Hits Daily Double delivered first-week projections for Kendrick Lamar’s sixth studio LP, GNX. According to the publication, the surprise drop is forecasted to earn 291,000 album-equivalent units, which would safely secure a No.

Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' Set for No. 1 Behind 290K+ First Week | The first-week numbers for Kendrick Lamar's GNX are available for preview.

A s of early last week, Los Angeles rapper Kendrick Lamar had already had a productive year and a lot of momentum going into 2025. In March, he appeared on a single, “Like That,

Kendrick Lamar is looking to open at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 with GNX.

GNX” is easily the most disciplined and direct music Kendrick Lamar has ever made, and if you really let yourself feel it, it might also be his most profound.

After a war of words with Drake that yielded one of the biggest hits of Lamar’s career, the Los Angeles rapper is eager to shift back on his sixth album.

Kendrick Lamar starts his exhilarating new album by complaining that someone vandalized a mural depicting his face — a mural depicting his face in triplicate, in fact — on the side of a Honduran restaurant in his Compton hometown.

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 before the full release Lamar posted a teaser video for the album's title track.

With his surprise-dropped “GNX,” Kendrick Lamar roars from zero to 60 faster than a turbocharged ’87 Buick, faster than you can shout “Mustaaaaard.” And waaaaay faster than you can decode the dense biblical centerpiece “Reincarnated.”