J. Cole's highly-anticipated new album the Off-Season drops this week, and ahead of its imminent release, the North Carolina rapper has shared a documentary.
Announced on Sunday, the documentary is a Scott Lazer-directed film offering a look at how the Off-Season came together. “This is the moment that a lot of your favorite rappers hit a crossroads," Cole says in the teaser that arrived ahead of the documentary. "Are you okay with getting comfortable? Did you leave no stone unturned creatively? And when I thought about that feeling, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not cool with that.'"
J. Cole's highly-anticipated new album the Off-Season drops this week, and ahead of its imminent release, the North Carolina rapper has shared a documentary.
Announced on Sunday, the documentary is a Scott Lazer-directed film offering a look at how the Off-Season came together. “This is the moment that a lot of your favorite rappers hit a crossroads," Cole says in the teaser that arrived ahead of the documentary. "Are you okay with getting comfortable? Did you leave no stone unturned creatively? And when I thought about that feeling, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not cool with that.'"
The documentary opens with Cole speaking with his “A Lot” collaborator 21 Savage, who asked him why he decided to call the project the Off-Season. As he explained, it’s a reference to his mixtape the Warm Up, which dropped all the way back in 2009. “One more time before I leave, before I feel fulfilled in this game, let me try to reach new heights from a skill level standpoint,” he added. Other moments in the documentary see Cole revisiting his old home in Queens, New York City, and him reflecting on how Pharrell inspired him to make music with a schedule in mind.
He also briefly spoke about the albums he plans to release after the Off-Season, specifically in regards to the Fall-Off. “There’s songs on here, in this whole Fall-Off era, that I’ve been sitting on for years,” he explained. “Just tweaking, making better. Even like, ‘the Middle Child,’ that was for the Fall-Off. … I still got more work to do, on the Fall-Off specifically, I got a few more songs I need to write. I got tinkering I need to do.”
Cole has been teasing the Off-Season for quite some time now, and has called it a project “years in the making.” It’s expected to be the first of three albums that he teased in an Instagram post last year, with It’s a Boy and the Fall-Off expected to arrive later down the line. “On my career bucket list, there remain a few more items to check off before I give myself permission to enter whatever the next chapter of my life may be," said Cole upon detailing "the Fall Off Era." Of the upcoming albums, he said they’re the most ambitious projects of his career.
Leading up to the release of the Off-Season, Cole indicated that he wasn’t going to drop more songs from it before the whole record is out. “Told myself I would drop the album all at once,” he wrote. “Sometimes you gotta say fuck it tho.” He’s shared “Interlude,” but fans will have to wait until Friday, May 14 to hear the rest of the album.
Watch the documentary above.
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Last week, he previewed the album via a new song, "i n t e r l u d e," which he co-produced with T-Minus and T. Parker.
J. Cole visoko očekivani novi album izvan sezone kapi ovaj tjedan, a prije njegovog skorog objavljivanja, North Carolina reper dijeli dokumentarac.
Priopćila je u nedjelju, dokumentarac je Scott Lazer usmjerena film koji nudi pogled na kako off-sezoni došao zajedno. „Ovo je trenutak da puno omiljenih repera hit raskršća‘ Cole kaže se u najavi da je stigao ispred dokumentarca.’Jesi li dobro s dobivanje udoban? Jeste li ostaviti bez kamena neprevrnut kreativno? I kad sam razmišljao o tom osjećaju, bio sam kao, "Ne, nisam kul s tim.”
Dokumentarac počinje Cole govoreći sa svojim „puno” suradnik 21 Savage, koji ga je pitao zašto je odlučio nazvati projekt izvan sezone. Kako je objasnio, to je referenca na njegov mixtape zagrijavanja, koji je pao sve na putu natrag u 2009. „Još jednom prije nego što odem, prije nego što sam se osjećati ispunjeni u ovoj igri, neka mi pokušati doći do novih visina od razine vještina stajalište „, dodao je. Ostali trenuci u dokumentarcu vidi Cole ponovni svoj stari dom u Queensu, New York, a on razmišlja o tome kako ga je Pharrell nadahnuo da glazbu s rasporedom na umu.
Također je kratko govorio o albuma planira otpustiti nakon off-sezoni, posebno u odnosu na jesen-off. „Postoji pjesme ovdje, u ovoj cijeloj jesen-Off doba, da sam sjedio na već godinama”, objasnio je on. „Samo ugađati, što bolje. Čak i kao „Bliski djeteta,” koji je za jesen-off. ... Još uvijek ima više posla, na jesen-off konkretno, imam još nekoliko pjesama sam potrebu pisati. Dobio sam petljaju moram učiniti.”
Cole je dosadan van sezone dosta za neko vrijeme sada, i pozvao ga projekt „godina u izradi”. Očekuje se da prvi od tri albuma koje je zadirkivali u Instagram nakon prošle godine, a da je dječak i pada off očekuje da će stići kasnije niz linija. „S moje karijere popisu kantu, ostaje još nekoliko stavki provjeriti prije nego sam si dati dopuštenje za ulazak bez obzira na sljedeće poglavlje mog života može biti„, rekao je Cole na detaljima ‘na otpasti Era’. Od predstojećih albuma, on je rekao da su najambicioznijih projekata u karijeri.
Što je dovelo do otpuštanja u off-sezoni, Cole pokazala da neće pasti više pjesama od njega prije nego što je cijeli zapis je van. „Rekao sam da bi pad album odjednom”, napisao je. „Ponekad moraš reći jebi ga tho.” On dijeli „međuigre”, ali fanovi će morati pričekati do petak 14 svibanj čuti ostatak albuma.
Pogledajte dokumentarac iznad.
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Film je zbog out u 1 popodne ET je u ponedjeljak (10. svibnja).
J. Cole sezona je pred nama. Reper je otkrio u nedjelju da je njegov novi film, pritišćući: izvan sezone dokumentarni, će pasti na 1 popodne ET je u ponedjeljak (10. svibnja) na YouTubeu. Na press vrijeme bilo je nekoliko detalja o Scott Lazer-u režiji filma koji će pratiti MC-a nadolazeći album, izvan sezone.
Ovo je trenutak da puno omiljenih repera hit raskršća, Cole kaže u 26-drugi teaser clip, tijekom koje je poskakuje na ponoćnom letu, klopka u studiju i snima obruč po sebi. „Jeste li u redu s dobivanje udoban? Jeste li ostaviti bez kamena neprevrnut kreativno? A kad sam razmišljao o tom osjećaju, bio sam kao," Ne, ja ne ohladi s tim.”
Album izlazi u četvrtak (14. svibnja) bila je „godina u izradi” prema nedavnom postu od Cole o follow-up na 2018-a KOD. Off-sezone je prvi od tri albuma reper zadirkivali u prosinac 2020 Instagram postu koji je izazvao nagađanja okružuje svoje povlačenje iz rap igru. Prema post, sljedeći album će se pod nazivom Dječak i pada-off, igra na svom prvom mixtape objavljen u 2007, The doći gore.
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Posljednji tjedan, je pregledan album putem novog pjesme "i n e r t l u E, d", koji je ko-proizvedene T-minus i T. Parker.