{"id":2269273,"date":"2026-02-06T07:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2269273"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:03:01","slug":"new-music-this-week-j-cole-ella-mai-lecrae-and-more-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-this-week-j-cole-ella-mai-lecrae-and-more-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music This Week: J.Cole, Ella Mai, Lecrae, And More – Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today\u2019s list also includes M\u00fda\u2019s song \u201cASAP,\u201d from her upcoming tenth studio album \u2018Retrospect.\u2019<\/p>\n

Happy Friday, folks. It\u2019s the first weekend of Black History Month<\/a>, and there\u2019s several artists making their return to the music industry in spectacular fashion. Rap, R&B, Soul\u2014whatever you like, it\u2019s here for your listening pleasure.<\/p>\n

Today, J. Cole drops his final album The Fall-Off<\/em>, a 24-track, double disc with features from Future, Tems, and more. In another return, Ella Mai<\/a> connects with Mustard once again on Do You Still Love Me?<\/em>, her third studio album, and first in four years. Singer M\u00fda drops the single \u201cASAP,\u201d ahead of the release of her album Retrospect, set to drop later this year. Our list also includes music from RAAHiiM, Lecrae, Brandy Haze, and more.<\/p>\n

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Stream M\u00fda\u2019s \u201cASAP\u201d <\/span>HERE<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Today\u2019s list also includes M\u00fda\u2019s song \u201cASAP,\u201d from her upcoming tenth studio album \u2018Retrospect.\u2019 Happy Friday, folks. It\u2019s the first weekend of Black History Month, and there\u2019s several artists making their return to the music industry in spectacular fashion. Rap, R&B, Soul\u2014whatever you like, it\u2019s here for your listening pleasure. Today, J. Cole drops his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2269274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/New-Music-This-Week-JCole-Ella-Mai-Lecrae-And-More.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269275,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269273\/revisions\/2269275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}