GNX (album) explained

GNX
Type:studio
Artist:Kendrick Lamar
Cover:Kendrick Lamar - GNX.png
Alt:A black-and-white vignetted photo of Lamar leaning against the back of the titular GNX
Genre:West Coast hip hop
Length:44:20
Label:
Producer:
Prev Title:Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Prev Year:2022

GNX is the sixth studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released as a surprise album through PGLang and Interscope Records on November 22, 2024. Titled after the Buick Regal model, and a follow-up to Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (2022) and his feud with Canadian rapper Drake, GNX is Lamar's first album after his departure from longtime labels Top Dawg Entertainment and Aftermath Entertainment.

The album features appearances from AzChike, Dody6, Hitta J3, Peysoh, Roddy Ricch, Siete7x, SZA, Wallie the Sensei, Lefty Gunplay, and YoungThreat; Deyra Barrera, Sam Dew, and Ink provide additional vocal contributions throughout.[1] [2] Production was primarily handled by Sounwave and Jack Antonoff, with additional work by Mustard, Sean Momberger, and Kamasi Washington, among others. The album was released to widespread critical acclaim and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, making it Lamar's fifth number-one album.[3] It also topped the charts in numerous countries, including Canada, Australia, and the UK.[4] [5] [6]

Background

Kendrick Lamar released his fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, on May 13, 2022, to critical and commercial success.[7] [8] After concluding its accompanying concert tour in March 2024,[9] Lamar shared on social media that he had purchased a vintage, limited-run 1987 Buick Grand National Experimental (GNX),[10] the same model that his father used to take him home from the hospital following his birth.[11] [12]

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers was Lamar's last album with Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), to which he had signed in 2005.[13] Before his feud with Canadian rapper Drake re-escalated,[14] he quietly departed from Aftermath Entertainment and signed a direct licensing agreement with its distributor, Interscope Records.[15] Lamar released five standalone singles during the latest installment of their conflict, including the Billboard Hot 100-toppers "Like That" and "Not Like Us".[16] [17] The rapper teased a then-untitled song in the beginning of the music video for the latter. Entertainment Weekly observed its inclusion and fan speculation that it could be included in his next album;[18] the song was revealed to be "Squabble Up".[19] [20]

Rumors surrounding Lamar's forthcoming album began to emerge, with some being denied by close affiliates.[21] After announcing that he was chosen as the headlining act for the Super Bowl LIX halftime show,[22] Lamar surprise released "Watch the Party Die" on his Instagram account. Rolling Stone said that the track bodes well for his next album–"whenever it comes".[23] Dazed, on the other hand, predicted that he was gearing up for an "astronomical" era.[24] By October, Lamar's longtime collaborators Terrace Martin, SZA, and Schoolboy Q confirmed that he would be releasing new music.[25] [26] [27]

Songs and composition

GNX consists of 12 songs and has a running time of 44 minutes and 20 seconds; the shortest studio album of Lamar's career. Although no tracks from his feud with Drake are included, its sentiment "still looms over the album", according to Vulture.[28] It is a West Coast hip hop album,[29] [30] drawing on both classic and contemporary conventions of the genre.[31] According to Rolling Stone, the album is a tribute to Lamar's native Los Angeles, prominently infusing G-funk throughout its compositions.[32] The Mexican singer Deyra Barrera is featured on both opening and closing tracks of the album, as well as in "Reincarnated", after Lamar saw the singer perform at a Los Angeles Dodgers game.[33] The production team played Barrera the instrumentation arrangements, and gave her a description of the emotions Lamar wanted to evoke throughout the album.[34] "Reincarnated" sees Lamar present himself in imagined past lives before the lyrics transition to him having a conversation with God.[30] "TV Off" features "clipped strings" that "dissolve into Viking-berserker horns" halfway through. As the percussion of the second part fades in, Lamar is heard "animatedly" screaming Mustard's name; this has since became an Internet meme.[35] [36] On "Heart Pt. 6", he recounts his history with TDE and the supergroup Black Hippy, acknowledging his role in the group falling apart due to creative differences.[37] Ben Sisario of The New York Times noted that it is an "implicit rejoinder" to Drake's diss track of the same name, which in itself was taken from Lamar's "The Heart" song series. The title track, "GNX", is a posse cut with Los Angeles rappers Peysoh, Hitta J3 and YoungThreat. Lamar does not have a verse, instead providing a hook questioning "who put the West back in front of shit?"[38]

Promotion and release

On November 22, 2024, Lamar unexpectedly premiered a one-minute teaser for GNX on YouTube and Instagram.[39] [40] The album was surprise released through PGLang and Interscope 30 minutes later.[41] [42]

