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Riff: J. Cole – “KOD”

Apr 25, 2018

Bitches been askin’, “What have you done lately?”/I stacked a few M’s like my last name was Shady/My life is too crazy, no actor could play me/My life is too crazy, no actor could play me

from KOD lyrics by J. Cole

J. Cole draws heavily from Kendrick Lamar, but flips it with a narrative unique to his upbringing. In the first verse, he’s pushing back on the masses who can’t help but assault him with dumb questions; ones he’s not particularly interested in answering. In the follow-up verse, he hits the eardrum with a little bit of background on where he’s from, and how love has been a guiding force in his life.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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