion taking place prior to its release. The album was supported by four singles: "
Apparently
", "
Wet Dreamz
", "
No Role Modelz
" and "
Love Yourz
".
2014 Forest Hills Drive
received generally positive reviews from critics who admired its ambitious concept, production and lyrics. The album debuted at number one on the US
Billboard
200
, selling 353,000 copies in its first week. As of September 2015, the album has sold one million copies in the United States. The album was certified
triple platinum
by the
Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) in May 2019.
The album won
Album of the Year
at the
2015 BET Hip Hop Awards
, and
Top Rap Album
at the
2015
Billboard
Music Awards
. It was nominated for
Best Rap Album
at the
2016 Grammy Awards
. The single "Apparently" was nominated for
Best Rap Performance
at the 2016 Grammy Awards.
Background
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The album's title is the address of a home in
Fayetteville, North Carolina
, where Cole lived from his early youth, until 2003. Cole lived at the property with his mother, his brother and his stepfather, and was the location where Cole wrote some of his earliest songs, and decided to pursue a career as a musician.
[2]
In 2014, Cole bought the house, and was the first home he had purchased.
[3]
The album's title is used to recount Cole's upbringing, and the transition from leaving North Carolina to New York; it battles with the transitions that were taken in order to find his success and fame within the music industry. Cole soon put the home up for an "extremely cheap" renting price, in the hope that any struggling residents could use it to progress their lives, without having to worry about frequent moving, an experience Cole underwent due to frequent financial struggles.
[4]
Recording and production
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On August 15, 2014, Cole released the song "Be Free", as a response to the
shooting of Michael Brown
in
Ferguson, Missouri
.
[5]
In an interview with
NPR
's
Microphone Check
radio show
, Cole revealed that the song was recorded the same week he recorded the song "Intro" from
2014 Forest Hills Drive
, but was never intended for the album.
[6]
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.
[7]
The production on the album was primarily handled by J. Cole, along with its guest productions, including
Dreamville
's in-house producer Ron Gilmore,
DJ Dahi
,
[8]
Illmind
,
[9]
Willie B
,
[10]
Phonix Beats,
[11]
Vinylz
[12]
and Pop Wansel, with additional production provided by
Cardiak
[13]
and CritaCal,
[14]
among others.
[15]
[16]
During production, Cole had envisioned
2014 Forest Hills Drive
to be released as a
double album
.
[6]
Release and promotion
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On November 16, 2014, Cole released a
video trailer
, where he announced he will be releasing his third album, titled
2014 Forest Hills Drive
on December 9. The video also featured footage regarding the
making-of
the album. Additionally, the album's name sake was revealed to be the address of Cole's childhood home in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[17]
[18]
Cole held a listening session at the home on 2014 Forest Hills Drive where he invited a select group of fans to hear the album.
[19]
[20]
On February 13, 2015, Cole announced he would further promote the album with a tour called Forest Hills Drive.
[21]
The tour was divided into three different acts. "Act 1: Hometown", "Act 2: The Journey" and "Act 3: Hollywood". Act 1 started on March 2, 2015, in
Eugene, Oregon
and ended on April 7, 2015, in
Providence, Rhode Island
, it featured Dreamville artists such as
Bas
,
Cozz
and
Omen
, who were also served as supporting acts on Act 2 and 3.
[22]
Act 2 started on April 30, 2015, in
Zurich
, Switzerland and ended on May 18, 2015, in
London
, England, it featured
Jhene Aiko
and
Pusha T
. 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
.
[23]
[24]
Cole brought out
Drake
and
Jay-Z
to perform at the last show in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[25]
The tour sold over 570,000 tickets worldwide and grossed $20.4 million.
[26]
On December 15, 2015, Cole announced a mini-documentary
series
titled,
J. Cole: Road to Homecoming
ahead of his special
Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming
, and released episode one the same day.
[27]
Episode two was released on December 23.
[28]
Episode three was released on December 30,
Kendrick Lamar
,
Wale
,
ASAP Ferg
and
Rihanna
made appearances.
[29]
Episode four was released on January 6, 2016.
[30]
All episodes were available for free on
Vimeo
until January 9.
Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming
aired January 9, 2016, on
HBO
and
HBO Now
.
[31]
On January 28, 2016, in celebration of his 31st birthday, Cole released his first live album titled,
Forest Hills Drive: Live
[32]
and also released the music video for the album's final single "
Love Yourz
".
[33]
Both
Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming
and
Forest Hills Drive: Live
covered his fall 2015 show at the
Crown Coliseum
in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[34]
Singles
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"
Apparently
" was serviced to American
mainstream urban
radio, as the album's first single on December 9, 2014.
[35]
Cole would also go on to release the music video for "Apparently" on the same day.
[36]
The song has since peaked at number 58 on the US
Billboard
Hot 100
.
