J. Cole credits meditation and not using Social Media for improving his mental health.
J. Cole is the latest rap artist to appear on Kevin Hart’s show Hart To Heart on Peacock, where he revealed how he improves his mental health. On the show, the rapper revealed a new publicist helped him with meditation techniques.
“So I got with this new publicist, Kathryn Frazier, and she’s [an] amazing woman. She was telling me how she was into meditation, transcendental meditation,” he said. “And I had flirted with it in my early twenties, practice it a little bit..didn’t know what I was doing, but had a nice little experience. But I didn’t dive into it. But mind you, her telling me about that was coinciding with me, realizing, yo, something, something’s going on.”
“I had set rules for myself. One was like, ‘bro, you can’t go on social media no more’… Nobody’s there to be like, don’t Google yourself. Don’t search your name,” he added.
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“I had set some rules for myself, some baseline rules like, yo, don’t go on Twitter. Don’t read your replies.That’s rule number one. Number two, when you’re creating, you got to create from a pure place only. That was a rule I set for myself. Everything has to only be truly what you feel in your heart.”
In the same interview, Cole also praised current female rappers. “I think it’s fire,” he said. “It’s a whole different ball game, like a whole different crop of young superstars and styles. I’ve been feeling this for like maybe a year or two — I hate to say it ’cause it almost sounds like pandering — but I really do think like, man, it’s a lot of fire female rappers.
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“I feel like they’re doing some of the most exciting [stuff], commercially… they’re giving us a lot of fire moments and I feel like that’s something that wasn’t around when we was growing up.”
He continued, “You always had a Lil Kim, a Foxy [Brown], but there could never be more than one almost, it felt like. Now it’s like, bro, we’re getting moments and moments and moments. I think it’s hard.”
