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If you’ve ever met me and thought I was a ****… you weren’t wrong. Here’s why.

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Man… outside of memorizing The Eminem Show (clean version), the FIRST tape that ever got me into music was J. Cole’s The Come Up. From that moment on I was locked in. I went to every show I could — my first being when he opened for Estelle at UCR and I drove from the Bay just to be front row. I still remember coming home, downloading Friday Night Lights, closing my eyes and listening front to back trying to absorb it. His music wasn’t just music to me. It was a cheat code to life. It taught me how to think, how to move, how to chase a dream. Every drive was Cole. Every girl I dated got sick of it and after every breakup I’d get the same text: “A Cole song came on today, thought of you.” Funny enough, every YouTube video I ever posted ended with the instrumental to Return of Simba. That song meant everything to me. I’ll admit there were times I crossed into full STAN territory. In 2018, after everything fell apart in my life, I convinced myself and the world that I had to walk out and introduce Cole at one of his shows. Why? God knows. I bought tickets to 5 shows across the country, met security, had the strangest spiritual conversations with people who somehow knew him. I got close. Years later I told Ibrahim H. who happened to be at the hookah lounge I was at the whole story, secretly hoping he’d say “Cole needs to hear this.” He didn’t. He said, “Sounds like God was with you. Keep fighting.” That was enough. The last show I ever thought I’d attend was the day after I left my first rehab stint. In rehab all we had were MP3 players and I had his entire discography on mine. That night felt like closure. I silently thanked him for everything his music did for my life and let the chapter close. Since then I’ve been a quiet supporter. Every drop at midnight. Every release an instant buy. But this last Dreamville Fest pulled me back in and for the first time ever I didn’t record, didn’t pull my phone out, didn’t perform for the moment. I just experienced it. And it was the greatest show I’ve ever been to. So yeah, the hype for The Fall Off is real. This Friday I’ll do what I’ve always done by cleaning the house, setying the lights, sitying down, and really listening. I don’t know where I’d be, or if I’d even be here, without this man’s music. I used to want to gatekeep him. Now I just feel gratitude watching how big he’s become. Thank you, J. Cole Always appreciated. Truly yours, your biggest fan, this is Stan.. haha just playing.

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