December 9th marks the 2-year anniversary of J. Cole’s most successful body of work, ‘2014 Forest Hills Drive’. On the same day the Dreamville rapper will release his fourth studio album ‘4 Your Eyez Only.’
In the same fashion that Cole released ‘2014 Forest Hills Drive’, he’ll release his new album — with no promotion, marketing plan, or radio single. Last month ‘2014 Forest Hills Drive’ earned a double platinum RIAA certification after selling over 2-million units. It’s worth noting he was able to acheive that with no features.
It’s still to be seen if ‘4 Your Eyez Only’ will include any features, as the only information we have is the artwork and the iTunes pre-order link showing it will offer 10 songs.
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The album announcement is a win for J. Cole fans as the rapper had hinted on “Jermaine’s Interlude” off DJ Khaled’s ‘Major Key’ that he might be retiring. During a performance at the Meadows music festival in October, Cole made it clear that he wouldn’t be performing for “a very long time.” Maybe he’s just taking a break to get ready for a ‘4 Your Eyez Only’ tour?
Either way it’s nice to know we will have some new music from J. Cole in a week. With all the social injustices going on, I’m sure we can expect a few songs to shed light on these issues.
In the album title Cole changes s’s for z’s to pay homage to 2-Pac’s album ‘All Eyez On Me’.
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