GNX

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If there were any remaining doubts as to hip-hop’s MVP, consider the decision stamped: Kendrick Lamar officially won 2024. There were whispers that Compton’s finest was working on an album in the wake of his feud with Drake, a once-in-a-generation beef that kept jaws dropped for month. (Perhaps you’ve heard of a little song called “Not Like U,” an immediate entry into the canon of all-time great diss track.) After a sold-out celebration at the Kia Forum, an armful of Grammy nods and streaming record, and the headlining slot at next year’s Super Bowl, Lamar ties up his biggest year yet with a bow with his sixth album, <i>GNX</i>, the most legitimately surprising surprise drop since <i>BEYONCÉ</i> in 2013. Named for his beloved classic Buick, <i>GNX</i> finds Kendrick wielding a hatchet he’s by no means ready to bury, still channeling this summer’s cranked-to-11 energy. On “wacced out mural,” he’s riding around listening to Anita Baker, plotting on several downfalls: “It used to be fuck that n***a, but now it’s plural/Fuck everybody, that’s on my body.” (Ye, there’s a nod to his Super Bowl drama with Lil Wayne.) If you’ve been holding your breath for Jack Antonoff to link with Mustard, wait no more—the seemingly odd couple share production credits on multiple track, the explosive “tv off” among them. .

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