Kendrick Lamar drops surprise album, GNX | Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar has launched a shock album known as GNX.

The Pulitzer prize-winning rapper teased the discharge with a one-minute video earlier than the 12-track album was then launched.

Lamar’s sixth studio album options a number of appearances from SZA in addition to Kamasi Washington and a producer credit score for Jack Antonoff on all however one track. Earlier this week, DJ Snake had claimed that Taylor Swift would seem on the album as properly.

It caps off a banner 12 months that noticed the rapper launch quite a few songs attacking Drake, hits that led to him nabbing seven Grammy nominations. He achieved main chart hits with Not Like Us and Like That.

The brand new album doesn’t characteristic any of the songs from earlier this 12 months however does include the observe Coronary heart Pt 6, after Drake launched The Coronary heart Half 6 in Might, a diss observe aimed toward Lamar’s ongoing track collection.

“I don’t imagine I’m an indignant individual,” Lamar mentioned earlier this 12 months in an interview. “However I do imagine in love and battle, and I imagine they each have to exist. And my consciousness of that permits me to react to issues however not determine with them as who I’m. Simply permitting them to exist and permitting them to stream by means of me. That’s what I imagine.”

Lamar can also be set to be the half-time performer at subsequent 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl. It’s a headline gig that’s referenced on Wacced Out Murals, a track on the brand new album. He raps that Nas had been the “just one” who congratulated him and that his “laborious work let Lil’ Wayne down”.

“Rap music continues to be essentially the most impactful style so far,” Lamar mentioned in a press release on the time. “And I’ll be there to remind the world why. They received the fitting one.”

His final album, 2022’s Mr Morale & the Huge Steppers, was named finest rap album on the Grammys. He additionally turned the primary non-classical or jazz artist to win the Pulitzer prize for music for his 2017 album Rattling.