'GNX' is Kendrick's 6th Studio Album.
It has been astir 13 years since a 24 twelvemonth aged Compton autochthonal dropped his archetypal album, Section.80 and turned the full communicative of the Hip-Hop genre connected its head. Now, respective workplace albums, Grammy awards, a Pulitzer prize for euphony and controversies later, Kendrick Lamar has conscionable released his latest medium ‘GNX’.
K.Dot’s past medium was ‘Mr.Morale and the Big Steppers’, which was released successful 2022. The medium received captious acclaim and had sold much than a cardinal medium equivalent units by the extremity of the merchandise year. This fig did not see axenic medium sales, audio oregon video connected request sales.
GNX came arsenic a astonishment arsenic nary indications were made anterior to its release. It comes up of his headlining show astatine the Super Bowl halftime amusement successful February. Most fans, critics and colleagues of the 17-time Grammy grant victor were taken aback astatine a afloat medium merchandise arsenic Kendrick had his hands afloat with his long-running feud with chap rapper Drake. The altercation betwixt the Compton virtuoso and the Canadian illustration topper lasted implicit 9 antithetic tracks with some going astatine each other’s pharynx for respective months. Due to the fig of songs that Lamar released during this period, astir believed that an medium is precise overmuch successful the future.
GNX has 12 tracks featuring respective artists similar SZA, Dody6, Roddy Ricch and galore more. The track-list is rather divers with a plethora of antithetic sounds and themes. It astir feels similar a tribute to that classical California Sound. Songs similar ‘Peekaboo’, ‘Dodger Blue’ and ‘Squabble Up’ are each conflict cries aimed astatine whoever is eyeing the throne.
The medium features galore innovative producers specified arsenic Mustard, Jack Antonoff and Soundwave. Old schoolhouse synth, soulful backing vocals, soothing but assertive drum patters paired with the astonishment Mariachi dependable of Deyra Barrera makes this 44 infinitesimal gem of an medium astir a re-discovery of who Kendrick is arsenic an artist, portion it maintains his everlasting lasting arsenic 1 of the top to ever bash it.
Fans are already picking up hints successful the medium astir different task which Kendrick mightiness driblet soon. J.Cole besides admitted that him and Kendrick person unreleased projects, which further fuelled the rumour mill.