J Cole Breaks Down "Rich N * * * * z " Lyrics and Tells Stories Behind Born Sinner

http://www.hardknock.tv Four years after their first interview J Cole and Nick Huff Barili link up for their fourth in-depth interview. In part 3 J Cole explains the inspiration to his track Rich N * * * * z from his album Born Sinner. Cole breaks down lyrics and tells stories to give deeper insight to the song.

"Understand that when I start writing I don't always know where it's headed maybe until midway through the first verse or something," said Cole. "So, the first thing I write is 'I hate Rich N * * * * z. God damn it. Cause I ain't never had a lot, damn it.' And it's perfect that that came out because the thought that's been in my head or was in my head at the time was like—like I told you earlier, I used to have such a problem with like with people with money. It was almost a bitterness and a jealousy. Because my mom gotta work so hard. You know what I mean? And in my eyes, your father's rich. Your mom don't even gotta work. You drive a Benz."

Cole later spoke in-depth on the ironies and contrasting thoughts addressed on "Rich N * * * * z." At one point on the song he questions if he's becoming the money hungry rapper he once criticized as he raps, "You ain't crazy, mf, you're just afraid of change/That's new, maybe that's true/But listen here I got a bigger fear/Of one day that I become you."

On "Rich N * * * * z," he also references the fact that he's biracial and the irony of now having money.

"It was like a real feeling for me, which is kinda weird because there's people that I used to live around, but now that we moving to a better neighborhood they looking at me like 'Yo, y'all got two cars and you got your own bedroom now'...It's ironic cause now I have money," said Cole. "I'm at that level now. You know what I mean? I'm one of them. My kids are gonna be one of them. So, it's that battle. The whole song though I just took that approach of ironies. It was a time when my mom was delivering pizzas for just extra income. So, she had to deliver mail, come back home, change her clothes, and go deliver pizzas. And I used to be so scared cause she was delivering...you delivering pizza in the projects at night. I know how n * * * * z do. I know the game."

Tune in this Wednesday for part 4 of our conversation with J Cole!

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