On December 3, 2024, Lamar announced the Grand National Tour, co-headlined with SZA, in support of the album.[43] The tour is scheduled to begin on April 19, 2025 in Minneapolis and conclude on June 18, 2025 in Landover.[44]

Critical reception

Upon release, GNX received widespread acclaim from music critics.[45] [46] [47]

Various reviews considered GNX a victory lap for Lamar after his hip-hop feuds throughout 2024.[48] [49] [50] Critics who praised the album's tributes to West Coast hip hop and Lamar's abilities to distill various elements to create a cohesive record include Exclaim!'s Wesley McLean and Variety's Peter Berry.[51] Paste's Matt Mitchell upheld the album as a reimagination of rap's future and Lamar's past,[52] and NME's Kyann-Sian Williams was impressed by the warm storytelling that acted as a palate cleanser after the diss tracks and loathing that had dominated the hip hop scene.[53] Williams contended that GNX is an "easy contender for the rap album of 2024",[53] and Tom Breihan of Stereogum hailed it as the year's best record and Lamar's greatest yet.[54]

Many critics focused on Lamar's self-depiction as a driving cultural force in hip hop. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian commented that GNX found Lamar at his most confrontational, "deferring only to God".[55] In The Line of Best Fit, Matthew Kim described it as "a concise statement of regional pride, braggadocio, and non-conformity", crediting Jack Antonoff's production for making the album feel "lush and expansive". Rolling Stones Mosi Reeves felt that GNX provided more than sufficient explanations for why Lamar is the "GOAT of 2024" but not answers to a bigger cultural question of structural changes in hip hop, labelling the album "yet another treatise on hip-hop corporatism".[56] Concluding the review for AllMusic, David Crone made several claims about the album, calling it, "a pillar of reflective realness, a flag planted in the lineage of Black musical visionaries, a silhouette of the West Coast in the high beams of fame -- and Kendrick's most speaker-knocking set to date."[57]

In a mixed review from Pitchfork, Alphonse Pierre wrote that the album's supposed authenticity was blemished by Lamar's "heavy-handed, brand-conscious narrative", highlighting the production that is "too clean and synthetic", although his delivery remained stellar and the musical guests were memorable.[58] In congruence, Will Hodgkinson of The Times shared his disappointment towards Lamar's self-aggrandizement that deviated from his intellectually provocative themes on past albums, despite the "frequently exceptional" production and flow.[59] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times considered Lamar's tribute to his California roots somewhat a retreat to his "comfort zone", calling the album "impressive but slight".[60]

Year-end lists

Publication/critic! scope="col"
AccoladeRank
BillboardStaff List: The 50 Best Albums of 20244[61]
ConsequenceThe 50 Best Albums of 202410[62]
Exclaim!50 Best Albums of 202416[63]
The IndependentThe best albums of 2024, ranked18[64]
Loud and QuietLoud And Quiet Albums of the Year 202417[65]
The New York TimesBest Albums of 2024[66]
NPRThe 50 Best Albums of 2024[67]
PasteThe 100 Best Albums of 202419[68]
The QuietusThe Quietus' Top 100 Albums of 202443[69]
Rolling StoneThe 100 Best Albums of 202421[70]
StereogumThe 50 Best Albums Of 20243[71]
UproxxThe Best Albums Of 2024[72]

Commercial performance

GNX earned over 44.2 million first-day streams on the global Spotify chart, averaging over 3.6 million streams per song despite being available only seven hours prior.[73] It also simultaneously occupied the top two slots on the American Spotify charts, with "Squabble Up" being at number one with 3.272 million streams.[74] GNX became Lamar's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart since To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).[75]

In the United States, GNX debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 319,000 album-equivalent units, including 379.72 million official on-demand streams and 32,000 pure sales, despite only being available via streaming and standard digital download.[76] It marked Lamar's fifth consecutive number-one album in the country and scored the sixth-largest opening week of 2024, among all albums. Furthermore, GNX logged the year's biggest streaming week for any hip hop or R&B album, the second-biggest debut streaming week, and the third-largest streaming week overall, only behind Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department.[77] All 12 songs from GNX debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, occupying the entire top five simultaneously.[78] Lamar is the fourth artist in history to monopolize the premier spots, joining Swift, Drake, and the Beatles.[79]

Track listing

Notes

Sample and interpolation credits

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart (2024)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[89] 1
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[90] 1
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn)[91] 3
Italian Albums (FIMI)[92] 11
Japanese Digital Albums (Oricon)[93] 12
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[94] 52
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[95] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[96] 1
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[97] 5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[98] 8
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[99] 1

