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GNX
A black-and-white vignetted photo of Lamar leaning against the back of the titular GNX
Studio album by
Kendrick Lamar
ReleasedNovember 22, 2024 (2024-11-22)
GenreWest Coast hip hop
Length44:20
Language
  • English
  • Spanish
Label
Producer
Kendrick Lamar chronology
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
(2022) 		GNX
(2024)
Singles from GNX
  1. "Squabble Up" / "TV Off"
    Released: November 26, 2024
  2. "Luther"
    Released: November 29, 2024

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. The album has guest appearances from SZA, Dody6, Lefty Gunplay, Wallie the Sensei, Sietr7x, Roddy Ricch, AzChike, Hitta J3, YoungThreat; and Peysoh. Production was primarily by Sounwave and Jack Antonoff, alongside Mustard, Sean Momberger, and Kamasi Washington, among others. Titled after the Buick Regal model and following his feud with Canadian rapper and singer Drake, GNX is Lamar's first album to be released after his departure from longtime labels Top Dawg Entertainment and Aftermath Entertainment.[1][2]

GNX was released to widespread critical acclaim and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, giving Lamar his fifth number-one album.[3] It also topped the charts in numerous countries including Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Denmark and the UK.[4][5][6] The album was supported by three singles: "Squabble Up", "TV Off", and "Luther".

Background

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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][note 1] 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

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GNX consists of 12 songs and has a running time of 44 minutes and 20 seconds; the shortest studio album of Lamar's career.[28] Although no tracks from his feud with Drake are included, its sentiment "still looms over the album", according to Vulture.[29] It is a West Coast hip hop album,[30][31] drawing on both classic and contemporary conventions of the genre.[32] According to Rolling Stone, the album is a tribute to Lamar's native Los Angeles, prominently infusing G-funk throughout its compositions.[33]

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.[34] The production team played Barrera the instrumentation arrangements, and gave her a description of the emotions Lamar wanted to evoke throughout the album.[35] "Reincarnated" sees Lamar present himself in imagined past lives before the lyrics transition to him having a conversation with God.[31] "TV Off" features "clipped strings" that "dissolve into Viking-berserker horns" halfway through.[36] As the percussion of the second part fades in, Lamar is heard "animatedly" screaming Mustard's name; this has since became an Internet meme.[37][38] 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.[39] 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.[40] 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?"[31][41]

Promotion and release

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On November 22, 2024, Lamar unexpectedly premiered a one-minute teaser for GNX on YouTube and Instagram.[40][42] The album was surprise released through PGLang and Interscope 30 minutes later.[43][44]

On December 3, 2024, Lamar announced the Grand National Tour, co-headlined with SZA, in support of the album.[45] The tour is scheduled to begin on April 19, 2025, in Minneapolis and conclude on June 18, 2025, in Landover.[46]

Critical reception

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GNX ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.5/10[47]
Metacritic87/100[48]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[49]
Clash9/10[50]
ConsequenceB+[51]
Dork[52]
Exclaim!9/10[32]
The Guardian[53]
NME[54]
Paste9.1/10[55]
Pitchfork6.6/10[56]
Rolling Stone[57]

Upon release, GNX received widespread acclaim from music critics.[58][59][60] According to the review aggregator Metacritic, GNX received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 87 out of 100 from 18 critic scores.[48]

Various reviews considered GNX a victory lap for Lamar after his hip-hop feuds throughout 2024.[50][57][61][62] 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[32] and Variety's Peter Berry.[63] Paste's Matt Mitchell upheld the album as a reimagination of rap's future and Lamar's past,[55] 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.[54] Williams contended that GNX is an "easy contender for the rap album of 2024",[54] and Tom Breihan of Stereogum hailed it as the year's best record and Lamar's greatest yet.[36]

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".[53] 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".[31] Rolling Stone's 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".[57] 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."[49]

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.[56] 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.[64] 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".[65]

Rankings

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Despite being released in late 2024, GNX appeared on multiple publications' lists of the best albums of the year, including a top spot by Complex.[66] It was featured in the top 5 of Billboard,[67] Dazed,[68] Stereogum,[69] and The Washington Post,[70] and the top 10 of Consequence,[71] The Line of Best Fit,[72] and The Ringer.[73] GNX was also listed in the top 20 by Exclaim!,[74] The Independent,[75] Los Angeles Times,[76] Loud and Quiet,[77] NME,[78] Paste,[79] and The Times,[80] while Rolling Stone and The Quietus placed the album at 21 and 43, respectively.[81][82] Publications that featured GNX in unranked lists and as part of honorable mentions include Associated Press,[83] HuffPost,[84] Hypebeast,[85] KCRW,[86] NPR,[87] and Uproxx.[88]

Select year-end rankings for GNX
Publication/critic List Rank Ref.
Billboard Staff List: The 50 Best Albums of 2024 4 [67]
Complex The 50 Best Albums of 2024 1 [66]
Consequence The 50 Best Albums of 2024 10 [71]
Dazed The 20 Best Albums of 2024 5 [68]
The Line of Best Fit The Best Albums of 2024 9 [72]
Los Angeles Times The 20 Best Albums of 2024 14 [76]
Loud and Quiet Loud And Quiet Albums of the Year 2024 17 [77]
NME The 50 Best Albums of 2024 12 [78]
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums Of 2024 3 [69]
The Washington Post The best albums of 2024 3 [70]

Commercial performance

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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.[89] 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.[90] GNX became Lamar's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart since To Pimp a Butterfly (2015).[91]

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. It crossed 500,000 album-equivalent units by second week. [92] 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.[93] All 12 songs from GNX debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, occupying the entire top five simultaneously.[94] Lamar is the fourth artist in history to monopolize the premier spots, joining Swift, Drake, and the Beatles.[95]

