J. Cole will be taking The Fall-Off World Tour across North America this summer with an impressive run of NYC shows. He’ll be performing at Barclays Center on July 31st and August 1st and at Madison Square Garden on August 2nd and 4th.
Cole was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina and began rapping when he was twelve years old. Moving to NYC for college, he worked tirelessly to perfect his skills and build his career all the while maintaining manga cum laude status at St. John’s University. After releasing his first mixtape in 2007, he became the first artist signed to Jay-Z’s record label, Roc Nation, with which he released the mixtapes, The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights. Cole’s unique ability to fuse his lyrical engagement with serious topics with his signature warm, triumphant, and nostalgic sound shone through on his first full-length album in 2011, Cole World: The Sideline Story. The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and went on to be certified platinum, a trend that would continue throughout his massive career with every single one of his albums topping the Billboard charts. In 2014, he released his most successful album yet, the deeply personal 2014 Forest Hills Drive (the address of his childhood home), which sold over three million copies and was the first hip-hop album in 25 years to go platinum without any features.
As avid a producer as a rapper (playing a major role in the production of his albums), Cole has his own record label, Dreamville Records, which has signed artists like JID and EarthGang and has an attached media company and non-profit. He is also a highly decorated awards winner, earning two Grammys, eight BET awards, and many more. At two discs and 24 songs long, J. Cole’s latest, and apparently final album, The Fall-Off (released in February), serves as a tribute to his iconic two-decade long career and tells the story of two trips to his hometown a decade apart, accentuated by his classic immensely vulnerable lyricism. The album is a triumphant full-circle moment from his first project – the sharp-penned college kid with aspirations to make it big has grown into a generational artist with a culture-defining legacy who has made peace with his well-deserved success and carries with him the love for the place from which he came. If The Fall-Off is indeed J. Cole’s final release, then it will be a fitting end to an incredible career.
While many fans are debating whether J. Cole will continue to make music; don’t take the risk of missing one of his many performances for The Fall-Off World Tour at Barclays Center on July 31st and August 1st and at Madison Square Garden on August 2nd and 4th. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.
Date: July 31st and August 1st
Location: Barclays Center
Address: 620 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Show Time: 8 p.m.
Doors Open: 7 p.m.
Ticket Price: $87-$2795
Ages: All ages
Date: August 2nd and 4th
Location: Madison Square Garden
Address: 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, New York, NY 10001
Show Time: 8 p.m.
Doors Open: 7 p.m.
Ticket Price: $85-$1,911
Ages: All ages
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