The Off-Season debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with 282,000 equivalent units sold. The feat makes the release the biggest rap album of the year so far, and the second-largest overall for total units earned. The 12-track album, which dropped last week, boasts features from 21 Savage, Diddy, Lil Baby, and production from Timbaland and Jake One.
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Kojima Productions Tweets J. Cole after Hideo is Namedropped on New Album
It looks like he s a fan!
There’s always something special when it comes to seeing two worlds collide and this is exactly what happened recently when rap icon J. Cole namedropped Hideo Kojima on one of the verses on his latest album.
The line took Twitter by storm as the subsection of rap fans/gamers appreciated the crossover between the two behemoths of their respective industries.
J cole actually name dropping Hideo Kojima is just Jetstream sam (@FatherBillz) May 14, 2021
Now that the dust has settled a little and the world has had a chance to take in the album, Kojima Productions, Hideo Kojima’s development studio, has had its say in response to the bar.
Based on his instagram comments, people are more than ready. There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the Dreamville Records founder’s upcoming LP. A combination fo the release of his single
Interlude, The Off Season documentary, and his latest freestyle for Power 107’s
L.A. Leakers radio show has people waiting in anticipation. Here’s what the rapper has been up to the past few days.
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Friday, May 7 , the rapper released his single interlude. In a twitter post he said
“Told myself I would drop the album all at once. Sometimes you gotta say fuck it tho. New song tonight. 12 o’clock. “i n t e r l u d e” from The Off-Season.”
T-Minus, and more.
Ahead of the album s release, Cole dropped a mini-documentary about the making of the project titled
Applying Pressure: The Off-Season.
The Off-Season was initially announced in late December 2020 when Cole shared what appeared to be a list of upcoming projects under The Fall Off Era. At the top of the list were Features and
ROTD3 both titles were crossed out seemingly due to the fact that Cole accomplished each: releasing
Revenge of the Dreamers III in July 2019 and completing his 2019 features run. Next on the list was The Off-Season, followed by It’s A Boy and, finally, The Fall Off.