debuted atop Billboard 200 chart with 603,000 equivalent album units sold. That Sunday night, Lamar closed the first weekend of Coachella with an acclaimed performance of new tracks from DAMN., as well as fan favorites from To Pimp a Butterfly, and good kid, m.A.A.d city. This theory received heavy press, ranging from hopefulness to ridicule in traditional and social media. on Good Friday, K.Dot would drop a second album on Ap(Easter Sunday) entitled NATION. The theory alleged that after the release of DAMN. and “Heart Part 4”) were spun by fans on Reddit into an elaborate conspiracy theory. When TDE contributor Sounwave cautioned fans that the leaked album was not the official cut, this along with other evidence (including lyrics from DAMN. The album leaked hours before the official with slight differences in the album. On Apthe tracklist and album cover was revealed through Kendrick’s Twitter account. was released, titled “HUMBLE.” A week later, the title and the number of tracks was revealed on the iTunes pre-order. On March 30, 2017, the first single from DAMN.
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I think he was trying to get back to K-Dot, get back to his roots, sag his pants, really roll through the hood for this album. He’s been Kendrick Lamar for a while, and Kendrick Lamar is the good kid, he’s the more introspective kid. He also spoke about how the project will contain somewhere around 12 tracks, and feature a more “commercial sound”, as opposed to Kendrick’s last two projects-To Pimp A Butterfly and untitled unmastered.-which feature a jazz-influenced sound.īlack Hippy member, Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate and close friend with Lamar, Ab-Soul discussed Lamar’s purpose on DAMN. A Mike WiLL/Kendrick Lamar collaboration was reinforced when a HipHopDX staff member stated that a song titled “DNA” produced by Mike WiLL Made-It will appear on the album. On February 27, 2016, Mike WiLL Made-It teased on Instagram that he was in the studio with Kendrick Lamar. In between the albums, Kendrick released the 8 track EP untitled unmastered. This album is Kendrick’s first since 2015’s To Pimp A Butterfly. However, when the Pre-Order was released, it was announced that it would be a Good Friday, April 14th release. Y’all got ‘til April the 7th to get y’all shit together Lamar also performed “ untitled 02” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and performed another untitled song from the album on The Colbert Report as the show’s final musical guest. “But I think probably close to 10 songs that I’m in love with that I’ll still play and still perform that didn’t make the cut.” “I got a chamber of material from the album that I was in love where sample clearances or something as simple as a deadline kept it off the album,” Lamar said in an interview with that was continued on 2 Dope Boyz.
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He said that it came from one of the tracks that did not make To Pimp a Butterfly. Lamar performed an untitled track during the Grammys. The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) Earlier in the week, Tiffith had teased that a new Lamar album would be coming out in 2016 in an Instagram post, which showed a photo of a whiteboard with the words “KDot ? (GET TOP ON THE PHONE)” on it, along with other upcoming TDE releases. thank for this… #TDE.” Tiffith thanked LeBron James for coaxing the album’s release after James had tweeted at him to release the music following Lamar’s Grammy performance. By Thursday evening, Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith confirmed that the album would be released later that night, and he made good on the promise when he shared a tweet, saying, “Go get it,” with a link to the album.Įarly on Thursday evening, Tiffith wrote on Instagram, “Yeah muthafuckers KING KENDRICK returns 2night. Each of the eight album tracks are listed as untitled with the addition of dates that span 2013 to 2016. On Thursday, speculation of a new Kendrick Lamar project surfaced after an album titled untitled unmastered. was posted on Lamar’s Spotify page.