Rap star J. Cole will return to Target Center on Aug. 18

Tickets will go on sale Friday, with a presale beginning Tuesday.

The Minnesota Star Tribune
February 16, 2026 at 11:25PM
J. Cole is coming to Minneapolis on Aug. 18. (David Peters)

J. Cole, who dropped the biggest-selling hip-hop album in the past year, will perform Aug. 18 at Target Center in Minneapolis.

Cole announced his Fall-Off Tour, which begins July 11 in Charlotte, N.C. The tour will also visit Europe, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, ending in December. This is his first tour in eight years.

Last week, the Grammy-winning North Carolina rapper/producer released “The Fall-Off,” which sold nearly 300,000 units to land at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200. It is his seventh-consecutive album to reach No. 1.

Cole is known for the hits “My Life” and “Middle Child” as well as the collabs “All My Life” with Lil Durk and “First Person Shooter” with Drake.

Cole last appeared in Minneapolis at Target Center in 2018 on his KOD Tour.

Tickets will go on sale at 11 a.m. Feb. 20 at thefalloff.com, with a presale beginning at 11 a.m. Feb. 17.

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Jon Bream

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Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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