Because of obvious racism from the neighbors, the police were called and a raid took place. He’s out here doing extremely positive things for the community and for young artists.

Cole is the last person to do anything like that. It’s just crazy ironic because out of anybody, they picked the wrong person. They go downstairs and all they see is a studio, and obviously they felt stupid. Our engineer Juro “Mez” Davis had just stepped out for lunch and he came back and saw the SWAT team busting down the door. They flew helicopters over, sent an entire SWAT team armed with weapons, broke down the door and searched the whole house. And there was a huge investigation, like a million-dollar investigation. One of the neighbors told the police we were growing weed or selling drugs out of this house. So the neighbors started getting real paranoid.Īpparently what happened was, we were all in Austin, Texas, for SXSW thankfully no one was in the house when this went down. Ubers coming, and every once in awhile you’ll see a group of us outside on the porch smoking weed. So you have, predominately, African-Americans coming in and out of this house. Cole has shared a music video of sorts for Neighbors, a track from 4. It’s also in the suburbs of a pretty wealthy neighborhood in North Carolina. footage of the SWAT team raid appears, showcasing that the song's lyrics (I guess the neighbors think I'm sellin' dope, sellin' dope) drew directly from true events. The documentary included footage that appears to prove his song Neighbors, off of the album was inspired by real-life events.

Rihanna and Bryson Tillers Wild Thoughts sample of Santana feat. Cole's brand new documentary, 4 Your Eyez Only, debuted on HBO for the first time last night. We call it the Sheltuh, and a lot of the album was recorded there. It’s basically a studio in a basement, in the woods. Cole and appears at 1:31 but sample is in reverse. It’s not for him it’s like a safe haven/creative workspace for all the Dreamville artists and producers. “Basically Cole rented out a house in North Carolina. Complex recently spoke to Cole’s producer, Elite, about the true events that inspired the song:

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