J. Cole Announces New Album, "The Off-Season"

Dreamville’s Head Honcho shares the cover art and release date for the follow-up to his 2018 album, “KOD”

By Spencer Lobdell

Dreamville’s Head Honcho shares the cover art and release date for the follow-up to his 2018 album, “KOD”

Early today, J. Cole took to Instagram and Twitter to announce that his upcoming album “The Off-Season” will be released next week on May 14th. The announcement was prefaced by a playful tweet which read “Is this thing on?” which marked Cole’s first Twitter activity since January.

 
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Fans have been expecting “The Off-Season” since the end of last December when Cole posted a picture laying out his career plan for “The Fall Off Era.” The map starts with his legendary feature run that took place in 2018 and then led into 2019’s “Revenge of the Dreamers III”. “The Off-Season” is the third project on his list followed by “It’s a Boy” and “The Fall Off”.

 
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Last year, when Cole dropped “Lewis Street EP” he stated that “The Climb Back” and “Lion King on Ice” would be the first two songs on “The Fall Off” making their placement on “The Off-Season” unlikely but possible. Regardless of the status of those singles, everytime Cole drops there’s the chance it could be a massive cultural moment in music and the release of “The Off-Season” will be no different


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