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With basically no warning, Kendrick Lamar released his new album, GNX, on Friday, and he caught everybody’s attention from the jump. On the album’s first song, “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by name, and each has responded to the name-checks, as Stereogum notes. First, Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III, […]
Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, took fans on a journey through intense personal growth. With his final project on TDE and Aftermath, he closed an important chapter and could have then stepped away from rapping to focus on his company pgLang. Thanks to a beef with Drake, however, Kendrick has […]
Elsewhere, Lamar has soundtracked a Chanel short film, played a Pop Out concert in Inglewood, California, and kept his and Dave Free’s pgLang enterprise ticking along, dropping a bespoke phone last year. He also reunited with Baby Keem for “The Hillbillies,” in late 2023, and adopted the title to headline Camp Flog Gnaw. Released in […]