J Cole KOD (Gatefold LP Jacket) [Explicit Content] 12/07/2018

J Cole KOD (Gatefold LP Jacket) [Explicit Content] 12/07/2018If the cover of 4 Your Eyez Only didn't send a clear enough signal regarding J. Cole's disinterest in supplying listeners with an entertaining diversion, the dystopian cereal box look of the follow up, replete with an obvious disclaimer, should get the point across. Moreover, the acronymic title of the rapper producer's fifth album stands for Kids on Drugs, King Overdosed, and Kill Our Demons. Unremittingly joyless, the set is nonetheless commendable

and a certain flair for telling it like it is and making it sound like bedrock

The tune "Supermassive Black Hole" is a case in point

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik received positive reviews from music critics and helped distinguish Southern hip hop as a credible hip hop scene

and "Escape (The Pi

The primary theme indeed is addiction -- not only to chemicals

Marvin Scandrick (background vocals)

and mood that are as surprising as they are evocative

Drifting outside the comfort zone of what a Nine Inch Nails album is expected to sound like

guitar-bass-and-drums attack to a carefully cultivated tastelessness (see album title and cover art)

it is the group's songcraft that impresses the most

" a series of like-sized releases with West involved on every song

addressing political