Kendrick Lamar drops shock new album,
CHICAGO (CBS) — Rapper Kendrick Lamar shocked followers with a brand new album launch on Friday.
The 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist’s new album options 12 songs and dropped simply months earlier than he’s set to headline Super Bowl LIX in February.
The YouTube video launch of the music “GNX” was considered over 500,000 occasions in two hours. The music and album title would seem to reference the Buick Grand Nationwide GNX, which is featured on the promotional artwork.
The Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX will takes place on the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. It would mark a return for Lamar, the artist who made waves this yr together with his hit “Not Like Us,” stemming from a widely-publicized musical feud with fellow hip-hop star Drake. “Not Like Us” is nominated for this year’s Grammy Awards for file of the yr and music of the yr.
However the upcoming halftime festivities are Lamar’s first as a headliner after he carried out on the 2022 Tremendous Bowl throughout an ensemble act that additionally featured the likes of Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent.
Lamar’s most up-to-date album, “Mr. Morale & The Massive Steppers,” was launched in 2022. Along with “Not Like Us,” the rapper was featured this yr on the chart-topper “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin. He paid homage to his style in a press release launched when the headliner information dropped Sunday.
Kendrick Lamar final headlined Chicago’s Lollapalooza in 2023.
