J. Cole by Simon Chasalow

J. Cole Announces Madison Square Garden Concert to Mark 10 Years of Forest Hills Drive

J. Cole will commemorate the 10th anniversary of his landmark third studio album, Forest Hills Drive, with a one-night-only concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Monday, Dec. 16.

Presented by Chase and produced by Live Nation, the show celebrates the Dec. 9, 2014 release of the critically acclaimed album.

In conjunction with the anniversary, J. Cole announced special edition vinyl and CD reissues of Forest Hills Drive. These editions include two variations: one with an anniversary edition cover and four bonus tracks, and another with an alternate cover and four different bonus tracks. Fans can pre-order the releases through Inevitable.

This week, J. Cole and collaborators Ibrahim Hamad and Scott Lazer debuted a new episode of the limited audio series Inevitable. The latest installment focuses on Cole’s 2010 mixtape Friday Night Lights, which is now available on digital streaming platforms for the first time. The episode explores the making and impact of the project, aligning with the mixtape’s re-release.

The Friday Night Lights tracklist includes:

  1. Friday Night Lights
  2. Too Deep for the Intro
  3. Before I’m Gone
  4. Back to the Topic
  5. You Got It (feat. Wale)
  6. Villematic
  7. Enchanted (feat. Omen)
  8. Blow Up
  9. Higher
  10. In the Morning (feat. Drake)
  11. 2Face
  12. The Autograph
  13. Best Friend
  14. Cost Me a Lot
  15. Premeditated Murder
  16. Home for the Holidays
  17. Love Me Not
  18. See World
  19. Farewell

Fans can stream the mixtape here.

The Madison Square Garden show announcement follows news of Dreamville Festival’s fifth-anniversary return to Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 5-6, 2025.

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