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“Neighbors” draws inspiration from an incident on March 18th, 2016 involving the house Cole rented (nicknamed “Sheltuh”) in North Carolina to use as a studio. The house was raided by SWAT team members after complaints from neighbors who assumed the house was being used to produce and sell drugs. No narcotics were found.
The story was originally told by Dreamville’s Elite, a producer credited multiple times on 4 Your Eyez Only, when he spoke with Complex to confirm that most of "4 Your Eyez Only" is not from Cole’s perspective, but “Neighbors” on the other hand is.
This beat is actually the instrumental of his 2013 track “Forbidden Fruit” played in reverse. He revealed it during a concert in Anaheim, CA.
In a conversation with The NY Times, during the promotion for his HBO special titled J. Cole: 4 Your Eyez Only, Cole talked about the inspiration behind the song:
"That lack of representation [of black people in the medias can lead to potentially catastrophic misunderstandings."
Cole went on to note that he did a lot of writing afterward:
"I wrote six songs that weekend."
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