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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the successful release of GNX, some of Kendrick Lamar‘s opps are probably flipping through the How to Be More Like Kendrick for Dummies book he holds in the “Squabble Up” video.

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 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 ...

On Friday, Kendrick Lamar dropped a surprise (and Taylor Swift-free) new album, GNX. By Saturday, a meme was born. On “TV Off,” featuring Lefty Gunplay, Lamar yells “MUSTARD” — or as it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kendrick Lamar has been eating his Wheaties. Not only have the e-streets decided that 2024 is the year of Kendrick Lamar; apparently Kendrick has accepted the mantle and been on our necks since March.

Check out this track-by-track review of Kendrick Lamar’s latest. Kendrick Lamar has never been just a rapper—he’s a storyteller, a critic, and a cultural architect. With his latest album ...