J.Cole- KOD

Alright so J.Cole finally dropped KOD and although it's only been a couple of hours,I've listened to it and I want to talk about it.

Now this isn't a "review",it's a first listen reaction. Just like 4Youreyezonly,at first listen this isn't really crazy like that but it's very very good. I won't completely praise my Idol,I'll have to be very honest with y'all about this.

Okay now so here's a couple of things I didn't like. For one,a lot of songs were short like 3minutes or so. When I noticed I was kind of pissed but I understood what he was doing. The whole concept of this album from my interpretation at least was trying to use " Trap Style " to pass positive messages.

If you listen or if you've listened already you'd notice that,most of the songs have this trap vibe and Cole's alter ego kiLL edward is kind of the trap version of Jermaine and his flow was very trappy.

Jermaine himself said this album has three meanings;Kidz on drugz,king overdosed and killing our demonz and that he leaves the rest to our own interpretation. And my own interpretation is this;

KOD is Cole realising that he can easily break out of his usual style and still bring in the depth of his former works. His three meanings are still seen spread across the album for instance. Photograph talks about addiction to the internet and how many people get obsessed with people on the internet who they don't actually know.

Once an addict talks about parent's on drugs and how their cycle of drugs affect the ones they love whether they know it or not.

These messages are spread through out the album but he doesn't do it in his usual way,he literally created a trap alter ego to show how corny trap artists are. In Kevin's heart, he uses his alter ego to the background yelling thing(e.g "Skrr Skrr) that trappers like Migos and future do.

After the outro,another intro(into the fall of) plays and damn!!!!! It easily one of the most respectful and thought provoking diss tracks I've ever listened to. The man didn't even put any hate into it he just spoke the truth and like they say the truth hurts!.

Honesty when I first listened,everything just went by so quickly leaving me underwhelmed but I heard a couple of tracks again and I understood what he was trying to do but the only problem right now is that I feel like not everyone might get it because the way he executed it wouldn't be obvious to everyone.

In conclusion if you listen to this album only once, you'd feel underwhelmed just like 4 your eyez only but if you take your time,it'll go up your ranking. It's 7.5/10 right now for me tell me what you think while i go get a speaker and jam up to some KOD!!!!!.

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