With “GNX”, Kendrick Lamar goes to war – Libération

With “GNX”, Kendrick Lamar goes to war – Libération
With “GNX”, Kendrick Lamar goes to war – Libération

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Marked by the highly publicized clash with Drake, the Californian rapper's sixth album, released without warning on Friday, November 22, turns out to be more coherent and moving than ever.

It was the ninth and final, painful episode of a battle that had lasted too long: The Heart Part 6, nth diss track – confusion song – uploaded to the networks on May 5 by Drake, in which the Canadian rapper responded to the heavy accusations of pedophilia brought by Kendrick Lamar in the scuds meet the grahams et Not Like Us. Laborious, border pathetic, The Heart Part 6 also desecrated by its title the long-standing series of The Heart by Lamar, started in 2010, even before the release of the album that propelled him to superstardom, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012).

Kendrick reclaims it in GNX, his sixth album released without warning on Friday November 22, with heart pt. 6, splendid chronicle of the first years of his career alongside the Black Hippy collective chanted to the chorus of Use Your Heart by the r'n'b trio SWV, the very first song produced by the Neptunes. Which does not mean that GNX does not bear the stigma of the clash, which has reached unprecedented levels of media coverage in the history of rap – de facto, its twelve songs are full of distressed or reworked allusions q


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