J. Cole has surprise-released a new song titled “cLOUDs,” which sees him reflect on themes such as getting older, the rise of AI and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Premiered through his Algorithm blog on Thursday (February 20), the track was accompanied by a message from the Dreamville rapper which said: “Just wanted to share. made this a few days ago, then i added a second verse and was like ‘man I got a blog now, I can put whatever I want up there.’ I didn’t have a title 20 minutes ago when I decided to really put this up. But now I got one…”
Cole added that the song was produced by DZL and Omen, with “small contributions” from himself.
Over the dreamy instrumental, he makes reference to the attempt on Trump’s life last summer which wounded the then-presidential candidate.
“I’m that bass in your trunk, the bullet that missed Trump / The gun that jammed ’cause it seemed God had other plans,” he raps.
Cole also laments the current state of the world and points the finger at the ultra-rich: “Served on a plate with sirloin steak to billionaires who don’t care the world’s gon’ break / Long as they make money off it, pain brings profit.”
At the end of his second and final verse, the North Carolina natives tackles artificial intelligence and its threat to the creative arts.
“Don’t buy, subscribe so you can just stream your content / Like rent, you won’t own a thing / Before long, all the songs the whole world sings’ll be generated by latest of AI regimes / As all of our favorite artists erased by it scream / From the wayside, ‘Aye, whatever happened to human beings?'” he spits.
Listen to the song below.
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“cLOUDs” is J. Cole’s first offering of 2025 and second since his brief clash with Kendrick Lamar last year.
On the YouTube loosie “Port Antonio,” which dropped last October, Cole addressed his controversial decision to bow out of the battle and apologize to his longtime friend and peer.
“I pulled the plug because I seen where that was ’bout to go / They wanted blood, they wanted clicks to make they pockets grow / They see this fire in my pen and think I’m dodgin’ smoke / I wouldn’t have lost a battle, dawg, I woulda lost a bro / I woulda gained a foe,” he rapped over the same sample used on JAY-Z‘s “Dead Presidents.”
As fans continue to patiently await his seventh album The Fall-Off, Cole dropped a promising hint about new music earlier this week and revealed that he’s been busy in the studio.
He wrote in a separate blog post: “I knowwww mannnn. I’m off to a bad start with the consistency, but I’ma do better! Watch!! I been locked in on the music while also balancing family life. It’s a juggling act that a blog post wouldn’t do justice in explaining.
“But with that said, I’m back tending to this garden. I think I’m gonna let some other people post on here too, to get the vibes up.”
Great flow, boring chorus
Shut up Cole go be…..Grippy!
Cornball be quiet! I hope Trump pardons YoungBoy so he can smoke you and Drake both of lightskins are fake just talk smack and run! At least Aubrey is dealing with the damage you just ran and pretend it didn’t happen the way it did.
Stop liking your own comments because no one on this site fucks with NBA fuckboy or Drake’s closet gay ass
The one rapper who will halfway speak about these fuck boys running the world. The rest of them talking about hoes, trapping, or beefing over bullshit.
What? The same Dude who was on Work Out, Wet Dream, and Grippy? You Cole fans need to get off your high horse he’s trash! Just another white boy pushing trash not knowing about the hood just pretending because he’s “mixed” lightskins need to get checked
That was years ago. Judge a man at 40 for what he did at 25. Furthermore, judge a man for a different subject matter song than what he’s rapping about now. Pac rapped about getting bitches in I Get Around, but that has nothing to do with his message on Keep Your Head Up on the same album. But by all means, let’s get back to ops and THOT raps and fake beef between the soft industry leaders. That’s more entertaining.
A dude worth $60 million knocking rich people lol… I understand many are much much richer… but it just comes off as hypocritical and ironic. When is it enough money, Cole? $75 million? $200 million? At what point do you just donate every penny you take in?
First of all, who says he has $60 mil. Stop believing everything you read on the internet because I’d bet my balls he doesn’t have near that amount, and I like my balls. Furthermore, it wasn’t about them being rich. It was about them not giving a shit that the world is going to shit while they profit off of it or are just indifferent to it because it won’t affect them.
As if J Cole is out there changing the world lol. Complainers who don’t do anything themselves.
This cornball…who is dumb enough to pay for his shows? I swear his fanbase are a bunch of weirdos like him wannabe Erykah Badou
Most black people like Erykah badou besides your obvious white boy bitch energy.
Lol rich people eating other rich people…tell j hoe were good on his preaching….cried over a rap battle back to trying to look tough talking about white politics…cornball
Shut up cole no one wants to hear your feminine sneak dissing. Don’t give this clown any attention I swear his fans are like the least street people I’ve seen it’s girls and suburb people. Then again he’s from the gated community like Drake. YoungBoy better anyway and so is Carti!
Please Trump pardon the real ones so they can body these old man clowns! 🙏
Get YoungBoy out and Kay Flock they’ll end his career and Young Chop on the beat straight 🔥
mia x verse was harder so was silks master ps mysticals….