Lamar tells of a blind woman whose past convictions and wickedness have left her weak, vulnerable, but still not able to find the light. Opening instrumentals sound almost related to i monster‘s ‘Daydream In Blue’, like a second cousin if you will. For example pride and humble, love and lust – we’re supposed to question whether Kendrick is living wickedly, or in fear and weakness.
with questions on ‘BLOOD.’: “Is it wickedness? is it weakness?” – this theme travels on throughout the album and defines each opposing ideal that Lamar fronts. – that hope was dashed soon after.Įven the track-listing provided a somewhat strange feature in the form of U2, while Rihanna also seems to have switched sides from the land of Drake collaborations.ĭAMN’s album cover is simple yet affective red bricks encase a depressed but raging Lamar and basic red font pops but offers up little in style – all of which could be easily linked to Kendrick’s state and production on this project. Not only did TDE’s star-man create a buzz for a new more-forthright sound with title track ‘HUMBLE.’, on release many were eager to believe that a ‘NATION.’ entitled project was going to accompany DAMN. has a more assertive but fierce sound.įashionably shock-worthy, ‘The Heart Part IV’ stamped Lamar’s authority on the rap game, whilst simultaneously breathing life into hype of a new album: “Y’all got ’til April the 7th to get y’all s**t together”. For his fourth studio album Kendrick Duckworth throws most of the funk and jazz that dominated most of his previous album, instead DAMN. Compton’s self-proclaimed best rapper alive is back just two years after his critically-acclaimed To Pimp a Butterfly, this time Kendrick Lamar is blessing us with DAMN.
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