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Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Is a Meticulous, Versatile, Hard-Hitting Masterpiece: Album Review
Kendrick Lamar's surprise-released 'GNX,' is a hard-hitting, deeply coded masterpiece that cements his status as the world's greatest rapper.
Combining vicious sincerity, kaleidoscopic California sounds, and the athleticism of a decathlete, “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. The latter part surfaces on the intro “Wacced Out Murals,” wherein Lamar unloads flurries of righteous indignation at both Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, and, seemingly, a certain Toronto rapper who allegedly paid for illicit Kendrick information. 6” is a reminisce about his early career with his former label, Top Dawg Entertainment, that explains their amicable separation so Lamar could “evolve [and] place my skillset as a Black exec.” It ends with a moral: “To all my young n—as, let me be the demonstration/ How to conduct differences with a healthy conversation… Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost/ Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart.”
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