After his brief stints in the Basketball Africa League and Canadian Elite Basketball League, J.Cole is making the leap to the NBA — well, kinda. The rapper is set to become a minority owner in the Charlotte Hornets after NBA legend Michael Jordan announced that he was selling the franchise he’s owned for the past 13 years.
According to The Charlotte Observer, Cole is part of a group of minority owners, a cohort that also happens to include another North Carolina music hero: Country star Eric Church. Church is from Granite Falls, northwest of Charlotte, while Cole grew up in Fayetteville, to the east.