The Alchemist hinted earlier this year that he had music in the works with J. Cole – and it looks like it may land on the latter’s forthcoming effort, The Fall Off.
On Monday (August 26), one person on X asked the decorated producer if he made any beats on what will serve as Cole’s seventh studio album.
Alc replied with a series of zipper-mouth face emojis, seemingly indicating that he couldn’t discuss it – but clearly not denying it.
The pair previously worked together on Benny The Butcher‘s “Johnny P’s Caddy,” as well as B.o.B‘s “Gladiators” back in 2010.
Elsewhere in the chat with fans, the producer also hinted at a collab with JID, telling someone who asked if he’d consider working with him: “Stay tuned and find out.”
While a release date for The Fall Off is still unknown, fans can catch The Alchemist in October when he brings his new concert series ALC & Friends to Los Angeles with Earl Sweatshirt, Roc Marciano, Armand Hammer and Navy Blue.
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Back in February, J. Cole announced he’s in the final stages of completing The Fall Off – though he didn’t offer a hint as to when it might arrive.
“Right now, I’m at the tail-end of working on this album I’ve been working on for a long time,” said Cole, during the opening night for his It’s All a Blur – Big as the What? tour with Drake, in Tampa. “It’s called The Fall Off.”
Drizzy then fueled excitement further, revealing he’s heard the album and it’s a “classic.”
In April, Daylyt claimed he’d also heard the project, calling it “the most amazingest” rapping he’s heard.
“Cole is going out with a nuclear missile, I’m telling y’all that,” he said. “It’s his last go-around and he literally was like, ‘I don’t give a fuck about radio; I just wanna show the world my pen before I die.’ I heard it, all of it. It is the most amazingest rapping I have seen and heard thus far.”
Heaping more praise on the album, Daylyt claimed that The Fall Off is the exact direction Hip Hop needs to go in right now due to the genre being full of “trolls.”
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“I feel like that’s what Hip Hop needs right now,” he said. “I think Hip Hop needs to just be like, ‘Man, let’s take it back to the pure art form of this shit.’ Because this shit we doing right now, it ain’t what we got in it for.
“I’m not gon’ lie, we let the trolls take over the building, man. It’s a lot of trolls. I ain’t gon’ lie, I tried to do the trolling shit earlier, but I’m still an amazing lyricist. But they ain’t never fully let me in because they knew I was trolling.
“But the buildings now, they ran by trolls. These n-ggas ain’t really cut from the cloth. It’s technically physical AI n-ggas in the positions right now. And that’s the spicy flip. These people AI. So again, Hip Hop needs to go back to the pure essence of what we been doing it for.”