J. Cole is offering his childhood home rent-free to single mothers

Rapper J. Cole is giving back to the community in a big way.

From The Root:

As part of the promotion of 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Cole actually invited fans from social media into his childhood home in Fayetteville, N.C., for exclusive listening sessions. In 2014 Forest Hills Drive,Cole discussed the trials he faced growing up, including the time his mother lost the house, and his decision to buy it back. Although he no longer lives in the house, in a recent interview with The Combat Jack Show, Cole explained how excited he had been to move into the now-popular address, and how he plans on giving back to single mothers and kids.

“Nah, I don’t really live there,” Cole stated. “What we gon’ do, we still working it out right now. Obviously it’s a detailed, fragile situation I don’t wanna play with. My goal is to have that be a haven for families. So every two years a new family will come in, they live rent-free. The idea is that it’s a single mother with multiple kids, and she’s coming from a place where all her kids is sharing a room. She might have two, three kids, they’re sharing a room. She gets to come here rent-free. I want her kids to feel how I felt when we got to the house.”

Read more at The Root.