J Cole has dropped more flame to warm us up on this cold fall. His 3rd album,2014 Forest Hills Drive, is named after is named after his address from his old home in Fayetville, North Carolina. This was Jermaine Cole’s first home, his first house, with a backyard, front yard, and his own room. J Cole has seen his friends struggle with poverty just as he has, so, for him, this house just as he has, so, for him, this house was his happiness. It was, as a child, his happy place. He thought he had made it and got out of the ghetto but in reality he was down the street from his friends.

The album is him telling stories about being away from struggle with his friends, and about him being happy. Each song is him getting older and happier. Towards the end he realizes he is unhappy with his newfound fame and his happy place is not his happy place anymore – or, as he says, “no mo’”.

While he was away trying to get rich, his mom was struggling and she lost their home. His new fame and stress-free life wasn’t what was really happy,, and this new album portrays these feelings and shows that and this new album portrays these feelings and shows that happiness ultimately comes from love, genuine, unconditional love from the ones you loved and have a since as long as you can remember.

J Cole’s album inspires people to be happy. This is the greatest album of 2014 because it changes people’s lives, it slows down time for his listeners to realize where they are in life and to enjoy it instead of wondering what was going on as you get older and those times become memories. He inspired and that’s what music was made for.