J. Cole Net Worth 2024

what is J. Cole net worth?

J. Cole net worth 2024: Jermaine Lamarr Cole  is an American rapper and record producer. Born on a military base in Germany and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Cole is a two time Grammy award winner and has had 17 nominations. Aside from music he is also into other business ventures. Cole founded non profit organization Dreamville Foundation. Read on as we bring to you everything you need to know about J. Cole net worth and Biography.

J. Cole Net Worth and Biography

Net worth	$60 million
Full name	Jermaine Lamarr Cole
Date birth	January 28, 1985
Occupation	rapper and record producer
Nationality	American

J. Cole Early life

As of 2024, J. Cole net worth is valued at $60 million. Cole has won two Grammy Awards from seventeen nominations, a Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Album, three Soul Train Music Awards, and eight 

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Jermaine Lamarr Cole was born on January 28, 1985, at an American military base in Frankfurt, West Germany.

His father is an African American veteran, who served in the U.S. Army, and his mother, Kay, born in Michigan, is a white American who was a postal worker for the United States Postal Service.

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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.

Early Career

Cole began rapping at the age of twelve, and saw it as an ideal profession in 2000 after his mother purchased an ASR-X musical sampler as a Christmas gift.

During this period, Cole heightened emphasis on improving his production skills, later beginning initial production under the pseudonym Therapist.

 Cole later collaborated with local group Bomm Sheltuh, rapping and producing as a member of the group.

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Upon graduating high school with a 4.2 GPA, Cole decided that his chances of securing a recording contract would be better in New York City. He moved there and accepted a scholarship to St. John’s University. Initially majoring in computer science, Cole later switched to communications

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Musical career

After becoming musically inspired by Canibus, Nas, Tupac and Eminem, Cole and his cousin worked on developing their basic understanding of rhyming and wordplay.

Cole initially gained attention as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, in early 2007. Intent on further pursuing a musical career, he signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation in 2009 to release two additional mixtapes: The Warm Up (2009) and Friday Night Lights (2010) to further critical acclaim as he garnered a wider following

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Each of Cole’s studio albums have peaked the US Billboard 200 upon release, beginning with his debut Cole World: The Sideline Story (2011) and its follow up, Born Sinner (2013).

The albums received critical acclaim and spawned hit singles including “Work Out”, “Power Trip” and “Crooked Smile” each charted within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

 Despite commercial success, Cole departed from the pop-oriented sound of the albums in favor of conscious subject matter for his subsequent projects; themes of nostalgia, racial inequality, and materialism were explored respectively in his following releases: 2014 Forest Hills Drive (2014), 4 Your Eyez Only (2016) and KOD (2018).

The latter featured a then-record six simultaneous top twenty hits on the Billboard Hot 100, tying Cole’s success with that of English rock band the Beatles. His sixth album, The Off-Season (2021) was met with continued success and spawned the single “My Life” which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

Its chart success was matched by his guest appearance on the 2023 single “All My Life” by Lil Durk, and succeeded by his first song to peak the chart, “First Person Shooter” by Drake that same year. The former also won Cole a Grammy Award for Best Melodic Rap Performance.

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Business Ventures

ole also acts as a producer alongside his recording career—having largely handled the production of his own projects—with credits on material for other artists including Kendrick Lamar, Janet Jackson, Young Thug, Wale, and Mac Miller, among others. Cole has been prolific in side ventures including his own record label Dreamville Records, as well as its namesake media company and non-profit.

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Awards

Cole has won two Grammy Awards from seventeen nominations, a Billboard Music Award for Top Rap Album, three Soul Train Music Awards, and eight BET Hip Hop Awards. Each of his albums—including Revenge of the Dreamers III—have been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Marriage

In a January 2016 interview with director Ryan Coogler, Cole revealed that he was married. His wife, Melissa Heholt, who met Cole while they were students at St. John’s University, is the Executive Director of the Dreamville Foundation.

J. Cole Net Worth

As of 2024, J. Cole Net Worth is valued at $60 million according to Celebritynetworth.

How much money has J. Cole made in his career?

According to various sources, J. Cole has made over $117 million in the course of his career. His biggest year was in 2018 when he earned $38 million as reported by celebritynetworth.