On his third studio album, Forest Hills Drive, J. Cole forms his most personal work to date, cultivating this into the best hip-hop album of 2014. Dec 11, 2014 - With his third album, the North Carolina rapper J. Cole is certain he's made his classic; he'll tell you as much partway through the 15-minute. Dec 30, 2014 - 2014 Forest Hills Drive. For Michael Brown and protested in New York for Eric Garner – but none of that political fire burns on his third album. The rhetoric questions asking if we want to be free or happy work well in setting us up to listen to a very serious album. 8/10 January 28th- The simple beat in this. Dec 4, 2014 - In many ways I got the idea of one listen album reviews from J. Cole, and he was right; one listen reviews are fucking up hip-hop, and no one. Forest hills drive album review.