J.Cole Opens Up About Past Grammy Lost

J. Cole recently did an interview with Lead by Example With Boy Myers and shared how he felt about his 2014 Forest Hills Drive not winning a Grammy award.

Cole said about wanting to win a Grammy when he was younger, “It was so important to me. Had I had won it early on, I think it would have validated all those feelings I had for it.”

He continued, “Maybe it would have felt like a championship at that point, I’m not sure. The fact that it didn’t happen, and then it didn’t happen, and it didn’t happen, it allowed me to reflect.”

He added, “Then, when it actually came, it’s like, I’m not in love with this thing anymore. Not to mention, I won a Grammy with somebody else. It was me as a feature on somebody’s song, it’s not something I did.”

J. Cole continued,

“The making of this album I got called Forest Hills Drive, and the releasing of it and the tour. That was a championship run in a way I would look at how the [Chicago] Bulls look at The Last Dance. That was the feeling. Guess what, that album didn’t win a Grammy. A Grammy didn’t increase my enjoyment or decrease my enjoyment. If that album had won a Grammy, it wouldn’t have changed my experience. The fact that it didn’t win didn’t change my experience. That was what a championship felt like to me.”

QUEENS, NY – OCTOBER 01: Rapper J. Cole performs onstage during The Meadows Music & Arts Festival Day 1 on October 1, 2016 in Queens, New York. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images for The Meadows)

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