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\n\tNearly eight years in the making, it\u2019s finally time for The Fall-Off.<\/a><\/em> J. Cole<\/a> announced the album\u2019s Feb. 6 release date on Wednesday (Jan. 14), sending the Dreamville faithful into a frenzy. <\/p>\n \n\tThe Fall-Off<\/em> will serve as Cole\u2019s seventh album and his first LP since 2021\u2019s The Off-Season<\/em>, which topped the Billboard 200<\/a> with 282,000 total album-equivalent units.<\/p>\n \n\tCole set the album\u2019s rollout in motion with a trailer featuring an unreleased track and a narrator detailing issues with how society dissects celebrities and their time in the spotlight, as Cole does everyday activities like enjoying a meal at Waffle House and washing his car. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cEverything is supposed to go away eventually,\u201d the narrator says. \u201cYou see this especially in show business with famous actors or musicians, and it\u2019s like,\u00a0Oh, this guy used to be famous and then he fell off. What happened?\u00a0And they want to point to, they did this and this and they made some sort of mistake, instead of thinking that it\u2019s kind of crazy they got famous in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe continues: \u201cSo few people reach that level. Of course it\u2019s not going to last forever because somebody else has to take that spot and that\u2019s how show business has been forever. But no, they always want to say, nah that guy fell off. They want to look down on him for just going through the natural cycle of rising and falling.\u201d<\/p>\n