Villuminati

Cole opens his second album Born Sinner with this warning shot, which features dramatic, soaring strings, a live choir and a pop at Trinidad James: "My pops was club-hopping back when clubbing. Rick James was out and all I get is Trinidad." Cole sees all the women dancing and singing along with Trinidad James' song "All Gold Everything", and despite not feeling it himself, he proceeds to quote from the hook. (Ni—a, Ni—a, Ni—a").

James refused to be drawn into a beef with Cole over the rapper's diss. "He was just expressing himself," he told MTV News. "Just in general if you really step back and listen to the song, he was just spittin' how he felt and I can't never be mad at somebody spittin' how they feel."

Dreamville Records President, A&R, manager and Cole's right hand man Ibrahim "IB" Hamad told Vibe magazine how this track got chosen to open Born Sinner: "A lot of times getting the right intro for an album can be the hardest thing. We went through about five different intro ideas we thought would work but when Cole played us 'Villuminati,' the whole room just knew that was the one. It kicked off the album and let you know from the start, its different this time around."

The song samples the intro from R. Kelly's remix for "I Wish" along with The Notorious B.I.G.'s 1994 single "Juicy." The latter sample incorporates the album title ("Born sinner, the opposite of a winner").