J. Cole says he is not retiring

J. Cole says he is not retiring. In an hour-long GQ conversation with his longtime A&R Mark Pitts, Cole explained that he made The Fall-Off as if it could be his last album but refuses to put an end date on his career, and said he now sees the early pressure from Jay-Z as something that helped him. For working artists, his story shows how one champion inside the business can change everything, as Pitts did by taking Cole's music to Jay-Z.