J. Cole Opens Up About the Powerful Final Scene in His ‘4 Your Eyez Only’ Documentary

J. Cole released a commentary clip on the powerful final scene of his recent HBO documentary 4 Your Eyez Only Thursday. In a three-minute clip shared by the Dreamville team on YouTube, Cole opened up about how the Baton Rouge-filmed scene came together.

“We started in Fayetteville, for like two or three days,” Cole tells students at Southern University in the new clip. “We went to Atlanta for like two or three days. Shooting just different parts of the city, different people, different neighborhoods. People letting me inside they house, they don’t even know me. I’m sitting on they couch, watching football, talking to ’em and just getting stories.”

The scene in question, Cole explains, came together earlier that day. “This lady we just, in Baton Rouge today, on my way over here we stopped because the sun was looking real good,” Cole tells the students. “And we hopped out the car real quick to try to get it before it went down. And then this lady was working at a little office building behind us. It was closed and wasn’t nobody there. She was like, ‘I’m going to my next job!’ I was like, ‘Damn, your next job?’ And she was like, ‘Yeah, I got three.'”

Cole says the impromptu conversation, during which the woman reveals her teen daughter was murdered and her son was a rap artist who died at 19, was a “blessing.” 

The full documentary, previously only available via HBO and HBO-owned streaming platforms, was recently released for all to enjoy on YouTube:

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