Drake & J Cole Announce New Album Release Dates
Written by MaxFM on April 17, 2018
Canadian rapper, Drake and American act, J Cole are both set to release new projects and fans have started anticipating for them.
Following the tradition of announcing new projects at a moment’s notice, a marketing style that has worked for the likes of Beyonce. Rapper, J. Cole took to his official twitter account to announce that his fifth full length studio album was just a couple of days away.
New album. KOD 4/20
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) April 17, 2018
Prior to the announcement, Cole had posted an invite for a show at NYC’s Gramercy Theatre, believed to be the album’s listening party as he instructed, “No phones. No cameras. No bags. No press list. No guess list,”.
NYC. Come through. Couple hours from now. First come first serve. pic.twitter.com/Z71I9iRnnu
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) April 16, 2018
Fillers from attendees at the show claim that the new album will contain 12 tracks that was recorded over a period of two weeks.
J Cole’s last album was 4 Your Eyes Only, which was released in 2016.
Drake has been doing very well since the turn of the year following the release of billboard topping singles, ‘God’s Plan’ and ‘Nice for what’, with accompanying visuals and he is set to cement that, following the announcement of his new album titled, ‘Scorpion’ due to be released on the June 28, 2018.
On Monday (April 16), the rapper made the big announcement via his Instagram page by way of photo. In the image, a picture of a gold pendant with the image of a scorpion in reference to the album title, which is the astrological sign for when he was born on October 24 can be seen.
In a follow-up post, Drakebacking a camera is seen sporting a jacket with the words “Scorpion,” “June 2018” and “by Drake.” The captions of both photos are “June 2018.”
