Listen This Unreleased J. Cole Song From Back When He Called Himself 'Therapist'
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A few years back, J. Cole reminisced on his earliest days on the mic -- before he even called himself J. Cole -- on MTV's "When I Was 17."
“There was a local group named Bomm Sheltuh that had been mentoring me since I was 14 years old,” Cole said on the show. “One [group member] was Nervous Reck and the other was Filthy Ritch. I was like man, ‘Those are the most creative rap names I ever heard. I need a rap name like that!’”
Soon, he had one, thanks to those two: Therapist.
Unearthing those old Therapist verses -- pre-fame, pre- "J. Cole" -- is a hobby among Cole diehards. And on Wednesday (September 3), they were treated a previously unheard song, called "The Ojays," courtesy of Nervous Reck and the website J. Cole Nation.
You can stream it below, and then check out what Nervous Reck told J. Cole Nation about the song, plus an old tweet from Cole -- from back in 2009, a few months before The Warm Up dropped -- shouting out the rapper.
My favorite is a joint called The Ojays. It never came out. I was saving it for my album at the time. The reason I like it most is because I would challenge Cole all the time to talk about certain things in his verses. This time he was visiting me when I lived in Wake Forest and he had an Ojays sample. I took it and threw some drums on there and he just started writing a story to it. It was about us getting robbed and carjacked by some acquaintances.
After he was done he was like "Yo Nerv, you gotta finished the story.” So he challenged me to finish a story from my perspective. He had to leave and get back to school in New York so I think I finished it and sent it to him the next day and he was like “Yooo how did you finish it like that? This sh-- is crazy!" So I would say that’s my favorite because he put me to the test.
Cole has several songs on both of my mixtapes that most people have never heard. I’ve never put them on the net. They were hard copies only. So only a small amount of people have them. I’ve been planning on putting them back out but, I just don’t want everyone to think I’m back rapping again, hahaha. I want to set them up correctly so people will respect it and not just look at them like they’re just another throwaway mixtape.
