“My sixteen should’ve came with a coffin/ F%ck the fame and the fortune/ Well, maybe not the fortune/ But one thing is for sure though/ The fame is exhausting/ That’s why I moved away, I needed privacy/ Surrounded by the trees and Ivy League students that’s recruited highly/ Thinking, ‘You do you and I do me’/ Crib has got a big ‘ol back ‘ol yard/ My ni#as stand outside and pass cigars/ Filled with marijuana, laughing hard/ Thankful that they friend’s a platinum star/ In the driveway there’s no rapper cars/ Just some shit to get from back and forth.

“Neighbors”only includes Cole’s first verse from the track but the story is all to real as he spits about white people thinking their Black neighbors must be selling drugs in order to live in the same neighborhood as them. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only documentary aired on HBO Saturday night, and one of the clear highlights came at around the 24 minute mark, as viewers got what appears to be visual proof the song. The video sees more than ten armed SWAT team raiding Cole's studio in North Carolina. Cole previously released his documentary 4 Your Eyez Only on HBO and the film also included footage of the raid. The same footage is apparently used again for a brand new video for Cole's song 'Neighbors'. Cole also previewed new music in the documentary. Cole continues to show how great America is with his latest video “Neighbors” which includes actual footage of his North Carolina home which also dubs as his studio The Sheltuh, being raided by the SWAT team who were wrongly informed by his neighbors that the chill spot served as a dope house. The documentary included security camera footage of a SWAT raid that took place on Maat Coles North Carolina home studio, which served as inspiration for the track 'Neighbors'. To check out Elite's full, insightful interview with Complex, visit here. Cole's life and has similarities, it is from a perspective that is largely not the rapper's. The interview also confirmed a popular fan theory that while the album relates to J. Because of obvious racism from the neighbors, the police were called and a raid took place,' he said. He’s out here doing extremely positive things for the community and for young artists. Cole is the last person to do anything like that. It’s just crazy ironic because out of anybody, they picked the wrong person. 'They go downstairs and all they see is a studio, and obviously they felt stupid. A SWAT team broke down doors in the house as helicopters flew over and they searched the whole house. While the team went to SXSW last year, neighbors called police and said they were either selling drugs or growing weed out of the house, resulting in a huge 'million-dollar investigation,' as Elite calls it.

So the neighbors started getting real paranoid,' he said. Ubers coming, and every once in awhile you’ll see a group of us outside on the porch smoking weed. 'So you have, predominately, African-Americans coming in and out of this house. The story, which he describes as 'crazy,' surrounds a suburban house in Cole's home state of North Carolina which he rents as a 'safe haven/creative workspace' for Dreamville artists and producers, with a studio in the basement. Even when the president jam your tape.'Įlite says that the song's lyrics were based on a real-life experience witnessed by Cole and his team.

For a Trayvon kinda fate, even when your crib sit on a lake. The song includes lines like 'Some things you can't escape death, taxes, and a racist society that make every n*gga feel like a candidate. On Saturday (April 15), the Dreamville team premiered another partnered film with HBO. In an interview with Complex, the album's co-executive producer, Elite, gave a lot of insight into the making of the album, including one of the standout tracks, 'Neighbors.' Cole Reveals Video Footage Of SWAT Raiding His Studio. Cole fans and critics alike have had a lot to say about his latest release, 4 Your Eyez Only.

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