J. Cole’s sophomore mixtape, 2009’s The Warm Up, is now accessible across Spotify, Apple Music, and Tidal. While many J. Cole supporters consider The Come Up, Vol. 1 his breakout, The Warm Up ...

The Warm Up played an integral role in fueling Cole's rise as he caught the attention of Jay-Z and earned a deal with Roc Nation. The mixtape originally was released in June 2009 and the streaming ...

The Warm Up out now everywhere. Took us 15 years but I’m so happy we’re able to get this up. This project is very special to me, shit really put Cole in the game and we ain’t look back since.

Cole got pretty cold shooting the album cover, but looking at where he is now, I’d say it was all worth it in the end. 1.10.2009 photo shoot for “The Warm Up”.

The sporting young gentleman above goes by the name of J. Cole, and coincidentally, just dropped his second mixtape The Warm Up yesterday. Seeing as how we so thoroughly enjoyed the first, we've ...

J. Cole has gone from the highly-touted neophyte to an elder statesman of hip-hop. Cole took some time out over the weekend to reflect on the 10th anniversary of his 2009 mixtape, The Warm Up ...

J. Cole is currently on his “Dollar & A Dream” Tour, giving fans performances of his seminal mixtape The Warm Up for $1. Drake declared Cole one of the two kings in Hip Hop (along with himself ...

J. Cole has offered his long-term fans a treat by making his second mixtape ‘The Warm Up’ available on streaming services for the first time. As of Friday (November 22), the 22-track project ...

The sporting young gentleman above goes by the name of J. Cole, and coincidentally, just dropped his second mixtape The Warm Up yesterday. Seeing as how we so thoroughly enjoyed the first, we've ...

Standouts from the project include the Kanye West-produced “Just to Get By,” “Dreams and “Lights Please” which garnered enough momentum to even land on Jermaine’s Cole World: The ...