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The New York Times noted that for a film wracked by substance abuse and self-medication, “it never does condemn heroin abuse.” Renton picks the habit up when he gets bored of walking the straight and narrow, and conveniently kicks it whenever addiction becomes an organizing force of its own.

I thought of Trainspotting when I saw the artwork to J. Cole’s new album, KOD. It’s a striking illustration of the rapper as a hollow-eyed king in a woolly cape concealing children smoking weed, popping pills, sniffing coke, and sipping lean. The cover is both profoundly haunted and entirely too heavy-handed, like an ace piece of D.A.R.E. or M.A.D.D. advertising. You can imagine Nancy Reagan hanging it on a White House wall in the mid-’80s and solemnly gesturing to it in a televised public-service announcement advising kids to “Just Say No” to drugs. Above the rapper’s head is a disclaimer: “This album is in no way intended to glorify addiction.” What strange times these are, that someone who has just created a painstakingly considerate album about the pitfalls of half a dozen different kinds of addictive and compulsive behaviors should feel the urge to inform you on the front cover that he thinks drugs are bad! Trainspotting didn’t give a shit whether you thought it was a criticism or a celebration of IV drug use. But Trainspotting didn’t live in a world practically defined by mixed messaging and deliberate subterfuge.

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