One of the neighbors told the police we were growing weed or selling drugs out of this house. Apparently what happened was, we were all in Austin, Texas, for SXSW thankfully no one was in the house when this went down. So the neighbors started getting real paranoid. Ubers coming, and every once in awhile you’ll see a group of us outside on the porch smoking weed. So you have, predominately, African-Americans coming in and out of this house. It’s also in the suburbs of a pretty wealthy neighborhood in North Carolina. It’s basically a studio in a basement, in the woods. We call it the Sheltuh, and a lot of the album was recorded there.

It’s not for him it’s like a safe haven/creative workspace for all the Dreamville artists and producers. During an interview with Complex on December 9, 2016, Dreamville in-house producer, Elite explained the incident which occurred a few months prior that inspired the story in the track, 'Neighbors', saying, īasically Cole rented out a house in North Carolina. The song was recorded at the Sheltuh in North Carolina and Electric Lady Studios, and was produced and written by J.

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