In a statement about the documentary project, the 'Lights Out' hitmaker says the story of Darcell and Darrell Trotter rings close to home because it is similar to those of the boys he grew up with.

AceShowbiz - Rapper J. Cole has added film producer to his resume with a new coming-of-age documentary.

Director Clay Tweel shot "Out Of Omaha" over the course of eight years, chronicling the ups and downs in the lives of African-American twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter as they strived to overcome the societal disadvantages they faced in Omaha, Nebraska, where black communities are largely cut out of the city's wealth and prosperity, leaving them struggling with growing unemployment rates, poverty, and crime.

"Lights Out" hitmaker Cole has quietly been working on the project as a producer, and now he is set to celebrate its premiere at the DOC NY festival in New York on Saturday, November 10.

"Omaha is the story that never gets told. These are the forgotten ones that the world so often overlooks," Cole shares in a statement.

"The story of these two boys-turned-to-men resonated with me in part because I've known them my whole life. Not personally, and not literally, but their stories parallel too many of the boys I grew up with, caught between a rock and hard place and bound for pain."

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