Born Sinner

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J. Cole Discusses "Baby Mama" Theme in Rap, Expected "Born Sinner" Release Date". hotnewhiphop. Archived from the original on February 25, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. Cole:"Honestly, I use tools like panning to clear up space, especially now that I’ve grown as a producer, but in my early stages there was no such thing–just sounds piled on top of each other. Only now am I starting to take control of things that used to be done in the mix. Now I’m doing EQs, reverbs, delays, panning, etc. while making the beat. I didn’t have the mixing ear at first, just an ear for melody and drums and adjusting the volume of the sounds. This album [Born Sinner] was the beginning of my putting more motion in the sound design, and it’s only scratching the surface." a b "American album certifications – J. Cole – Born Sinner". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved September 18, 2020.

Horowitz, Steven J. (November 19, 2012). "J. Cole Says "Miss America" Is Meant To "Shift Culture," Preps Short Film". HipHopDX. Archived from the original on November 2, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013.Jermaine Lamarr Cole (born January 28, 1985), better known by J. Cole, is an American rapper/producer. Born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2009 he became the first artist to sign to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label. On November 5, Cole revealed the title of his second album, and an album teaser for it, Born Sinner and the release date of January 28, 2013, via Ustream. [7] [8] With the title he ended his basketball-themed series of projects. He would say, Freestyle Version: Frequent across his earlier mixtapes, mostly over songs by Kanye West and Jay-Z, although also over Cassie's "Must Be Love", Missy Elliott's "Best Friend" and Talib Kweli's "Get By".

Is She Gon Pop" contains a sample of "Chocolate Girl", written by Wayne Bell, as performed by The Whispers. LeConte, Julia (June 13, 2013). "J. Cole – Born Sinner". Now. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013 . Retrieved June 18, 2013. J.Cole Born Sinner Delayed". Rap Radar. January 2, 2013. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. If you listen to Lights Please, you can hear this vocal sample that’s on every snare with just keys on top; there’s really four or five elements to that beat and that’s when I hit that level of confidence to not overdo things. That’s when I started to hit that comfort level." Broken Pedestal: References this on "See World". This might be a reference to rapper Canibus, who Cole has stated he's a fan of. Canibus would later diss Cole, only to recant later.

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J. Cole – Miss America". HipHopDX. November 13, 2012. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013 . Retrieved May 26, 2013. a b Simms, Ben (June 19, 2013). "J. Cole – 'Born Sinner' Album Review". XXL. Archived from the original on July 2, 2013 . Retrieved June 19, 2013. Lowers, Erin (June 17, 2013). "J. Cole: Born Sinner". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013 . Retrieved June 18, 2013.

J. Cole stepped on stage and explained why he chose to unveil the album this way, comparing the event to the usual listening party. “When the songs are playing I don’t want you talking about them. I want you listening to every word,” he said. “I want everyone in their own world.” Ramirez, Erika (July 29, 2013). "J. Cole Announces What Dreams May Come Tour". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 4, 2016 . Retrieved February 19, 2016. J. Cole Originally Wanted Nas On "New York Times" – XXL". XXL. June 13, 2013. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013 . Retrieved June 18, 2013. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (June 15, 2013). "J Cole: Born Sinner". Financial Times . Retrieved May 25, 2019. Mlynar, Phillip (June 19, 2013). "J. Cole, 'Born Sinner' (Roc Nation)". Spin. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013 . Retrieved June 20, 2013.Mez:"On Miguel’s vocals we used a Distressor, a Pultec EQH-2 and a Neve 1073, crunching them pretty hard to make it sound a little more tube, a little older than it was. We went extreme with it at first, but then it seemed too much, so there ended up just being a slight frequency cut at the top and bottom to get that FM squash. We distorted things a bit, and then added a reverb that’s also on the drums; that was actually done in L.A. at Record Plant and was a vintage EMT 140 plate."