By: Jarrod Horton
Staff Writer
Yesterday (April 18th) J. Cole released the artwork for his K.O.D album dropping tomorrow on 04/20. The artist is seen on the front cover with a painting of himself in a king’s cloak and crown. Below him are paintings of children faces doing drugs like lean, coke and pills. The back cover also has kids on it, but on this picture, the drugs are beneath them.
KOD 4/20 Cover and back pic.twitter.com/2iUaKrI42F
— J. Cole (@JColeNC) April 18, 2018
The front and back cover caused the internet to go in thought mode and decipher a deeper meaning behind the art. The best explanation I saw was from a Twitter user who broke down how the artwork correlated with the different meanings of K.O.D.
You can see the three meanings of KOD.
1. King Overdose – the crown on Cole
2. Kill our Demons – the skulls beneath him
3. Kids on Drugs – self explanatoryInteresting cover cause Cole’s are usually simple & direct…this might be an indicator that the music is “different.”
— J-Alta ♦️ (@AltaMuzik) April 18, 2018
King Overdose, Kill Our Demons, Kids On Drugs or simply K.O.D. Doesn’t matter what you call it, as long as we can call it dope (no pun intended). Check out the tracklisting below:
- “Intro”
- “K.O.D.”
- “Photograph”
- “The Cut Off” feat. Kill Edward
- “ATM”
- “Kevin’s Heart”
- “Motiv8”
- “BRACKETS”
- “Once An Addict (Interlude)”
- “FRIENDS” feat. Kill Edward
- “Window Pain (Outro)”
- “1985 (Intro To “The Fall Off”)”
Source: https://www.bet.com/music/2018/04/18/j-cole-album-cover-tracklist-reactions.html