was released, titled “HUMBLE.” A week later, the title and the number of tracks was revealed on the iTunes pre-order. On March 30, 2017, the first single from DAMN. I think he was trying to get back to K-Dot, get back to his roots, sag his pants, really roll through the hood for this album. He’s been Kendrick Lamar for a while, and Kendrick Lamar is the good kid, he’s the more introspective kid. He also spoke about how the project will contain somewhere around 12 tracks, and feature a more “commercial sound”, as opposed to Kendrick’s last two projects-To Pimp A Butterfly and untitled unmastered.-which feature a jazz-influenced sound.īlack Hippy member, Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate and close friend with Lamar, Ab-Soul discussed Lamar’s purpose on DAMN.
A Mike WiLL/Kendrick Lamar collaboration was reinforced when a HipHopDX staff member stated that a song titled “DNA” produced by Mike WiLL Made-It will appear on the album. On February 27, 2016, Mike WiLL Made-It teased on Instagram that he was in the studio with Kendrick Lamar. In between the albums, Kendrick released the 8 track EP untitled unmastered. This album is Kendrick’s first since 2015’s To Pimp A Butterfly. However, when the Pre-Order was released, it was announced that it would be a Good Friday, April 14th release. Y’all got ‘til April the 7th to get y’all shit together