On episode 47 of Ambrosia For Head's What's The Headline, we do a comprehensive review of J. Cole's The Off Season album. We discuss:

0:00 Intro

1:08 Breaking down the main themes of J. Cole’s The Off Season album

1:19 Basketball metaphors prevail

2:30 J. Cole has now mastered many different Rap styles

3:40 Cole actually trained to make this album

6:20 The Off Season has several hidden parallels with Nas’ Illmatic

13:30 The Off Season is a mixtape in disguise

18:20 Breaking down J. Cole’s The Off Season song by song

18:30 “95.south” is Cole embracing both is Southern AND his Northern roots

23:15 J. Cole raps like he never has before on “amari”

26:38 21 Savage is the first guest artist to rap on a J. Cole album since 2010, on “my.life”

34:30 J. Cole shows absolute disrespect for his competition on “applying.pressure”

37:48 Damian Lillard explains the concept behind The Off Season on “punchin’.the.clock”

45:36 J. Cole raps over a trap beat by a key producer for Drake and Kendrick Lamar on “100.mil’”

48:35 “pride.is.the.devil” is a lull on the album…but is it intentional?

51:52 Is Cole’s choice not to include features on the tracklist a slight to his guest artists?

55:00 “let.go.my.hand” is the best song on J. Cole’s The Off Season album

1:00:07 Puff Daddy has had altercations with Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole…Coincidence?

1:05:39 “interlude” shows why it’s important to hear songs in the context of the album

1:10:05 “the.climb.back” is nearly a year old. Should Cole have included it on The Off Season?

1:14:26 “close” is J. Cole’s most personal song on The Off Season

1:18:00 “hunger.on.hillside” ties The Off Season together sonically and thematically

1:20:08 Ranking J. Cole’s album catalog and where The Off Season sits

1:24:20 J. Cole’s The Off Season is the best album of 2021 so far…but how will it fare against Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Travis Scott?

1:26:47 LL Cool J and JAY-Z are being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1:29:00 Michael Jordan inducting Kobe Bryant into the Basketball Hall of Fame

1:30:33 DMX’s Exodus album will be released on May 28

1:33:20 MC Serch clears the air about his relationship with Nas

Watch J. Cole's "Applying Pressure" documentary: https://youtu.be/135bv6GhD2M

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