J. Cole’s long awaited sixth studio album The Off-Season arrived as scheduled at midnight EST on Friday (May 14).
As fans rushed to Spotify to start streaming the project, the streaming site momentarily crashed, presumably due to the number of people trying to access the Dreamville boss’ latest effort.
Before it dropped, the North Carolina native shared the tracklist to his Instagram account, which didn’t indicate any guest features.
But as it turns out, there are plenty. Dipset legend Cam’ron appears on the opening track “95.south,” while Morray and 21 Savage pop up on “my life.”
Meanwhile, Lil Baby appears on “pride.is.the.devil.”
As far as producers who contributed to The Off-Season, J. Cole revealed that along with the tracklist on Thursday (May 13). Timbaland — who hinted he’d contributed at least one beat last week — Boi-1da, frequent collaborator T-Minus, Jake One, Tommy Parker, Cole himself and more are all listed as producers.
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Cole released a documentary about the making of The Off-Season earlier this week called Applying Pressure: The Off-Season.
The film opened up with Cole explaining to his “a lot” collaborator 21 Savage why he actually named the album The Off-Season. Directed by Scott Lazer, the film was also executive produced by Dreamville President Ibrahim Hamad and J. Cole.
The Off-Season serves as the follow-up to 2018’s KOD and the precursor to his next album, The Fall Off.
Find the album on Apple Music below, Spotify above and TIDAL here.
naw Cole got loyal fans but they ain’t crashing no Spotify. this comes off as paid hype..
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@you dumb
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I’ll peep it.
I was listening to Spotify all day, it didn’t crash once. The album is meh. 2 or 3 okay tracks with tons of filler. Dude spits one good verse on the decent tracks then mumbles or lame songs for the rest of the track. Do better. Dude seriously has one verse songs that end after a minute and change, then another minute or two of rambling on the track. Still waiting for Kendrick to shit on everyone right quick.
Obviously didn’t listen to it all the way through
You need singing Drake or what…..hiphop Is back ?
6/10 – KOD looks like a masterpiece compared to this. All yall shitting on Eminem at his age but Id take side A or B compared to this Album easy. I like Cole but what the fuck this came off lazy as fuck. You couldnt put two or three verses together? Seemed like 90% of the album was 1 verse + filler. Not a fan anymore. Ill go back to KOD.
Pride is the Devil had so much promise and you fucced it up with 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 2 212 1212121 FACK.
What a letdown
I agree with dood below. Music to Be Murdered By was way better then this project by COLD! I mean Cole. Man what the hekc happened to hiphop.
Music to be murdered was trash too
Still goes hard but definitely trying to appeal to two audiences, younger and older
Fuck outta here. Spotify didn’t crash at all. Stop hyping this album.
You can be that old head who makes music just for his era or you can adapt to the climate and culture. J. Cole does the latter masterfully. Sprinkled in are guest features from some rising young talents like Lil Baby, and 21 Savage. But he also pays homage and stays true to the ones before with the Pharoahe Monch sample or the classic sample from the intro 95 South. What makes Cole so great is he can do what the young rappers do but they can’t do what he can do. He can rap effortlessly over a trap beat, all the while speaking on real life issues and topics of substance. Or he can jump on a boom bap beat and ride dat mofo outta here! You not gonna find to many new rappers speaking like Cole and you not gonna hear a lot of the older rappers rap over trap beats or change their flow to a newer style. That balance is what makes Cole, no matter how you feel about him one of the greats in this game.
Wow. You actually took tha time to write out why you love mans ballz huh…bet you rub that vajayjay looking at his posters too
No such thing as old head it is good music and bad music .
Lmao this site on Cole’s payroll. The album is big mid
No replay value and mediocre at best. When I listened to that freestyle on LA Leakers I was like damn son he still got it but after listening to the album I’m like damn cole what happened?
I need time to digest all of this lyrical greatness from J Cole. I need a week minimum. Lyrically this album is on another stratosphere. My goodness!
Any reason its sensored?
You got the wrong one. Go to his discography and there should be 2 versions.. Spotify layout and interface is trash.
Don’t know why a clean version even exists, let’s try this again
Cole got that heat. King Tekashi up next.
Why get so many producers just to make the same beat for so many songs. Great rapping though.
Digging the album, but wasn’t a huge fan of track’s 1 & 3. The beats / lyricism are dope but:
1. Not sure why even put Cam’ron on the song and could have done without Lil Jon screaming the same tired ass 2005 hooks
3. The entire hook is Pharoahe Monch’s chorus from the Styles P joint of the same name (My Life). If you’re going to essentially remake a song, it better be head and shoulders better than the original. I like the Styles / Monch joint way better than this. Plus 21 Savage is garbage (garbage)
how do you go from dissing the new generation in the fall off to doing songs with them. This is not as good as kod. Trying too hard to please the youngins
Decent album. I don’t see nothing special on this one. All the hype for this? “prime Cole” lol
J Cole first song had lyrics no doubt.. J Cole the only artist I fuk with that I know has all the mainstream hype, Big KRIT also but not as mainstream
j cole is overrated and his music is trash
this album is garbage and so is most of j coles catalog
kys you really have bad taste in music.
Why this clown got so much promo? And why is he considered an old head? I remember old heads clowin this fool. I guess the fake woke image works now
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