J. Cole’s The Fall-Off Finally Has a Release Date

J. Cole’s perpetually teased seventh studio album is now official. The Fall-Off—no, I don’t know why the hyphen is there both—drops February 6.

Cole’s announcement arrives with a teaser trailer that includes the rapper going about his day by day routine—consuming meals, hanging within the park, washing his Lamborghini Urus—whereas an unnamed narrator talks concerning the ups and downs of fame:

“Every part is meant to go away finally. 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? They usually need to level to, they did this and this and so they made some kind of mistake, as a substitute of considering that it’s form of loopy they acquired well-known within the first place. So few folks attain that degree. After all it’s not going to final endlessly as a result of any individual else has to take that spot and that’s how present enterprise has been endlessly. However no they at all times need to say, nah that man fell off. They need to look down on him for simply going via the pure cycle of rising and falling.”

In 2024, Cole launched May Delete Later, a mixtape that originally included “7 Minute Drill,” a diss monitor about Kendrick Lamar. The track was a response to Lamar’s explosive verse on “Like That,” which ignited the now-infamous feud between the Compton raper and Drake. “I’m so happy with that mission, apart from one half,” Cole stated after deleting the track. “It’s one a part of that shit that make me really feel like, man, that’s the lamest shit I ever did in my fucking life.”

In 2025, Cole ended his long-running Dreamville Competition. His final studio album was 2021’s The Off-Season. You’ll be able to try the paintings for The Fall-Off under.

Learn Pitchfork’s assessment of May Delete Later.