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2014 studio album past J. Cole

2014 Forest Hills Drive
2014ForestHillsDrive.jpg
Studio album by

J. Cole
Released December 9, 2014 (2014-12-09)
Recorded 2014
Studio
  • Jungle City
  • MSR (New York City)
  • Perfect Sound (Hollywood)
  • Windmark (Santa Monica)
Genre
  • Hip hop
  • witting rap[1]
Length 64:39
Characterization
  • ByStorm
  • Columbia
  • Dreamville
  • Roc Nation
Producer
  • Illmind
  • J. Cole
  • Phonix Beats
  • Vinylz
  • Willie B
J. Cole chronology
Born Sinner
(2013) 		2014 Forest Hills Drive
(2014) 		Forest Hills Drive: Live
(2016)
Singles from 2014 Wood Hills Drive
  1. "Apparently"
    Released: Dec 9, 2014
  2. "Moisture Dreamz"
    Released: Apr 14, 2015
  3. "No Role Modelz"
    Released: August four, 2015
  4. "Love Yourz"
    Released: February 27, 2016

2014 Woods 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 product on the album was primarily handled by Cole himself, along with several others such every bit Illmind, Vinylz, Phonix Beats and Willie B. Information technology was announced three weeks before its release and had very little marketing, with no singles or promotion taking identify prior to its release. The album was supported past four singles: "Plainly", "Moisture Dreamz", "No Function Modelz" and "Beloved Yourz".

2014 Forest Hills Bulldoze received generally positive reviews from critics who admired its ambitious concept, product and lyrics. The album debuted at number one on the U.s. Billboard 200, selling 353,000 copies in its first week. As of September 2015, the album has sold ane one thousand thousand copies in the Usa. 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 Meridian Rap Anthology at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. It was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards. The unmarried "Apparently" was nominated for Best Rap Functioning at the 2016 Grammy Awards.

Background [edit]

The anthology'south title is the address of a habitation in Fayetteville, N 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 primeval songs, and decided to pursue a career every bit a musician.[ii]

In 2014, Cole bought the house, and was the offset habitation he had purchased.[three] The anthology's title is used to recount Cole's upbringing, and the transition from leaving Due north Carolina to New York; it battles with the transitions that were taken in guild to observe his success and fame within the music industry. Cole before long put the home upwards for an "extremely inexpensive" 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 fiscal struggles.[four]

Recording and production [edit]

On August 15, 2014, Cole released the vocal "Exist Free", as a response to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.[five] In an interview with NPR'southward Microphone Bank check radio testify, Cole revealed that the song was recorded the same week he recorded the song "Intro" from 2014 Wood Hills Drive, but was never intended for the album.[half-dozen] In September 2014, during an interview with HipHopDX, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony'southward 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 invitee productions, including Dreamville's in-business firm producer Ron Gilmore, DJ Dahi,[viii] Illmind,[nine] Willie B,[10] Phonix Beats,[11] Vinylz[12] and Pop Wansel, with additional product provided past Cardiak[xiii] and CritaCal,[14] among others.[15] [xvi]

Release and promotion [edit]

On November 16, 2014, Cole released a video trailer, where he appear he volition be releasing his third album, titled 2014 Wood Hills Bulldoze on December 9. The video as well featured footage regarding the making-of the album. Additionally, the album's name sake was revealed to be the address of Cole'due south childhood home in Fayetteville, North Carolina.[17] [18] Cole held a listening session at the domicile on 2014 Forest Hills Drive where he invited a select group of fans to hear the album.[nineteen] [xx] On February 13, 2015, Cole announced he would further promote the anthology with a bout called Forest Hills Drive.[21] The tour was divided into 3 unlike acts. "Human activity 1: Hometown", "Act 2: The Journeying" and "Act three: 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 likewise served as supporting acts on Act ii and 3.[22] Act 2 started on Apr 30, 2015, in Zürich, Switzerland and ended on May 18, 2015, in London, England, information technology featured Jhené Aiko and Pusha T. Deed 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 concluding show in Fayetteville, North Carolina.[25] The bout 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: Route to Homecoming ahead of his special Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming, and released episode one the same 24-hour interval.[27] Episode two was released on December 23.[28] Episode iii was released on Dec thirty, Kendrick Lamar, Wale, ASAP Ferg and Rihanna made appearances.[29] Episode four was released on January 6, 2016.[thirty] All episodes were available for free on Vimeo until January 9. Forest Hills Drive: Homecoming aired January 9, 2016, on HBO and HBO At present.[31] On January 28, 2016, in commemoration of his 31st birthday, Cole released his outset live album titled, Forest Hills Drive: Live [32] and as well released the music video for the anthology'southward terminal single "Dear Yourz".[33] Both Woods Hills Drive: Homecoming and Woods Hills Bulldoze: Live covered his fall 2015 evidence at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, Due north Carolina.[34]

