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J. Cole Announces New Album ‘The Fall-Off’ & Its Release Date: Watch the Trailer

The Fall-Off is J. Cole's first album since 2021, executive produced by T-Minus and Ibrahim Hamad, featuring 21 Savage and Lil Baby, arriving Feb. 6.

  • On Jan. 14, J. Cole announced The Fall-Off album will release Feb. 6 and revealed cover art with a trailer teasing an unreleased-song snippet.
  • Fans have awaited The Fall-Off since 2018 after he closed KOD with `1985 Intro to 'The Fall Off'`, and Cole referenced the record in 2019 and on a 2020 list.
  • Visuals in the clip show J. Cole washing his car at a self-service car wash and sitting at a restaurant counter while a narrator says `Everything is supposed to go away eventually,` as a hard-hitting beat and unreleased song snippet follow.
  • The announcement positions Cole for a major chart return with The Fall-Off, his first album since The Off-Season , which topped the Billboard 200 with 282,000 total album equivalent units and set a Spotify one-day streaming record .
  • Cole's recent releases and disputes include his surprise mixtape Might Delete Later amid the Kendrick Lamar–Drake feud and removing `7 Minute Drill` with an apology at Dreamville Festival 2024.
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Just Jared broke the news in on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
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