J. Cole was recently a guest on Kevin Hart's Peacock series, Hart to Heart and discussed a range of topics, including how getting off social media helped his mental health and of course, his thoughts about the current state of Hip-Hop.

Cole said the game is in a good place right now, and that it's dope to see that women are leading the charge. He remembered how back in the day, it seemed like there could only be one woman MC at a time holding the top spot but now the game is wide open, making the landscape much more interesting.

“I think it’s fire. It’s a whole different ball game. Whole different crop of young superstars and styles,” he said via Vibe. “I think, to me the… I’ve been feeling like this for, maybe, a year or two. I hate to say it, almost because it sounds like pandering, but I do think, there’s a lot of fire female rappers.”

He said women are putting out some of the most compelling music these days. “I feel like they doing some of the most exciting [music] commercially," he contended. "They giving us a lot of fire moments. I feel like that’s something that wasn’t around when we was growing up. There was always one. There could never be more than one [woman]. Now, it’s like, we getting moments, and moments, and moments. I think that’s hard.”

Cole also talked about how he's taking care of his mental health in an ever-changing world.

“So I got with this new publicist, Kathryn Frazier, and she’s [an] amazing woman. She was telling me how she was into meditation, transcendental meditation," he said. "And I had flirted with it in my early twenties, practice it a little bit..didn’t know what I was doing, but had a nice little experience. But I didn’t dive into it. But mind you, her telling me about that was coinciding with me, realizing, yo, something, something’s going on."

He said that one of things that became really important in maintaining a healthy mindset was getting off of social media.

“I had set rules for myself," he said. "One was like, ‘bro, you can’t go on social media no more’…Nobody’s there to be like, don’t Google yourself. Don’t search your name,” he added. “I had set some rules for myself, some baseline rules like, yo, don’t go on Twitter. Don’t read your replies. That’s rule number one. Number two, when you’re creating, you got to create from a pure place only. That was a rule I set for myself. Everything has to only be truly what you feel in your heart.”