Track listing

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GNX track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Wacced Out Murals"
5:17
2."Squabble Up"
  • Duckworth
  • Spears
  • Antonoff
  • Ruchaun Akers
2:37
3."Luther" (with SZA)
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Bridgeway
  • Washington
  • M-Tech
  • Rose Lilah
2:57
4."Man at the Garden"
  • Duckworth
  • Spears
  • Antonoff
  • Balmoris
  • Mehlenbacher
  • Bernard
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Balmoris
  • Reese
  • M-Tech[a]
3:53
5."Hey Now" (featuring Dody6)
3:37
6."Reincarnated"
  • Duckworth
  • Spears
  • Antonoff
  • Bernard
  • Noah Ehler
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Lamar
  • M-Tech
  • Noah Ehler
4:35
7."TV Off" (featuring Lefty Gunplay)
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Mustard
  • Washington
  • Momberger
3:40
8."Dodger Blue" (featuring Wallie the Sensei, Siete7x, and Roddy Ricch)
  • Duckworth
  • Dew
  • Traquan Tyson
  • Craig Johnson Jr.
  • Spears
  • Antonoff
  • Taji Ausar
  • Maxey
  • Terrace Martin
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Tane Runo
  • Maxey
  • Martin[a]
2:11
9."Peekaboo" (featuring AzChike)
  • Sounwave
  • Bridgeway
  • Momberger
2:35
10."Heart Pt. 6"
  • Duckworth
  • Spears
  • Antonoff
  • Bernard
  • Julian Nievez-Mays
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • M-Tech[a]
  • Juju The Fool[a]
4:52
11."GNX" (featuring Hitta J3, YoungThreat, and Peysoh)
  • Duckworth
  • Dominicke Williams
  • Deonta Simuel
  • Kevin Oropeza
  • Spears
  • Antonoff
  • Kenneth Stanley
  • Billy Graham
  • Tobias Breuer
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Kenny & Billy
  • Rascal
  • Maxey[a]
3:13
12."Gloria" (with SZA)
  • Duckworth
  • Rowe
  • Boggs
  • Sounwave
  • Antonoff
  • Deats
4:47
Total length:44:20

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer
  • All tracks are stylized in lower case.
  • "Peekaboo" features uncredited vocals from Dody6.[96]

Sample and interpolation credits

Personnel

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Musicians

  • Kendrick Lamar – vocals
  • Deyra Barrera – additional vocals (tracks 1, 6, 12)
  • Ink – background vocals (tracks 2, 10), additional vocals (8)
  • Sam Dew – background vocals (tracks 2, 4–6, 8, 10, 12), additional vocals (3)
  • Paul Cartwright – strings (track 3), violin (7)
  • Caleb Vaughn Smith – strings (track 3)
  • Drew Forde – strings (track 3)
  • Geoff Gallegos – strings (track 3)
  • Giovanna Moraga – strings (track 3)
  • Kerenza Peacock – strings (track 3)
  • Luanne Homzy – strings (track 3)
  • Luke Maurer – strings (track 3)
  • Stephanie Payne – strings (track 3)
  • Stephanie Yu – strings (track 3)
  • Evan Smith – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone (track 7)
  • Miles Mosley – bass (track 7)
  • Peter Jacobson – cello (track 7)
  • Amber Wyman – horn (track 7)
  • Malik Taylor – horn (track 7)
  • Rickey Washington – horn (track 7)
  • Ryan Porter – horn (track 7)
  • Sean Sonderegger – horn (track 7)
  • Serafin Aguilar – horn (track 7)
  • Zem Audu – tenor saxophone (track 7)
  • Chad Jackson – violin (track 7)
  • Marta Honer – violin (track 7)
  • Reiko Nakano – violin (track 7)
  • Tylana Renga – violin (track 7)
  • Yvette Devereaux – violin (track 7)
  • Bobby Hawk – violin (tracks 10, 12)

Technical

  • Ruairi O'Flaherty – mastering
  • Oli Jacobs – mixing, engineering
  • Jack Antonoff – engineering
  • Johnathan Turner – engineering
  • Laura Sisk – engineering
  • Ray Charles Brown Jr. – engineering
  • Tony Shepperd – engineering (track 3)
  • Tony Austin – engineering (track 7)
  • Zem Audu – engineering (track 7)

Charts

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Chart performance for GNX
Chart (2024) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[105] 1
Australian Hip Hop/R&B Albums (ARIA)[106] 1
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[107] 2
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[108] 3
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[109] 5
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[110] 1
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[111] 6
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[112] 1
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[113] 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[114] 7
French Albums (SNEP)[115] 11
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[116] 8
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[117] 2
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn)[118] 3
Irish Albums (OCC)[119] 1
Italian Albums (FIMI)[120] 11
Japanese Combined Albums (Oricon)[121] 45
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[122] 52
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)[123] 1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[124] 1
Nigerian Albums (TurnTable)[125] 4
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[126] 1
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[127] 4
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[128] 2
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)[129] 5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[130] 8
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[131] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[132] 2
UK Albums (OCC)[133] 1
UK R&B Albums (OCC)[134] 1
US Billboard 200[135] 1
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[136] 1

Notes

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  1. ^ Pre-GNX releases under this deal hold the copyright notice "Kendrick Lamar under exclusive license to Interscope Records" which means that Lamar himself owns ultimate copyrights for those recordings; however on GNX, it says "pgLang under exclusive license to Interscope Records", thus meaning the deal was renegotiated, and Lamar's own management company, PGLang, is now set as an ultimate copyright owner for all official post-"Not Like Us" releases.

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