Lamar

One of the standout tracks on Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers now has a video. On Saturday, K-Dot unveiled the visual for “N95,” co-directed by himself and Dave Free. The video sees K-Dot—and at a few different points, Baby Keem—float through various scenes in both black-and-white and color as he sits by a payphone, workout on a roof, and stand on water. The clip starts off with the words “THIS SHIT HARD” plastered over a view of a beach, where a young boy watches Lamar stand on top of water, dressed in…

Kendrick Lamar’s new album “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” is both a return to form and the end of an era. The LP, Lamar’s fifth studio album, is his first new record after winning a Pulitzer Prize for 2017’s “Damn.” (though he gave nearly an album’s worth of work to the “Black Panther” soundtrack). It comes four months after Lamar performed at the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood alongside his mentor Dr. Dre in a Compton-themed set. But it’s also the 14-time Grammy winner’s final album with Top Dawg…

Kendrick Lamar spends much of his new 18-song double album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” wrestling with big issues: identity, spirituality, monogamy, mortality.But no single track has sparked more online conversation than “Auntie Diaries,” on which Lamar explores his evolving relationship with his trans relatives.The song is a vivid, exceptionally provocative look into the mind of a younger Lamar forming a concept of transness amid a working-class Compton culture not often inclined to embrace it. But true to form,…

20. Wesley’s Theory (2015)A crash course in To Pimp a Butterfly’s expansive sound – Thundercat’s bass ricochets around, George Clinton is on hand to bolster the P-funk-like chorus – and its lyrical viewpoint. It starts out like the standard bling-dripping, screw-you rapper’s victory lap, but suddenly flips into a troubled disquisition on materialism as a form of control.19. Poetic Justice (2012)Lamar has had a fractious relationship with Drake over the years – there are umpteen articles online picking apart their apparent…

As Kendrick Lamar notes on Mr Morale & the Big Steppers’ opening track, it’s been 1,855 days since he last released an album. By his own account, the intervening five years have been something of a rollercoaster ride. He and his partner started a family (his children are on the album’s front cover), he made an acclaimed acting debut, performed at the first ever Super Bowl half-time show centred around hip-hop, and watched as the praise for his work shifted into an unprecedented realm. He won the Pulitzer prize for…

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