J Cole KOD album cover Analysis 2-time Grammy winner 17-time Grammy nominee J Cole took to Twitter on April 19th,2018 the day before his KOD album dropped to help explain the meaning of KOD by saying,” KOD. 3 meanings of the word. / Kids on Drugs / King Overdosed / Kill Our Demons / The rest of the album I leave to your interpretation.”. J Cole KOD album dropped April 20th, 2018, and blew up worldwide winning multiple awards and was a platinum selling album with no features. KOD didn’t just capture his audience due to the songs on his album, it was the overall meaning of the album which was vividly depicted through his album cover. The KOD album cover uses powerful symbolism, combinations of warm and cold colors, and scale of the characters, the crown, and the jewels to help not only enhance the meaning of the album but allows the audience to interpret the album
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On the cover you can see J Cole himself on the album with a tilted crown on his head with white eyes. His white eye is supposed to give off the feeling as if he had overdosed. Under his robe you see little kids, which at the bottom are taking different drugs and at the top are skeletons. Through the cover he is symbolizing that the king aka the rapper is promoting and overdosing on drugs, and that kids covered by the robe are kids that idolizes rappers and want to be like them, also start taking drugs and leads them to death. Along with symbolism, the KOD album cover uses warm and cold colors to help bring life to the cover. When you look at the cover, the background is full of warm lucid colors blended which gives the cover a sort of hazy feel. The use of red, yellow, and purple gives the cover a dreamlike feel. The colors of the J Cole figure eyes are white which represents overdose and kid’s eyes have a hue of red which represents being high on
On the cover you can see J Cole himself on the album with a tilted crown on his head with white eyes. His white eye is supposed to give off the feeling as if he had overdosed. Under his robe you see little kids, which at the bottom are taking different drugs and at the top are skeletons. Through the cover he is symbolizing that the king aka the rapper is promoting and overdosing on drugs, and that kids covered by the robe are kids that idolizes rappers and want to be like them, also start taking drugs and leads them to death. Along with symbolism, the KOD album cover uses warm and cold colors to help bring life to the cover. When you look at the cover, the background is full of warm lucid colors blended which gives the cover a sort of hazy feel. The use of red, yellow, and purple gives the cover a dreamlike feel. The colors of the J Cole figure eyes are white which represents overdose and kid’s eyes have a hue of red which represents being high on