J. Cole References Eminem on the new album “The Off-Season”.
Earlier tonight, J. Cole has finally released his new highly anticipated album “The Off-Season“, the first project of “The Fall Off” Era. The sixth studio album of one of the greatest of the game contained 12 new tracks with guest appearances from 21 Savage, Lil Baby, along with production from Boi-1da, Timbaland, T-Minus, and more. On the 4th track called “Applying Pressure“, J. Cole also shouts out Eminem with a Slim Shady reference.
“Just did the mental math and calculated my worth
Sh*t crazy, didn’t know I got more M’s than a real Slim Shady video,” raps Cole.
This is a pun on Eminem’s real name and his alter persona, Slim Shady. The letter “M,” an abbreviation for million, is synonymous with Eminem’s abbreviated name, “Em.” The Real Slim Shady, Em’s lead song from the MMLP, includes a music video in which several Slim Shadies are produced throughout the video.
Excellent simile, well-crafted, and based on well-known hip-hop imagery and facts. J Cole enters the discourse where he has the right to be on the basis of his riches that his art gave him by utilizing M for both millions and merging it with identical Marshall’s moniker.
The Off-Season had 62 million listens on the day of release, shattering the previous 2021 record for Spotify’s one-day streaming total. With 282,000 album-equivalent units sold in the United States (including 37,000 copies from pure album sales in its first week), the album debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200. It was Cole’s sixth album to reach the top spot in the US. The Off-Season broke Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album’s record for the biggest streaming week of 2021 when it was released, amassing over 325.5 million on-demand views of the album’s 12 tracks.
Check out the song and Genius’ annotation for it below.
Shit crazy, didn’t know I got more M’s than a real Slim Shady video
― J. Cole – a p p l y i n g . p r e s s u r e
