J. Cole - Might Delete Later (2024)

Lyrical rapper J. Cole runs through a multitude of high-energy styles on his fourth mixtape, the driven and fluid Might Delete Later. There's some dabbling with U.K. drill on "H.Y.B." with Bas and Central Cee, "Ready '24" chops up a Barbara Mason soul sample with all the verve of prime-era Kanye, "Stickz N Stonez" offers up a mellow boom-bap beat that Cole blasts syllables over, and other production turns play out over the course of the tape as well. Cole's bars concentrate primarily on how far ahead of everyone else in the game he is and how his skills are unapproachable. Closing cut "7 Minute Drill" (which Cole apologized for and removed from streaming platforms shortly after the mixtape's release, fulfilling the project's title) criticizes Kendrick Lamar's career after Cole felt slightly dissed by Lamar in his verse on "Like That," a track on Future and Metro Boomin's mixtape WE DON'T TRUST YOU, which was released just prior to Might Delete Later.© TiVo Staff /TiVo