In a recent interview with Rap Radar, Hamad states that at the time the two were in school together he was “just doing whatever I could do to help out.I was like ‘Yo, you’re dope.let me at least start playing this for people’ and then we went from there and put a mixtape together.”įrom lending an ear to last-minute recordings, to executing the annual Dollar and a Dream tours (a string of live performances offered to fans for $1 on a first-come-first-serve basis), Hamad is the reason that Cole can worry less about day-to-day logistics. It was by a semi-accident that Hamad learned of Cole’s passion for rapping. You can run a business with your friendsįriend-turned-manager, Ibrahim Hamad, met J.The tour induced multiple sellouts, including the 18,000-capacity Madison Square Garden, and grossed over $16 million from July to September, according to Billboard. Fast forward five years, and the Forest Hills Drive tour sold approximately 565,000-575,000 tickets according to Cole’s booking agent, Rob Gibbs.
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