A track called 'Lights Please' from his second mixtape, The Warm Up (2009), came to the attention of the producer and music exec Mark Pitts, who played it to Jay Z. It was largely self-produced, but also saw him rapping over beats from Kanye West, Large Professor and Just Blaze. His debut mixtape, The Come Up, also came out in 2007. After graduating from high school, Cole moved to New York and attended St John’s University, graduating magna cum laude in 2007 with a degree in communications. He held down a number of part-time jobs as a teenager while he honed his production skills, including a stint at an ice hockey rink where he had to dress up as a kangaroo mascot. She moved with him and his older brother, Zach, to Fayetteville, North Carolina, where the family lived in trailer parks as she struggled to make ends meet. His father, an African American soldier, left his mother, a white German postal worker, when Cole was a baby. Army base in Frankfurt, then in West Germany. Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born on January 28, 1985, at a U.S. No wonder Drake paid him the highest compliment: “You are looking at one of the smartest, greatest, most legendary artists of our generation.” Early Life Along with establishing his own nonprofit foundation, he keeps up a busy release schedule. Since signing to Jay Z’s Roc Nation, he has toured worldwide, sold huge amounts of records, produced for Kendrick Lamar and even come to the attention of Barack Obama.

Cole is a rapper and producer who has achieved success in the early 2010s. Cole is a rapper and producer who signed on with Jay Z's Roc Nation in 2009 and has produced for artists like Kendrick Lamar and Janet Jackson.

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