On Monday, J. Cole sat on a panel at New York City’s MLK Now event celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which was hosted by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler. During the rapper’s appearance, he spoke about being inspired to use his platform to tell other people’s stories on 4 Your Eyez Only after reading Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.