Asides from making a tribute song (Be Free) for Mike Brown, the slain teenager from Ferguson (Missouri. U.S.A), J Cole also headed down to the site where the young man was killed by a police officer. In this latest interview with Complex Magazine, Cole explained why it was important to head down there in person, and not just use social media to protest the injustice. 
"We came down here to feel it, 'cause this is history, and we wanna be a part of this just like everybody else. it coulda been you, it coulda been me, it coulda been our best friends. ... At one point in time, me and [my friend] were sitting in the crib talking about this all the time. 'This is f-ked up!' And we was young. And we was 20. And we was passionate. It's like, life goes on, and n--as start worrying about Instagram and reality TV, and 'What's popping,' and 'I got kids,' and life happens. And a lot of distractions. Unfortunately, last week, it was the same old, 'This is f-ked up,' and this week, it's like, 'What can we do?'" (Complex Magazine)
J Cole just dropped this emotional song titled Be Free; a tribute to the teenager killed by the police in Ferguson (Missouri, USA). The young man was shot 6 times (twice in the head) by a white police office last week, on August 7th, 2014. Apparently there had been some sort of misunderstanding between the teen and the police officer. R.I.P Mike Brown. God be with his family.
“I thought he wanted me to produce someone over there and I was excited about that, but then he told me that he really believed in me as an executive, a label CEO and a producer. A DR, Dre to his Himmy Iovine. He had the vision.”
J.Cole already dropped a new mixtape (Revenge of the Dreamers), which is in line with the new developments in his career and it features the artists signed under his label- Bas and Omen. It has been downloaded 117,000 on datpiff already.
"I like J. Cole too when he's not taking shots at me. I saw him one day, I was going to hit him but I was too grown to be knocking light-skinned people out. But I really like him as an artist. When I saw him I was like, 'Oh he a kid, he don't get it [laughs]."'Cause a nigga poppin like Harlem in the nine-seven Way before Ma$e was a reverend I was a young nigga makin A's at 11 or 12, tryin to get a taste of the heaven'
Basically, Cole was just saying he is as hot as Mase was in 97; i don't see any diss in that. Maybe Mase felt slighted by the fact that Cole brought up his 'Pastor Mase' past...or maybe he feels J.Cole made him out to be a hasbeen. Whatever the case, I still like them both, and I'm hoping Mase makes a strong comeback with his album this year.