J. Cole gave fans a surprise on Tuesday by releasing a new video and song titled “Heaven’s EP” that finds him rapping over the beat of Drake’s “Pipe Down,” from the Canadian rapper’s just-two-weeks-old “Certified Lover Boy” album.
Cole raps on the track:
“Some people say that I’m running third, they threw the bronze at me/
Behind Drake and Dot [Kendrick Lamar], yeahthem n—-s is superstars to me/
Maybe deep downI’m afraid of my luminosity/
So when you see me on red carpets, I’m movin’ awkwardly.”
Watch the video, directed bySimon Chasalowand filmed in Las Vegas, below.
Cole sharedThe Off-Season,his sixth studio album, back in May of this year. The 12-track project debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and boasted appearances from21 Savage, Lil Baby, Bas, 6lack, and Morray.
As previously mentioned “Pipe Down,” the beat that Cole re-purposed for “Heaven’s EP,” was included on Drake’s record-breaking albumCLB.The project debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts with a massive first week that saw it move613,000 album-equivalent units, making it the biggest debut of 2021.
In other news, Cole is scheduled to launch his“Off-Season Tour,” also featuring Morray,21 Savage, andDruski, in Miami on Friday. Thet tour is in support of his recent album of the same name.
PvNew said in its review: “Cole’s new record, “The Off-Season,” reads as a turning point. Stripped down to an at once polished and grimy mixture of soul samples, seizuring trap hi-hats and boom-bap drums, Cole offers, amid some moments of grave contemplation, a kind of mixtape-energy record of lyrical exercises and bangers. In its looseness, the album — his most economical and wholly consistent one thus far — feels like a serrated jolt, a brazen and convincing statement from the rapper of his all-time status as an MC.”
