Cease no matter you’re doing. Kendrick simply dropped. After in all probability the largest 12 months of his profession, Kendrick Lamar has instantly, out of nowhere, shared a brand new shock album known as GNX. It’s out, proper now. The entire thing.
Kendrick launched GNX with a brief teaser video that hit the web simply earlier than the album. The file has 12 tracks, and none of them had been beforehand launched. (The “Not Like Us” video had a snippet of “squabble up.” That tune samples Debbie Deb’s freestyle basic “After I Hear Music,” and it goes onerous.) A type of songs is named “coronary heart pt. 6,” so Kendrick wasn’t going to let Drake hijack that collection.
The album’s friends aren’t listed but however there are positively some on there. SZA and Sam Dew, for example, appear to seem on “luther,” whereas Kendrick trades bars with LA shit-talker AzChike on “hey now.” If Taylor Swift is certainly on right here, I haven’t heard her but. A number of producers are listed on each monitor, and Jack Antonoff and Sounwave appear to be credited on nearly all of them. The opposite credited producers are Mustard, Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, Dahi, M-Tech, Noah Ehler, Craig Balmoris, Tyler Mehlenbacher, Bridgeway, Rose Lilah, Sean Momberger, Tim Maxey, Tane Runo, Juju, Rascal, Kenny & Billy, Deats, and Kendrick himself.
There’s a lot to course of right here. I’m listening in a daze, and Kendrick has positively gotten into Lil Wayne’s objections over this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl. On many of those tracks, Kendrick is totally going off, and he’s doing it in comparatively simple style. I’m just a few songs in, and I already know I’m listening to a basic. Stream it proper now, under.
GNX is out now on pgLang.