J. Cole has a thing to state. KOD, the title of your reigning king of conscious rap’s fifth studio album which shock-dropped very last week, stands for one of 3 issues: Children On Medication, King Overdose or Kill Our Demons. Seemingly the phrases are interchangeable, illustrating the at any time-darkening ambiance of nervousness and dread enveloping The usa (and especially, black The usa) within a publish-Trump globe. The kids aren’t alright, Cole posits, and through pensive rhymes about addiction, crime, racism, greed, and violence, KOD sees him proceed his legacy of contemplative, closely-layered hip-hop.

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