J. Cole is currently gearing up to release his new album The Fall-Off in early February, but that isn’t the only project he has on deck — according to Jadakiss.
The LOX legend let the cat out of the bag during the latest episode of his and Fat Joe’s Joe & Jada podcast, revealing that Cole is set to drop a mixtape before The Fall-Off arrives on February 6.
According to Jada, the tape hears the Fayeteville phenom hijacking a few classic hip-hop beats.
“Shout out to J. Cole. He got a project coming out called The Fall-Off and he got a mixtape where he used some of The LOX [beats]. He rhymed over ‘Money, Power & Respect’ and he rhymed over ‘Can I Live,'” he said.
“He killed them shits. Cole is coming back in a major way. When you hear his bars, all [the backlash to his Kendrick Lamar apology] don’t matter. He’s coming crazy.”
Jadakiss’ comments fuel rumors that J. Cole is dropping two projects in the coming weeks.
Speculation suggests that the Dreamville MC will release a mixtape, possibly titled It’s a Boy, on January 28 to coincide with his 40th birthday.
It’s a Boy is a title that Cole himself floated when he first announced The Fall-Off back in 2020.
Cole has also added fuel to the fire by releasing the song “Disc 2 Track 2” last week, seemingly hinting that The Fall-Off will be a double album (or accompanied by a separate project entirely).
One thing we do know for sure is that the album is being billed as J. Cole’s seventh and final studio effort, capping off one of modern hip-hop’s most impactful careers.
“For the past 10 years, this album has been hand crafted with one intention: a personal challenge to myself to create my best work. To do on my last what I was unable to do on my first,” he wrote in a message that introduces his “Disc 2 Track 2” music video.
“I had no way of knowing how much time, focus and energy it would eventually take to achieve this, but despite countless challenges along the way, I knew in my heart I would one day get to the finish line. I owed it first and foremost to myself. And secondly, I owed it to hip hop.”
