Kendrick Lamar is following up the large success of “Not Like Us” with a brand new album. The rapper surprise-released his sixth studio album, GNX, that includes 12 new songs, on Friday, Nov. 22.
GNX follows the discharge of his Lamar’s last album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers in 2022, which served as his comeback album after releasing DAMN. in 2017.
The album opens with “Wacced Out Murals,” which options the Spanish vocals of mariachi singer Deyra Barrera, and hears Ok. Dot rapping scathing lyrics about his detractors. Barrera’s vocals return on monitor “Reincarnated,” and album nearer “Gloria.”
“Luther” hears Lamar stretching his singing chops earlier than being joined by SZA on the music co-written with INK. SZA can be featured on the closing monitor “Gloria.” Jack Antonoff, Mustard, Sounwave, and Kamasi Washington are credited as producers all through the album.
Among the many different tracks on the LP are “Dodger Blue,” Peekaboo,” and “TV Off.” One other notable monitor is “Coronary heart Pt. 6,” the newest installment in Lamar’s long-running “The Coronary heart” collection, which was launched all the best way again in 2010. Subsequent installments have been launched as unfastened singles, or appeared on releases like Lamar’s mixtape Overly Devoted or Mr. Morale & the Huge Steppers.
The album comes a number of months earlier than he’s set to headline the Tremendous Bowl Halftime present in 2025. It additionally arrives after “Not Like Us,” his Drake diss monitor, which earned the rapper five Grammy nominations, together with Track and Document of the Yr.
“Not like us? Not like us is the vitality of who I’m, the kind of man I symbolize,” Lamar advised Harper’s Bazaar. This man has morals, he has values, he believes in one thing, he stands on one thing. He’s not pandering. He’s a person who can acknowledge his errors and never be afraid to share the errors and may dig deep down into fear-based ideologies or experiences to have the ability to categorical them with out feeling like he’s much less of a person.”
GNX monitor record
1. Wacced Out Murals
2. Squabble Up
3. Luther
4. Man on the Backyard
5. Hey Now
6. Reincarnater
7. TV Off
8. Dodger Blue
9. Peekaboo
10. Coronary heart Pt. 6
11. GNX
12. Gloria
From Rolling Stone US.
