Friday Night Lights is the third official mixtape from Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole.

[6] On June 26, 2013, Cole announced that he would be re-releasing The Warm Up and Friday Night Lights for retail sale, in order to "give them the push they deserved".

However, because the label did not believe it would sell, Cole released the original songs with extra freestyles as a mixtape, but was forced to redo the entire album.

Producers who contributed to the tape are J. Cole himself, Bink, Kanye West, L&X Music, Syience, & long-time friends Elite and Omen.

The bonus track on the mixtape, "Looking For Trouble" was released for free on November 7, 2010, by Kanye West as part of his series G.O.O.D.

[11] In an interview with Complex magazine in November 2010 Cole talked about how the song came about saying: [That verse] was last minute.

I’ll write to it soon.’ The next day I woke up in Kalamazoo, Michigan—I was on tour—and I was getting ready to go to Detroit because I had a radio promo event to do.

"[18] Robert Christgau, writing for MSN Music, gave the mixtape a three-star honorable mention,[15] indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure.

[15] Friday Night Lights won Best Mixtape of the Year at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards.