Cole later collaborated with local group Bomm Sheltuh, rapping and producing as a member of the group. During this period, Cole heightened emphasis on improving his production skills, later beginning initial production under the pseudonym Therapist. Ĭole began rapping at the age of twelve, and saw it as an ideal profession in 2000, when his mother purchased an ASR-X musical sampler as a Christmas gift. During his youth, Cole expressed an affinity for basketball and music, and served as a first-chair violinist for the Terry Sanford Orchestra until 2003. I identify more with what I look like, because that's how I got treated not necessarily in a negative way".
I can identify but never have I felt like I'm one of them.
But at the end of the day, never felt white. Cole grew up in a multi-ethnic environment, and when asked about how closely his ethnicity impacts him, Cole commented, "I can identify with white people, because I know my mother, her side of the family, who I love. At the age of eight months his mother moved with him and his older brother Zach to the United States, to Fayetteville, North Carolina. Cole's father later abandoned the family during his youth. Army, and his mother, Kay, is a European American who was a postal worker for the United States Postal Service. His father is an African American veteran, who served in the U.S. 2.9 2020–present: The Off-Season and The Fall OffĬole was born on January 28, 1985, at an American military base in Frankfurt, West Germany.
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