J. Cole has a little something to say. KOD, the title with the reigning king of acutely aware rap’s fifth studio album which shock-dropped last 7 days, stands for considered one of a few items: Kids On Medicine, King Overdose or Destroy Our Demons. Evidently the terms are interchangeable, illustrating the ever-darkening ambiance of anxiousness and dread enveloping America (and precisely, black The us) in a post-Trump planet. The kids aren’t alright, Cole posits, and thru pensive rhymes about habit, crime, racism, greed, and violence, KOD sees him proceed his legacy of contemplative, heavily-layered hip-hop.

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