Everything We Know About J. Cole’s ‘The Fall-Off’ Album

Nearly eight years in the making, it’s finally time for The Fall-Off. J. Cole announced the album’s Feb. 6 release date on Wednesday (Jan. 14), sending the Dreamville faithful into a frenzy. The Fall-Off will serve as Cole’s seventh album and his first LP since 2021’s The Off-Season , which topped the Billboard 200 with 282,000 total album-equivalent units. Cole set the album’s rollout in motion with a trailer featuring an unreleased track and a narrator detailing issues with how society dissects celebrities and their time in the spotlight, as Cole does everyday activities like enjoying a meal at Waffle House and washing his car. “Everything is supposed to go away eventually,” the narrator says. “You see this especially in show business with famous actors or musicians, and it’s like, Oh, this guy used to be famous and then he fell off. What happened? And they want to point to, they did this and this and they made some sort of mistake, instead of thinking that it’s kind of crazy they got famous in the first place.” He continues: “So few people reach that level. Of course it’s not going to last forever because somebody else has to take that spot and that’s how show business has been forever. But no, they always want to say, nah that guy fell off. They want to look down on him for just going through the natural cycle of rising and falling.” Cole didn’t waste time following up with a single titled “Disc 2 Track 2,” which finds JC showing his lyrical dexterity with ease, while telling his life’s story backwards, which drew comparisons from fans to Nas’ “Rewind.” There’s even a beat switch to Mobb Deep’s “Drop a Gem on Em” to close it out. The 40-year-old revealed the album’s cover art, which appears to be Cole’s old studio set-up. And there’s plenty more to come in the weeks leading up to Feb. 6, like how fans believe they found Cole’s The Fall-Off burner account on IG as well. Even with all of the success, Cole’s career seems to be at a lower-stakes inflection point, as fans are eager to hear what Cole has to say on The Fall-Off - which he initially teased in 2018 - after bowing out of a feud with Kendrick Lamar in 2024 and apologizing to K. Dot on stage at his Dreamville Festival. At that time, Cole released his “7 Minute Drill” track dissing Kendrick on Might Delete Later - but ended up scrubbing the diss from the mixtape, after which Drake went to battle with Lamar. Here’s everything we know about The Fall-Off . Is This Cole’s Final Act? J. Cole hinted in 2020 that The Fall-Off could be his last album. He posted a whiteboard on social media with a timeline that included The Off-Season leading into It’s a Boy and finished with The Fall-Off . The album was initially teased by Cole on KOD’s “1985,” which he said was the LP’s intro in...

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