"Whether it’s recording a new verse, you know, he would record a whole song and get one ad-lib back a month later because he don't like how he breathed the ad-lib, you know?" "That's Kendrick's whole mind state, always striving to do better," he continued. It's having that mindset to just strive for the best possible version of you." It's all about just understanding that you could always do something better.
"For Kendrick alone, let me say I think we could put together like six albums," the collaborator said during his appearance on Kevin Durant's "The ETCs” podcast. As Lamar warns: “2021 he ain't taking no prisoner.” Hopefully we get an album by the holidays? Until then, do like he asks and “be patient, brother.Kendrick Lamar has been making music non-stop.Īs per the rapper's longtime engineer, Derek "MixedByAli" Ali, the Compton MC has been consistently churning out new tunes. Besides, if pgLang is staking its launch on positioning Baby Keem as the future, it would make sense to give Keem’s album some breathing room.īut make make no mistake, Kendrick’s coming. Lamar very carefully worded his note to say that he's still working on the new project.
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But don't expect a full Kendrick album just yet. (Day One Keem fans will appreciate his “two phones" reference.)Īnd lest the track’s State of the Union theme go understated, most of his appearance in the accompanying video (directed by Dave Free) is in front of a large, billowing pgLang flag. Keem isn't as lyrical as Kendrick, but they have a complimentary style in their approach to melodic flows, warped pronunciations and using their voice as an instrument that lines up nicely for their first track together. Towards the end of “family ties,” Kendrick re-connects with Keem for a familial back-and-forth. Two minutes into the triumphant, horn-heavy, booming track, Keem tees up Big Cousin Kenny to completely take over-and Lamar wastes no time throwing the gauntlet down. Which brings us to last night, wherein Keem's latest single from his forthcoming album, “family ties,” also heralded the beginning of Kendrick Lamar's next phase. pgLang hasn't done much yet, but the company's primary focus seems to be breaking Baby Keem, a rising rapper who's already scored a few buzzworthy songs and acclaim, and also happens to be Lamar's cousin. It's only logical that Lamar would pivot to releasing albums through his own outfit as he seeks to build an all-purpose entertainment firm that seems similar in scope and ambition to Jay-Z's Roc Nation. This didn't come as a total shock-in 2020 Lamar announced pgLang, a new company he founded alongside his friend, and former TDE president, Dave Free. The first move towards his next album came last week, when he posted a letter updating fans on his life and mind state, while casually dropping the bombshell that his forthcoming album will be his last with longtime label TDE.
With each project comes a well-manicured aesthetic that reflects the new themes he's exploring, and the buildup to its announcement and release is finely tuned. It’s not a surprise, either-Kendrick album rollouts are carefully orchestrated events. So it's only right that his return has the grandeur of a State of the Union address. Dot guest feature in 2020 doesn't really count, since it's really just the mastered release of a song that's been around since 2018. His radio silence has been especially deafening since the pandemic began. In 2018 he oversaw the Black Panther soundtrack, which was a veritable TDE compilation project that bears his fingerprints and vocals on virtually every track, but still-not uncut Kendrick. Kendrick Lamar has been out of office for a full presidential term at this point-his last studio album, DAMN., dropped in April 2017.