Kendrick Lamar Drops Surprise Album "GNX,"
STREAMED: Kendrick Lamar Drops Surprise Album “GNX,” Nicki Minaj Releases 10th Anniversary Edition Of “The Pinkprint,” & More
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Kendrick Lamar — GNX
Kendrick Lamar might be one of the year’s most talked-about rappers but he isn’t done. In the waking hours, the pgLang MC unleashed a new album, GNX.
The raps feel as current as ever, seemingly referencing recent headlines. “Yesterday, somebody wacced out my mural / That energy will make you move to Europe / But it’s regular for me, that for sure / The love and hate is definite, without a cure,” he raps on the opener “wacced out murals.” “I’ll kill them all before I let them kill my joy / I done been through it all, what you endure?”
The album also includes a song that was previously believed to be called “Broccoli.” It appeared as a snippet at the star of Kendrick’s “Not Like Us” video. It is now Track 2, titled “squabble up.”
Finally, Kendrick makes his intention purposeful here. “This is not for lyricists, I swear it’s not the sentiments / F—k a double entendre, I want y’all to feel this sh-t.”
Nicki Minaj — The Pinkprint
Ten years after releasing her album The Pinkprint, Nicki Minaj unveils the project’s tenth-anniversary edition. The new edition contains four unreleased songs, including the Juice WRLD-assisted “Arctic Tundra.”
“My VVS cold like a arctic tundra,” Juice raps on the song. “That .40 on me, you don’t want no problems / And you best proceed with some caution / This song for the girl with the blonde hair.” The original version of the song was reportedly titled “Girl With The Blonde Hair.”
Nicki, who boasts about her Barbie-blonde hair on the track, goes on from there. “I don’t need job applications for that pressure I apply / That is why they gotta lie, that is just how they get by,” she raps. “But my flow still gon’ be wavy and your flow still gon’ be dry.”
Years ago, Nicki spoke on what this album meant for her at the time. “I’ve gotten such great feedback that it’s only really inspired me to do more music,” she told Vogue back then. “I never connected with people on this level. I think Pinkprint opened me up to so many more people who probably didn’t understand me before. She continued: “It’s just such a real album that anyone who has ever gone through any kind of relationship issue can understand. And I think that the overall production is so much greater. Everything shows so much growth.”
Jack Harlow — Hello Miss Johnson
Jack Harlow says hello once again. This time around, the chart-topping rapper delivers a new song titled “Hello Miss Johnson.”
Harlow raps to a potential lover and her mother on the track, which is based on a phone call. “Tell her I said hello if you can / And also that I can’t wait to see her again / And also tell her call me when she get a chance / ‘cause I got so much to say, and I appreciate you, ma’am.”
Clay Harlow, Aksel Arvid, Angel “BabeTruth” Lopez, and Don Cannon produced the new track, which feels like the start of a new chapter. Last year, Harlow released Jackman. and the year before that, he dropped Come Home the Kids Miss You.
On “Hello Miss Johnson,” Harlow raps about wanting to have children. “I’m tryna make the population increase,” he raps on the song. And just before dropping it, he tweeted about a family as well.
“Was circling the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse the other night and I stopped my car at one of the back windows,” he wrote. “I looked into the restaurant and saw a family sitting in a booth laughing and enjoying their dinner…But suddenly I was overcome with emotion and felt almost as if I was looking at my ex wife out to eat with our kids and her new husband. Sat there for 30 seconds and then drove home.”
Tyla — “Tears”
Tyla lets the emotion flow with her newest acoustic single, “Tears.” It’s a heartfelt song about the overwhelming power of pain and consolation.
“When the mirror hurts your feelings, you believe in all its lies / When you’re broken, need some healing,” she sings. “And there’s storm clouds in your eyes / Give all your tears to me.”
As it continues, Tyla adds: “If you try, and you try, and nothing works / Baby, you don’t have to hurt / Give all your tears to me / And I’ll cry them for you.”
The global star spoke with Nylon about the song. “Honestly, it just happened,” she explained. “I was in the studio and we were working on a completely different song, and I was not feeling it, so I wanted to move on. We ended up moving on. [Songwriter Michael Pollack] started playing the guitar. It started building from there and became what it was.”
