{"id":5825,"date":"2024-11-29T17:55:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2024-12-31T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T00:18:55","slug":"kendrick-lamar-officially-hip-hops-mvp-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5825","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar Officially Hip-Hop\u2019s MVP Of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there were any remaining doubts as to hip-hop\u2019s MVP, consider the decision stamped: Kendrick Lamar officially won 2024.<\/p>\n

There were whispers that Compton\u2019s finest was working on an album in the wake of his feud with Drake, a once-in-a-generation beef that kept jaws dropped for months. (Perhaps you\u2019ve heard of a little song called \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d an immediate entry into the canon of all-time great diss tracks.)<\/p>\n

After a sold-out celebration at the Kia Forum, an armful of Grammy nods and streaming records, and the headlining slot at next year\u2019s Super Bowl, Lamar ties up his biggest year yet with a bow with his sixth album, GNX, the most legitimately surprising surprise drop since BEYONC\u00c9 in 2013. Named for his beloved classic Buick, GNX finds Kendrick wielding a hatchet he\u2019s by no means ready to bury, still channeling this summer\u2019s cranked-to-11 energy.<\/p>\n

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On \u201cwacced out murals,\u201d he\u2019s riding around listening to Anita Baker, plotting on several downfalls: \u201cIt used to be fuck that n***a, but now it\u2019s plural\/Fuck everybody, that\u2019s on my body.\u201d (Yes, there\u2019s a nod to his Super Bowl drama with Lil Wayne.)<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been holding your breath for Jack Antonoff to link with Mustard, wait no more\u2014the seemingly odd couple share production credits on multiple tracks, the explosive \u201ctv off\u201d among them.<\/p>\n

Still, K.Dot keeps you guessing: It\u2019s not quite 12 tracks of straight venom over world-conquering West Coast beats.<\/p>\n

SZA helps cool things down on the Luther Vandross-sampling \u201cluther,\u201d while Lamar snatches back a borrowed title on \u201cheart pt. 6\u201d to remember the early days of TDE: \u201cGrinding with my brothers, it was us against them, no one above us\/Bless our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

He cycles through past lives over a flip of 2Pac\u2019s \u201cMade N****z\u201d on \u201creincarnated\u201d before getting real with his father about war, peace, addiction, and ego death, and on \u201cman at the garden,\u201d he outlines his qualifications for the position of GOAT. Here\u2019s another bullet point to add to that CV: On GNX, Lamar still surprises while giving the people exactly what they want.<\/p>\n

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If there were any remaining doubts as to hip-hop\u2019s MVP, consider the decision stamped: Kendrick Lamar officially won 2024. There were whispers that Compton\u2019s finest was working on an album in the wake of his feud with Drake, a once-in-a-generation beef that kept jaws dropped for months. (Perhaps you\u2019ve heard of a little song called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5828,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}