American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer, J. Cole Team's up with Dreamville on a new project called "D-Day A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape". There was a time, not long ago, when a DJ Drama-helmed [i]Gangsta Grillz[/i] mixtape was maybe the most official declaration of a hip-hop artist’s arrival. Though Drama would exit the mixtape game to develop stars like Lil Uzi Vert and Jack Harlow—the [i]Gangsta Grillz[/i] brand fully intact—contemporary rap has yet to find a replacement for “Mr. Thanksgiving” popping his shit at the beginning (and end) of the whole of a mixtape’s tracks. Someone with the star power of Dreamville label head J. Cole needn’t have called on Drama—in this day and age or any other—to affirm his standing in hip-hop, but their collaborative [i]D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape[/i] is a victory for fans of either era.