J Cole: KOD review – a brilliantly brooding antidote to hip-hop excess

With only an alter-ego for company, J Cole casts himself as rap’s moral compass with this masterfully pared-back fifth albumWhen J Cole announced the imminent arrival of KOD earlier this week, some of excitement was caused by the tracklisting: not the titles themselves so much as the fact that two of them seemed to feature a guest appearance, albeit from a hitherto-unknown artist called kiLL edward. The one thing everyone knows about J Cole is that his albums almost never feature special ...

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