J. Cole has given followers one thing to get enthusiastic about, seemingly asserting that he has new music on the best way having teased the primary providing in a brand new vlog.
Launched on Wednesday (February 21) via a burner account on Instagram, the video is paying homage to the 2000s-era ‘Smack DVD’ sequence that gave followers a uncooked inside take a look at what goes on behind the scenes with their favourite rappers.
The clip exhibits Cole backstage on his present tour with Drake, in addition to in a studio session with Tay Keith, chopping it up with Lil Durk and extra.
In direction of the tip, Cole previews a brand new tune and units the tone with the opening bars, rapping: “I stated I used to be completed however I would like one other two summers/ Corridor of famer hungrier than all of the newcomers!”
The caption of the video reads “May Delete Later, Vol. 1,” whereas the Instagram account has the deal with @mightdeletelater26, but it surely’s not presently clear whether or not that would be the identify of the tune, the following challenge or neither.
J. Cole hasn’t launched a brand new challenge since 2021’s The Off-Season. In 2023, he confirmed his subsequent album could be the long-awaited The Fall Off, although he didn’t give an anticipated launch date.
The Dreamville don shared the announcement on “To Summer season, From Cole,” the opening tune from Summer season Walker’sClear 2: Comfortable Life EP which arrived final Might.
That includes a heartfelt verse from Cole sandwiched by a young hook from Walker, the tune serves as an “audio hug” from the North Carolina rapper to the Atlanta singer — paying homage to his uplifting poem about self-acceptance on the finish of Logic‘s “AfricAryaN.”
“I’m thinkin’ about ya, I heard you simply had you one other lil child/ Congratulations, I hope you bought via it with no problems/ I discover it wonderful, the best way that you just juggle your children, the biz, the celebrity, the bitches that’s hatin’/ They sit round ready so that you can fall off just like the album I’m making,” he raps.
J. Cole introduced The Fall Off again in 2020, sharing an Instagram put up that laid out his launch plans for “The Fall Off Period.” The put up additionally talked about The Off-Season, his sixth album which dropped the next yr, a attainable challenge referred to as It’s a Boy and, lastly, The Fall Off.
Cole’s longtime supervisor, Ibrahim “Ib” Hamad, lately fueled pleasure for the challenge by naming The Fall Off because the album he’d most need to see the rapper carry out front-to-back on tour.
Whereas additional particulars stay scarce, The Fall Off might be be a bittersweet launch as it could function J. Cole’s final hurrah. Regardless of being solely 39 years previous, the Grammy-winner has hinted at retirement on multiple event.
“Simply cop ‘The Fall Off’ and he’ll clarify/ Is it the tip of the chapter? Fortunately ever after?/ Wager this gon’ be the yr that fulfill his reign, man,” he raps on the Dr. Dre-sampling “Adonis Interlude (The Montage)” from the Creed III soundtrack.
And on his “On the Avenue” collaboration with Okay-pop famous person J-Hope of BTS, he spits: “Some days, I’m wondering if I would like to choose a special pastime/ I’m deep in with this rappin’, it’s all a n-gga know/ I by no means didn’t nothin’ higher, it’s exhausting to let it go/ However like a father watching his daughter stroll down the altar with tears in his eyes/ You gotta let her develop.“
