J ColeJ. Cole is embarking on a sidequest: he’s on his way to save print media. As he prepares to tour in support of his new – and what could be his final – album, The Fall-Off, he’s launched The Fall-Off Magazine.
The magazine is a 144-page publication that explores hip-hop “as a living culture, one shaped by the artists, ideas, and moments that continue to redefine it,” per its website.
The Fall-Off feature original essays, conversations, photography, illustration, and archival imagery, as J. Cole and his team create a dialogue “between generations, honouring the foundation while embracing what comes next.”
Artists including Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill, RZA, GloRilla, Lil Yachty, JID and others are interviewed in the magazine. The Fall-Off, spearheaded by Editor-in-Chief Bonsu Thompson, is home to work by more than 60 writers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and designers.
Thompson said (per Genius), “Like all essential creative by and for a culture, this collector’s edition arrives when most needed by its audience. Hip-Hop journalism has somehow expanded, diversified, atrophied and become amorphous all at once.
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“So, my aim was to deploy storytelling and the humanisation of starpower to educate the world on how Godly the craftsmen and innovation behind Hip-Hop commerce were, are and will forever be. No wifi needed.”
You can buy the magazine here.
J. Cole is bringing his The Fall-Off World Tour to Australia this December. Following phenomenal demand, he added extra arena shows in Melbourne and Sydney.
J. Cole’s forthcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand marks his first dates in the region in nine years. Additionally, the Fall-Off Tour is J. Cole’s first solo headline tour in five years, following his The Off-Season Tour in 2021. It also marks his first global tour in nine years, with the 4 Your Eyez Only World Tour taking place in 2017.
You can find tickets to the shows on the Live Nation Australia website.