[37]
The song was nominated for
Best Rap Performance
at the
2016 Grammy Awards
.
[38]
The song was also nominated for The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award at the
2015 Soul Train Music Awards
[39]
and Impact Track at the
2015 BET Hip Hop Awards
.
[40]
The album's second single, "
Wet Dreamz
", was released to
rhythmic contemporary
radio on April 14, 2015.
[41]
On April 21, the music video was released for "Wet Dreamz".
[42]
The song has since peaked at number 61 on the US
Billboard
Hot 100.
[37]
On June 16, 2016, "Wet Dreamz" was certified
platinum
by the
Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA).
[43]
The album's third single, "
No Role Modelz
", was sent to
urban
and
rhythmic
radio stations on August 4, 2015.
[44]
[45]
The song has since peaked at number 36 on the US
Billboard
Hot 100.
[37]
On May 2, 2016, in an interview with
Larry King Now
, actress
Nia Long
was asked about a line from the song where Cole raps, "My only regret was too young for
Lisa Bonet
, my only regret was too young for Nia Long, now all I'm left with is hoes from reality shows, hand her a script the bitch probably couldn't read along." She responded by saying, "He's really not too young, he just doesn't know it."
[46]
The song was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on May 18, 2016.
[47]
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.
[48]
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.
[49]
The song won Impact Track at the
2016 BET Hip Hop Awards
.
[50]
"Love Yourz" charted at number 34 on the US
Twitter Top Tracks
on February 13, 2016.
[51]
The song has since peaked at number 25 on the US
R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
.
[52]
Other songs
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On December 5, 2014, Cole released a music video for the song "Intro".
[53]
On December 13, 2014, rapper
Waka Flocka Flame
released a
freestyle
over the song "
Fire Squad
".
[54]
On March 23, 2015, a music video was released for "
G.O.M.D.
".
[55]
On November 27, 2015, in celebration of
Black Friday
, Cole and rapper Kendrick Lamar released two separate tracks, both titled "Black Friday".
[56]
[57]
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
.
[59]
Rappers
Styles P
and
Juicy J
also released freestyles over "A Tale of 2 Citiez".
[60]
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Critical reception
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2014 Forest Hills Drive
was met with generally positive reviews. At
Metacritic
, which assigns a
normalized
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an
average
score of 67, based on 17 reviews.
[63]
Aggregator
AnyDecentMusic?
gave it 6.5 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.
[62]
Complex
critic Justin Charity praised it as Cole's most mature and well-edited album to date, crediting him for eschewing "much of the whiplash and false bravado" of his previous work.
[65]
Erin Lowers of
Exclaim!
said, "He shines without any features, standing strong in his delivery and carrying his story to the forefront of the 13-track project. While it may not be his
Late Registration
, he has definitely graduated into a class of his own."
[66]
Andre Grant of
HipHopDX
stated, "It is less artistic than it means to be, but it is truer than anything he's ever made. Its narrative, the tropes, and the strategies are completely overcome by the album's terrifying integrity.."
[74]
Craig Jenkins of
Pitchfork
said, "
2014 Forest Hills Drive
is a decent album selling itself as great. It wraps itself in the garments of a classic, but you can see that the tailoring is off."
[69]
Kellan Miller of
XXL
stated, "With every quality drop from the self-proclaimed "God", his ceiling will continue to grow and so will fan expectations."
[73]
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."
[64]
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. But whilst this definitely misses out on classic territory, that doesn't mean it isn't a bloody good album for the most part."
[75]
Marshall Gu of
PopMatters
said, "On
2014 Forest Hills Drive
, we've still got the same ol' Cole, but with diminishing returns and without any friends to help him."
[76]
David Turner of
Rolling Stone
said, "He speaks some incisive truths about class, race ("Fire Squad") and relationships ("Wet Dreamz"), but those insights are too often undercut by crass humor. The production falls short, too, with dull beats to match his languid flow."
[70]
Jason Gubbels of
Spin
said, "Cole's keen sense of injustice registers throughout
2014 Forest Hills Drive
, whether slagging white artists for artistic thievery or seething over national media outlets pigeonholing black genius into sports/pop either / ors.... But the absence of "Be Free" still detracts. Unless you're the type of moviegoer who sits patiently through the end titles, feel free to duck out of "Note to Self" a bit early and head over to
SoundCloud
."
[71]
Robert Christgau
gave the album a
one-star honorable mention
rating in his review for
Cuepoint
, naming "Wet Dreamz" and "Love Yourz" as highlights while summing the album up as being "full of the kind of good intentions the road to irrelevance is paved with".
[77]
Rankings
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Industry awards
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Commercial performance
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2014 Forest Hills Drive
debuted at number one on the US
Billboard
200
, selling a total of 371,000 copies, with 353,000 copies consisting of whole album sales and the remaining 17,000 copies determined based on individual song sales and streaming data. This is a tracking change that was implemented by
Nielsen SoundScan
and
Billboard
in December 2014.