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Monroe . Jazz . November 22, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Releases New Album GNX: Listen and Read the Full Credits . November 22, 2024 . . November 22, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20241122213521/https://pitchfork.com/news/kendrick-lamar-previews-new-music-in-gnx-video-watch/ . live .
  3. Web site: Caulfield . Keith . 2024-12-01 . Kendrick Lamar’s ‘GNX’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 . 2024-12-04 . Billboard . en-US.
  4. Web site: Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' Debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart Billboard Canada . 2024-12-04 . ca.billboard.com . en.
  5. Web site: ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart . 2024-12-04 . www.aria.com.au . en.
  6. Web site: 2024-12-04 . Official Albums Chart Top 100 on 29/11/2024 . 2024-12-04 . Official Charts . en.
  7. Web site: October 11, 2022 . Kendrick Lamar Reveals Why He Almost Didn't Release Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers . November 16, 2024 . Rap-Up.
  8. Web site: Corcoran . Nina . February 5, 2023 . Kendrick Lamar Wins Best Rap Album for Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers at 2023 Grammys . November 16, 2024 . Pitchfork.
  9. Aswad . Jem . May 13, 2022 . Kendrick Lamar Unveils 'Big Steppers' Tour Dates . June 3, 2022 . . May 16, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220516005220/https://variety.com/2022/music/news/kendrick-lamar-big-steppers-tour-dates-1235266437/ . live .
  10. Woods . Aleia . March 20, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Posts a Strangely Cryptic Message on His Finsta . November 22, 2024 . . April 19, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240419215434/https://www.xxlmag.com/kendrick-lamar-cryptic-post-finsta/ . live .
  11. Elibert . Mark . March 20, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Purchases Vintage Buick Regal: 'My Big Cousin Pat Dogg Smiling Down' . November 22, 2024 . . June 2, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240602042309/https://www.complex.com/music/a/markelibert/kendrick-lamar-purchases-vintage-buick-regal . live .
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  13. Web site: Young . Alex . August 20, 2021 . Kendrick Lamar announces final album with TDE . November 22, 2024 . . January 28, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230128154431/https://consequence.net/2021/08/kendrick-lamar-final-album-tde/ . live .
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  26. SZA Hints New Kendrick Lamar Album Is On The Way. Brown. Preezy. Vibe. October 14, 2024. November 16, 2024.
  27. ScHoolboy Q Says All His Friends Are "Dropping Music", Fans Speculate Whether He Means Kendrick Lamar. Trapp. Malcolm. Rap-Up. October 17, 2024. November 16, 2024. November 20, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20241120190711/https://www.rap-up.com/article/fans-think-schoolboy-q-hinted-at-kendrick-lamar-dropping-music. live.
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  30. Kim . Matthew . November 23, 2024. Kendrick Lamar Sketches the Blueprint For a New Rap Zeitgeist on GNX . November 23, 2024 . The Line of Best Fit.
  31. Web site: McLean . Wesley . November 25, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Is in Rarefied Air on the Triumphant GNX . November 25, 2024 . Exclaim!.
  32. Kendrick Lamar Addresses Super Bowl Drama and Five Other Takeaways From GNX. November 22, 2024. Rolling Stone. Jeff. Ihaza. Larisha. Paul. Mankaprr. Conteh. Andre. Gee. Tomás. Mier. limited. November 26, 2024. November 25, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20241125135430/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kendrick-lamar-new-album-six-takeaways-gnx-1235177425/. live.
  33. Web site: Herrera . Julimar . November 23, 2024 . Who is Deyra Barrera, The Mariachi Music Artist in ThreeSongs of Kendric Lamar's Surprise Abum GNX . November 23, 2024 . Latin Times.
  34. Mier . Tomás . November 23, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Saw This Mariachi Singer at a Dodgers Game. Now, She's on GNX . November 23, 2024 . . limited.
  35. Web site: Price . Joe . November 22, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Screaming 'Mustard' on "TV Off" Is an Instant Meme . 2024-11-27 . . en.
  36. Web site: Andrews . Elias . November 23, 2024 . Mustard Reacts To Kendrick Lamar Shout Out On New Album GNX . November 23, 2024 . HotNewHipHop.
  37. Web site: Morton . Devin . November 22, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar Addresses Why The Black Hippy Album Never Released, On GNX . November 23, 2024 . HotNewHipHop.
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  75. Web site: Smith . Thomas . November 29, 2024 . Kendrick Lamar’s Surprise LP GNX Tops U.K.’s Albums Chart . December 2, 2024 . Billboard . en-US.
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