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J. Cole‘s new album The Fall-Off is formally across the nook.
Catching the hip-hop world abruptly on Wednesday (January 14), the Dreamville rap star introduced that his long-awaited seventh album might be launched on February 6 — simply over three weeks away.
The information got here by way of a brief cinematic trailer that narrates the idea behind the title and likewise features a snippet of an unreleased tune.
“Everything is meant to go away finally,” a voice says over photographs of J. Cole cleansing his Lamborghini at a automobile wash and consuming a meal on his personal at a diner. “You see this particularly in present enterprise with well-known actors or musicians. And it’s like, ‘Oh, this man was once well-known after which he ‘fell off.’ What occurred?’
“And they need to level to, ‘They did this and this and so they made some kind of mistake.’ Instead of considering that, look, it’s kinda loopy they obtained well-known within the first place. So few individuals attain that degree that sure, in fact, it’s not gonna final without end as a result of any individual else has to take that spot.
“And that’s how present enterprise has been since without end. But no, they all the time need to say, ‘That man fell off.’ They need to look down on him for simply going by way of the pure cycle of rising and falling.”
The video closes out with a 30-second preview of a hard-hitting, southern-flavored observe on which Cole raps: “Picture my soul climbing out of the infinite gap / Where n*ggas die over satisfaction and dwell for the” — earlier than it cuts off in a flurry of gunshot sounds.
Check out the trailer and canopy artwork for The Fall-Off beneath. Vinyl copies can be found to pre-order here.
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