Considering the hype surrounding J. Cole’s long-awaited sixth studio album The Off-Season, it’s no surprise the inaugural single landed in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10. After all, fans have been practically frothing at the mouth for new material from the Dreamville Records boss.
According to Billboard, the inaugural single from the project, “interlude,” debuted at No. 8 on the Hot 100 earlier this week, although this week’s chart was delayed by approximately 48 hours while Billboard and MRC Data conducted standard audits on reported data.
In terms of the entire Off-Season album, early projections couldn’t be stronger. On Saturday (May 15), Chart Data reported the album was on track to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, which would mark Cole’s sixth consecutive chart topper behind 2018’s KOD.
The Off-Season is also 2021’s largest streaming debut with 59 million streams on the streaming platform giant.
J. Cole Predicted To Earn Sixth Consecutive Billboard No. 1 With ‘The Off-Season'
J. Cole dropped off the first proper visual for the project for “amari” on Tuesday (May 17), which found the Basketball African League star melodically rhyming about his journey to success.
“Country n-gga never seen a passport/’Til I popped off and got a bag for it,” he spits. “Now I’m at the Garden sittin’ half court/Watchin’ Jr. catch it off the backboard/’Ville n-gga never seen nothing/’Cept a fucking triple bean jumping/Good dope leave a fiend krumping/Made it out, it gotta mean something.”
Watch it below.
He’s a loser on the charts and the court.
Tell your mom she needs some lotion for that dry pussy.
You don’t put lotion on a vagina retard
You know this mans parents hate him cause they named him ernie ? stfu
A pissed off rapper who never made it huh?
Get off Cole’s dirty nuts Zoro
But Cole is boring to listen to. Media hype him but not much there
Cole make good music for you to ride out too .. smoke too.. or just chill . Most his music ain’t made to get you hype . But he stay going platinum so people love what he do . I like to actually think about what the artist is saying and relate . If I’m drunk or in the club then it’s a different story .
J Cole he is A Wonderful conscience Rapper Ever Instead of criticize his music You need to open up your mind and listen to him but of course nobody wanna hear the truth Instead y’all listen to Mumble Rappers they all Rapping about the same thing at least J Cole He is Rapping he is telling the truth