Singles [edit]

"Plain" was serviced to American mainstream urban radio, equally the album'due south commencement single on December 9, 2014.[35] Cole would as well go along to release the music video for "Apparently" on the same day.[36] The song has since peaked at number 58 on the U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100.[37] The song was nominated for Best Rap Functioning at the 2016 Grammy Awards.[38] The song was also nominated for The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter'due south Award at the 2015 Soul Train Music Awards[39] and Impact Track at the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards.[forty]

The album's second unmarried, "Wet Dreamz", was released to rhythmic gimmicky radio on Apr xiv, 2015.[41] On April 21, the music video was released for "Wet Dreamz".[42] The vocal 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 tertiary single, "No Role Modelz", was sent to urban and rhythmic radio stations on Baronial 4, 2015.[44] [45] The vocal 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 almost a line from the song where Cole raps, "My only regret was too young for Lisa Bonet, my only regret was likewise young for Nia Long, now all I'thou 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 Clan 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 Bout,[33] and on February 27, 2016, "Beloved Yourz" was released as the anthology'southward fourth and concluding unmarried.[48] The vocal was included in Sprite's "Obey Your Poesy" 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 Rail at the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards.[50] "Honey Yourz" charted at number 34 on the US Twitter Summit Tracks on February xiii, 2016.[51] The song has since peaked at number 25 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.[52]

Other songs [edit]

On December v, 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 "Thou.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 Fri".[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] [61]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Amass scores
Source Rating
AnyDecentMusic? 6.5/10[62]
Metacritic 67/100[63]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [64]
Complex [65]
Exclaim! eight/ten[66]
Los Angeles Times [67]
The Observer [68]
Pitchfork 6.9/10[69]
Rolling Rock [lxx]
Spin six/10[71]
USA Today [72]
XXL 4/v[73]

2014 Wood 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 boilerplate score of 67, based on 17 reviews.[63] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it six.5 out of 10, based on their cess of the critical consensus.[62]

Complex critic Justin Charity praised it as Cole'south 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, continuing potent in his delivery and carrying his story to the forefront of the 13-rail project. While information technology may not be his Belatedly Registration, he has definitely graduated into a grade of his own."[66] Andre Grant of HipHopDX stated, "It is less artistic than it ways to be, simply it is truer than anything he'south ever made. Its narrative, the tropes, and the strategies are completely overcome by the album'southward terrifying integrity.."[74] Craig Jenkins of Pitchfork said, "2014 Forest Hills Bulldoze is a decent album selling itself every bit bully. It wraps itself in the garments of a classic, but y'all can encounter that the tailoring is off."[69] Kellan Miller of XXL stated, "With every quality drop from the cocky-proclaimed "God", his ceiling volition continue to grow so will fan expectations."[73] David Jeffries of AllMusic said, "2014 Forest Hills Drive comes off every bit a cracking, experimental, and advancing mixtape, but it'south insider to a error, as slight equally that mistake might be."[64] Jesal "Jay Soul" Padania of RapReviews said, "He been afforded a rare amount of creative freedom on 2014 Forest Hills Drive and there aren't even whatever singles, then it's great that he's more or less delivered. But whilst this definitely misses out on archetype territory, that doesn't mean it isn't a bloody good anthology for the nearly 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 whatsoever friends to help him."[76] David Turner of Rolling Rock said, "He speaks some incisive truths about course, race ("Fire Squad") and relationships ("Wet Dreamz"), simply those insights are too oftentimes undercut by crass humor. The production falls short, too, with wearisome beats to match his languid flow."[70] Jason Gubbels of Spin said, "Cole'southward keen sense of injustice registers throughout 2014 Wood Hills Bulldoze, whether slagging white artists for creative thievery or seething over national media outlets pigeonholing black genius into sports/pop either / ors.... Just the absence of "Be Free" still detracts. Unless you're the type of moviegoer who sits patiently through the end titles, experience costless to duck out of "Annotation to Cocky" 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 "Moisture Dreamz" and "Love Yourz" as highlights while summing the album upwards as existence "full of the kind of good intentions the road to irrelevance is paved with".[77]

