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Kendrick Lamar: GNX review – amply backed-up grandstanding
Fresh from his feud with Drake, the US hip-hop star’s latest album finds him on imperious form
Lamar ropes in just three famous pals – SZA, Kamasi Washington and, notably, ubiquitous pop producer Jack Antonoff – preferring to showcase new guest rappers on a 12-track bout of amply backed-up grandstanding. While some bewailed this year’s major Drake beef as undignified, most agree that Lamar won, earning assorted Grammy nominations for his track Not Like Us. GNX ’s pop bent and self-assurance recalls 2017’s 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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