New music Friday kicks off with a shock new album from Kendrick Lamar. The Compton rapper drops the 12-track undertaking GNX, an ode to his favourite Buick.
Kendrick Lamar Dedicates GNX Album to His Beloved Traditional Automotive
On Friday (Nov. 22), Kendrick Lamar unleashed a dozen new songs on his GNX album. That is his first full-length launch since 2022’s Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers. GNX arrives eight months after Kendrick’s epic rap battle with Drake, which hit a fever pitch again in spring.
Earlier than phrase received across the web on Friday afternoon that Okay-Dot dropped a brand new LP, he launched the track titled “GNX” together with an accompanying video. The observe finds Kenny kicking rhymes over a hovering beat straight out of an orchestra. “Solely factor higher proper now’s dwelling proper now once I cannot spare no emotions/Quiet on set however my aura loud, I by no means get by way of hood sh*t and knowledge,” he raps. The album itself incorporates a track of the identical identify, however would not sound the identical with an fully totally different beat and material.
GNX is an homage to Kendrick’s basic Buick GNX. This previous March, the West Coast MC made a cryptic put up on his Finsta account about his beloved automotive. In a second of confusion, Kendrick mentioned “the most effective factor you are able to do is discover a gnx.”
“Aye life get actual tough,” Kendrick wrote within the caption. “Irrespective of the place you at with it. i by no means choose and select what tales to narrate to. all of them is relative. like my momma say tho. totally different strokes for various of us. an excellent ol saying can snap you again into actuality generally. however within the second of confusion, the most effective factor you are able to do is discover a gnx. make you notice the one factor that issues in life is that authentic paper work. that TL2 code. 1 of 547. yea i lastly modified. its over with. dhz. my massive cousin pat dogg smiling down. anyone wanna line it up. i’ll pull heem off the ground and flip yo s**t.”
The album consists of loads of standout moments from addressing the Lil Wayne Tremendous Bowl halftime present controversy on the opener “Wacced Out Morals” to flipping Tupac Shakur’s “Made Ni**az” on “Reincarnated.” Options from singer SZA and West Coast rapper Dody6 additionally seem on the trouble.
GNX arrives three months earlier than Kendrick will carry his massive steppin’ to the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime present in New Orleans in February. That is the identical month he’ll doubtless attend the Grammys since he is nominated for seven awards, together with “Not Like Us,” which is up for 5 nods.
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