Iconic Addresses Musicians Made Famous

One of J. Cole’s childhood homes will become the latest in a list of iconic addresses Musicians made famous. That’s because on December 9, 2014, J. Cole will drop his third album entitled, 2014 Forest Hills Drive.

Thanks to regularly having GPS technology at our fingers, we can track down Jay Z’s old stash spot or find where the Rolling Stones used to record when they shout out these specific points on the map. Location, location, location. Follow along as we chart some of the iconic (or infamous) addresses musicians have shouted out on their songs and albums.

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The Jackson family called the Gary, Indiana residence at 2300 Jackson St. home until 1969, and it became cemented in Pop history thanks to the 1989 song “2300 Jackson Street.”

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Eminem doesn’t have a song named 19946 Dresden, but the address is famous after appearing on the album covers of The Marshall Mathers LP and The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Since the house has been demolished, those album covers are about the only place you can find it.

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Crowded House’s Neil Finn once confirmed there really was a 57 Mount Pleasant Street like the one he sang about in “Weather With You” in Auckland New Zealand. However, Crowded House changed the street numbers to “sound more musical.”

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REO Speedwagon paid tribute to the address where they recorded their eponymous debut album with the track “157 Riverside Avenue,” which references a residence in Westport, Connecticut.

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Thanks to Jay Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State Of Mind” 560 State Street in Brooklyn, New York may be the world’s most famous trap house. After Jay Z shouted it out, people looked for and successfully found the Flatbush location.

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Back when Eric Clapton released the album 461 Ocean Boulevard, fans didn’t have to travel to Golden Beach, Florida to look at the house, because Clapton made it the cover of the album.

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They may have been exiled on Main Street, but the Rolling Stones gave a nod to the recording studios of Chess Records and Checker Records in Chicago, which were located on 2120 South Michigan Avenue with an album of the same name.

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While there are a number of real Acacia Avenues in Britain, the brothel Iron Maiden sang about on “22 Acacia Avenue” was purely fictional. If you’re into that sort of thing.

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Let’s all save ourselves the headache of an hours-long Google search and assume either a family member or friend of Khujo Goodie (not pictured) resided at 1365 Wichita Drive when he shouted out the address on Goodie Mob’s “Soul Food.”

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What is it about bands getting all nostalgic for the raggedy cribs where they created their early music? Jefferson Airplane used to keep a house in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the late ‘60s. So when the time came to release an album of rarities, they paid homage to the old house by naming the project 2400 Fulton Street.

J. Cole wants to take listeners back to his old stomping grounds—right off Cain Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina. So in line with the theme of leaving “Hollywood” trappings behind, Cole is scheduled to release his third studio album on December 9, entitled 2014 Forest Hills Drive. The name references his family’s old house in Fayetteville.