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- Summary: The surprise release from rapper Kendrick Lamar features contributions from such artists as Jack Antonoff, Mustard, SZA, and Kamasi Washington.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Rap
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Nov 25, 2024An easy contender for the rap album of 2024.
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Nov 25, 2024“GNX” is Kendrick Lamar at his most compelling — a mosaic that indisputably reaffirms his status as the most dynamic spitter the world has to offer.
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The WireJan 3, 2025GNX plays like a extended victory lap. None of the year’s singles are included, references to the beef are scattershot and subliminal but its embers suffuse every preening boast and putdown. There’s no need for big conceptual flourishes of previous albums. This time around Kendrick is the concept, his creative intensity manifested as weaponised normality. .... From thereon [“Wacced Out Murals”] it’s a rap masterclass. [Jan/Feb 2025, p.86]
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Nov 24, 2024While GNX is an excellent listen, it feels like a warm-up for the reinvigorated Compton rapper’s next classic trilogy. But now that Kendrick’s off the sidelines and back on the field, expect his next album to once again change the game.
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Dec 16, 2024On GNX, the emcee sounds like he’s having a lot of fun even when he’s pontificating.
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Dec 2, 2024GNX’s pop bent and self-assurance recalls 2017’s Damn more than his jazz magnum opus To Pimp a Butterfly (2015), but the album’s mariachi-singer interludes and the nostalgic exegesis of Heart Pt 6 add up to another unmissable Lamar outing.
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Nov 25, 2024Coming on the heels of the beef, though, the regionality of the album seems more like an elaborate gotcha to Drake rather than a musical pivot sparked out of passion. That missing spirit is in the production, too clean and synthetic.