My J Cole World experience

J Cole
J Cole

Over the weekend I filled up The Dome, literally. I have never been in a crowd of 20,000 people. SAB Miller, through Castle Lite, invited competition winners for an experience of a lifetime, to unlock J Cole in South Africa. I tagged along as a journalist.

Initially when I received the invite I was excited about travelling to the City of Gold, not necessarily to witness the man live on stage. I am not a fan, but to experience the much talked about Ticketpro Dome.

I had also read politician Botsalo Ntuane’s masterpiece about his private trip to England. You see what stood out in the piece for me was how he referred to the economy class as the ‘donkey class’. See at this point I was excited that I was going to ride along with KBL using economy class to South Africa to watch J Cole. To digress a bit, the humour of the article didn’t particularly impress me because he even stated that he was used to the business class in the plane because of my tax money.

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