In January 2017, in an interview with The Huffington Post, Cole's manager and Dreamville president, Ibrahim Hamad revealed not even the label knew they would be releasing 4 Your Eyez Only until very late.

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Your Eyez Only was released exactly two years after Cole's previous studio album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive.On July 29, 2016, DJ Khaled released his ninth album, [7] Major Key, the fifth track of which, titled "Jermaine's Interlude", features Cole. and Foldin Clothes really add something to it, contributing to the atmosphere the album establishes from the first track and making for a nice break with some more romantic lyrics. Writing for Billboard, J'na Jefferson praised the film saying it "brings black perseverance to the forefront". Cole provided co-production, Nico Segal, Anthony Ware, and Theo Croker added horns, while duo Chargaux added strings.

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Singer Anderson Paak and rapper Bas served as opening acts on the second leg of the tour, along with J. Vinylz also alleged that Foreign Teck offered him publishing, a tacit admission that he had reverse engineered the beat. Cole and I spent hours one night looking for photos for his album cover but nothing seemed to stand out. In the United States, 4 Your Eyez Only debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 492,000 album-equivalent units, of which 363,000 were pure album sales, becoming Cole's fourth number one album.Rappers rap about other rappers all the time — subliminal insult, direct attack — but rarely from a place of love. Kahron Spearman from The Daily Dot wrote that "though love and hope are sufficient motifs, Cole still suffers from lack of specificity (even when he channels one very specific character). In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases.