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J. Cole – “High For Hours”

QUEENS, NY – OCTOBER 01: J. Cole performs during the 2016 The Meadows Music & Arts Festival at Citi Field on October 1, 2016 in Queens, New York. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images for The Meadows)

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Last month, J. Cole came out with 4 Your Eyez Only, probably the strongest album of his career. And today, he's followed it with a loose track called "High For Hours." Over a warm, ambling beat from Elite and Cam O'Bi, he raps conversationally about the idea of internal revolution and a sort of generalized disappointment with Barack Obama. He never mentions Trump, and he advances the controversial "maybe we shouldn't have cheered when Bin Ladin was killed" argument. Listen to the track below, via Miss Info.

4 Your Eyez Only is out now on Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope.

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