''I Don't Want People To Get Confused...''
4:30PM ET July 27th, 2011
Contributor : Chris G.
A Rocky Williform Company

Rapper J. Cole previously announced that he would be releasing a mixtape prior to his official debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story in September. But Cole has decided that he will longer be releasing that mixtape.

He will leak a few of the songs, but there will be no full-length mixtape released.

“I’m not gonna put out a mixtape,” said Cole in a radio interview. “I just decided this, but the music I was gonna put on the mixtape I’mma just slowly drop it. I’ll just drop it out online and they’ll find it. You know, my fans will find it how they will. I’m confident. I don’t wanna run and drop a mixtape. I don’t want people to get confused with that. I don’t want them to love it, because they’ll love it. If I put out a mixtape they’re gonna love it cause I don’t know how to put out a bad mixtape. That’s the problem. So I don’t want them to fall in love too much and them my album comes four weeks later, five weeks later. We only eight weeks out. That’s not a long time. I’ll be giving them songs in the meantime so it’s cool.”

Cole also said that he's still waiting for Jay-Z to contribute a verse to the project.

“I haven’t even heard his verse. He [Jay-Z] got five days to turn that in,” Cole explained. “I don’t know if I like need to change my verse yet or not. If he tries to kill me then I’mma change my verse. Yea, I’m not going out like that. The hook is on there and everything so he’ll get it.”