With ESPN: The Magazine‘s Music Issue releasing February 2nd, J. Cole is the latest subject to grace the cover and have a piece previewed. In the story J. Cole and Dale Earnhardt Jr. speak on the connection of “Power Trip” and being from North Carolina. Check out an excerpt from the piece.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is steering down a muddy path on his property in Cleveland, North Carolina, chatting with J. Cole, the platinum-selling hip-hop artist, who’s riding shotgun. On the surface it seems an odd pair: a 40-year-old white NASCAR driver and a nearly 30 black rapper. Since the release of Cole’s latest album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, in December, though, they’ve been curiously linked. At the end of the album’s last track, Cole perplexingly shouts out to Junior, whom, until this moment, he’d never before met: “Dale Earnhardt Jr. … That shit you said to me changed my life.” Obviously, we had to get them together.
Also, peep the behind the scenes footage below.
