Rapper J. Cole makes a statement about the criminal justice system by performing in prison issued jumpsuit

Rapper J. Cole made quite an entrance during his 4 Your Eyez Only Tour as he took to the stage dressed in an orange prison-issued jumpsuit while escorted by 4 prison guards.
Cole’s manager, Ibrahim Hamad, said the rapper wore prison orange to protest the mass incarceration of black males in a racist society. Ibrahim said Cole had a "life changing experience" when he visited an actual prison, San Quentin, on Tuesday, Aug. 1.

The 32-year-old hip-hop artist, whose real name is Jermaine Lamarr Cole, spoke to inmates serving life sentences before performing in concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Ibrahim shared a photo of the inmates with the caption: "We got the opportunity to spend the day at San Quentin State Prison talking and meeting inmates who will never see the outside again. That experience was a life changing experience and wish I had the ability to put that in a caption but that wouldn’t be doing it justice.”

In 2016, a group of rappers, consisting of J Cole, Nicki Minaj amongst others, met with former President Barack Obama to discuss Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative and criminal justice reform.