The 29-year-old rapper announces new album featuring the 'We Found Love' hitmaker and the Irish rock band.
- Apr 11, 2017
AceShowbiz - Kendrick Lamar unveils the title, tracklist and artwork for his upcoming LP, "DAMN.". The 29-year-old rapper shares on Instagram the front cover and the tracklist which will be 14 tracks long and feature collaborations with Rihanna and U2.
The much anticipated follow-up to Kendrick's 2015 album "To Pimp a Butterfly" is set to be released on Friday, April 14. The tracklist includes recently released single "Humble", "Loyalty" feat. Rihanna, "xxx" feat. U2, "Blood", "DNA", "Yah", "Element", "Feel" and "Duckworth".
"Humble" debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 this week, becoming the first rap song to debut that high since Eminem landed at No. 2 with his Rihanna collab, "Love the Way You Lie" back in 2010.
In a recent interview with the New York Times' T Magazine, Lamar called "DAMN." a "very urgent" record. "I think now, how wayward things have gone within the past few months, my focus is ultimately going back to my community and the other communities around the world where they're doing the groundwork. To Pimp a Butterfly was addressing the problem. I'm in a space now where I'm not addressing the problem anymore," he explained.
"We're in a time where we exclude one major component out of this whole thing called life: God," he added, "Nobody speaks on it because it's almost in conflict with what's going on in the world when you talk about politics and government and the system."
