With a few more singles and albums coming out in the next few years, J. Cole moved to New York where he attended St. After years of living in trailer parks, his mother remarried and the family moved to a 1, square foot home on Forest Hills Drive in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He loved the home and has even stated that the home felt like a mansion to him because he finally got his own room. He graduated magna cum laude in with a major in communications. The popularity of the album has led crowds to be drawn to the home, so a security fence had to be installed to keep people off the property.