[89]
2014 Forest Hills Drive
became the best first week sales of J. 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).
[90]
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 15.7 million times in its first week, compared to One Direction's 11.5 million streams.
[91]
Drake later broke this record with 17.3 million streams for his mixtape
If You're Reading This It's Too Late
.
[92]
In its second week, the album sold 135,000 more copies.
[93]
Cole became one of only six rappers to reach number one with their first three full-length studio albums, others being Drake,
Rick Ross
,
Nelly
,
DMX
and
Snoop Dogg
.
[94]
As of December 2016, the album has sold 1,240,000 copies in the United States.
[95]
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.
[96]
In 2015,
2014 Forest Hills Drive
was ranked as the eighth most popular album of the year on the
Billboard
200.
[97]
Track listing
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Credits adapted from
Tidal
.
[98]
Notes
- ^[a]
signifies a co-producer
- ^[b]
signifies an additional producer
- "January 28th" contains additional vocals by Kaye Fox
- "A Tale of 2 Citiez" contains additional background vocals by Kaye Fox, T.S. Rose Desandies, and Yolanda Renee
- "St. Tropez" contains additional background vocals by T.S. Rose Desandies
- "No Role Modelz" contains additional background vocals by Kaye Fox
- "Hello" contains additional background vocals by Kaye Fox
- "Note to Self" contains additional vocals by T.S. Rose Desandies and Yolanda Renee
Sample credits
- "January 28th" contains a sample of "Sky Restaurant", written by Yumi Arai and Kunihiko Murai, and performed by Hi-Fi Set.
- "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
.
- "03' Adolescence" contains a sample of "
Here's That Rainy Day
", written by
Johnny Burke
and
Jimmy Van Heuse
, and performed by Sonia Rosa and
Yuji Ono
.
- "Fire Squad" contains a sample of "Heart Breaker", written by Mark Farner and performed by
Aguaturbia
.
- "St. Tropez" contains a sample of "That's All Right With Me", written by Mayfield Small and performed by
Esther Phillips
; and a sample of "Sister Sanctified", performed by
Stanley Turrentine
and
Milt Jackson
; and contains an interpolation of "Hollywood", written by
Andre Fischer
and
Dave Wolinski
, and performed by
Rufus
and
Chaka Khan
.
- "G.O.M.D." embodies a portion of "
Get Low
", written by
Deongelo Holmes
,
Eric Jackson
and
Jonathan Smith
, and performed by
Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
featuring
Ying Yang Twins
; and a sample of "Berta, Berta", written by Delroy Andrews and performed by
Branford Marsalis
.
- "No Role Modelz" contains a sample of "
Don't Save Her
", written by Marvin Whitemon,
Paul Beauregard
,
Jordan Houston
, Tenina Stevens,
Earl Stevens
, Dannell Stevens and
Brandt Jones
, and performed by
Project Pat
.
- "Apparently" contains a sample of "La Morte Dell'ermina", written and performed by Filippo Trecca; and a sample of "CB#5", written and performed by Carlos Bess.
Personnel
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Credits for
2014 Forest Hills Drive
adapted from
AllMusic
.
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- Jermaine Cole ? primary artist, producer
- Mark Pitts ? executive producer
- Ramon Ibanga, Jr. ? producer
- Anderson Hernandez ? producer
- William "Willie B" Brown ? producer
- Pop Wansel ? producer
- Darius Barnes ? producer
- Ronald Gilmore ? additional production, bass, keyboards, producer
- J Proof ? producer
- Juro "Mez" Davis ? engineer, mixing
- Nate Jones ? bass
- David Linaburg ? guitar
- Nate Alford ? engineer
- Travis Antoine ? trumpet
- Anthony Blasko ? photography
- Felton Brown ? art direction, graphic design
- James Casey ? saxophone
- Chargaux ? strings
- Jeremy Cimino ? assistant engineer
- Damone Coleman
? sampling
- T.S. Rose Desandies ? vocals (background)
- DJ Dahi
? beats
- Dreamville Records ? executive producer
- Kaye Fox ? vocals (background)
- Jeff Gitelman
? guitar
- Justin Thomas Kay ? art direction, graphic design
- Sean Kellett ? assistant engineer
- Raphael Lee ? string engineer
- Nuno Malo ? strings
- Jack Mason ? horn engineer
- Carl McCormick ? instrumentation
- Nervous Reck ? sampling
- Calvin Price ? instrumentation
- Yolanda Renee ? vocals (background)
- Roc Nation ? executive producer
- James Rodgers ? trombone (bass)
- Adam Rodney ? creative director
- Team Titans ? additional production
- Andre "Dre Charles" Thomas ? additional production
- Timothy "Nick Paradise" Thomas ? additional production
Charts
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Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Decade-end charts
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Certifications
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Release history
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See also
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