Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar has today revealed a horde of new information surrounding his upcoming fourth album, including artwork, track listing, and features. Kendrick shared the artwork for the album via Twitter this morning, displaying that the much-anticipated release will be called Damn.
DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar. pic.twitter.com/ucQcg0PuzG
— Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) April 11, 2017
Surprisingly, the features list for Damn is very sparse, featuring only two guest spots on the entire album. However, the names involved are big ones, with Kendrick calling in the services of both Rihanna, appearing on the track ‘Loyalty’ and stadium rock giants U2, who guest on the song ‘XXX’. You can read the full track list below.
‘Blood’
‘DNA’
‘Yah’
‘Element’
‘Feel’
‘Loyalty’ feat. Rihanna
‘Pride’
‘Humble’
‘Lust’
‘Love’
‘XXX’ feat. U2
‘Fear’
‘God’
‘Duckworth’
Fans have been eagerly anticipating news of K-Dot’s next project, after he dropped ‘The Heart part IV’ and an incendiary video for ‘Humble’ in recent weeks, with many speculating a lot about the subject of some of his lyrical jabs.
Lamar’s current iTunes page lists the release date of Damn to be April 14- this Friday. After the final lyric on ‘The Heart Part IV’, many had thought that the release would come on April 7, but this supposed deadline has already been missed.
Though usually interview-shy, Kendrick did describe Damn as “very urgent” in an interview with the New York Times at the beginning of March, expressing a desire to return to “addressing the problem”
“I think now, how wayward things have gone within the past few months, my focus is ultimately going back to my community and the other communities around the world where they’re doing the groundwork,” Lamar said in the interview.
“I’m in a space now where I’m not addressing the problem anymore. We’re in a time where we exclude one major component out of this whole thing called life: God. Nobody speaks on it because it’s almost in conflict with what’s going on in the world when you talk about politics and government and the system.”