J Cole had a very weak catalog, specially compared to his peers...his reputation was 100% based on his features run...that wasn't sustainable.
Even in his prime, people were like "yeah ok that feature is good, but your solo catalog is weak".
His career was gonna be over no matter what, even if the next album is gook, that's still a weak catalog.
Huh?
In no reality is his career over.

Cole is cemented regardless of what he does and his feature runs is one of the greatest feature runs
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