J. Cole released his highly-anticipated album The Fall-Off on Friday (Feb. 6). Nearly eight years after teasing The Fall-Off with the KOD outro, “1985,” J. Cole has finally delivered what he’s long framed as his final album. The Fall-Off is a double-disc album split into Disc 29 and Disc 39, totaling in 24 songs.
The Dreamville honcho recently shared that some of his earliest verses were written at just 19 on The Come Up, when “a delusional teenager from Fayetteville” packed up and headed to NYC with nothing but belief and a sharp pen. The Fall-Off brings that story full circle, right down to the album art. It features photos he took himself as a teenager, including his childhood bedroom walls.
The Fall-Off back cover plus some insight. 2/6/26 pic.twitter.com/e5cvztwlk4
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) February 4, 2026
The album arrives after a busy January for J. Cole, who rang in his 41st birthday with the surprise Birthday Blizzard ’26 EP. He previously dropped the introspective track “The Fall-Off Is Inevitable,” where he raps his life story in reverse.
The Fall-Off features Futures, Tems, Erykah Badu, Burna Boy and Westside Gunn.
Listen to “The Fall-Off” by J. Cole here:
