Kendrick Lamar

Rapper and record producer Kendrick Lamar will release a long-awaited new album on May 13, five years since his Grammy Award-winning album Damn.

The long awaited follow up to Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize winning fourth album, 'DAMN.', is coming out this May via TDE.

The rapper shared the news on Instagram in a letter under his moniker, Oklama, and shared on letterhead for company pgLang. “The following statement was ...

Five years after releasing his hit album 'Damn.,' rapper Kendrick Lamar is gearing up to drop his next one, 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,' in May.

In the Super Bowl commercial for the halftime performance, every artist who performed got their own montage; with the one for Kendrick Lamar featuring the ...

Rapper Kendrick Lamar has announced his return, revealing the date of his long-awaited fifth album.

Kendrick Lamar has today (April 18) announced details of a new album, 'Mr Morale & The Big Steppers' via his website.

Kendrick Lamar has announced that he will release his first album for five years next month. Titled 'Mr Morale And The Big Steppers', the album will be his ...

Kendrick Lamar has finally revealed the name and release date of his new album. The new album will be called Mr Morale & The Big Steppers and will drop on ...

Based on this schedule, we can maybe expect to see Lamar launch into tour mode in August of this year. At the time, we got a glimpse into the somewhat reclusive world that Lamar appeared to be operating in. Again, we’ll probably have to wait and see with this one. The life in which my words will land next”. As to the name of the thing, Lamar is notorious for obscurity and layers of complexity in his album and song titles, not to mention his lyrics. This could be an in for the ‘Mr. Morale’ character in the title, whose name is likely not coincidentally phonetically similar to ‘moral’ and ‘morale’. With that said, after five years of absence we expect fans wouldn’t mind getting 32 new tracks in one go. After all, he named his third studio album after a line in an 18th-century poem by Alexander Pope. Still, fans are pointing out online that the title is perhaps not as… Oklama appears to be another, albeit more abstract, step in this regard. There have also long been rumours that Lamar’s next project would be more rock-influenced, however, the title itself sounds a little bit like a 1920s big band. Lamar currently has a small handful of gigs booked in, with the expectation being that he will launch a world tour in support of the new album. Lamar previously explored psychedelic jazz on his album To Pimp a Butterfly, and this could be a return to the genre.

Kendrick Lamar has kept quiet these last few months, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is returning with another album next month.