J. Cole fans were right to be excited. After performing a surprise concert on Monday (April 16), the Dreamville founder upped the ante by announcing he’s dropping a new album titled KOD on Friday (April 20).
“New album. KOD 4/20,” he tweeted.
Rap Radar’s Brian “B.Dot” Miller, who was at the show, reports the album was recorded in just two weeks. The title, KOD, has three different meanings: Kidz On Drugz, King Overdose and Kill Our Demonz.
No phones were allowed at the concert but that didn’t stop snippets of the album from leaking. Listen to a brief clip below.
This will be Cole’s first full project since 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only, although he’s kept busy working with artists on Dreamville and directing a recent Royce Da 5’9 video.
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Tech N9ne already put out an album called KOD (King of Darkness). Watch, later tonight Kendrick will announce his next album will be called “Streat Dreams”.
I know this is true. I remember when J Cole took Friday Night Lights from Jesse Is Heavyweight and everyone said Jesse was hating on twitter. U have to search for the original stuff nowadays. By the time u hear about something a dozen underground rappers already did it. Smh.
No features? …k I’ll find my way out
You guys should check out jimmy his soundcloud is “imjimmy” or IG is “imthejimmyy”. Pretty easy to find i reckon his net up
ill be the first to say it bruh! haha his gonna break
I see these White boys are taking my screen name
Kind of disrespectful to Tech 9, but whatever.
Kind Of Disrespectful – K.O.D …lol
Quick put it out!, before Drake drops Scorpion lol
It also has a 4th meaning where the O stands for Overrated
Smh! In two weeks., His last album was meeeh. He should have named it I Let Nas Down
recorded in two weeks, doesnt mean written and produced in that time oo
hot take – if this flops all the whites and black dick riders will hop off
KING OF DREAMVILLE
Who cares if he copied Tech N9ne with the title or not? There’s also an English band called K.O.D (Kitchens Of Distinction) who emerged in the 80s, and also a book by Robert Jordan called “Knife Of Dreams” which was released in 2005, four years before Tech’s album came out. Did Tech copy them too? As long as J Cole’s K.O.D doesn’t also mean “King Of Darkness”, then it’s fine.
J Cole a Culture vulture. All these mainstream rappers be stealing from the underground
I see you don’t have a real counter argument to my comment and have to resort to calling J Cole a “culture vulture”. C’mon, you’re better than that.
There is a brand called schemin. A trillion songs have the word schemin in a track.
This Culture Vulture stole an album title in the same music genre.
You Culture Vultures support each other so I won’t expect any common sense from your end.
Are you stupid? Im not talking about words, im talking about titles and names. Ooh, you’re so cool because you listen to underground only. Foh! So if J Cole’s a “culture vulture” for taking Tech N9ne’s title, then Tech is also a “culture vulture” for taking K.O.D from an English group and a novel title. And he also took his stage name from a fucking gun. It works all around, buddy. Like Nas said “No idea’s original” so get over yourself.
Bye Culture Vulture
Nobody listens to tech nine anyway! Never even heard of the album before! The best song he ever made was “Questions” and that was back in the 90’s!
Biggest Indy rapper of all time. Cole only relevant because he’s Jay’z guy
He’s had one Jay Z feature, which did very little for his catalog, and one, maybe two pictures with Jay Z. Cole stands on his own two for the most part, with his best records being rejected by the label early on.
And yet, jay aint on his records for 3 years straight. Sit diwn bowy.
So what??? You new rap fans are too dumb. Do you even know KRS had blueprint before jay z did his blueprint series. Not the first won’t be the last.
Jay and Cole both Culture Vultures
No coincidence same label
?. Yes suh!!
FUCK COLE. Tech Nina is the only KOD in this bitch. Fuck who don’t like it
Well of course Tech is the only King Of Darkness. Who else wants that title? Let J Cole be his own K.O.D which I’m guessing might be King Of Dreamville.
“Standout tracks were the intro and the last song…” Um, that doesn’t sound too promising. However, you can’t judge off of a tweet from Bdot. It’s too common that artists like Kendrick, Drake, and J Cole don’t give 100% their all in recent albums. Not saying their albums were subpar (not even close), but they haven’t followed up their greatest albums with another with extreme quality. We know they can, but perhaps they’re extending their shelf life by putting out a few mediocre-esque albums here and there but then come back with a classic years later…The only artist at their level who doesn’t do this; Big KRIT. That dude gets better and better with each project and at least keeps the same consistency all the way through.
All the Tech N9ne stans are hilarious on here. Getting emotional over an album title.
Another Culture Vulture ducking the truth
What truth? That you’re emotional over an album title? I read your other comments on here and you’ve said nothing but culture vulture, culture vulture, culture vulture in all your comments. Is that all you got? Go sit down somewhere.
Cole is wack as fuck. Most overrated in the Game.
Then get off this thread. You sound hurt.
Okay, naming your album “Ready to Die” would be an obvious bite, so that’s kind of a lame comparison. K.O.D is an acronym and could mean anything. It could mean King Of Darkness, King Of Dreamville, Kale Over Doughnuts, anything. So no, J Cole doesn’t have to “research album titles” before choosing one. God, y’all got your panties in a bunch over an album title. Who knew the biggest independent rapper would have such crybabies as fans? I’m sure Tech respects J Cole, so you should do the same.
Culture vulture get off Kendrick’s d#@*