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KOD
Hip-Hop · 2018 · 12 tracks

KOD

J. Cole

A skeletal, trap-influenced meditation on addiction and modern anxiety. J. Cole adopts a distorted alter ego to explore the darkness of the digital age.

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It's like a therapy session over the beats your younger brother listens to.

A tense, sobering look at the dark side of modern coping mechanisms.

KOD · vs · J. Cole
Drum Machine+4.0σ

The instrumentation foregrounds drum machine far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
Intro
1:47
02
KOD
3:11
03
Photograph
3:38
04
The Cut Off
3:57
05
ATM
3:37
06
Motiv8
2:14
07
Kevin’s Heart
3:20
08
BRACKETS
5:16
09
Once an Addict (interlude)
3:18
10
FRIENDS
4:18
11
Window Pain (outro)
4:47
12
1985 (intro to “The Fall Off”)
3:10
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring shift to the pitched-down, distorted voice of kiLL Edward on The Cut Off, creating a sense of internal rot.
The rhythmic, hypnotic repetition of the word 'count' in ATM that mimics the mechanical sound of a money-counting machine.
The sudden transition from the melodic vulnerability of Kevin's Heart into the stark, lecture-style delivery of 1985.
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