Rankings [edit]

Manufacture awards [edit]

Commercial performance [edit]

2014 Forest Hills Drive debuted at number one on the U.s. Billboard 200, selling a full of 371,000 copies, with 353,000 copies consisting of whole album sales and the remaining 17,000 copies determined based on private vocal 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 fourth dimension, outpacing the first week sales of his second album Born Sinner (2013), by 74,000 copies (297,000 copies).[xc] In addition to the album's sales toppling early projections past over 100,000 copies, 2014 Woods Hills Bulldoze as well broke One Direction'south record for most album streams on Spotify, existence streamed over 15.vii million times in its showtime calendar week, compared to Ane Management'due south xi.5 million streams.[91] Drake later broke this tape with 17.3 million streams for his mixtape If Y'all're Reading This Information technology's Too Late.[92] In its 2nd week, the album sold 135,000 more copies.[93] Cole became ane of simply half dozen 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 anthology has sold 1,240,000 copies in the United states.[95] On May 23, 2019, 2014 Forest Hills Drive was certified triple platinum past the Recording Industry Clan of America (RIAA) for combined sales, streaming and rail-sale equivalents of three million units in the Us.[96]

In 2015, 2014 Forest Hills Drive was ranked as the eighth almost popular anthology of the year on the Billboard 200.[97]

Track listing [edit]

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 Part Modelz" contains additional background vocals by Kaye Fox
  • "Hello" contains additional background vocals by Kaye Play a joke on
  • "Note to Self" contains boosted vocals by T.S. Rose Desandies and Yolanda Renee

Sample credits

  • "Jan 28th" contains a sample of "Sky Restaurant", written by Yumi Arai and Kunihiko Murai, and performed by Hello-Fi Prepare.
  • "Wet Dreamz" contains a sample of "Mariya", written by Charles Simmons and performed past Family Circle; and a sample of "Impeach the President", written by Roy Hammond and performed by The Love 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.
  • "Burn Squad" contains a sample of "Middle Breaker", written by Marker Farner and performed by Aguaturbia.
  • "St. Tropez" contains a sample of "That'due south All Right With Me", written by Mayfield Modest and performed past Esther Phillips; and a sample of "Sis Sanctified", performed past Stanley Turrentine and Milt Jackson; and contains an interpolation of "Hollywood", written past 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 Eastward Side Boyz featuring Ying Yang Twins; and a sample of "Berta, Berta", written by Delroy Andrews and performed by Branford Marsalis.
  • "No Office 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.
  • "Obviously" 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 [edit]

Credits for 2014 Forest Hills Bulldoze adapted from AllMusic.[99]

  • 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 management, 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 – fine art management, graphic design
  • Sean Kellett – assistant engineer
  • Raphael Lee – string engineer
  • Nuno Malo – strings
  • Jack Bricklayer – horn engineer
  • Carl McCormick – instrumentation
  • Nervous Reck – sampling
  • Calvin Price – instrumentation
  • Yolanda Renee – vocals (groundwork)
  • Roc Nation – executive producer
  • James Rodgers – trombone (bass)
  • Adam Rodney – creative director
  • Team Titans – additional production
  • Andre "Dré Charles" Thomas – additional production
  • Timothy "Nick Paradise" Thomas – additional production

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Encounter also [edit]

  • J. Cole: Route to Homecoming
  • Woods Hills Drive: Live
  • 2014 in hip hop music
  • List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2014
  • List of Billboard number-one R&B/hip-hop albums of 2014

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Further reading [edit]

  • Pizzo, Mike "DJ" (2015). "How Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole Rebooted Witting Rap". Cuepoint.

External links [edit]

  • 2014 Wood Hills Drive at Discogs (list of releases)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Forest_Hills_Drive