Kendrick Lamar’s Never-Ending Battles

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Los Angeles rapper returns with his (surprise) sixth album, itching to escape his Drake drama, but still benefiting from it. Guest: Joe Coscarelli. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you are holding space with the lyrics of whacked out murals and feeling power in that.
0:13.1	Of music, music criticism, I'm John Caramonica, pop music critic of the New York Times.
0:17.8	I'm Joe Coscarelli, pop music reporter at the New York Times. I'm Joe Coscarali, pop music reporter at the New York Times.
0:24.6	Yesterday somebody whacked out my mural.
0:27.7	That energy will make you move to Europe.
0:30.9	Joe, I for once was going to have a relatively uneventful professional weekend.
0:40.0	Mm-hmm.
0:41.3	And I hate to be one of those guys.
0:43.7	It's like, oh, no, it's about me.
0:45.2	It's about me.
0:46.0	But I was traveling, did not have my computer.
0:48.9	And Mr. Moral, Kendrick Lamar, said, you know what?
0:52.5	Time to get to work, buddy.
0:54.1	Get to work. This is labor. Do labor over the weekend.
0:58.0	So on my trip, I wrote a review of Kendrick Lamar's GNX, sixth album, question mark. We'll get to that.
1:09.0	Big gear for Kendrick, obviously, the Dray and Kendrick
1:11.9	beef. Things seem to have gone a little bit quiet after he was announced as the Super Bowl
1:16.6	headliner for next year. But apparently he's been cooking, or at least had been cooking in
1:21.4	recent weeks. If you read some of the stories about how some of these songs came together
1:25.2	in their finality.
1:32.0	A lot's happened even in the three days.
1:36.6	We're recording this Monday evening, even in the three days since the album came out.
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