The song’s hook goes, “I guess the neighbors think I'm sellin' dope, sellin' dope/Okay, the neighbors think I'm sellin' dope, sellin' dope.” Much of the new album was recorded at the studio where the incident took place. The raid apparently inspired the song “Neighbors,” off Cole’s latest album 4 Your Eyez Only.

Because of obvious racism from the neighbors, the police were called and a raid took place.” He’s out here doing extremely positive things for the community and for young artists. Cole shared the footage of the SWAT raid during his recently HBO documentary, and today, he put the clip out as a short music video for Neighbors.The minute-long video shows a large group of. Cole is the last person to do anything like that. It’s just crazy ironic because out of anybody, they picked the wrong person. The video sees more than ten armed SWAT team raiding Coles studio in North Carolina. They flew helicopters over, sent an entire SWAT team armed with weapons, broke down the door and searched the whole house.”Įlite continued, “They go downstairs and all they see is a studio, and obviously they felt stupid. The same footage is apparently used again for a brand new video for Coles song 'Neighbors'. “And there was a huge investigation, like a million-dollar investigation. “One of the neighbors told the police we were growing weed or selling drugs out of this house,” he said. In an interview with Complex, Elite explained the incident. Cole and his associates were in Austin for SXSW at the time of the raid. Cole’s Dreamville studio in North Carolina was raided by a SWAT team in March, after his neighbors reportedly told authorities that drugs were being made/sold in the building.

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