Hours before he unleashes his fifth studio album KOD, J. Cole has blessed fans with the project’s first trailer.
The video, which spans less than two minutes, is broken up into different segments for each of the album's subtitles: “Kids on Drugs,” “King Overdose,” and “Kill Our Demons.”
The trailer is narrated by a low-pitched voice that sounds a lot like Cole’s alter ego kiLL edward. Distorted, trippy clips are displayed throughout the project, as the narrator explains the significance and meaning of each title.
“Kids on Drugs”: “If I turn on the TV right now, it’s not going to take long for there to be an advertisement to pop up that says, ‘Are you feeling down? Have you been having lonely thoughts?’ And then they shove a pill in your face. The first response of any problems is medicate.”
“King Overdose”: “That’s representing me and the times I was—and am—afflicted by the same methods of escape […].”
“Kill Our Demons”: “That’s the end goal, to face our shit, realize we have some shit going on inside—everybody. I realized everybody family is fucked up [...] because nobody is fucking perfect. Whether you want to or not, you’re going to fuck up your kids in some type of way, because you got fucked up in some type of way […] Kill Our Demons is like, finding that shit, whether it be from traumatic childhood experiences, whether it be from a lack of attention, confidence issues, insecurities—whatever it is, we gotta be honest with ourselves. Look in the mirror or look inside and ask ourselves questions, like […] ‘What’s causing me to run to this thing as an escape?’”
You can check out the trailer below. KOD is set to drop at midnight Friday.
