The Fall-Off is here.

J. Cole has been working towards this album since the 2007’s The Come Up, and he’s positioned it to be a swan song of sorts, or at least the closing of this current chapter of his already impressive career. There’s been so much interesting and mythology surrounding this project that some of his fans assumed that when he backed out of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle that it might be part of the rollout. Like no way Cole is going to pop shit and apologize, this must be because he’s making himself “fall off.”

That, of course, wasn’t the case at all as he has since tried to explain his decision on songs like “Port Antonio.” There aren instances of that on The Fall-Off, but the beef that ended the Big 3 era isn’t at the center of this nearly two-hour double disc affair. Instead, it’s about the Carolina rapper’s experience of climbing out of his hometown of Fayetteville to the top of rap’s mountain as he tries to juggle being a superstar artist while staying grounded as a husband, father, and friend.

At this particular point in time, he finds himself having to prove himself all over again and from the reaction online, some might say that he delivered. Now, it remains to be seen if he cares enough to continue delivering full length albums on a consistent basis, but one thing is for certain, he can still rap at a very high level and his songwriting has gotten better since he came into the game during the mid 2000s.

With that being said, check out the 10 best lines on The Fall-Off below.