J. Cole To Re-Release '2014 Forest Hills Drive' Album With 8 Unheard Songs

J. Cole is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his revered third studio album by releasing a new version with unheard music.

On Friday, November 29, the Dreamville co-founder announced his plans to drop 10th-anniversary edition CDs and vinyls of 2014 Forest Hills Drive. Both versions of Cole's 2014 LP have a total of eight unreleased tracks intended for J. Cole's original concept for a double album. Each special edition contains four unreleased songs including "Home Soon," "Die Together" "Judgement Day" "Winter Wonderland" "Keep Heaven Dancing," "Miles," "Black Man In Hollywood," and "Obviously." The CDs and vinyls arrive next Friday — just a few days ahead of the original album's 10-year anniversary.

In his post, Cole revealed the official artwork and an alternate cover image, which was supposed to be the album's cover. According to Cole's manager Ibrahim "Ib" Hamad, the never-before-seen cover was J. Cole's first choice for the cover art before his team convinced him to change it. Cole and Ib tell that story in the two-part finale of the rapper's "Inevitable" series, which drops on December 9 and December 12.

"When yall get to the FHD episodes of 'Inevitable' yall get to hear how that alternate Cover was gonna be the actual cover and til we convinced Cole 😂," Ib wrote on X. "Yall also hear about how FHD was once a double album so the bonus songs on the Vinyls were potential album songs at one point."

J. Cole dropped 2014 Forest Hills Drive without warning on December 9, 2014. The album was released with 13 tracks including hits like "No Role Modelz," "G.O.M.D," "Wet Dreamz," "Fire Squad," "Love Yourz" and more. It debuted at No. 1 and sold 371,000 copies in its first week with zero features.

The 10-year anniversary edition of 2014 Forest Hills Drive drops December 6.