J. Cole took time out his hugely successful "four Your Eyez Simply Tour" to visit inmates where he hopes to gain some inspiration for his next album.

Last calendar week, the Dreamville rapper visited the San Quentin State Prison in San Francisco where he met and spoke with inmates inside the prison house. Sources are telling DHH that he is using the powerful experience as an inspiration for his upcoming body of work. "It was a touching experience that you lot will hear on his adjacent record," sources told u.s.a..

Sources couldn't tell u.s.a. when his next album is coming merely did say piece of work has already begun, which means it could come later this yr. "I can't say when information technology volition exist set simply he is in the studio right now equally nosotros speak," sources added. J. Cole says that meeting with some of the inmates who volition never see the exterior once again was a life changing experience.

Life behind confined is a central theme on J. Cole's "4 Your Eyez Only Tour" as you can see him being escorted on stage wearing prison house one-piece and handcuff. Even the stage theme is designed to expect like an actual prison. Some of the music on his final anthology 4 Your Eyez Only centers around social injustice and mass incarceration.

On the anthology's championship, track J. Cole raps about giving young men an pedagogy instead of sending them to prison and even spoke about the children affected by mass incarceration in America. Cole has frequently been named amidst the peak v rappers of this generation, a never ending debate that sees some usual names like Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Sure everyone volition be watching closely for his next album especially if it arrives this twelvemonth since both Drizzy and 1000-Dot has already released albums with strong commercial success. J. Cole is signed to JAY-Z's label Roc Nation. His "iv Your Eyez Simply Bout" wraps upward later this calendar month and feature Anderson .Paak as the opening act.