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Kendrick Lamars big year isnt over yet.
The rapper just dropped his sixth album,GNX, with no warning.
Lets break it all down.
What doesGNXmean?
Nicknamed Darth Vaders car, the GNX was all black and faster than a regular Grand National.
We already know K.Dot loves his wheels he just recently flaunted a Ferrari in the Not Like Us video.
He also shows off that GNX in the minute-long teaser he dropped just before the album came out.
Wait, wheres Broccoli?
Call it by its real name, squabble up.
Whats Jack Antonoff doing here?
What hes usually doing: producing.
Fresh off Taylor SwiftsThe Tortured Poets Departmentand Sabrina CarpentersShort n Sweet, Antonoff executive-produced all ofGNX.
But its less of a random pairing than youd think.
(Dew, a singer from Chicago, is all overGNXtoo as a songwriter and singer.)
Sounwave, Antonoff, and Swift reunited forMidnights, on the songs Lavender Haze, Karma, and Glitch.
So does that mean Taylor Swift is on the album?
Sorry, but no.
DJ Snake started that rumor a few days ago whenhe saidSwift had recorded a song for Lamars upcoming album.
But whenGNXarrived, Swift was nowhere to be heard.
Maybe well see Lamar on Swifts new album instead?
Who elseisfeatured, then?
Lets run through some of the bigger guests.
Deyra BarreraThe first voice we hear on the album is the Los Angeles mariachi singer.
More recently, she sang at Dodger Stadium for the first game of the World Series.
Maybe Kendrick was watching?
DahiLamars collaborator since Money Trees shows up again as a producer on wacced out murals.
She also voices Lamars pen on gloria, a la We Cry Together.
Kamasi WashingtonThe jazz saxophonist who previously played on u. gets producer credits on luther and tv off.
Lamar also references him on another song, squabble up: Keep a horn on me, that Kamasi.
(A saxophone may not technically be a horn, but well let it slide.)
Dody6The Compton rapper gets a guest verse on hey man just months aftercoming homefrom prison.
MustardIn case you missed Lamar shouting his name on tv off, yeah, Mustards on that beat.
(So is Sean Momberger, who produced Not Like Us.)
The hip-hop giant also worked on hey now.
Evan Smith and Zem AuduAntonoffs Bleachers bandmates play sax on tv off.
Roddy RicchLamars fellow Compton rapper makes an appearance on, of course, dodger blue.
AzChikeAnother L.A. rapper, AzChike contributes a verse to peekaboo.
Earlier this year, he dropped a verse on Kendricks friend ScHoolboy Qs album Blue Lips.
Who put the West back in front of shit?
he asks in the hook.
Tell em Kendrick did it.
Lamar previously appeared on the remix to Hittas first single,Do Yo Gudda,back in 2014.
So does Kendrick fire off more Drake disses?
It used to be fuck that n- - -a, but now its plural, he raps.
Fuck everybody, thats on my body.
On man in the garden, he surveys everything hes earned, repeating, I deserve it all.
He ends the song asking, Tell me why you deserve the greatest of all time, motherfucker?
But wait, what about Lil Wayne?
)Wayne later responded, saying he felt like shit for not getting it.
Maybe he got some more texts today.
He still made a song called heart pt.
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Lamar reclaimed his Heart series after Drake previously called his last diss track The Heart Part 6.
But Lamars heart pt.
Lamar also remembers freestyling in Dave Frees champagne Acura, before Free would later found pgLang with Lamar.
By the end of the song, Lamar is rapping about what led him to leave TDE.
Who is Lamar rapping about on reincarnated?
On the centerpiece toGNX, Lamar gives a bit of a history lesson.
So can you promise that you wont take your gifts for granted?
I promise that Ill use my gifts to bring understanding.
