J. Cole

After getting cut from the high school team his freshman and sophomore year, J. Cole started to take basketball very serious. “I took a thousand shots a day, sprints, minute drills, one-on-one full court with the star player on the team, every day, literally, for the entire school year then the entire summer,” says the Dreamville leader. From there, Cole went to St. John’s University in Queens, New York. After contemplating walking onto the basketball team like some of his friends had done, Cole picked up the mic and never put it down.