J. Cole received an overwhelming welcome by his Dreamers in Phoenix, Arizona, while making a pit stop on the Trunk Sale Tour this week.
In cities like Greensboro, Atlanta and Houston, the two-time Grammy winner has met with fans and even picked up a select few to listen to his new album, The Fall-Off. With the rapper’s old Honda Civic racking up mileage throughout the cross-country trek, Cole ended up at a Phoenix auto shop for a repair on Monday (February 23).
“Tried to make it to LA before we go back home, the Civic said it had enough and broke on us!” Cole tweeted. “Phoenix, we here now while the car is getting fixed 🤞🏾 Gonna mob around the city in the sprinter selling CD’s in the meantime.”
Cole fans immediately pulled up to the shop to greet the “SAFETY” artist by erupting into cheers when he emerged from the garage. Before the crowd saw the North Carolina native, they repeated a “J. Cole!” chant.
One person tweeted that while he wasn’t in town to meet the rapper, he received a call from his father, who worked on Cole’s car. One photo shows Cole posing alongside service workers, while another picture showed a signed copy of The Fall-Off.
Cole has been on his nationwide Trunk Sale Tour since the release of his seventh and possibly final album.
“As a teenager I had copies of the Fayettenam Bommuh’s album that Nervous gave me to sell,” he tweeted earlier this month. “I used to go up to the gas stations trying to sell the album to strangers “yo you like hip hop??” Was the beginning of the sales pitch.”
“When I was working on this album I had the desire to go feel that feeling again, and that’s what I’m about to do.Trunk Sale Tour 26!! I don’t know where we bout to drive to, but catch me outside!”