Rapper Kendrick Lamar released his latest project, a 12-track album titled "GNX" on Friday. It's his first full-length studio album since 2022, and it came as a complete surprise. Just minutes ...

Kendrick Lamar is ... GNX follows the release 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.

With no warning—and because he can—Kendrick Lamar dropped his new album GNX on Friday afternoon. The record takes its name after the 1987 Buick featured on the album’s cover, the same year ...

By Jon Caramanica Every so often, Kendrick Lamar steps into the present. The rapper, 37, is so mindful of hip-hop history, his role in it and the internal logic of the genre that it often seems ...

Everyone suspected a new Kendrick ... “GNX,” Lamar’s followup to 2022’s ruminative “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.” “GNX” finds him back in the lane of 2017’s “DAMN.” ...

It’s appropriate that Kendrick Lamar named his new album after the 1987 ... toward something less solipsistic. He got close on DAMN. in 2017, earning himself a Pulitzer Prize in the process ...

Kendrick Lamar has dropped the music video for “Squabble Up,” a cut included on his surprise-released album “GNX” that arrived on Friday morning. Directed by Calmatic, the video is the ...

Kendrick Lamar putting his hometown on display in his videos isn’t exactly new, but he’s never before done it the way he does in his video for “Squabble Up.” The song, which interpolates ...

Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mission: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of ...

Kendrick Lamar has been responsible for this kind of stop-the-world moment before. This year, he did it over and over again. About 13 months ago, J. Cole invoked the idea of a “Big Three” on a ...

If they’re not like “us,” SZA asked Kendrick Lamar in a recent Harper’s Bazaar interview, then who is “us”? Kendrick’s response: a man who “has morals, he has values, he believes in something … He’s a ...

Kendrick Lamar dropped a surprise album, GNX, out of nowhere on Friday, and we’ve already got a fantastic meme from one of the new album’s best songs. Lamar’s “tv off” is one of two ...